Nema-ye Nazdik In 1989 an incident happened in the prosperous suburbs of North Tehran that inspired the making of a movie. The movie took exactly 40 days to shoot, edit and then release and had no functioning script. It may be the most amazing movie you will ever see, (if […]
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The Asian giant hornet, which can grow up to 5.5 cm in length, are native to East and South Asia. The first sightings of these “murderous” creatures were reported in the United States last year. Does it mean that these giant insects have started migrating around the world? A giant […]
Black Lives Matter’s anti-racism protests have brought the African community’s ire and aspirations to the forefront, overshadowing the issue of growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the US and Australia. International observers have looked into the trend, and are trying to explain why Asians remain unheard amid the George Floyd demonstrations. The […]
A soup tureen and two aromatic platters of unrecognizable food steamed on the table in front of me. My companions chatted happily in Khmer and began loading their plates. I peered closer and began to discern forms. On one platter were some tiny freshwater crabs that had been diced, fried, […]
Top Chinese political advisers have proposed a regional digital currency that would be backed by four major Asian currencies including the Japanese yen, Korean won, Hong Kong dollar and the yuan. The proposal unveiled Thursday describes the currency as a “stablecoin,” a term for cryptocurrencies designed to hold their value […]
The coronavirus pandemic could chop nearly 10 percent off global gross domestic product (GDP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) predicts, more than doubling its previous forecast. The global economy could suffer between $5.8 trillion and $8.8 trillion in losses, the equivalent of between 6.4 percent and 9.7 percent of global […]
Trump Wins! Completing Obama’s Asian Pivot And Confrontation With China By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. May 13, 2020 Trump Wins! Completing Obama’s Asian Pivot And Confrontation With China2020-05-132020-05-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/china-one-belt-one-road-map.jpeg200px200px The Trump administration is determined to “put China in its place,” a white supremacist mindset that will inevitably lead to monumental errors […]