05.16.08
Posted in World News at 5:42 pm by william_lee_intern
Yao Ming and Chinese Olympians
boost quake relief fund
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Yao ming was very sorrowful about the earthquake that happened to China just recently. He and the other athletes are helping to give assistance for the victims.
His team Houston Rockets has already given two million yuan ($300,000) for the victims and has initiated worldwide petition for more donations. Yao’s testimonial at the NBA’s website: “It is very hard putting into words how difficult it is to see this kind of destruction in Sichuan.” He was among the many athletes from China who have given so many efforts in generously sending assistance for the victims of the China tragedy.
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Posted in Crime at 4:52 pm by william_lee_intern
The Councilman of Queens, John Liu said at an interview “…As we have all seen this week with the revelation of millions and millions of dollars of mayor’s discretionary funds, the truth becomes - the truth becomes clearer,”
This is with regards to Mayor Bloomberg’s unrestricted funds which has been bothering the government. They had planned to take actions on that already, and what they are planning is to improve the budget process in the city council. And they will also be asking for other bodies of the government and their opinions so that all would have knowledge into what’s going on with the budget.
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Posted in Media and Entertainment at 4:51 pm by william_lee_intern
Do you think you can only see break dancing during half times of the NBA or a history from the 80’s? That’s not true! Because this time Planet B-Boy can do it.
Benson Lee the author of Planet B-boy will be celebrating the city display of continual rhythm and amazing athletics. During the competition, Planet B-boy will be focusing as 10-man crews with one female on the group. There will be 18 nations from different countries that are competing for the championships. The crews that are included are from France, Japan and the United States and two from South Korea.
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Posted in Asia at 3:59 pm by william_lee_intern
The responsible in releasing the concerns related to Asian Heritage Month is Greg Byrne(Minister, Population Growth Secretariat. The concern is the significance of Asian Heritage Month preferably the importance of Asian community to New Brunswick.
In celebration of the Asian Heritage Month, it will be very useful in showcasing News Brunswick
As a friendly province that persuasion for diversity and knowledge about culture…
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Posted in Media and Entertainment at 3:58 pm by william_lee_intern
“The fundamental basis of my work is the act of inscription itself.” This was Marc Katano’s description about his art. Marc Katano is a Japanese-American who works for Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts for 15 years. His vision of his art is making use of very simple movement of the hand and arms. His arts are also inspired by human terms as made clear by the defined movement of Japanese calligraphy.
His art is also consistent in following of “less is more”. Meaning he uses less strokes of the brush, less color so that the piece would be cool, exciting and jazzy, this brings a strong element of art.
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Posted in Community Offenders at 3:57 pm by william_lee_intern
Chinese-American students are experiencing communication gaps when they go to school, especially those school that are for Americans or others, because they are having a hard time learning the language. Chinese-American students are academically intelligent are incompetent when it comes to their communication efficiency and it really affects his/her overall improvement. This situation is not really new to Chinese-Americans.
It’s the parents’ role to teach or guide an immigrant child in growing up in order for them not to absorb only one culture, that’s either Chinese or American.
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05.15.08
Posted in Business at 5:47 pm by william_lee_intern
Wal-mart was documented to have employed 39,000 Asian-Americans and 5,000 Pacific Islanders. It is one of the Fortune 500 companies and it was published by the Asian Magazine the largest publication for Asian-American small businesses.
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Posted in Interviews at 3:25 pm by william_lee_intern
New York’s finest and the only Asian American member of the city council is John Liu. He is the envoy of one of the largest neighborhood in New York City which is Flushing, Queens. And he has been very forthright in his admonition about racial-related crimes and physical attack in opposition with Asian Americans.
Q: You were very instrumental in getting some Asian language reporters press passes when they were having trouble with that.
Liu: I think it had to do a lot with the city and the administration not understanding that there’s a huge media presence, it’s just not in English. But they didn’t get it, and so the city folks didn’t necessarily believe that these were bona fide reporters. There’s not any intentional discrimination, but there obviously has been institutional ignorance…
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Posted in History at 3:24 pm by william_lee_intern
Months after Japan attacked Pearl
Harbor, 440 Japanese American
students had to leave the university
because their families were ordered
into government internment camps.
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1942 students from Seattle will be getting their bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington on Sunday, May 17, 2008. These students are those who have told to leave the university at the time when Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor. They left school because their families had to be imprisoned in government camps for a simple reason that they do look like an “enemy.”
