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Amazon Prime Video has announced its first slate of Southeast Asian local-language originals, including a trio of situational comedy improv shows, Comedy Island, across Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, and projects from local talents including Joko Anwar, Kamila Andini and Banjong Pisanthanakun.

The trio of comedy shows – Comedy Island: Indonesia, Comedy Island: Thailand and Comedy Island: Philippines – all involve famous comedians and other celebrities being stranded on a paradise island and are expected to start streaming in 2023.

In Thailand, the comedians must escape from a mysterious scientist who is trying to reprogram them; in Indonesia, they’re forced to take part in bizarre, role-playing games to amuse the local inhabitants; and in the Philippines, they’re trapped on a lost island that has reappeared and are competing for a life-changing prize. Indonesia’s Base Entertainment is producing the Indonesian and Filipino versions, while Liminal Productions is producing the Thai version.

Amazon has also started developing a slate of other local-language originals, including two Indonesian films – Siege At Thorn High, directed by Anwar (Satan’s Slaves) and produced by Come & See Pictures, and 4 Seasons In Java, produced by Four Colour Films and written by Andini (Before, Now & Then).

Thai projects in development include Three Idiots And A Ghost, a film based on the novel by Sal Kim and published by Wattpad with Jungka Bangkok producing; scripted series Metal Casket from writer/director Banjong (Pee Mak), as well as How To Fake It In Bangkok, from Halo Productions with Ananda Everingham executive producing.

The originals will be supported by local-language licensed content including Perfect Strangers, the Indonesian version of the Italian hit, which launches October 17; Ashiap Man, directed by Atta Halilintar (November 14) and horror movie Kuntilanak 3, directed by Rizal Mantovani and starring Julie Estelle (October 10).

The Thai slate includes pandemic thriller The 100 (December 12), coming-of-age thriller The Up Rank, starring Krit Jeerapattananuwong (November 14), and action drama My True Friends: The Beginning, starring Ryu Vachirawich and Nak Charlie Trairat, which starts streaming today (August 1).

Content from the Philippines includes comedy drama Big Night, starring Christian Bables and directed by Jun Lana, which also streams from today; romance How To Love Mr. Heartless, starring Sue Ramirez (August 15), and surreal drama Whether The Weather Is Fine, starring Daniel Padilla (October 10).

Amazon is also launching local pricing and marketing campaigns across the three territories, backed by stars including Iqbaal Ramadhan, Chicco Kurniawan and Kiky Saputri in Indonesia, Mario Maurer in Thailand and Anne Curtis in the Philippines. Local pricing is around $4 a month in Indonesia and Thailand (IDR59,000 and THB149) and $3 a month in the Philippines (PHP149), following a seven-day free trial.

The local offering will also include Korean, Japanese and English-language films and series, including Korean romantic film Nothing Serious and hit Japanese animation Demon Slayer, which both stream from today, and Ron Howard’s Thai cave rescue film, Thirteen Lives, which streams from August 5.

“We’re delighted to be increasing our investment in Prime Video for customers in Southeast Asia, making it a truly localized experience – from local content specifically sourced for our customers, to a localized user experience, and the first full-scale local marketing campaign,” said Josh McIvor, director of International Expansion, Prime Video.

Erika North, head of Asia-Pacific Originals, Prime Video, said: “Southeast Asia is a tapestry of cultures, languages, and histories, and there has truly never been a better time to be a content creator or a content consumer in this part of the world. We are thrilled to be bringing our first three local Amazon Originals, the hilarious world of Comedy Island to customers in Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and worldwide.”

Amazon Prime Video has been available across Southeast Asia since 2016, but this is the first time the service has had a localized user experience and offered local-language shows. North announced plans to ramp up investment in Southeast Asia at Singapore’s Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) last December, since when the streamer has been building out a local production and marketing team in Singapore.

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Debris From Uncontrolled Chinese Rocket Falls Over Southeast Asian Seas - The New York Times

Space watchers had tracked the 23-ton rocket stage’s path in Earth orbit this week because of the slight possibility that it could come down over a populated area.

Debris from a large Chinese rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean at 12:45 p.m. Eastern time, according to the U.S. Space Command.

In an update posted on the social networking site Weibo, the Chinese Manned Space Agency said most of the debris had burned up on re-entry over the Sulu Sea, a body of water between the island of Borneo and the Philippines.

The possibility, however slight, that debris from the rocket could strike a populated area had led people around the world to track its trajectory for days.

The administrator of NASA, Bill Nelson, issued a rebuke on Saturday, saying that China “did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth.” He added that all countries should “share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property.”

The rocket Mr. Nelson referred to in his statement launched last Sunday, carrying to orbit a laboratory module that was added to China’s space station, Tiangong. Usually, the large booster stages of rockets immediately drop back to Earth after they are jettisoned. But the 23-ton core stage of the Long March 5B accompanied the space station segment all the way to orbit.

