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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the Asian-American community.
April 2008 - Posts
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Now in its 24th year, the festival features more than 160 films. THE FACE of Asian American cinema is changing. Just ask David Magdael, co-director of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. "I've been doing this for 11 years," he says. "The first Read More...
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In San Francisco?s Chinatown, the price of rice has skyrocketed amid fears that an international shortage will spill into the United States. Read More...
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Asian Christian Counseling & Educational Seminar Services (ACCESS), a non-profit counseling center serving the Greater Atlanta Asian community, is the first Georgia agency to offer a counseling group for depression conducted in the Chinese language. Subsidized Read More...
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A young boy will soon be getting a blood cell transplant from umbilical cord blood. Read More...
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When documentarian Duc Nguyen set out to explore the little-told experiences of Vietnamese boat people, he decided to focus on the travails of refugees on a single vessel. This American Life -- Live! | Movie times You be the reviewer: Au Midi in Apto Read More...
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The original Harold and Kumar wasn’t a box-office hit, but it made $60 million on DVD, prompting this sequel. Harold and Kumar may be the first Hollywood franchise to feature Asian American men in the lead roles who don’t have to resort to kung fu. Read More...
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About every six weeks, each black student at Milpitas High School takes home something no white, Asian or Latino student receives: The Letter. Milpitas students speak | Flame Keepers program Vote: How to close the gap? | Full series Read More...
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Despite a half-century career, James Hong awaits the Asian-American surge. . But there are still roles the actor, who worked during Hollywood's golden age and made his film debut opposite Clark Gable, would love to tackle. Read More...
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Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton will appear in a two-part interview on The Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" starting Wednesday at 8. Part two will air Thursday at 8 p.m. Read More...
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For many in Little Saigon, memories of what they went through still shape their reality. Others -- many born here -- look to Vietnam for opportunities and for ways to improve lives. Thirty-three years after the Vietnam War ended, the fallen country of Read More...
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Readers sound off on the AC Transit driver incident, evangelical Asian-American students, the Alameda Power & Telecom debacle, Three Stone Hearth, wine-buying for wineaux, and the United States Marine Corps. Read More...
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Immigrants are gaining voting strength in California, as potential immigrant voters and their children could make up nearly one-third of the state's electorate by 2012, according to a study released Tuesday. The study commissioned b ... Read More...
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Doc looks at the history of Chinese characters in American film (By ED GONZALEZ) Read More...
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Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, reports earnings for the first quarter on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. Read More...
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AsiAm HSV- meets on the second Saturday of each month. Our goal is to promote friendship and personal growth among Asian-American women in Hot Springs Village through a variety of social and community service activities. Call Monita Collins at 922-8493 Read More...
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HOUSTON, April 29, 2008 -- Encore Bank, N. A., a subsidiary of Encore Bancshares, Inc., is pleased to announce the appointment of Rose Chen as Senior Vice President - Commercial Banking for Encore Bank. Read More...
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ARLINGTON, Va., April 29 (UPI) -- One in eight U.S. women gets depressed -- twice the rate of men -- a U.S. health group said. Read More...
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HATS OFF to Lane Kiffin and his staff for another great Raiders draft class. Read More...
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The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has released a new brochure, Women and Depression, about the many dimensions of major depression in women. It can be downloaded at http://www.nami.org/womendepression. - 1 in 8 women experiences depression Read More...
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A couple of years ago, when Cheryl Chow was sworn in as a Seattle School Board member, she asked her first-grade teacher, Claire Suguro... Read More...
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Panelists examined the consequences of a rapid increase in oil prices yesterday evening at the IOP. The roleplayers on the right are former University President Lawrence H. Summers and Corporation fellow Robert E. Rubin ’60. Read More...
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An analysis finds that they and their children could make up almost 30% of the state's electorate by 2012. In the first detailed analysis of potential immigrant voters and their children in California legislative districts, a study to be released today Read More...
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An assembly of women and men gathered around the UMC fountain last week for the second annual Gender Speakout sponsored by the Women's Resource Center. The theme of this year's Speakout was women in activism. Read More...
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New York, April 28 : Indian American actor Kal Penn has got the hit he was waiting for with "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" grossing $14.6 million at the US box office in its opening weekend, just behind another comedy, "Baby Mama". Read More...
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Opportunities abound for recent college graduates, Anna ***, the first Asian American Associate Deputy Secretary of Labor, told a group of Dartmouth students at a speech Monday at the Rockefeller Center. Read More...
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R. Zamora Linmark, a *** Asian American writer, said he gets inspiration from his experiences all over the world. "My ideas are constantly evolving," he said. "I can start out with a direct experience, but by the end, it has taken on a life of its own Read More...
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Students from the Center for Asian American studies at UT interviewed 25 Vietnamese Texans who escaped from Vietnam's communist regime. Read More...
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County residents experienced Friday some of the future of Asian-American heritage at Woodland Community College's final multicultural forum of the school year. Steve Yee, a board member of the Yee Fow Center for History, Culture and Trade in Sacramento, Read More...
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HARLINGEN - Students from the Montessori Academy of Harlingen visited Casa Rama, a historic bed and breakfast inn on Taylor Avenue, on Friday in advance of Asian American Heritage Month, which is May. Read More...
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HARLINGEN - Students from the Montessori Academy of Harlingen visited Casa Rama, a historic bed and breakfast inn on Taylor Avenue, on Friday in advance of Asian American Heritage Month, which is May. Read More...