“And to have to leave Seattle with just one suitcase, that was another shock,” said Tama Murotani-Ibana who was just a freshman then. And later on, he was accepted at Guilford College through the help of then UW President Lee Paul by begging his friends that are president of different colleges to accept these students.
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Posted in Sports at 12:53 pm by william_lee_intern
Heidi Ilustre and Diane Pascua both Filipino Americans are the Philippine Pair are into beach volleyball gaining points to be able to make it to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. These two have joined a lot of competition, and fortunately won those trophies and awards. The pair has already won at bronze medalist for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha and the 2005 Southeast Asian Games and they earned 680 points for it.
They have to be in the top 24 in order to be able to make it to the Olympics and secure a first ever Philippine draw out.
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Posted in Health at 12:47 pm by william_lee_intern
Philippine American Community Center of Michigan
17356 Northland Park Court in Southfield.
May 17, 2008 From 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Call 248-443-7037
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The Philippine Medical Association of Michigan and the Filipino American Community will be conducting its Health and Fitness Expo for this year 2008. The expo will be doing tests for diabetes, high blood pressure, and free screenings as well, all of it will be done for free.
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Posted in Community Alerts at 12:44 pm by william_lee_intern
Study says that Asian Americans are more susceptible to illnesses caused by smoking, because they are the ones who smoke like chimneys, they are cigarette sticks more than they have to a day.
Smoking puts everyone’s life at risk, because of the chemical that is in the cigarette itself comes out in the form of smoke and you exhale it and before you know it it’s already in infecting your lungs. A large number of Asian Americans populations are smoking. They are the only racial group which lung cancer is the primary reason of death. More or less 70% of Asian American in California alone does smoke. The study shows as well that, more than a half of a country’s budget is being spent on the medical costs for those people who are sick due to smoking, and more than a half of a country’s production cost is lost due to disease caused by smoking.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 9:29 am by jj_de_la_cruz
Maybe Margaret Cho really does care about the Asian-American community. In her blog post, White-out vs Yellowface, Cho discusses why she will be boycotting the movie 21
Perhaps she’s trying to redeem herself for this.
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05.14.08
Posted in History at 5:22 pm by william_lee_intern
Rod Tatsuno, a Japanese American man who lives in Ketchum, was interviewed on to his past experiences. At only one month old he and his parents were moved to imprisonment camp and then later on were released after two years.
“It’s not on my consciousness all the time, but it is back there in my subconscious,” said Tatsuno. Meaning the things that had happened before doesn’t really get out of your mind it’s just that you sometimes do not think about it, but it’s going to be there forevr….
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Posted in World News at 5:20 pm by william_lee_intern
“It is very hard putting into words how difficult it is to see this kind of destruction in Sichuan. I am very saddened to hear of the large loss of life that has occurred…
“On behalf of the Houston Rockets, I want to offer my deepest sympathies to all who have been affected by the earthquake in Sichuan, China on Monday…
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Posted in World News at 2:47 pm by william_lee_intern
“I think the times are different because people feel more comfortable with their own identities and make a distinction between being Asian and being Asian American, said a senior art history major and Chinese minor At UC Berkeley .
Asian Americans do sometimes think that if their home country is being disparaged, they ought to be disappointed being an Asian American. For instance, Ziwei Hu, he was born in California , but has Chinese parents and grew up in Mainland China. Until now, Hu teaches his daughters to love United States. There are also situations that they are into China like in a game, they are cheering for China even though they are residing in the United States.
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Posted in Community Alerts at 1:05 pm by william_lee_intern
Margaret Tan, left, receives
contributions to a disaster relief,
fund at the Sing Tao Daily Chinese.
language newspaper offices in San
Francisco , Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Chinese communities around the
country are mobilizing to help
victims of the catastrophic
earthquake that has destroyed
countless buildings and killed
thousands of people in China’s
Sichuan province, where many
Chinese immigrants have roots
and family ties. After the
7.9-magnitude temblor struck
Monday, U.S. residents with ties to
the region anxiously sought news
about China’s worst earthquake in
three decades and tried to contact
friends and relatives by phone and
e-mail. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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It was after the earthquake that Chinese-Americans have decided to gather up together to collect some donations for the victims and begin contacting Red cross and other agencies or organizations that can also be of support.
One of the largest Chinese-language newspapers in U.S. which is Sing Tao Daily has been publishing eight pages of news paper since the tragedy. They would want to be of help to the victims that’s why they had built their disaster relief fund that could help accumulate contributions from the readers of the newspaper around the world.
