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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the Asian-American community.
January 2008 - Posts
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In a move that could help Barack Obama's effort to get the Asian American vote, longtime John Edwards supporter Leland Yee said Thursday he is endorsing Barack Obama. Read More...
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In 1998, the Asian American Hotel Owners Association identified a set of standards called the 12 Points of Fair Franchising by which to judge the actions of franchise companies. Now, nine years later, AAHOA has updated the 12 points and has embarked on Read More...
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A study to be published in a UCLA academic journal will show that Asian-American students benefit more than Caucasians from bans on affirmative action in admission to public universities. Read More...
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A Chinese American political organization is calling for Chinese Americans not to vote for Barack Obama, a move that has brought criticism from other Asian American groups. Read More...
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Berlin- Leading members of the European, Asian, American and Russian film industries have been selected as members of the international jury for the Berlin Film Festival, Berlinale organizers announced Tuesday. The jury, which is to be headed up by r.. Read More...
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State campaign aims to curb growing obesity among young Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. Read More...
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Comcast Corp. will shut AZN Television, its Asian-American cable TV channel, in April because of financial problems, the company said today. Read More...
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Jan 27, 2008 — PHILADELPHIA Comcast Corp., the nation s largest cable operator, said Friday that it is pulling the plug on AZN Television, its Asian American channel. The Philadelphia-based company said the channel will go off the air after April 9. Read More...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, said Friday that it is pulling the plug on AZN Television, its Asian American channel. Read More...
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Britney Spears Is Sanjaya Malakar - BRITNEY Spears can do English and an Asian/American. She has interesting hair. She can't dance all that well. It's the big news ... Read More...
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Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, said Friday that it is pulling the plug on AZN Television, its Asian-American channel. The Philadelphia-based company said the channel will go off the air after April 9. Read More...
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SAN FRANCISCO , Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) today expressed disappointment at the decision by Comcast to shut down AZN Television in April this year, calling it a big loss of yet another important Read More...
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The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) today expressed disappointment at the decision by Comcast to shut down AZN Television in April this year, calling it a big loss of yet another important venue through which the American public can learn Read More...
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AZN Television will go off the air after April 9th. Read More...
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The surge in the number of Asian Americans the past four decades has affected many sectors of society, particularly public schools. On the whole, Asian American students tend to perform well on standardized tests and have a high rate of acceptance into Read More...
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Comcast Corporation is pulling the plug on AZN Television, its Asian American channel. Read More...
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Comcast is closing down its AZN Television network, which targeted Asian American viewers. The cable giant said the channel failed to attract enough advertising and other revenue to make it economically viable. Read More...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Comcast says it is pulling the plug on its Asian American channel AZN Television. Read More...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Comcast says it is pulling the plug on its Asian American channel AZN Television. The cable operator says the channel will go off the air after April 9th. However, AZN's popular Asian Excellence Awards show will move to Comcast's E! Read More...
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PHILADELPHIA—Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, said Friday that it is pulling the plug on AZN Television, its Asian American channel. Read More...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Comcast Corporation is pulling the plug on AZN Television, its Asian American channel. Read More...
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Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, said Friday that it is pulling the plug on AZN Television, its Asian American channel. Read More...
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Professor Modi has arrived on campus. For this semester only, Kalpen Modi - more popularly known as Kal Penn - is an adjunct professor in the Asian American Studies Department, teaching ASAM 109: Asian Americans in the Media. Read More...
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The public is invited to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hawai'i chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association at a fundraising event Feb. 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Willows restaurant in Mo'ili'ili. Read More...
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Memories of Wartime Shanghai Palo Alto City Library presents: "Memories of Wartime Shanghai" with Meimei Pan and Connie Young Yu. Historian Connie Yu has written extensively on Asian-American history. Read More...
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Wayne State University Law School Dean Frank Wu was honored recently with a Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award. The national award is named for Chang-Lin Tien, the first Asian American to head a major U.S. research university. The Tien Awards program Read More...
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Forest Whitaker in “The Air I Breathe,” the director Jieho Lee’s debut feature. Read More...
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A blogger says the arrest of a group of Asian American men at Orlando’s Roxy Night Club was “racist.” Read More...
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ImaginAsian, an Asian American television station, re-opened the historic Linda Lea Theatre in Little Tokyo as the ImaginAsian Center. Read More...
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Andrew Lam is a NAM editor and author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" (Heyday Books, 2005), which recently won a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Read More...
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Featuring A Reader's Choice Vote And Exciting Contest In Partnership With MYX! San Francisco, CA, January 24, 2008 – Viz Media , LLC ( Viz Media ), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing Read More...