Because of friction caused by the rocket rubbing against air at the top of the atmosphere, it soon began losing altitude, making what is called “uncontrolled re-entry” back to Earth. In recent days, space watchers had projected potential re-entries over much of the planet. Within the last day, the prediction became more precise, but even then forecasters were unsure whether it would come down over the Indian Ocean, off Mexico or in the Atlantic.

People in Sarawak, a province of Malaysia on the island of Borneo, reported sightings of the rocket debris on social media, with many believing the pyrotechnics at first to be a meteor shower or a comet.

This was the third flight of Long March 5B, China’s largest rocket. The country’s space program needed such a large, powerful vehicle to carry parts to orbit for the assembly of its space station.

On its first test flight in 2020, it lofted a reusable astronaut capsule with no crew aboard to orbit. That booster fell on villages in Ivory Coast in western Africa, causing some property damage but no injuries.

Chen Dong, a Chinese astronaut, inside the Wentian lab module on Monday after it docked with the Tiangong space station. Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua, via Associated Press

The second flight carried Tianhe, the main module of Tiangong, the new space station, last year and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. This launched added Wentian, the laboratory module.

The Long March 5B contained multiple pieces. Four side boosters dropped off shortly after the launch, crashing harmlessly in the Pacific Ocean. (Disposing of used, unwanted rocket pieces in the ocean is a common practice.) But the core booster stage — a 10-story cylinder weighing 23 tons empty — carried the Wentian module into orbit.

The installation of the lab advances the progress of a second outpost in orbit where humanity is able to conduct scientific research in a microgravity environment.

China plans to operate the new Tiangong station for at least a decade, inviting other nations to take part. Tiangong is smaller than the aging International Space Station, which is to be retired in 2030 under NASA’s current plans, although Russia has given conflicting signs of how long it was continue to participate.

In recent decades, rocket stages that reach orbit typically fire the engine again after releasing their payloads so that they drop out of orbit, aimed at an unoccupied area like the middle of an ocean.

Typically 20 percent to 40 percent of a rocket or satellite survive re-entry, which would suggest that 10,000 to 20,000 pounds of the Chinese booster would reach Earth’s surface.

The Wentian hatch door after docking. China will launch another module, Mengtian, to the space station as soon as October.Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua, via Associated Press

One more laboratory module is to be launched using the same rocket in October, completing construction of the space station. A final mission for the rocket is planned for 2023, transporting an orbital space telescope.

Experts say that the designers of the rocket had alternatives to his approach. They could have had the booster stop firing before reaching orbit. It would then immediately fall back to Earth in the Pacific. But then they would have had to augment the propulsion systems on the space station module to take it the rest of the way to orbit.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who tracks space debris, suggested that the Chinese might have been able to employ a trick similar to what NASA engineers did more than 40 years ago with the Saturn 1B rocket. The second stage of the Saturn 1B was large and, like the Long March 5B booster, did not have thrusters to control the re-entry.

“They actually did something clever in terms of venting the fuel,” Dr. McDowell said. “They didn’t actually have a rocket engine ignition, but they vented the fuel in such a way as to lower the perigee into the atmosphere.”

A Tour of China’s Future Tiangong Space Station

An illustrated guide to the different sections of China’s new space station.

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Asian students are biggest losers in new NYC school admission system - New York Post

Asian students were the biggest losers under new lottery-style admission rules for public high schools that minimize the importance of good grades — with 30 percent of applicants failing to land any of their top 5 choices, new Department of Education data reveals.

Of the 12,082 Asians applying for freshman seats in city schools in the fall, only 8,484 — or 70 percent — secured one of their top 5 picks. By comparison, 90 percent of black kids and 89 percent of Hispanics — two groups that together totaled more than 45,069 of the 71,349- applicants — scored one of their top 5 choices.

Seventy-six percent of the city’s 9,767 white applicants landed one of their top 5 selections, while another 4,431 students who classified themselves “multi-racial” saw the worst results at only 68%. The citywide average was 83%.

“As you can see, the ones who lost out the most are the Asian students,” said Yiatin Chu, a co-founder of Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum & Education, who heads the Asian Wave Alliance political club.

“I’ve been dealing with many families who are very unhappy.”

Excluding the city’s nine specialized high schools – which fall under a separate application process — students can list up to 12 choices in order of preference.

Yiatin Chu heads the Asian Wave Alliance club.

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However, 5,256 — or 7% — of applicants failed to land any choice and were deemed “unmatched,” leaving their designations at the mercy of the DOE. That’s nearly 300 more “unmatched” students than the previous year when city high schools had nearly 3,000 more applicants.

About 12% of both Asian and white students failed to land any of their high school choices for this fall, while only 3% of black kids and 4% of Hispanics were shut out.

The new system is based on a complex mathematical formula that boosts so-called equity in the city’s nearly 400 high schools. Students with grades in the high 90s can land in the highest lottery group — along with kids whose average grades are only in the 80s.

All students in the top group — which made up 63% of this year’s applicants — are eligible to attend the most academically rigorous schools.

Debbie Kross, a parent advocate who sits on the Citywide Council of High Schools, said the DOE did a poor job preparing families for the new rules and that the entire process lacked transparency.

