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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the Asian-American community.
May 2008 - Posts
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The 10th annual Asian Heritage Celebration takes place from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. today at the Kensico Dam Plaza. There will be live performances, music, ethnic food, arts and crafts, exhibits, games and more at this free festival. Bronx River Parkway, Valhalla. Read More...
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The Asian American Community of Elgin will host its third annual Asian Fusion Festival as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebration from 3 to 9:30 p.m. today at the Hemmens Cultural Center, 100 Symphony Way. Read More...
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Nine prominent Indian-Americans, two of them women, are among 50 people of Asian origin who have been honoured by the Asian American Business Development Centre for their contribution to the field of business. Read More...
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The Asian American Journalists Association today announced the 42 high school students selected for J Camp, a six-day program that brings together a multicultural group to sharpen their journalism skills. Read More...
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Sacred Hearts Academy junior Michelle Galvez's essay on health and wellness in the Asian-American Pacific Islander community was chosen as the youth grand prize winner of the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organization's 20th Anniversary Read More...
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New York, May 29 : A South Asian American professor has been appointed dean of the reputed Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Read More...
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STOCKTON - The Stockton-based Central Valley Asian-American Chamber of Commerce celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at its annual Lotus Celebration from 5:30 to 8 p.m. tonight at China Palace Restaurant, 5052 N. West Lane. Read More...
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The Middletown Main Library will screen a series of acclaimed short films produced by the Asian American Filmand Theater Project on two consecutiveMonday evenings in June. Screenings on June 2, 6-8:45 p.m.: "Little Terrorist" (narrative short), India, Read More...
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My generation bristled at any implication of foreignness. We were Asian American, accent on the second word, and we wanted to create a hard distinction between our native culture and that of our overseas ancestors. We took defiant pride in our ability Read More...
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MetLife has been recognized by Working Mother magazine as a 2008 Best Company for Multicultural Women for the third year in a row. The Working Mother Best Companies for Multicultural Women initiative celebrates employers that are establishing groundbreaking Read More...
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NEW YORK----MetLife has been recognized by Working Mother magazine as a 2008 Best Company for Multicultural Women for the third year in a row. The Working Mother Best Companies for Multicultural Women initiative celebrates employers that are establishing Read More...
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Tired of YouTube, but still like your flicks in the five-minute range? Head to the Aurora Picture Show’s Slant 8: Bold Asian American Images, a program that features 11 short flicks, each dealing with some aspect of Asian-American life. Experimental and Read More...
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Dr. Hugh Vu, voted the top plastic surgeon in the Central Valley by San Joaquin Magazine readers for the past two years, helps make each patient a renewed person. Read More...
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NEW YORK , May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC) has named Verizon Wireless' Chief Information Officer Ajay Waghray as one of 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business. Read More...
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Sheri Adlin and Beth Ann Stroloo, the women largely responsible for starting the Quincy Asian Resources organization nearly seven years ago, will be honored at a banquet Saturday night. Read More...
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Douglaston, population 14,168 (2000 Census), is a community in the New York City borough of Queens. Read More...
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WUMB Public Radio at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and the Institute for Asian American Studies has launched an Asian American radio program called As I Am Read More...
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The Asian American Business Development Center has named Verizon Wireless' Chief Information Officer Ajay Waghray as one of 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business. Waghray will be honored at an awards dinner and ceremony held here tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria Read More...
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Coming up: Old-fashioned ice cream social Sunday at Randall Oaks Park; Asian Fusion Festival is Saturday in Elgin Read More...
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Asian-Americans are the fastest growing ethnic group in the state, and some hope with higher numbers comes a larger voice. Read More...
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The For Your Information column appears in The Miami Herald's Broward section. You'll find classes, clubs, programs for senior citizens and children, and community entertainment events. Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Read More...
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BAUANG, LA UNION, Philippines -- The latest cable landing station put up here by Philippine Long Distance Co. will provide a “breather” not only for call centers and the like but more so the national government, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Read More...
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Swara Kopparty, a Terre Haute South Vigo High School senior, is the first winner of a new, statewide award aimed at recognizing Indiana’s top science student. Read More...
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When UC Berkeley's $46.4 million C.V. Starr East Asian Library opened this March, it was lauded for one of the world's most impressive scholarly collections of East Asian materials. In fact, it's the first library dedicated to East Asia at any US university Read More...
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Alexis Herman served in the Clinton administration as secretary of labor from 1997 to 2001, but has stayed neutral in the Democratic primary. James Roosevelt, Jr. Read More...
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The Middletown Main Library will screen a series of acclaimed short films produced by the Asian American Filmand Theater Project on two consecutiveMonday evenings in June. Screenings on June 2, 6-8:45 p.m.: "Little Terrorist" (narrative short), India, Read More...
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When Karen Bass ascended to speaker of the California Assembly recently, she drew wide notice as the first African-American woman in the nation to hold such a post. But what may be more significant is that Bass is part of a growing crowd... Read More...
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Downtown Los Angeles-based teamCFO, which provides onsite chief financial officer services for its business clients, tomorrow will receive one of three nationwide Asian Business Leadership Awards at the 23rd annual Asian American Business Conference in Read More...
