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The legendary Hollywood star Anna May Wong will become the first Asian American to appear on US currency.Starting Monday, Wong’s image will be imprinted on quarters across the country. Recognized as Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star, she acted in over 60 films across a decades-long career.Wong called for greater representation of Asian people in Hollywood and challenged stereotypical depictions at a time when “yellowface” dominated the industry and the Chinese Exclusion Act was still law.“Why is it that the screen Chinese is nearly always the villain of the piece,...

The UK’s justice system is “ill-equipped” to tackle a spiralling fraud epidemic and needs a rapid overhaul, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded.The justice select committee found that traditional crimes were being wrongly prioritised by police and prosecutors in a report released on Tuesday, and described Action Fraud, the UK’s centre for collating allegations of cybercrime, as “unfit for purpose”.MPs also found that policing was inadequate to deal with the scale, complexity and evolving nature of fraud. Only 2% of police funding was dedicated to combating fraud despite it...