“We’re receiving plenty of calls from parents who are upset,” she said. “They don’t understand why their kid was placed in a school they never heard of, that is underperforming, that isn’t anywhere close to where they live.

“Some are scrambling to try and find Catholic schools; some are looking at private schools; some of them are moving. It has generated a lot of frustration for parents.”

Alina Adams, another parent advocate and author of the book “Getting Into NYC High-School,” said she’s “very sympathetic” to the Asian community but believes many Asian students and others were completely shut out because they used all 12 choices on coveted schools and failed to include less-appealing choices they’d at least be satisfied with.

“This system did exactly what it was supposed to do,” she said. “I hate generalizations, but it comes down to this: many Asian students are extremely high achievers, who have all A’s. What I suspect happened is many put down 12 schools that in the past were only for high-achieving kids, because” they would have likely gotten in under the previous system.

DOE officials also blamed the discrepancy on Asian and white students tending to rank more high-demand schools on their applications compared to students of other ethnicities, meaning each student in many cases is competing against 18 or more applicants per seat.

The new admissions system has generated extreme frustration for parents and students alike.

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“This administration is committed to increasing access to high quality education for all New York City students,” said DOE spokeswoman Nicole Brownstein. “This year, 75 percent of NYC high school applicants received an offer to one of their top three choices and 50 percent received an offer to their top choice — both increases from last year. 

“Chancellor [David] Banks maintains his commitment to engaging our families and communities across the city to gather feedback on how to improve upon this process for future years.” 

Additional reporting by Susan Edelman

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NYC Queens College official accused of using Asian racial slur - New York Post

Queen College’s acting head of security allegedly made a racist remark about the college president and disparaged other ethnic groups, according to an online petition and sources.

Deborah Huggins, a campus police lieutenant recently appointed interim public safety director, allegedly made the comment about Frank Wu, who was named head of the college in April 2020, the first Asian American to hold the post.

Huggins, referring to Wu’s 12th floor office, allegedly said, “Corona on 12. I’ve gotta get my nails done by the ch–ks,” according to a staffer who heard the remark.

Huggins, who is black, also told Muslim employees not to wear their head coverings and said certain ethnic groups were not allowed to use the microwave because the smell of their cuisine was “offensive” to her, the staffer said.

A former Queens College security guard, who is Hispanic, said Huggins made a disparaging remark to him after he was called into the office by someone else, saying, “I hate house rats.” He said she seemed to inexplicably object to his presence.

Deborah Huggins, a campus police lieutenant, is accused of calling President Frank Wu a “ch–k.”

Yet, he said, she would also ask guards, including him, to leave their posts to come to the office to help her with her college coursework.

Both the current and former staffer said they reported Huggins’ conduct to college officials and no action was taken. The college is part of the public City University of New York system.

The change.org petition calls for the college to bring back its former security director, Anastasia Koutsidis, saying she was “unfairly” cast as a racist for her handling of an earlier incident. Tensions reportedly rose at the school after a swastika and “KKK Lives!” were found scratched into a bulletin board in January.

Koutsidis declined to comment.

“I don’t have no comments,” Huggins told The Post.

A college spokeswoman said Huggins “brings 26 years of extensive experience at the college to her position.” She declined to comment on the petition or personnel matters.

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Seattle Asian Art Museum's new exhibit takes a page from Cliffs Notes - knkx.org

A new exhibit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum features the works of five contemporary Chinese artists. "Beyond The Mountain" explores the themes of protest, culture, nature, and urban living using traditional Chinese art forms.

Included in the exhibit is a piece from activist and artist Ai Weiwei. His piece entitled "Colored Vases" features real clay pots that appear like they could be old artifacts, but are dripping in bright colored paint. By desecrating the pieces, Weiwei is questioning China's history and values.

Visitors learn about this context from an explanation displayed on the wall at the beginning of the exhibit, a sort of Cliffs Notes summary of the show. The idea for this cheat sheet to help understand the exhibit came from University of Washington students.

Museum curator Foong Ping taught a class at UW about curating Chinese art in the spring of 2020, right at the start of the pandemic.

"They gave me one week to change my class from in-person class to completely Zoom class. So I was thinking, okay, what can I do to make it interesting for these undergraduate and graduate students and as together to make it interesting for them?"

Ping came up with the idea of asking her students to create their own shows using the pieces from the exhibit, that are now on display. As a part of the project, students researched each piece thoroughly allowing them to develop the Cliffs Notes.

"That idea of creating a Cliff Notes within the gallery...I found that to be incredibly powerful way of telling somebody, okay, this is how these works hang together. Never occurred to me," Ping said.

In one of the rooms of the exhibit, an animation is projected on a wall. Black and white paintings of protests from around the world are set against music. Chen Shaoxiong's work connects the "global language of today's street protests" by using the traditional art form. The simplified explanations of the different themes in the exhibit make the work more accessible.

"Beyond The Mountain" is on display through June 2023 and will feature another artist as works are set to be rotated starting in January.

