With one week left before New York’s primary elections, we look at the candidacy of Reshma Saujani, running for Congress to represent Manhattan’s East Side. She's young, a Harvard and Yale grad, the daughter of...
We take a look at the politics surrounding the census, the country's decennial enumeration of its residents. For most Americans, getting counted is a simple matter of receiving a form in the mail, filling it out,...
Street demos, rowdy protests over development plans, the sudden resignations of five prominent reform legislators—suddenly the democracy movement in Hong Kong is restive again. But the movement is also divided. Is this...
The city's September primary charted big wins for Asian American candidates, including John Liu, who is poised to become the first Asian American elected to citywide office. What does this mean for the thousands of...
Gilberto Teodoro, Jr. is the secretary of defense of the Philippines--and widely considered a leading contender in next year's presidential race. APF's Dorian Merina covered his recent visit to New York.
Next week New Yorkers will vote in the City Primary Elections. A number of Asian Americans are running for Council Member in Flushing, Queens' District 20 to replace John Liu, who is running for City Comptroller....
Japan has been virtually a single-party oligarchy under the Liberal Democratic Party for decade. But last weekend the opposition DP swept them aside in a landslide victory, winning 308 out of 480 seats in the lower...
In September 2007, thousands of Buddhist monks took to the streets of Rangoon to protest the military junta. In a few days, protestors swelled to 100,000. The regime countered by shutting off the Internet and clamping...
In the afternoon on May 19th, Melissa Roxas was abducted outside Manila, along with two of her companions. At the time Roxas was involved in providing health services to the rural community in Tarlac. A week later,...
In the Philippines, extrajudicial killings of journalists and activists continue, a US military presence begins a new phase, and an estimated 300,000 residents who have fled violence in Mindanao remain displaced. Now,...
