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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the Asian-American community.
October 2008 - Posts
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A claim by an Asian-American man who said he was assaulted and forced at knife point to say "I love America" is being investigated by Boulder police as a bias-motivated crime. Read More...
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BOULDER (AP) - A claim by an Asian-American man who said he was assaulted and forced at knife point to say "I love America" is being investigated by Boulder police as a bias-motivated crime. Read More...
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A 22-year-old Asian-American was punched in the face early today in Boulder, and with a knife held to his neck, was forced to say "I love America," Boulder police reported. Read More...
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Boulder police are trying to identify the four men who taunted, teased and assaulted an Asian American man, trying to get him to say, "I love America." Read More...
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A 22-year-old Asian-American told police he was forced to say "I love America" at knifepoint while walking in Boulder early Friday. Read More...
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BOULDER - Police are searching for a suspect who held a knife to the throat of an Asian-American man and forced him to say "I love America" early Friday morning. The incident happened in the area of 10th and Marine Streets at about 1 a..m. Read More...
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A 22-year-old Asian-American told police he was forced to say "I love America" at knifepoint while walking in Boulder early Friday. Read More...
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Police in Boulder are investigating a case of bias-motivated assault and felony menacing reported by an Asian-American in the area of 10th and Marine streets early today. Read More...
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A massive insurance fraud ring that staged dozens of car crashes targeting Asian-American drivers in Queens was taken down after a 19-month sting, leading to charges filed against 61 people and two businesses. Read More...
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Sixty-one people were charged for involvement in an insurance-fraud ring that deliberately caused 40 car accidents over three years on the streets of Queens. Read More...
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Three Cupertino residents took home awards from Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss at the 2008 Asian-American Hero Awards on Oct. 24. Read More...
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The Blue Store, an Eighth Avenue porn shop, has also been the scene of police prostitution arrests. Robert Pinter was looking for a DVD and perhaps a good time when he visited Blue Door Video on First Avenue in the East Village. He was approached by an Read More...
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Aziz Ahmad, CEO of UTC Associates, a leading Systems and Network Integration Company, is the recipient of the first Asian American Distinguished Alumni Award by AAARI, Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) of City University of New York. The Read More...
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NEW YORK----Aziz Ahmad, CEO of UTC Associates, a leading Systems and Network Integration Company, is the recipient of the first Asian American Distinguished Alumni Award by AAARI, Asian American / Asian Research Institute of City University of New York Read More...
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has a real chance of becoming the nation's first black president. But Jeff Yang, the "Asian Pop" columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle , sees it differently. He recently posed the question whether Obama could be the first Read More...
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"It is important that citizens of South Asian descent exercise their right to vote on Election Day in order to have the community's voices heard," says South Asian Americans Leading Together, one of the several organisations -- including the Asian American 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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The Northwest Asian American Film Festival is looking for entries on the Asian Pacific American experience, which are due Nov. 21. The festival, the largest showcase in Washington for Asian-American films and videos, will be Feb. 26-March 1, 2009. Read More...
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A traditionally Republican state, Virginia is becoming more Democratic. Read More...
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Last in a series of occasional articles BEAVERTON, Ore. - Day after day this spring, Don Sakai arrived at the Uwajimaya supermarket he manages here to see his largely Asian-American clientele piling their shopping carts high with big bags of rice grabbed Read More...
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Questions, comments or a tip? Let us know . The latest news in streaming format. View Feed Spectator has now resumed daily production during weekdays. If the issue displayed is not that of the current date, please empty your computer's cache. Read More...
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Voters in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities could could play pivotal roles in key election states, Rajesh Mirchandani reports. Read More...
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Asian-Americans have been considered passive participants in American politics, but things are changing. Read More...
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Asian-Americans have been considered passive participants in American politics, but things are changing. Read More...
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Asian-Americans have been considered passive participants in American politics, but things are changing. Read More...
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Asian-Americans have been considered passive participants in American politics, but things are changing. Read More...
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Asian-Americans have been considered passive participants in American politics, but things are changing. Read More...
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Asian-Americans have been considered passive participants in American politics, but things are changing. Read More...
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Asian-Americans are a growing, and increasingly vocal, segment of the pool of potential voters in Virginia. With over 300,000 voting-aged Asians in Virginia, the growing community could have a profound impact in the Commonwealth. Read More...
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Sun, Oct 26, 2008 (9:57 a.m.) For a long time, says Loc Pfeiffer, his fellow Asian-Americans were passive participants in American politics. But things are changing. Read More...
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LORTON, Va. (AP) - Asian-Americans are a growing, and increasingly vocal, segment of the pool of potential voters in Virginia. Loc Pfeiffer, who came here from Vietnam when he was 6, says Asians don't like being adversarial. But the more they're raised Read More...
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LORTON, Va. (AP) - Asian-Americans are a growing, and increasingly vocal, segment of the pool of potential voters in Virginia. Loc Pfeiffer, who came here from Vietnam when he was 6, says Asians don't like being adversarial. But the more they're raised Read More...