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Demand for mental health care rising in Asian American communities as more speak openly of struggles - The Boston Globe

Chien-Chi Huang has fought to connect local Asian American communities with mental health resources for years. She has organized mental health forums, held social hours designed to promote self-care, and trained to be a mental health peer advocate.

But Huang found that COVID-19, with its crushing isolation and the wave of anti-Asian violence that followed, has sparked a broader conversation about mental health issues, as has a growing number of high-profile Asian Americans speaking out about their own struggles during the pandemic and beyond.

“When the mental health movement started, it usually wouldn’t get a lot of attention except from white people,” said Huang, founder and director of the Boston-based nonprofit Asian Women for Health, which will host its annual Asian American Mental Health Forum Saturday. But “when you see celebrities that look like you also have these kinds of problems, it normalizes the actions to seek help.”

A recent social media post by Taiwanese American actress Constance Wu is the latest example of that evolution. On July 14, Wu revealed in a statement that she’d attempted suicide after facing backlash to a 2019 tweet in which she’d voiced disappointment that the show she starred in, ABC’s “Fresh Off The Boat,” had been renewed for another season. She’d quickly clarified she was only disappointed because she had to “give up another project [she] was really passionate about,” but it was too late. The hateful messages flooded in.

“I felt awful about what I’d said, and when a few DMs from a fellow Asian actress told me I’d become a blight on the Asian American community, I started feeling like I didn’t even deserve to live anymore. That I was a disgrace to [Asian Americans], and they’d be better off without me,” she wrote in her statement.

Constance Wu attended "The Terminal List" Los Angeles premiere in June.Jon Kopaloff/Getty

Wu’s post is a big deal, local organization leaders say, because many Asian Americans are reluctant to discuss or seek help for mental health concerns. The National Latino and Asian American Study found that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are one-third as likely to use mental health services as white people, despite experiencing “a sizable burden of mental illness.”

The forum Stop AAPI Hate published a national report this month on hate and violence targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The organization tallied nearly 11,500 reports of anti-Asian harassment, discrimination, and attacks from March 2020 through March 2022. Asian Americans who experience COVID-related racism reported increased levels of anxiety, depression, and PTSD, researchers found last year.

Boston organizations serving Asian American communities say they’ve seen an uptick in people seeking mental health services. To meet that need, they’ve created culturally sensitive mental health programming and adding professionally trained staff.

VietAID, a group that serves Dorchester’s Vietnamese community, plans this fall to launch a two-year mental health program in response to increased community interest.

The program is still in its planning stages, the nonprofit’s director Lisette Le said, but it plans to use group conversations and activities to accommodate those who might be uncomfortable sharing their experiences.

“When Asian American spokespeople, celebrities, well-known folks talk about mental health, it’s a reminder that the Asian American community is not a monolith model minority. It opens up a conversation about what is mental health and that it’s OK to talk about it without stigmatizing it,” Le said.

The pressure Wu may have felt as one of a few prominent Asian American actresses in the United States is common for those who are minorities in their fields, Le said, and an issue VietAID hopes to address.

Several local organizations said increasing demand for services comes with the need for more resources — something they haven’t had access to. Historically, Asian-focused groups of any type have received a tiny percentage of grant funding. One 2018 report found that of every $100 awarded by foundations in the United States, 20 cents has been designated for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

However, local foundations have recently sought to change that. The Asian Community Fund at the Boston Foundation, established in 2020, announced in July that its first wave of grants, totaling $240,000, would be distributed to 35 nonprofits. Nearly a dozen of those, including VietAID, received funds specifically to create a new AAPI Mental Health Collaborative.

Last fall, the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, which assists youths and families, secured additional funding from the state budget to aid mental health programming with the help of state Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz. The center’s CEO, Ben Hires, said the funding was used to accommodate a four-fold increase in people looking for help during the pandemic.

“People coming from other countries and cultural backgrounds have grown up in totally different contexts when talking about some of these sensitive issues, and some might not even go ask for help and services because they don’t want to admit that they or their child may have a special need,” Hires said.

While the stigma surrounding mental health can keep people from seeking help, community groups say there is also a shortage of bilingual and bicultural mental health professionals who understand the issues that first- and second-generation populations face.

William James College in Newton has worked to increase the number of trained professionals by creating the first clinical doctoral psychology program in the United States with a focus on Asian mental health.

The program’s director, Catherine Vuky, said the college began developing the program after its inaugural Asian mental health conference in 2018. Vuky said the program is part of the college’s commitment to “meeting the needs of underserved populations, providing psychological services, and training culturally sensitive clinicians.”

Other groups have worked to add nonclinical mental health resources. Hires said some of Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center’s staff were trained by a Mental Health First Aid program to identify early warning signs of mental health challenges and reduce stigma. They’ve since used what they learned to train other Asian community providers.

“If you’re just doing things in an English or mainstream American way, it’s very likely not going to be as effective with our immigrant populations,” Hires said. “When a network of education happens, by word of mouth, you get to have this wave of understanding where people see that their neighbor or friend has … improved their life.”

