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James Beard Award-winning author and activist Grace Young is the latest recipient of a $50,000 grant from the Julia Child Foundation. Young is best known for her cookbooks, but also for supporting Chinatown businesses in San Francisco during the pandemic. 

Some of the money will go to supporting restaurants like Far East Cafe, a favorite of Young’s that is one the oldest and only banquet restaurants left in the city. Young calls potentially losing the 102-year-old establishment heartbreaking.

• Binita “Bini” Pradhan has been dubbed San Francisco’s “Queen of Momos,” helping the Nepalese dumpling go viral.   

• The parents of 16-year-old Japanese high school student Yoshihiro Hattori, who was gunned down in Louisiana in 1992, will soon retire from their decades long battle for gun control in America, but are hopeful for the next generation to carry on their mission. 

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• The Wapato Filipino Community Hall in Yakima Valley, Washington celebrated its 70th anniversary.

• More than 200 Chinese citizens are evacuating Ukraine as the war continues to escalate. 

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• India’s main opposition Congress party is voting to elect a new party president. 

• Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama will make mosaics for the slated Long Island Rail Road terminal in New York. 

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• Himesh Patel will star in the upcoming Netflix film “Good Grief,” the directorial debut project from “Schitt’s Creek” star Dan Levy.

• Scientists in China have made new discoveries in the way electrons move.
   
• Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the esteemed Booker Prize for his sophomore novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.”
   
• A policeman in China familiar with many of the regions’ dialects has used his language skills to help more than 50 missing people reunite with their families.  
   
• A look into several South Asian sweet shops in the U.S. making mithai (sweets), central to Diwali festivities.    
   
• World renowned restaurant Noma will have its next pop up in Japan.