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Posted in Culture at 12:05 pm by william_lee_intern
Christian groups are growing faster than the multi-racial groups. Rebecca Kim an associate professor at Pepperdine University has conducted a research about christian groups inside the campus of UCLA her results were two Korean American groups, one Asian American, one multi-racial group and one majority Caucasian group. Contented or comfortable was the main reason why Korean Americans chose to a part of a Christian group.
Kim said. “If anyone should be a model of multi-racial community, harmony, it should be the church.”
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Posted in Sports at 12:04 pm by william_lee_intern
“Hopefully this time in our homeland we can give our people a surprise and for ourselves too.” This was Yao’s statement when he was interviewed by the press people of Beijing and New York. Yao ming wants to make it at least to the top eight of the upcoming Beijing Olympics. There are no frail players in the Olympics, because it is composed of the best ones in every continent.
This time Yao is much more positive of his games, because of the experiences on injuries he has gone all the way through. He had been injured from his toe and his right tibia.
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Posted in Blog at 10:57 am by william_lee
One of my personal favorite organizations, APA’s for Progress, is hosting an activist training workshop. I really love what these guys stand for and what they do for us. The organizers of this workshop are also heavily involved in the production of Vincent Who?, a documentary about the historic case of Vincent Chin. The workshop will teach basic activist skills including volunteer recruitment, networking, planning events, targeting, phonebanking and other useful campaign skills. Want to make a difference in empowering Asian Americans? Well, here’s your chance. Sign up today.
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Posted in journalism at 5:07 pm by william_lee_intern
Book Launch in Historic Filipinotown
Friday, May 30 at 7:00pm
Remy’s on Temple
2126 W. Temple St., Los Angeles
Author:
Marisa de los Santos
Contact Information:
Filipino American Library (FAL)
135 N. Park View St., Historic Filipinotown, Los
Angeles, CA 90026-5215
Contact Person:
Jonathan Lorenzo
Administrator
Phone: 213-382-0488
Web: http://www.filipinoamericanlibrary.org
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Marisa de los Santos, a Filipino-American, is the bestselling author in New York Times. The books that she will be launching are entitled “Belong To Me” and “Love Walked In.” The books are about classy kind of love, about family, loss and hope…
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Posted in Community Alerts at 2:30 pm by william_lee_intern
Asian Heritage Month is celebrating the role of Asians in Canada which was held at Parliament Hill. The underline of the celebration was about multiculturalism and the significance of Asian-Canadian’s contributions to Canada.
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Posted in World News at 2:27 pm by william_lee_intern
Yao Ming, a star player of Houston Rockets in the NBA, and one of china’s well-known athletes donated a $71,428 or 500.000 yuan for the victim of the earthquake who has killed more to 10,000 people.
The Red Cross Society also opened bank accounts for the donations or help they might receive for the victims of the tragedy…
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Posted in World News at 1:24 pm by william_lee_intern
Emissaries from Chinese-American organizations have assembled together to help those who were affected by China’s tragedy last Monday. They facilitated the aid for those victims of the quake; the help comes from organizations and some businessmen.
“The fastest and most efficient way to help is financial assistance, because money travels very fast and can be used in many different ways on the ground by people who know what the needs are,” said Christophe Lobry-Boulanger of the American Red Cross.
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Posted in Economy at 1:22 pm by william_lee_intern
Officers and members of the Cebuano-Speaking
Association of Tidewater (CSAT) put up one of their
cultural extravaganzas, complete with period
costumes, that has been a yearly crowd drawer in
Virginia Beach
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Fil-Ams shops fill this row of stores on Lila Lane in
Virginia Beach, earning it the nickname “Little
Manila” which is home to a flourishing travel
agency, a Filipino martial arts school, video store
and other establishments
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Joe Ortega, president of the Olongapo City
Association of Tidewater (OCAT), supervises final
preparations for the group’s induction ceremonies
in Virginia Beach recently.
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Filipino-Americans of Hampton Road, Virginia Beach are among the top skilled and highest-paid people in their place. The economy of the Filipino-Americans there is growing. They Hampton Road is consist of Virginia southeastern region which composes of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and Williamsburg. The place has 34- Filipino-American organizations on which they embody the professional groups, ethnic and geographical partitions in the Philippines.
The place has now 50,000 Filipino-Americans residing in there, enough to boost a certain small community’s economy. Those people are divided into businessmen, nurses, employees, navy men and families. The Filipino-American nurse is composed of Filipinas both American and Filipino who works at Norfolk and Virginia Beach hospitals. The employees are high-educated people who choose to be employees in the stores at Virginia Beach, rather than to be the person in charge. Philippine Chamber of Commerce in Virginia Beach assist Filipino-American entrepreneurs with their business and provide networking opportunities.
