Senator calls on NBA to cancel games in China amid growing controversy

Senator calls on NBA to cancel games in China amid growing controversy

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has called on the NBA to cancel its high-profile preseason games in China amid growing controversy over a team official’s pro-Hong Kong statement. Hawley, a Republican, sent a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Monday, accusing the league of “kowtowing to the demands of one of the world’s most brutal regimes in the […]

Chinese woman caught at Mar-a-Lago with malware was apparently asked to target Clintons: docs

Chinese woman caught at Mar-a-Lago with malware was apparently asked to target Clintons: docs

A Chinese businesswoman who was convicted of trespassing at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida earlier this year had been urged by her handler to target other famous figures including the Clintons and billionaire businessman Warren Buffett, court documents say. Yujing Zhang, 33, who is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 22, was caught by Secret Service agents with troves of […]

Filipino American history: First Asian American settlement to receive new recognition

Filipino American history: First Asian American settlement to receive new recognition

Views from the Edge A hurricane wiped out St. Malo in Louisiana, the first permanent Asian American settlement in the United States, leaving nothing to indicate that it ever existed. That lost chapter of US history is about to receive new recognition. On Nov. 9, the Philippine-Louisiana Historical Society is going to erect a historical […]

Getting a new mobile number in China will involve a facial-recognition test

Getting a new mobile number in China will involve a facial-recognition test

China is taking every measure it can to verify the identities of its over 850 million mobile internet users. From Dec. 1, people applying for new mobile and data services will have to have their faces scanned by telecom providers, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a Sept. 27 statement (link in […]

U.S. Wins $7.5 Billion Sanctions Against EU in WTO Aircraft Fight

U.S. Wins $7.5 Billion Sanctions Against EU in WTO Aircraft Fight

The World Trade Organization gave President Donald Trump the go-ahead to impose tariffs on as much as $7.5 billion worth of European exports annually in retaliation for illegal government aid to Airbus SE. The award is the largest in WTO history — nearly twice as large as the previous record of $4.04 billion set in 2002. […]