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A heritage day this weekend will be used to start twin initiatives bringing Central Otago’s Chinese gold-mining history into the limelight....

It was October 2016 when Mike McCoy was appointed executive director of the Kern County Museum.

Hong Kong is a modern city with a rich heritage that comes alive through traditional festivals. These are the Hong Kong festivals to see.

When we think of the Old West, we’re likely to envision cattle drives and lawless outposts like Tombstone, Ariz., and Dodge City, Kansas – places where Old West mythology lived. 

My first awareness of the Java Village resulted from a trip in 1989 to The Field Museum to cover the then-new exhibition, “Traveling the Pacific.” It would be wonderful to recreate the village with a modern frame, to show off what the country and its people offer today.

Descendants of the first marriages between Chinese and Europeans in NZ experienced racism and hid their ancestry. Families are now reclaiming their ancestry with pride.

In San Jose, the average police officer salary is $189,000, not including benefits. That’s almost as much as the mayor’s.

Premieres Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, June 1 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with the PBS Video App. Discover how an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. This new documentary tells the gripping story of the race against time by health officials to save the city from the deadly disease.

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Chinese immigrants were forced out of the area after their community, which sat in the heart of downtown, was set ablaze—twice.