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For a long time, says Loc Pfeiffer, his fellow Asian-Americans were passive participants in American politics. But things are changing. "Asians don't like confrontation or being adversarial, but that's politics," says Pfeiffer, a 41-year-old lawyer who Read More...
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Although no Democratic presidential candidate has won Virginia since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, polls show Obama edging ahead. Meanwhile, the state's Asian population has grown from 3.7 percent in 2000 to 4.8 percent in 2006, above the national average of Read More...
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When Nguyen said Asians had to learn the American political system and form a bloc to demand something in return for their votes, the conversation bubbled over: Read More...
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For a long time, says Loc Pfeiffer, his fellow Asian-Americans were passive participants in American politics. But things are changing. Read More...
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CONCORD, N.C., Oct. 18 -- Sen. John McCain and several of his key advisers began sharpening a new line of attack against Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday -- likening the Democratic presidential nominee's tax proposals to socialism and saying they would not Read More...
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Sekiya Lavone Billman and Tong Hoon Lee, both actors, are to be married Sunday. Read More...
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Author Grace Lin was among speakers at today’s Rabbit Hill Festival of Literature session at Westport’s Saugatuck Elementary School. Lin’s first novel, “The Year of the Dog,” won critical acclaim. Her books often bring to light the Asian-American experience Read More...
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Dong Kingman (b. 1911, Oakland, CA–d. 2000, New York, NY) South Street Bridge; 1955. Watercolor on paper. 21 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, George A. Hearn Fund, 1955. Read More...
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Journalist Indira Somani, a former television news producer and 1992 Knox College graduate, will give a talk, "An Asian-American Broadcaster Reflects," at 4 p.m., Friday, March 24, in the Timme Classroom, 103 Davis Hall, on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Read More...
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Asian American doctors and community leaders warn that legally requiring pregnant teens to notify their parents before seeking an abortion would put minors' health and life in serious danger. Read More...
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Exhibition coincides with the opening of show dedicated to Asian-American modern artists Read More...
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This November, the issue of public power is on the San Francisco ballot. Campaigns on both sides of the issue addressed the ethnic media to make the case for or against city-controlled power and explained what’s at stake for Asian American, African American Read More...
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Long Story Short, the new relationship-minded musical based on the play An Infinite Ache, with songs by the award-winning team of Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, begins performances Oct. 23 at Pittsburgh City Theatre. Read More...
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North Bay Saxophonist performing with AAO at University of Illinois On Thursday, November 6, 7:30 pm North Bay saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra as part of the Marquee Jazz Series at University Read More...
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The civil suit was filed in March 2007 by 36 former employees of Saigon Grill , a Vietnamese restaurant. New York magazine profiled the plight of the workers -- deliverymen who emigrated from China's Fujian province -- in an August 2007 story . Read More...
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On Thursday, November 6, 7:30 pm North Bay saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra as part of the Marquee Jazz Series at University of Illinois Champaign Urbana’s Foellinger Great Hall. Read More...
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A comprehensive survey of Asian American voters in California released last week found that a majority of Asian Americans oppose Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Professors from Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, UC Read More...
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Minority Asians may be the biggest group of undecided voters in the upcoming US presidential and congressional elections and will play a key role in the outcome of the ballot, officials say. Read More...
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Long Story Short, the new relationship-minded musical based on the play An Infinite Ache, with songs by the award-winning team of Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, begins performances Oct. 23 at Pittsburgh City Theatre. Read More...
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A few weeks ago, in one of the iconic moments of this year's electoral cycle - assuming one defines "iconic" as "worthy of parody by 'Saturday Night Live' "- a dazed-seeming supporter at a McCain rally in Minnesota declared that Barack Obama was an Arab,.. Read More...
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Jazz - All About Jazz | Music, Clubs and Culture Read More...
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Could the Asian-American community be the swing vote in the November presidential elections? Betsy Kim, deputy director for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Vote Program of Obama for America, suggests that it could be, in "this era, where Read More...
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OneWorld.net's take: In the 2004 U.S. presidential elections 70 percent of Asian American, 69 percent of Latina, and 40 percent of African American registered women voters did not cast a ballot. Mable Yee, founder of a group educating and activating women Read More...
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A federal judge ordered a payday on Tuesday for three dozen immigrant delivery workers who toiled for years at New York City restaurants without proper wages. Read More...
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A judge awarded $4.6 million in back pay and damages yesterday to 36 delivery workers at the popular Saigon Grill restaurants - many of them illegal immigrants - who were systemically cheated of their wages, then fired. "This is an enormous... Read More...
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'American' will do Nancy Gorr - Morehead City, N.C. Why has no one ever questioned the use of thoroughly unnecessary racial terms "African American," "Asian American," "Hispanic American"? Commentary writer Sheryl McCarthy wrote that she tells her students Read More...
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Asian American voters in Virginia, highly organized and registered in record numbers, have become energized by the presidential race and the role they see themselves playing in this tightly contested state. Read More...
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