The needs differ by generation as well, according to Angela Tsai, who serves as a peer counselor for the youth-centered Boston organization Massachusetts Asian + Pacific Islanders for Health.

The group has gotten increased requests for support from young people and in April began offering one-on-one mentorship, where AAPI youth can speak with people like Tsai, who’s college-aged. Tsai works in the organization’s Asian Pride section, which helps foster community for queer Asian young people and addresses issues faced by those with intersecting identities.

“There’s certain aspects of your identity that you don’t need to feel like you need to explain because everyone gets it,” she said. “I feel like my younger self would have really appreciated this type of organization.”

Melissa Wong, chair of the group’s board of directors, said the organization has also promoted activities and discussions on social media to reach more youth and alleviate feelings of isolation.

“I can’t imagine it’s easy for individuals to come out and be open [about mental health], but it’s absolutely critical, especially people who are well-respected or well-known in the community, like Constance Wu,” Wong said.

“There’s an entitlement issue, that we’re not allowed to want more, and we all have to be happy with what we have,” she added. “That’s wrong, and we need to be able to be vocal about it.”

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Anjali Huynh can be reached at anjali.huynh@globe.com.Follow her on Twitter @anjalihuynh.

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Pelosi leading delegation to Asia on Friday with Taiwan visit still undecided - CNBC

An image of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holding her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. Pelosi is leading an official congressional delegation to Asia on Friday, two sources said, although it's unclear whether the trip will include a stop in Taiwan.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is leading an official congressional delegation to Asia on Friday, two sources said, although it's unclear whether the trip will include a stop in Taiwan.

One of the sources who reviewed the itinerary Thursday afternoon said it listed a Taiwan visit as "tentative." The trip will include visits to Asian allies Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.

Bloomberg News first reported that Pelosi's delegation is departing Friday, the last day the House is in session before its monthlong August recess.

In another development, Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., said Chinese officials were pressuring him to try to halt Pelosi's trip to Taiwan. He said in an interview that an official from the Chinese Embassy called his office and demanded that he tell the speaker to call the trip off.

On Monday, China's consul general in San Francisco delivered a similar message to Larsen in person during a long-planned meeting in his Seattle district.

"He brought it up, as well, and made that request," said Larsen, a co-chair of the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Group. "I think it's a gross miscalculation on the part of the Chinese to try to pressure any member of Congress on any travel anywhere, much less this trip, if it's occurring." 

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Pelosi has invited senior lawmakers to join her on the trip, including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., and Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mark Takano, D-Calif., who led a delegation of lawmakers to Taiwan last year.

Takano declined to comment about the trip Thursday afternoon. Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., said they also had been invited by Pelosi but could not make the trip.

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill also declined to comment. The speaker's office has a policy of not discussing any international travel by lawmakers in advance, citing security concerns.

Earlier reports that Pelosi might visit Taiwan sparked international headlines and stern warnings that Beijing would carry out a "forceful" response if she sets foot on the democratic island of 24 million people, which China sees as being under its control.

Some of the threats have been aimed at Pelosi herself. "If the US can't restrain her, let China restrain her & punish her," Hu Xjin, the former editor of the Chinese state newspaper Global Times, tweeted. "PLA Air Force will surely make her visit a disgrace to herself and to the US." ("PLA" is the People's Liberation Army.)

One of the sources said Pelosi had been hosting meetings in her office all week about the Asia trip and the Taiwan controversy. The source said discussions about a potential visit were extremely delicate given the possibility of military escalation.

"The Chinese could always make a miscalculation. Cowboys could miscalculate," the source said. "And you have our folks who are going to do what they are trained to do to ensure security."

President Joe Biden, who spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, had raised concerns about Pelosi's possibly traveling to Taiwan. He said over the weekend that U.S. military officials have told him that visiting Taiwan "is not a good idea right now."

Tensions over Taiwan were among the issues Biden and Xi discussed by phone.

In their readout of the two-hour-plus call, the Chinese used tough rhetoric to warn against any U.S. support for Taiwan's independence.

"Those who play with fire will perish by it," the Chinese said in a statement. "It is hoped that the U.S. will be clear-eyed about this."

Lawmakers from both parties rallied behind Pelosi, however, urging her to make the trip and emphasize U.S. support for the self-governing island.

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• Bearish positions on Philippine peso ease
• Investors second-least shorted on Chinese yuan

July 28 (Reuters) - Bearish bets on the Thai baht extended on risks around recession, the Chinese economy, and inflation, while short bets on most Asian currencies eased slightly but remained firmly around multi-month highs, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday.

The fortnightly poll of 13 analysts showed short bets on the Thai baht were the highest since January 2018, having steadily built up since early-March when the Ukraine war set off a series of factors and pressured the tourism-reliant, net oil importing country.

Thailand, Southeast Asia's second-largest economy, is among the laggards on the policy normalisation bandwagon, which its peers and major central banks have hopped on since long, further elevating the risks of a negative impact from rising costs amid weak activity in top regional economy China.