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All Things Considered , April 25, 2008 · Asian-American stoners Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay while a new Errol Morris film, Standard Operating Procudure , documents the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq. Bob Mondello says the latter Read More...
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Asian-American actor Kal Penn, who starred in The Namesake , changed his real name Kalpen Modi so he wouldn't get stereotypical roles. Penn believes he wouldn't have got the roles he has if he had remained with his original Indian name. Read More...
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London, April 25 : Asian-American actor Kal Penn, who starred in "The Namesake", changed his real name Kalpen Modi so he wouldn't get stereotypical roles. Read More...
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Actor KAL PENN often lets fans down when they realise he isn't the "stoner" he portrays on the big screen. The Asian-American star of the Harold + Kumar films is often ... Read More...
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The Harold half of Harold & Kumar says roles must please 'the 12-year-old me' "Twelve-year-old me doesn't necessarily have to be proud of something I'm doing," Cho laughs. "But I don't want to [tick] him off, though. It's more a matter of me looking for Read More...
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Cheer: Asian-American students at Syracuse University have been pushing for years for a specialized program that would allow them to learn more about their own culture and history - and they deserve it. After all, SU already offers study programs for Read More...
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Asian-American movie star KAL PENN refuses to act under his birth name KALPEN MODI - because he fears film roles would be limited to his ethnicity. The Namesake star ... Read More...
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NPR.org , April 24, 2008 · Everybody's fave Asian-American stoners are back — and as you'll have guessed from the title, they're a tad less apolitical than when they went to White Castle. Read More...
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The Austin City Council authorized contracts with the Austin Asian American Chamber of Commerce, Capital City African American Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to provide economic development recruitment. Read More...
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Being a pioneering Asian-American seemed almost secondary to being a televised toe-tapper at Wednesday night's 2008 Asian Excellence Awards. Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann... Read More...
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Being a pioneering Asian-American seemed almost secondary to being a televised toe-tapper at Wednesday night's 2008 Asian Excellence Awards. Read More...
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Syracuse University already offers minors and majors for African-American studies, Middle Eastern studies and Native American studies - among other ethnic studies programs. And now the largest minority on campus might, finally, receive its program. "The Read More...
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upnext ACE FREHLEY -- May 2. KISS founding rocker plays at 9 p.m. at The National, 708 E. Broad St. $20, box office or Ticketmaster. 612-1900. VAN HALEN -- May 2. Ryan Shaw joins the veteran rock group at a show rescheduled from March 11, 8 p.m. at John Read More...
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The police commissioner in Mount Vernon is trying to find ways to reach out to a fast growing community of Portuguese-speaking Brazilians. Read More...
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John Cho and Kal Penn, who star in the 2004 cult hit Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle , admit they were just a little jumpy about the sequel. Read More...
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Everything from hate crimes to satire at the expense of Asian American students is finding a breeding ground on college campuses lately. Why is this and what does it reveal about the state of Asian America? Read More...
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After Baby, an 11-year-old Chinese boy from a broken home in East Los Angeles, witnessed a murder, the Chinese gang responsible for the killing needed to ensure his silence. Rather than murdering Baby, the gang initiated him and dragged him into its violent Read More...
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Harold and Kumar are waiting to inhale. Their first cinematic pairing, 2004's Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, earned a piddling $18 million in theaters but grossed $60 million on DVD. It turned stars John Cho, 35, and Kal Penn, 31, into real-life friends Read More...
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John Cho spent a lot of time in the background in Hollywood, trying to make the most of the one or two lines he was getting in his feature film roles. For years, he was famous mostly for helping make the acronym MILF popular, playing a tiny role in the Read More...
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Paul Muni and Luise Rainer made a very unlikely Chinese peasant couple in "The Good Earth." But that was 1937 Hollywood. Today, it's hard to imagine, say, Charlize Theron wearing yellowface. Yet there's a different problem. In "21," based on an MIT professor.. Read More...
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As luxury condos rise up amid the gentrification of Chinatown, the neighborhood is changing and many Asian Americans are moving out of the city into the suburbs. We report on the changes in Boston's Chinatown. Read More...
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Feature films directed by Asian American women will be highlighted this year at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival produced by Visual Communications and presented by Honda. Read More...
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Bob Herbert The New York Times Dear Mr. Herbert, It is still amazing to me how people who are wise and insightful on most... Read More...
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Woodland Community College will host the next in its series of multicultural forums on Friday, this time focusing on Asian American culture. The free event will last from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Community Room of the college's Learning Resource Center. Read More...
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Actor KAL PENN teaches Asian-American studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The Namesake star is a resident professor at the university and admits his first classes ... Read More...
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LIJIANG, China - You are lounging in a warm plunge pool in the garden of a private villa while listening to ''The Goldberg Variations.'' Your robe and slippers are on the floor where you dropped them, right near the giant, pillow-mounded platform bed Read More...
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Issue date: 4/22/08 Section: Extra! • World music concert. Ghanaian percussionist Bernard Woma will play alongside the UA World Music Gang. 7:30 p.m. Crowder Hall Read More...
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Xie Ronghua, a mild-mannered Chinese American of about 60, was utterly riled by a CNN news commentator's remarks that the Chinese are a "bunch of goons and thugs." The usually easygoing Xie took to the streets of New York Monday to ... Read More...
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