|
|
Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the Asian-American community.
June 2008 - Posts
-
HAGATNA, Guam - If Barack Obama becomes the US president, America’s national policies would somehow be influenced by a Filipino: Charmaine Manansala, who has been selected as a senior adviser to the Democratic party candidate. Read More...
|
-
Thanh Dang has no idea why four armed Asian-American young men would invade his friend’s home on North Street during an apparent robbery attempt late in the morning of June 30. Read More...
|
-
-
Genetics researchers have debunked a racial myth about who might benefit from a widely used heart failure medication. As this ScienCentral video reports, the finding will eventually allow personalized treatments for this devastating disease. Read More...
|
-
-
ESPN/ABC sportscaster Bonnie Bernstein's remark that Palestinians (as a people) push their kids to be suicide bombers was followed a debate that quickly shifted from attacking facts to attacking personalities. Read More...
|
-
Scores of area veterans will soon have their wartime stories chronicled as part of the Veterans History Project, a program of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. The local veterans' firsthand accounts are being collected by employees of Read More...
|
-
BAY AREA – Whether it was this interviewer watching her travel the world on television, being inspired by her novel or just sharing a piece of cheesecake after lunch, it is impossible not to notice there is just something very special about Jan Yanehiro Read More...
|
-
Despite excelling in the academic field, Asian-American students face challenges including "being invisible, people assuming they don't have any educational needs, they don't need services, [and that] they don't need to be included when it comes to particular Read More...
|
-
Despite excelling in the academic field, Asian-American students face challenges including "being invisible, people assuming they don't have any educational needs, they don't need services, [and that] they don't need to be included when it comes to particular Read More...
|
-
His appointment: Don O’Bannon, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s vice president for small and emerging business, has been named chairman of the Airport Minority Advisory Council. Read More...
|
-
The odds of a judge overturning a murder conviction in Iowa are minute, but a handful of lawyers are out to change that. Read More...
|
-
Aurora Austriaco is walking the precincts. Months ago, she started out in heels. "You always want to wear something nice," she told me the other day. She swiftly realized that "nice" wasn't going to work. Now, she's sporting nurse's shoes. Read More...
|
-
Republicans on deck. Earlier this month, Nebraska Democrats tooted their horn, wrote a platform, chose party officers and wrestled for national convention delegate seats. Read More...
|
-
Denton Police Chief Roy Minter last week reiterated his desire for more community involvement, starting what he hoped would be a dialogue with residents about concerns such as immigration and graffiti. Read More...
|
-
Sister's suicide 28 years ago led to a journey of giving voice to a taboo subject Read More...
|
-
HOUMA -- Cindy Vo faced the audience at Ellender High School’s graduation last month wearing a valedictorian’s vestments. The American-born daughter of Vietnamese immigrants spoke of high-school memories, friends and the future. Read More...
|
-
Todd Samuel Presner is a time traveler who combines modern technology and past knowledge in a way that might have astonished a Jules Verne or H.G. Wells. Read More...
|
-
The ARTS at Marks Garage seeks volunteers to help with events, gallery sittings and art installations; 521-2903, info@artsatmarks.com. Read More...
|
-
An estimated 14,500 slaves are trafficked into the U.S. each year, forced to toil as restaurant workers, housemaids, prostitutes and migrant farm laborers, according to a national advocacy group called Free the Slaves. Read More...
|
-
Adult graphic novel. For Asian-American adults living in San Francisco, there are many ways in and out of friendships and love. This book has a black and white, nicely illustrated reality that gives unique perspective to adults trying to understand what Read More...
|
-
Sister's suicide 28 years ago led to a journey of giving voice to a taboo subject Read More...
|
-
Alexandra Leogrande skipped her graduation from Auburn High School on Friday because she's in Korea learning more about her Korean heritage. Her childhood friend, Kasey Buecheler, 17, is missing her graduation from Westhill High School today, too, because Read More...
|
-
The Nets are hoping that the acquisition of Yi Jianlian will allow them to attract a new pool of fans from the sizeable Chinese communities in North Jersey and Brooklyn. Read More...
|
-
The Nets' draft-day trade with Milwaukee signaled what everyone already knew: In 2010, they're pursuing LeBron James. Read More...
|
-
Teenagers in pursuit of dangerous magical recipes put kung fu to good use in Nicktoons?s new cartoon. Read More...
|
-
When Yi Jianlian left China last summer to come to Milwaukee and play for the Milwaukee Bucks, he was not just a potential National Basketball Association star. Read More...
|
-
Lucy Liu has been breaking barriers since the time she won her first acting job – as the lead in a university production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Read More...
|
-
A report released Thursday assessing women's economic status in New York gave the state a C+ overall, but raised concerns about an increase in poverty rates among women, stagnant wages and a growing income gap between rich and poor that the report called Read More...