The Thai currency, the most shorted among Asian units, has depreciated about 14% since the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and 10.3% so far this year, placing it at the bottom of the rung with the Indian rupee and South Korean won .

"Market players remain short on the Thai baht vs the U.S. dollar until they are really certain that the U.S. Federal Reserve will pass the peak of hawkishness," Poon Panichpibool, a market strategist with Krung Thai Bank said.

But, he said that weakness in the dollar after the Fed meeting would encourage investors to be bullish on the baht, relying on the recent green shoots observed in tourism and the economy.

The Fed overnight delivered another 75 basis points (bps) rate hike, and reiterated its resolve against stinging inflation in the world's biggest economy even at the risk of economic weakness and a slowing jobs market. read more

Analysts at Maybank, however, cautioned that although the greenback weakened after the Fed's move, Chair Jerome Powell is "still hawkish"; that could keep the Fed on an aggressive tightening path, ultimately continuing to support the safe haven dollar.

The poll's responses were collated before the Fed hike.

Elsewhere, sentiment for the Philippine peso improved over the past two weeks after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in mid-July raised its key interest rates by 75 bps in an off-cycle move. read more

Chinese yuan , seen as a safer bet among Asian currencies, was the second-least shorted currency in the region, while short positions on the Indian rupee, Indonesian rupiah , and the Malaysian ringgit moderated slightly but remained firm.

The Asian currency positioning poll is focused on what analysts and fund managers believe are the current market positions in nine Asian emerging market currencies: the Chinese yuan, South Korean won, Singapore dollar, Indonesian rupiah, Taiwan dollar, Indian rupee, Philippine peso, Malaysian ringgit and the Thai baht.

The poll uses estimates of net long or short positions on a scale of minus 3 to plus 3. A score of plus 3 indicates the market is significantly long on U.S. dollars.

The figures include positions held through non-deliverable forwards (NDFs).

The survey findings are provided below (positions in U.S. dollar versus each currency):

Reporting by Sameer Manekar in Bengaluru; editing by Uttaresh.V

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MANILA, Philippines — Any Asian aggressor who violates the sovereignty of other countries in the region risks punitive counter actions, just like what Russia is confronting now for its invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. secretary of the Navy said in a veiled warning to China’s increasingly assertive behavior.

Carlos Del Toro told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday night in Manila that the U.S. military focus in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in the disputed South China Sea, would never slacken and in fact has intensified despite the war in Ukraine.

He did not name China but underscored that Beijing has encroached in sovereign waters of its Asian neighbors and violated international law with impunity.

He renewed assurances by President Joe Biden that the U.S. would honor its obligations under a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty in case Philippine forces, ships and aircraft come under attack in the disputed South China Sea, where Manila and Beijing have had increasingly tense territorial spats in the last decade.

Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei also lay claim to the strategic waterway, one of the world’s busiest, which China claims virtually in its entirety on historical grounds. Beijing rejected a 2016 international arbitration ruling that invalidated its claims and continues to defy the landmark decision.

“As President Biden has said, if one country violates one inch of Filipino sovereignty, whether it be at sea or on shore or an offshore island, we will be there to support the Filipino nation and the Filipino people in every possible way,” Del Toro said.

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China’s move to transform seven disputed reefs into missile-protected island bases in the Spratlys, the most hotly contested section of the South China Sea, “is very concerning” and prompted the U.S. and other Western nations to press on with freedom of navigation patrols around the Chinese-claimed territories to underscore “that they are not in the possession of the PRC,” he said, referring to the People’s Republic of China.

Chinese officials were not immediately available for comment on Del Toro’s remarks but they have repeatedly warned the U.S. to stay away from what they say is a purely Asian dispute. Chinese forces have at times responded to U.S. and Australian aerial and sea patrols by firing flares and using jamming equipment to warn them to move away. Some U.S. Navy ships have been chased closely, according to U.S. military officials.

The Chinese actions increase the risk of miscalculations and U.S. forces have been trained “to be very disciplined” and to stick to long-established rules of engagement to avoid confrontations, Del Toro said.

“It’s important to videotape all of these illegal actions that these countries are actually doing so the entire world can see exactly how they are behaving,” he said.

Del Toro said potential Asian aggressors should learn from the current troubles of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has faced sanctions from Western nations and their allies, which also provide weapons and humanitarian support to Ukrainians.

“I think that’s a tremendous lesson that countries who were free, democratic and principled will work together against adversaries who were not,” he said.

If such level of aggression is ever committed in the Asia-Pacific, “I’m convinced that allies and partners will come together to do the same thing here in the Pacific,” Del Toro said.

After meetings in Singapore and Thailand, Del Toro flew to the Philippines this week to meet top military and defense officials and hold, he said, “some classified discussions about additional capabilities that we could actually continue to help provide to the Philippines, a call for greater cooperation for more ... complicated exercises.”