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The Home Song Stories is Tony Ayres' divulgence of the most traumatizing, deeply personal events of his childhood. It's not often that a director summons the courage to bare his soul, but in Ayres' case, Stories isn't so much a film for self-expression Read More...
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SAN FERNANDO, La Union — President Arroyo yesterday said there is no need for new taxes during her remaining years in office, despite doubts on whether the government can balance the budget this year, and the deficits incurred in subsidizing cheap rice Read More...
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GMEG is excited to make your Chicago event planning easier by bringing you this compilation of arts, music and other activities in the city in this first monthly submission. See below for events in the next few weeks. We'll begin the column again in the Read More...
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SACRAMENTO -- When Karen Bass ascended to speaker of the California Assembly recently, she drew wide notice as the first African-American woman in the nation to hold such a post. Read More...
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AppLabs, one of the largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company, has been named by the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation( USPAACC-EF) as one of its 50 Fastest-Growing Asian American Read More...
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When Karen Bass ascended to speaker of the California Assembly recently, she drew wide notice as the first African-American woman in the nation to hold such a post. But what may be more significant is that Bass is part of a growing crowd... Read More...
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When Karen Bass ascended to speaker of the California Assembly recently, she drew wide notice as the first African-American woman in the nation to hold such a post. But what may be more significant is that Bass is part of a growing crowd... Read More...
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Recognizing the continued success of Asian-owned business nationwide, Wells Fargo and the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation will honor three Asian business owners with the 5th annual Asian Business Leadership Award. Read More...
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From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex! All times Pacific. 2:30 AM Starz Vitus (2006 SUI): Alas, this is neither a sequel to 1934's The Black Cat (which featured Bela Lugosi Read More...
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The largest-ever survey to assess the health promotion information that gay men who use the internet to meet sexual partners in the United States would like to see has found that sexually explicit materials are not only acceptable across a diverse range Read More...
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SACRAMENTO - When Karen Bass ascended to speaker of the California Assembly recently, she drew wide notice as the first African-American woman in the nation to hold such a post. Read More...
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The Rainbow Rebellion of black, white and Latino legislators against Bronx Dem Party Boss Jose Rivera has, to quote Assemblyman Ruben Diaz Jr., "drawn a line in the sand." Read More...
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When chatting about his pending projects here, Seattle Repertory Theatre artistic director David Esbjornson does not sound like a man singing... Read More...
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In Hollywood's early days, white actors were made up to look Asian. Later, Marlon Brando in "Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956) and Peter Sellers in "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu" (1980) both wore "yellowface." Read More...
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With their growing visibility in the United States, do Asians now have the swing or influence votes that might decide the upcoming US elections? Read More...
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The Andromeda Strain , Michael Crichton's 1969 novel, written while he was still a medical student at Harvard, is like one of the mutations the book painstakingly describes. It can shape-shift into a dozen metaphors. Read More...
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With a souring economy, soaring gas prices, mortgage woes and layoffs, you might expect charitable giving to take a nosedive. Read More...
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The most recent adaptation of Michael Crichton?s 1969 novel quakes with the noise of nearly every threat to our national well-being. Read More...
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Health insurers are finding that they need to provide information in more than English and Spanish for the many ethnic groups they serve. Read More...
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he Asian Festival began yesterday, offering its standard colorful fare of food, art and entertainment. Read More...
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This certainly can't be the most efficient way to get something done: Spend more than 10 years planning it, do a dozen separate studies... Read More...
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Wing Luke wanted to show that people weren't all that different, no matter what their background. So the museum that bears his name, with... Read More...
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Wow. Talk about a transformation! Seeing the Wing Luke Asian Museum burst out of the dark former garage that once encased it and open up... Read More...
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The Asian Festival began today, offering its standard colorful fare of food, art and entertainment. There are sumo-wrestling demonstrations, along with Chinese, Burmese, Indian and Filipino dance, Mongolian “throat singers” and a Japanese drum performance Read More...
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THEATER REVIEW: The directorial debut of writer David Mura offers incisive wit and grim paranoia Read More...
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The Republican nominee Senator John McCain is considering putting the first Asian American on a US presidential ticket, in an attempt to broaden his appeal to minorities and conservative voters. Read More...
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WASHINGTON, May 23 (OneWorld) - As thousands of immigrants to South Africa piled onto one-way buses home to escape widening anti-immigrant violence, civil rights groups in Texas deplored a new initiative they charge endangers the lives of immigrants and Read More...
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Nearly 85,000 high school students of Asian-Pacific origin in New York regularly face race-based harassment. Read More...
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Volunteer San Diego helps nearly 30,000 individuals, families, corporate and community groups fill volunteer needs at 800 community organizations each year. To volunteer or post volunteer opportunities, visit volunteersandiego.org. Read More...
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The Guy Who Looks Like Phil sees a lot of Guys Who Shot Nearly as Well as Phil. Read More...
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Kansas City Kansas Community College has been named Corporation of the Year by the Asian-American Chamber of Commerce. The College was selected for the honor because of its partnerships, sponsorships, celebrations and educational programs to the Asian-American Read More...
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