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Posted in World News at 1:16 pm by william_lee_intern
Plans are already on their way for the Asian-American Center for a large ethnic group at Cornell University. The committee, the staff and other people form the university had been gathering for the things to do for the preparation in building the center. This would be a meeting place or some sort of an assembly area for the Asian and Asian-American student organization.
The center would connect students to support systems and provide a range of other resources such as peer counseling, Hubbell said. The center also would be a great place for the organizations to bond and to know more about each other and to have activities in the campus under one roof.
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05.12.08
Posted in Culture at 8:23 pm by william_lee
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Posted in Culture at 8:21 pm by william_lee
Salomon Arts
83 Leonard St, 4th Fl
New York, NY 10013
TEL 212.966.1997
www.salomonarts.com
RED BLOOD OF THE DRAGON’S PSYCHE
June 5 to Aug 5 2008
[artists]
Chen Nong, Zhang Han, Fu Yue Hui, Zhao Bo, Zhang Yu Ying
[curator]
Zhang Jie-Song
There is a substance more vital to our humanity than that which flows through our arteries, capillaries, and veins – it is the blood of our thoughts, senses, and feelings that not only pools within our minds but likewise spreads the entire surface of the world. It is this substance that hardens on canvas to manifest visual art.
If in fact we value art as a supreme language of our humanity, a vessel that reveals in an authenticity worthy of trembling this substance, this experience, of how we each feel in our grappling with the human experience, then we must work to show art in relation to the life from which it stems. In art exhibitions, the observer would not taste wine so much as the air and soil of the artists’ lives, that he or she may be brought nearer to the flesh and the earth from which the artwork emerges.
Red Blood of the Dragon’s Psyche, an exhibition series presented by Salomon Arts Gallery and curator Zhang Jie-Song, asserts the belief that if we wish to know and value Chinese art with sincerity, then we must learn to know and value China, Chinese people, Chinese thought. The work of 10 Chinese contemporary artists is to be presented throughout this exhibition series and arranged so as to highlight the dominant provinces that have defined the terrain of Chinese psychological experience within the lifespan of “Modern China”. Towards this end, the works of the artists will be presented alongside information on China in the form of news-stories, essays, and video projection intended to provide a constellation of social and historical points, by which the audience may navigate with greater insight the vast, deep, and roaring waters of Chinese psychological and (consequently) artistic thought. It is the placement of the artists’ ideas alongside a vision of their world.
The first exhibition in the Red Blood of the Dragon’s Psyche series opens on June 6th, 2008, and will feature the works of Chen Nong, Zhang Han, Fu Yue Hui, Zhao Bo, and Zhang Yu Ying.
Chen Nong’s photography submerges distinct Chinese imagery (both ancient and modern) within a world of flamboyant color, sexuality, and fearlessness of dream, a courageous yet culturally loyal and socially perceptive means of liberation from the conservative and orderly principles of the land and the times in which he was raised. The oil paintings of Zhang Yu Ying work similarly, casting strong traditional images – most notably, the farm animals revered in the folk and rural culture of the artist’s upbringing – into a fantasy theater that speaks of the old China now mingled with modern archetypes. In many of his works we see the artist concealing the mind and muscle-tearing motion of China’s feverish modernization behind smiling faces and the serenity of animals at play. In the case of both artists, their work embodies the process of Chinese traditional thought - aged, poised, and elegant - undergoing a re-painting and colorization process by way of the more liberal, perverse, and eccentric modern psychological energies.
These energies were introduced into China by the Western world, relatively recently, and Fu Yue Hui’s mixed-media works – which involve ink, newspaper, traditional Chinese art on paper, and propylene – investigate the affect of Western imagery and thinking on the Chinese mind, which he portrays as an oftentimes corrosive and difficult to define relationship. His works are as lab results, images of cultural mutation yielded in the reaction of Western and Chinese chemicals of sense and thought.
Zhao Bo’s woodcut works chisel often boisterous child-like figures on rocking horses alongside strong Chinese cultural imagery, offering us the choice to resolve all of the intensities associated with China’s recent political turbulence and head-pounding rate of cultural change beneath a pretense of innocence. Yet the nuances bound to his subject matter, in addition to the industrial method of his creating, speak powerfully of the underlying noise and circumstance of China’s modern identity.
