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Fortune cookies and lemonade welcomed those attending Friday's official opening of Memorial Hermann Southwest Houston's first and only dedicated Asian unit for the city's Asian community.

By guest blogger Larry Yu Earlier this month, Asian Americans at South Philadelphia High School launched a boycott of classes in protest of the school administration's handling of racist attacks on Asian students there.

ASIANS and Africans may be less likely to benefit from pioneering stem cell research than people of European origin, thanks to a lack of racial diversity in cell stocks, a US study says.

Toby Keith better start working on that apology statement about now. Asian watchdog groups are blasting the country crooner over an allegedly racist gesture made during an impromptu performance with Will Smith and Wyclef Jean at the Nobel Peace Prize concerts in Norway last week.

Latinos and Asians - are a growing segment of Wisconsin society and integral to the state's economy, providing tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue and consumer purchasing power, according to a study released Thursday.

Tthe Council of Agencies Serving South Asians released a new report, interrogatively entitled Putting Equity on the Agenda - Are We Being Heard? The answer, according to executive director Neethan Shan, is marginally.

RAMKISHEN S RAJAN Posted: Monday, Dec 14, 2009 at 0211 hrs IST Updated: Monday, Dec 14, 2009 at 0211 hrs IST : Asia has clearly not been spared from the global economic slump and dislocations, particularly post the Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008 when global credit markets seized and risk aversion shot through the roof and there was an ...

Spain's anti-terrorism court has convicted 11 men of South Asian origin, mostly Pakistanis, in connection with a plot to stage suicide attacks in the Barcelona metro last year.

Anas bin Saleem, a 12-year-old American, spends seven hours a day sitting cross-legged on the floor memorizing the Quran.

NEW DELHI: Despite Asia harbouring vast cultural and linguistic diversity, the people of Asia are linked by a unique genetic thread with the common ancestors of the Asian population being traced to India, revealed a pan-Asian study.

There is a long history of intolerance, assaults and racial slurs targeting Asian students at South Philadelphia High School, students, parents and community leaders told school district officials yesterday.

A new genetic study conducted across 10 countries has revealed that the ancestors of most Asian populations, including the Chinese and southeast Asians, came from India.

Pan-Asian research on genetic data suggested that ancestors of modern-day Asians probably migrated from Southeast Asia into East and North Asia, researchers said Saturday.

Large genetic study brings message of ancestral unity. David Cyranoski Negrito populations in Malaysia are more closely related to other Asians than previously thought.

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The ancestors of the present-day populations of China, Japan and other east Asian countries had migrated from India, scientists from 10 countries including India said Friday after achieving a breakthrough in the study of the evolution of humans and their spread across the world.

Students and community members walk up Broad Street to protest violence against Asians at South Philadelphia High School.

Though there are some people who still believe that climate change is a "conspiracy", global warming - once only in scientists' domain - has become an increasingly incontestable ground reality which demands our serious attention.

POTOMAC, Md. - Stanley Karnow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and longtime foreign correspondent, is trying to think of a good title for a planned memoir.

Wei Chen, 18, president of the Chinese American Student Association at South Philadelphia High School, speaks with James Tiano, Chief Inspector for the Community Affairs Bureau of the Philadelphia Police Department, on Monday.