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Chinese overseas
Latest news, features and opinion on ethnic Chinese people overseas, including students studying abroad, the Chinese diaspora and the experiences of immigrants in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and Britain and regions such as Southeast Asia.
The Bank of America building in New York. The second-largest US bank failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in suspicious transactions linked to Chinese money-laundering networks. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS
US-China relations

Bank of America fined US$1.21 billion for suspected Chinese money laundering

Second-largest US bank failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions linked to Chinese money-laundering networks.

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Food and Drinks

4 cafes that serve Hong Kong-style milk tea in Tokyo

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude AI gets Chinese-language options settings

Myanmar

China tried 3 times to talk crime families out of scam business in Myanmar: CCTV

Series outlines how joint operations brought down major border compounds amid warning criminal syndicates are relocating near Thailand.

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A series produced by China’s Ministry of Public Security and state broadcaster CCTV details China’s efforts to bring down scam empires in Myanmar. Photo: CCTV
US-China relations

US seeks to revoke citizenship of 2 China-born men convicted in Beijing-linked cases

Former US Navy sailor Jinchao Wei and Florida resident Ping Li are among 40 people named in DOJ announcement.

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Food and Drinks

How Vietnam’s twist on Hainan chicken rice tells a rich story of migration

In Hoi An, on Vietnam’s central coast, com ga is a dish steeped in migrants’ history and tangy flavours.

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Art

How an architect is using art and technology to preserve Toronto Chinatown’s history

Linda Zhang is working to raise public awareness about Toronto’s Chinatown through exhibitions, writing workshops and ceramics.

Architect and artist Linda Zhang with “ancestral tablets” she made in Jingdezhen, in China’s Jiangxi province, as part of initiatives to document the history of Toronto's Chinatown. Photo: Chuan Fa
Food and Drinks

Meet the doctor baking some of the UK’s best Cantonese-inspired bread

Doctor by weekday, baker by weekend, Hai Lin Leung runs her award-winning microbakery Lucky Yu from her East London home.

US-China relations

US man arrested over alleged US$300 million Nvidia server smuggling to China

Prosecutors say California tech firm owner routed restricted AI servers through Malaysia and Singapore to evade US export controls.

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Mainland China

Being Chinese | I’m 80. It’s not too late to reconnect with my Chinese roots

I received a colonial education and went on to raise global citizens. Then came the reckoning that only age and a changing world could bring.

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Visitors watch a performance during the Qingdao International Beer Festival in China’s Shandong province in 2020. The story of beer in Shandong is tied up with a difficult chapter of Chinese history. Photo: Xinhua
Fashion

Chinese designers Susan Fang, Yuhan Wang and more at London Fashion Week 2026

London Fashion Week featured the most Chinese designers in years. Here are looks from the likes of Yuhan Wang and less-established talents.

Looks from Susan Fang at London Fashion Week 2026. Photos: Gorunway.com
China’s military

China takes strategic military step overseas with new Laos air force centre

Beijing says jointly operated facilities at Ban Keun Airport will support pilot training and deepen cooperation between the two militaries.

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Science

US police report raises questions over Chinese researcher Wang Danhao’s death

Key details about semiconductor scientist’s visit from US federal agents the day before he took his own life mysteriously wiped from report.

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Food and Drinks

Milk tea and miso cookies? Brand woos small-town France with Hong Kong tastes

Louise Lui founded Sucré in her French partner’s hometown to bridge cultures with East-meets-West treats. Not everyone got it immediately.

Artisanal cookie brand Sucré, founded by Hong Kong-born Louise Lui and her French partner Victor Selle, introduced Asian flavours – from miso cookies to iced lemon tea – to a small French town. Photo: Sucré
Chinese diaspora

Opinion | China is leveraging its diaspora to boost the economy, unlike India

While Beijing has turned its diaspora into an extension of its domestic economy, New Delhi has largely allowed its diaspora to strengthen other economies.

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Science

Neurobiologist says his return to China not spurred by Michigan campus tragedy

Prominent researcher takes over Nanjing University’s school of life sciences, rejecting claims US policy prompted his return.

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2026 Xi-Trump summits

US law enforcement ups security for Xi summit as welcome, protest events planned

US Secret Service says it is committed to ensuring the safety and security of all foreign heads of state while they are on American soil.

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Food and Drinks

Hong Kong-style milk tea that has customers queuing out the door – in Tokyo

Despite none being from Hong Kong, the three founders of Urushi to Hibi have created a unique – and popular – cultural fusion experience.

Strong brewed tea is poured at Urushi to Hibi, a cafe in Tokyo serving authentic Hong Kong-style milk tea. Photo: Urushi to Hibi
Chinese culture

Being Chinese | The unspoken reason my Chinese friends choose America

When friends say they can just ‘exist’ in the US, they mean they can stop performing to the Confucian expectations that define Chinese life.

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Chinese culture

The tragic Qing politician whose legacy lives on in descendant’s new novel

The life of Duanfang inspires E.L. Shen’s novel Foreigners, about identity, queer awakening and the immigrant experience in modern America.

Cinema

‘Authentic’: Chinese-Canadian director’s queer love story starring Joan Chen

Xiaodan He opens up on ‘Montreal, My Beautiful’, in which an immigrant Chinese wife falls in love with a younger Quebecoise woman.

Charlotte Aubin (left) and Joan Chen in a still from Montreal, My Beautiful, directed by Xiaodan He. The film follows a 53-year-old immigrant Chinese woman in Canada trapped in a loveless marriage who falls in love with a younger Quebecoise woman. Photo: Xiaodan He
US midterm elections 2026

The surprising gender gap now redefining the Chinese-American electorate

New data challenges common perception that the United States’ Asian communities form a reliable voting bloc for Democrats.

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Malaysia

4 Chinese nationals charged over Singaporean’s airport kidnapping in Malaysia

If convicted, the suspects, including a woman, face a prison term of between 30 and 40 years.

Food and Drinks

Chinese matcha’s rise and the Hong Kong couple stirring up the UK tea scene

A mission to bring Chinese tea culture to Britain unexpectedly turned Hong Kong couple Raphael Chow and Joyce Ding into matcha entrepreneurs.

China education

China’s youth job crisis drives graduates to German vocational apprenticeships

Facing bleak employment prospects at home, some young Chinese workers are pursuing technical training abroad, but not all make it through.

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Some Chinese students looking to study abroad are considering vocational training programmes such as Germany’s Ausbildung system. Photo: Getty Images
Food and Drinks

This looks like a Mister Softee truck in Vancouver. Is it?

Experience Hong Kong nostalgia in Vancouver with Watt A Truck, a solar-powered ice cream truck offering Asian dessert flavours.

Watt A Truck serving desserts at a care home for the elderly in Vancouver. Watt A Truck brings Hong Kong-inspired soft-serve ice cream to Vancouver. Photo: Watt A Truck
Guangzhou

Being Chinese | A Singaporean in Guangzhou wonders: why do I feel so at home here?

Guangzhou set me at ease in a way other cities didn’t. I began to understand what it means to be descended from early Chinese migrants.

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US-China relations

Another Chinese national dies in US immigration custody, raising profiling fears

Wei Lianyong, 51, reportedly died in Northern Mariana Islands on August 23, after he was found unresponsive at a local detention facility.

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