|
-
The Asian American Journalists Association today announced the winners of its 2008 special awards. AAJA will present the awards on Friday, July 25 during its gala scholarship and awards banquet at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, as part of the 2008 UNITY: Read More...
|
-
WITH recent graduations from high schools and colleges still fresh in mind, it is timely that a new study shakes up the stereotyped notion that all Asian-American students can be placed in one pigeon-hole of being geniuses in science and math. Read More...
|
-
The University of California is considering a major shift in the way it determines which students are eligible for admission - a formula some say is now too rigid. The faculty proposal, to be discussed by UC's governing Board of Regents in July, is the Read More...
|
-
The increase, which is expected to continue, was led in part by Chinese buyers and by financial takeovers. Read More...
|
-
It must be nice to be Amy Gutmann. She has a beautiful home on Walnut Street, constant security, no need to spend money on gas - and the kicker - yearly earnings of $1.15 million. Soon enough, you'll be hearing little girls saying that they want to be Read More...
|
-
Whether children of color are overrepresented in the child-welfare system is a topic that's long been discussed in certain circles. An extensive report released Wednesday answers the question of racial disproportionality definitively. Read More...
|
-
(Repeats story sent late on Wednesday with no changes to text) Read More...
|
-
Asian pop-culture network iaTV has added Cox Communications of Orange County and select Los Angeles-area Charter Communications distributors to its expanding list of carriers. Read More...
|
-
Ashish Kumar Sen on a US web mini series which is creating ripples among Indian expatriates. Read More...
|
-
-
Vincent Chin died on June 23, 1982, killed by an angry mob. His case lead to the formation of a pan-Asian civil rights group in Detroit, ACJ, that runs the Asian American Center for Justice. Read More...
|
-
-
President George W Bush has appointed Dr Sambhu N Banik of Bethesda, Maryland as a member of the President's Committee of People with Intellectual Disabilities, to serve out the remainder of a two-year term, which is expiring in May 2009. Banik is a noted Read More...
|
-
North learned via e-mail that he was cut from WSCR-AM 670. Read More...
|
-
Three unhappy marriages, three desperate wives, three drastically dissimilar circumstances. Whom to feel sorry for? The bored spouse of the American plastics heir in Savage Grace ? The homesick Bengal immigrant confined to her claustrophobic London council Read More...
|
-
At 9:47 a.m. Tuesday, Mike North learned—via e-mail—that he was out after 16 years at WSCR-AM 670. Read More...
|
-
Automobile retailer CMC Motors Group has signed a new contract to sell and service Chinese-made Dayun motorcycles. Read More...
|
-
WASHINGTON - Thongphat Gordon Chen of Cornelius, Oregon, a senior at Century High School, received the Asian American Scholarship through the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation at a special event held recently in Washington, Read More...
|
-
Whip cracking Woodland cowboy star, James Barrera, brings his lariat and crowd-pleasing personality to the stage at the Sterling Hotel on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, for three presentations of Carnival De L'Amour. Read More...
|
-
THE VILLAGES — Some 150 Villagers savored gourmet Japanese cuisine, culture and dance Monday night without leaving home. The Asian-American Club brought the Orient to them. Read More...
|
-
Houston-area Asian-American communities and their businesses now have a new health care benefit option through the UnitedHealthcare Asian American Program. Read More...
|
-
HOUSTON----Houston-area Asian-American communities and their businesses now have a new health care benefit option through the UnitedHealthcare Asian American Program. Read More...
|
-
The message on my work voicemail began rather comically. “Hi there, my name is Venito, and I'm calling from the Vatican, where we've been doing an ongoing investigation regarding the canonization of Eldrick Woods.” Read More...
|
-
The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay recently distributed about $20,000 to six area service agencies to help poor and marginalized residents. Read More...
|
-
Jie Chen, the Mandarin-language news anchor at KTSF 26-TV, was visiting family in Beijing when he heard the news that the International Olympic Committee selected his hometown to host the 2008 Summer Games. "The next morning I went to work, filing the Read More...
|
-
Senator McCain described the U.S.'s energy problem as a spiral. He said times are tough in America and if he's elected President he's going to reform Washington. He said, "My friends, energy security is the great national challenge of our time." Read More...
|
-
Jay Goyal is the first Indian and Asian American to be elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2006. Read More...
|
-
CLEVELAND (OHIO): "Indian Americans have arrived in the US and it is only a matter of time before we see them break the next level in politics," thinks Jay Goyal. Read More...
|
-
The POWER of Diversity Celebration is set for 5 p.m. Tuesday in the 18th & Vine Jazz District. Read More...
|
-
The Microbusiness Advancement Center and the Small Business Alliance are looking for nominations for this year's Minority Enterprise Development Week awards. Read More...
|
-
-
The 18th annual Walk for Rice fundraiser on Saturday benefited the Asian Counseling & Referral Service and raised about $100,000 for the group's food bank in the International District. Read More...
| |
|