He cited the expansion of American combat exercises with Filipino forces and an ongoing 26-nation exercise in Hawaii involving 38 warships, four submarines and thousands of military personnel. Called the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, the drills are the world’s largest held biennially.

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America’s military engagement with the Philippines ran into difficulties under former President Rodrigo Duterte, who threatened to end the presence of visiting American forces and a key defense pact that allowed thousands of U.S. Marines and troops to train in the country, Washington’s oldest treaty in Asia. But the alliance held up.

The brash-talking populist had often criticized U.S. security policy while nurturing cozy ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin. His tirades against Washington eased after it provided millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine at the height of the pandemic in the Philippines.

Del Toro’s visit reflects a renewed charm offensive by Washington after Duterte’s exit and the recent election of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Del Toro was behind a recent decision to name a future U.S. Navy destroyer the USS Telesforo Trinidad, in honor of a Filipino-American sailor who rescued two crew members when their ship caught fire more than a century ago.

“It’s symbolic of the bonds between our two nations, our commitment to the shared values … to freedom, and democracy,” he said.

Associated Press journalist Aaron Favila contributed to this report.

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The leaders of Central Asia’s five nations edged toward closer cooperation but remain well short of the integrated community that has been a goal in the region for decades. Analysts say the five must still build trust while balancing ties with Russia and China.

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev stressed the positive at the July 21 summit in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, claiming that regional dialogue has created a constructive environment for multidimensional cooperation.

“We have removed many barriers to the free flow of goods and people,” he said. “We have active cultural and tourism exchanges now. This is allowing us to expand trade and investment” in the region of more than 77 million people, the majority under age 45.

Mirziyoyev and the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan emphasized progress made on economic ties and connectivity, climate and green energy, tourism, water sharing and hydropower investments.

While publicly silent on Russia’s war in Ukraine and recent civil protests that turned violent in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the leaders also agreed to forge a network of security and intelligence services. Observers note that the governments tend to blame bloodshed on “foreign elements.”

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, whose government worries about possible sleeper cells in Afghanistan, said the five nations must work together against “threats of terrorism, extremism, drugs and arms trafficking, cybercrime and other forms of cross-border organized crime.”

Turkmenistan’s new leader, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, struck a similar note, saying, “In the context of the extreme aggravation of the world situation, we need to preserve unity and solidarity.”

Like his colleagues, he pledged closer partnership on transport, communications and water resources.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president of Kazakhstan, speaks at the Central Asian leaders' summit in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, July 21, 2022.

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev maintained that Central Asia has yet to unleash its transport and logistical potential. He said his government is committed to developing a Trans-Caspian corridor stretching from China and Kazakhstan across the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and parts of Eastern Europe.

He said Kazakhstan is also ready to participate in the construction of a railroad from Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan through Kabul to Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.

“We call on our partners to actively use the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railroad, the shortest route between East Asia and the Persian Gulf,” he said.

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov admitted his country still must solve border disputes with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

“I want to confirm that we have a strong will to complete these negotiations on mutual agreements,” he said, promising to create “transnational bridges of peace, friendship, and trust.”

Japarov urged his fellow leaders to sign a proposed pact on friendship, good neighborly relations and cooperation. “I hope this treaty will serve as the reliable basis for common prosperity in Central Asia.”

But Turkmenistan and Tajikistan are not yet on board and say they still are reviewing the document.

Central Asia experts suspect that the two nations’ authoritarian leaders are reluctant to be bolder, compared to the more confident Kazakh, Uzbek and Kyrgyz presidents. Turkmenistan’s closed economy imposes barriers to cooperation.

“Still, this should still be a starting point,” said Temur Umarov, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Three out of five countries sealing oral promises with some sort of a document is movement in the right direction.”

Umarov said increasing discourse about closer cooperation reflects dynamism.

“Political leaders are interested at least in thinking together about what the region’s future might look like. It was not like that several years ago.”

Central Asian leaders meet at a summit in Kyrgyzstan on July 21, 2022: Kazakhstan's Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Tajikistan's Emomali Rahmon, Kyrgyzstan's Sadyr Japarov, Turkmenistan's Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Uzbekistan's Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Tashkent-based scholar Farkhad Tolipov said the leaders “see the need for stronger collaboration now, and this should lead to homegrown institutional frameworks.” As of now, he asserted, the region leans into Russia- and China-led blocs.

Umarov sees Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan as the region’s closest partners, “which is a good thing as it would be much easier to add other countries to the existing strong partnership initiatives between the two biggest economies of Central Asia.”

Annual consultations among the five leaders are “a huge leap forward,” he added. “This is not only a great opportunity to meet exclusively without any foreign actor but to create connections.”

Marlene Laruelle, director of the Central Asia program at the George Washington University, agrees.

“We see trends toward more regional cooperation, but it is cooperation, not integration,” she told VOA. “A bloc is not realistic yet. There is still too much mutual distrust.”

She said the obstacles include differences in policy approaches and the lack of bottom-up momentum to integrate.

Tokayev suggested that representatives from Russia and China might be included in future regional summits, but Umarov pointed out that these powers already have other venues for dialogue with the region.