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Billboards for the Outreach Center may be ubiquitous, but it's hardly the only car-donation charity with an extensive local advertising campaign. Read More...
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The timing could not have been better. When ChaeRan Freeze completed her coursework toward a doctorate in Russian Jewish history in 1993, it was just as the doors to the archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg were beginning to swing open. Read More...
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The Walter Hill festival continues, Michael Powell's classic "Peeping Tom," "The Battle of Algiers" and more. Read More...
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The public is invited to help celebrate the Hawai'i chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association's 20th anniversary at a fundraising event next Friday from 7-9 p.m. at The Willows restaurant. Read More...
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Littler Mendelson, the nation's largest employment and labor law firm, announced today that several prominent St. Louis attorneys will lead Littler's further expansion into Missouri. The St. Louis addition is Littler's 44th nationwide office. Read More...
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The United Minorities Council elected College and Wharton junior Lisa Zhu, who is also a DP columnist, as its new chair at the Greenfield Intercultural Center yesterday evening. Read More...
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North Beach officials will build an environmentally friendly town hall, one of a handful of "green" buildings in Southern Maryland. Read More...
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On February 19, 1942, ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent U.S. declarations of war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of Read More...
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Adam Engelman has heard the complaints of fellow students before, colleagues frustrated by soaring tuition costs. "A lot of people often place blame on the administration for tuition going up, which is logical," the political science senior ... Read More...
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Wired Gallery's first regional juried show embraces the seven deadly sins, those totem poles of biblical judgments. Wicked and winking, ''The Seven Deadly Sins'' turns those totems into the poles of an existential circus tent. Read More...
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Zhang one of two tiny 14-year-olds who could star in U.S. Nationals. ST. PAUL, Minn. — The comparison is inevitable. Both are second daughters of Chinese-born parents. Both are from Southern California. Read More...
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you might have noticed: There's an election coming up. But you might not yet have realized there will be names on the ballot other than Clinton, Obama, Huckabee, and McCain. Read More...
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“Gift from the Heart” is the theme for the Concerned Friends of Samaritan House and Stone Soup Kitchen fundraiser, a classic high tea, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 145 N.W. 10th in Newport. Read More...
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Asian American and Pacific Islanders, the second largest ethnic community in California, will be courted by Democratic candidates like never before. The same goes for other states with a high concentration of AAPI voters, such as New York, Illinois, Texas, Read More...
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c80484) has announced the addition of new eMarketer report Asian Americans Online to their offering. Read More...
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DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of new eMarketer report Asian Americans Online to their offering. Read More...
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Vegan macrobiotic community dinner, eat in or take out; 6-7:30 p.m.; Jan. 25, reservations by Jan. 23; Church of the Crossroads; $12, $15.50 with dessert; 398-2695, macrobiotichawaii@hotmail.com. Read More...
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Wed, Jan 23, 2008 (2 a.m.) Who knew copper wire would end up being the dream of the drug-addled or the purely criminal -- or the stuff of terrorism in Las Vegas. Read More...
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Iowa and politics are very much in the newspaper headlines today ever since the first caucus of the 2008 US Presidential elections energized our nation on January 3rd. Read More...
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The San Jose Police Department - serving one of the nation's most diverse cities - doesn't have a single minority or a woman above the rank of captain. Read More...
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A property management firm has agreed to pay as much as $158,000 to settle allegations that it discriminated against Cambodian-Americans who tried to rent apartments, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. Read More...
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For the first time in more than 20 years the entire high command staff of the San Jose police department is made up of all white men. Read More...
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LOWELL - A property management firm has agreed to pay as much as $158,000 to settle allegations that it discriminated against Cambodian-Americans who tried to rent apartments,... Read More...
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The Justice Department today announced that it has reached a settlement in the first lawsuit ever filed by the Department alleging discrimination against Asian-American victims based upon its fair housing testing program. Under the consent decree filed Read More...
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When Courtney Gibson moved to St. Louis two years ago, she relied on a newcomer's program with the St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative to smooth the transition: she made friends, learned how a highway project might affect her commute, asked around Read More...
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As Barack Obama, the most plausible African-American presidential contender in American history, was ramping up his successful Iowa campaign last month, about 20 well-established black lobbyists gathered in Citigroup's Washington offices to take stock Read More...
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ST. LOUIS -- When Courtney Gibson moved to St. Louis two years ago, she relied on a newcomer's program with the St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative to smooth the transition: she made friends,... Read More...
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A Sacramento native and an active volunteer for numerous community activities, Lonnie Wong brings a vast local perspective and over 25 years of reporting experience to FOX40 News at 10. Read More...
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