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Sci-fi author finds productive forces a 'shocking leap'

China Daily 22 Oct 2024

In 2015, The Three-Body Problem, the first volume of The Three-Body Trilogy, translated by Ken Liu, won the Hugo Award for best novel at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, making Liu the first Asian to receive this award.

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Redefining Chinese education in Southeast Asia

China Daily 21 Oct 2024

China possesses massive data resources that represent a large chunk of Asian languages and cultures ... Southeast Asian languages, including English, Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, and Vietnamese.

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Candidates for these two Orange County congressional districts are vying for a key voting bloc

The Los Angeles Times 21 Oct 2024

To keep the district blue, Min, who is Korean American, has been focusing on advertisements in Asian languages ... targeting them with advertisements and mailers in several Asian languages and in Spanish.

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Time for a US pivot to Central Asia

Asiatimes 21 Oct 2024

US-Central Asian relations will gain new strategic momentum once Washington convinces regional states that it sees them as sovereign nations rather than pawns on a geopolitical chessboard and ...

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Vietnamese association in Malaysia helps protect women’s rights, legal interests

Vietnam News 21 Oct 2024

... held a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on October 20 to celebrate the 10th founding anniversary of the women's union and the 8th anniversary of the Vietnamese language club in this Southeast Asian country.

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Scientists feared this huge ‘ghost’ fish was extinct. It was just seen after almost 20 years

CNN 21 Oct 2024

Three years later, they struck gold ... Meaning “Mother of Rivers” in Thai and Lao languages, the Mekong winds through multiple Southeast Asian countries and is extremely rich in biodiversity.

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Michael Learns to Rock to perform their iconic songs at Manila concert

Manila Bulletin 19 Oct 2024

The two said this maybe because they have connected to the Asian audience emotionally through their songs ... Asian people are very emotional and they love to, they're not shy of being emotional.

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NT$100 million AI program unveiled

Taipei Times 19 Oct 2024

One of the successful applicants wants to develop a multi-language translation device by integrating Mandarin, Hoklo, Hakka and Southeast Asian languages such as Thai and Indonesian languages into a ...

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Prop 1 — NY’s ‘Equal Rights Amendment’ ballot measure — may discriminate against Asian students: critics

New York Post 17 Oct 2024

One legal expert said that this language could open the door for the state to engage in so-called reverse discrimination against Asian or whites who are not considered protected class minorities.

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Q&A: Michi Barall ’93 draws on her Stanford experience as her play ‘Drawing Lessons’ premieres

Stanford Daily 17 Oct 2024

Kamala Harris is Black and she’s South Asian — that’s just who she is, you know ... She’s Korean American, so we have slightly different languages for both characters ... Korean language.

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'Culturally intolerable' for nurses not to speak English? Or 'racist' to insist?

RNZ 17 Oct 2024

From "emboldening racists" to being "disrespected and excluded" - it seems everyone had an opinion on what language nurses in New Zealand hospitals should be speaking ... I have experienced Asian nurses having conversations in their own language.

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Boston sports radio host comes under fire again after apparent racist slur

New York Post 17 Oct 2024

“I’ve determined, incidentally, that the ‘Z’ stands for ‘z—–d,'” using a slur that has been used against people of Asian descent after its originations during the Korean and Vietnam wars.

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At 70, Godzilla’s warning to humanity is still urgent

Asiatimes 17 Oct 2024

Latest stories ... Sign up ... Amanda Kennell is an assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame and Jessica McManus Warnell is a teaching professor of management and organization at the University of Notre Dame.

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Ubitus Selected for Japan's METI 'GENIAC' Program to Develop a 405B East Asian Language AI Model

Business Wire 15 Oct 2024

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #AI--Ubitus selected for Japan's GENIAC program to develop 405B LLM for East Asia, focusing on tourism. Project uses 256 NVIDIA H100 GPUs over 6 months ... .

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DU panel to decide on including MoE official

Hindustan Times 15 Oct 2024

Among academic decisions, the panel approved the recommendations of the Faculty of Social Sciences regarding starting East Asian language courses ... College under the Department of East Asian Studies.