“This should be done without damaging the safe space where Central Asian states can have an open discussion about anything, including their policies towards China and Russia,” she said.

Uzbek analyst Anvar Nazir sees dependence on Moscow and Beijing as another obstacle to closer integration.

“As long as leaders fear and lean on these powers, Central Asia will not become an independent region,” he said.

Several Tajik experts told VOA they still see the Kremlin’s deep impact on the political mentality.

“Central Asia is a ground for geopolitical games, and with each state facing enormous political and economic challenges, there is more room for Russia and China, while the West remains passive,” analyst Ilhom Yusupov said.

But American policymakers see Central Asia countries finally acting in their own interest.

Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu recently told VOA that the region is now setting the agenda for the C5+1 dialogue with Washington.

“This is exactly what we hoped would happen: Central Asian countries have their own voice now,” Lu said. “That really demonstrates that these are sovereign countries with their own interests and agenda. Central Asian states show great leadership in telling us what they want from this relationship.”

This story originated in VOA's Uzbek Service

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July 26 (Reuters) - Tournament hosts Japan retained their East Asian Championship women's title on Tuesday after being held to a 0-0 draw by China in Kashima, east of Tokyo.

The draw means Futoshi Ikeda's side finished two points clear of China, the reigning Asian champions, while South Korea came third after their 4-0 win over Taiwan.

The title is Japan's second in a row in the regional competition and fourth in total, moving them one win clear of North Korea, who are not participating this time, as the competition's most successful nation.

Riko Ueki went closest to opening the scoring in the second half for Japan when her shot from distance beat Chinese goalkeeper Zhu Yu only for the ball to come back off the crossbar.

The South Koreans secured third place with a comprehensive win over Taiwan, with Kang Chae-rim, Lee Min-a and Ko Min-jung all finding the net after an own goal from Chang Chi-lan had given Colin Bell's side the lead in the 35th minute.

The final round of matches in the men's tournament will be played in Toyota on Wednesday, with Japan needing to defeat defending champions South Korea to claim the title.

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HAIFA, Israel, July 26 (Reuters) - The city of Haifa is set to become an increasingly significant east Mediterranean shipping hub, with Chinese and Indian firms buying into its ports as Israel normalizes ties with its Gulf Arab neighbours under a U.S. diplomatic push.

Earlier this month, as U.S. President Joe Biden visited the Middle East, India's largest port developer Adani Ports (APSE.NS) and Israeli minority partner Gadot agreed to buy Haifa Port for 4.1 billion shekels ($1.18 billion).

Its founder, Asia's richest man Gautam Adani, said via Twitter that the deal was of "immense strategic and historical significance", and the company is betting the port will become a link to Europe and create new trade lanes with Asia.

A year before, Chinese rival Shanghai International Port Group (600018.SS) (SIPG) said it saw the same potential when it inaugurated its 5.5 billion shekel Bay Port container shipping terminal right next door.

Their convergence on Haifa touches on a broader contest between Chinese, Indian and U.S. interests, said Carice Witte, executive director of SIGNAL, an Israeli policy group that specializes in China-Israel relations.

"When you see China at a port in Haifa, Haifa now becomes an incredibly important strategic point," she said. "Whereas maybe in the past it was not perceived that way, Israel in general and Haifa very specifically - its relevance as a piece on the puzzle has changed."

The two ports are too big to serve just Israel, and officials expect the underdeveloped bay of Haifa to become a hub for trade and transshipment, meaning the handling of goods that are unloaded in Israel and then sent to other countries.

This would have been unthinkable just a decade ago, when Israel was politically isolated from potential trade partners in the region.

But while peace talks with the Palestinians remain stuck, Israel has normalized ties with new markets like the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, and all the while forging deeper trade ties with countries in the Far East.

"Israel is a very important place, connecting east and west," Miao Qiang, CEO of SIPG's Bay Port, said at the terminal's control center. "All ships from the Suez Canal from east to west are (passing) through this area."

Just outside, new cargo railways are being constructed that will link into the nationwide network and, should regional integration continue, potentially into Jordan, which could then link up Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Adani Ports did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment. Opher Linchevski, chief executive of Gadot, said the joint venture aimed to benefit from "the warming relationship between Israel and the Arab Gulf countries".

The expansion of Haifa bay is also expected to alleviate problems with congestion, after crises from COVID-19 lockdowns to Russia's invasion of Ukraine fed into a global supply chain crunch that earlier this year snarled a fifth of the global container ship fleet in ports.

Average ocean dwell times - the period a vessel spends at a port - are currently 2.5 days per load at the Port of Haifa, down from a peak of 3.5 days in May but is still 75% higher than at the start of the year, data from supply-chain tracking platform FourKites showed.

The country's ports currently handle a total of about 3 million TEU, the standard unit for 20-foot containers. SIPG expects that to jump to 5 million TEU in 5 to 8 years, at which point Bay Port's capacity could double to 2 million TEU, with half of the business dedicated to transshipment.

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