The Chinese ink on paper works of Zhang Han take a directly different approach to Zhao Bo. His creations, though marked by a certain imaginative playfulness, tend to be highly intense and filled with elements of torture – of the nature known to compel the dark aspects of the Western curiosity in their fascination over serial-killers, crime, and the more perverse regions of the human behavior. Embellished by the forceful character of Chinese ink, his work is a raw account of the dissatisfied and deviant parts of China’s psychological character – especially that of its younger generations in search of spiritual meaning.
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Posted in World News at 5:07 pm by william_lee_intern
A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 8,500 people, trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school and spilling ammonia from a chemical plant, state media reported. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake was among the worst to strike China in decades…
China’s deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people.
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Posted in World News at 4:50 pm by william_lee_intern
Filipino-American Library caters provides Filipino books for the people of Greater Los Angeles to read on. This library is the first and the largest one in the country and it has 6,000 titles. Its operation is to introduce more of the Filipino culture and some of the Filipino Americans through their books and leadership development and some other programs in that way, contributing to the success of a culturally vibrant and sophisticated America.
The Monkey and the turtle will be the first famous Filipino folktale to be featured at Carson on May 31.
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Posted in World News at 4:49 pm by william_lee_intern
There are activities that are held in Frederiction this month and for the next, throughout Asian Heritage Month every May, the Asian Heritage Society of New Brunswick is celebrating this. Madhu Verma says it is important to recognize the rich culture and history of Asia and the significant contributions Asians have made to help build Canada.
Asian Heritage Society has a part into which they help neophytes join others to give support to help them settle within their new province.
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Posted in Community Alerts at 4:48 pm by william_lee_intern
Asian Week publicizes its new director of advertising and associate publisher, Nikki Nguyen Cranor. She’s an Aisian –American specifically a Vietnamese-American who symbolizes the growing number of Asian-Americans as professionals who has local, national and international wellbeing. She was also the former editor-in-chief of the International Examiner, an Asian American journal, and development director of Wing Luke Asian Museum, a pan-Asian American museum.
“My hope is to help shape AsianWeek to reflect this shift and to promote the potential of the untapped Asian Pacific American market that has grown to an economic buying power of $427 billion” said Ms. Nguyen.
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Posted in Community Alerts at 12:10 pm by william_lee_intern
Free legal trainings for Asian-American community-based organizations are given by AALDEF. These are given for the preparation of summer voter registration drive and the Fall Presidential Elections.
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Posted in History at 12:09 pm by william_lee_intern
On May 18, the University of Washington will be honoring those Japanese-American students who were obligated to depart on their studies on 1942 during their imprisonment. The ceremony will be entitled “The Long Journey Home: Honoring UW Nikkei Students from 1941-42.”
They are doing this for the students to learn that this should never happen again. The speaker will be Norman Mineta who was a former Secretary of Transportation; he was also imprisoned at that time and later on became a highest ranking Japanese-American politician.
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Posted in World News at 12:08 pm by william_lee_intern
New President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea wants to expand the relationship between South Korea and the United States. He is the previous mayor of Seoul and he was also the CEO of Hyundai’s Engineering and Construction Department. He was also called MD or bulldozer for his aggressive CEO style.
Myung-bak wants to the Korean-American relations to have a strong and great foundation. He wants North Korea to stop nuclear testing for the development of South Korea’s munificence.
He desires the relationship between the two countries to be promoted into a “strategic alliance,”
meaning the bond should be committed to U.N. roles such as fight the war on terrorism, peacekeeping mission, spread democracy and address climate change. He further thought that, “There’s great opportunity to expand the scope of the alliance on security issues and on political and economic issues as well.”
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05.09.08
Posted in Media and Entertainment at 5:23 pm by william_lee_intern
Ken chen is the new Executive director of Asian American literature. The new executive director is suitable to lead The Asian American Writers’ Workshop. “I am honored and humbled to be a part of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop because of the organization’s strong commitment to diversity and excellence in literature,” said Chen. “
He graduated at the University of Berkeley in California and has awarded the highest leadership award. He has also helped a monthly magazine and some cultural website.
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Posted in Culture at 3:08 pm by william_lee_intern
A new analysis of the Census shows that U.S. born children with Asian parents increases the chances of having a baby boy if they already have a girl or two.
The findings ‘’suggest that in a sub-population with a traditional son preference, the technologies are being used to generate male births when preceding births are female, says co-authors Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund that appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Posted in Community Alerts at 1:03 pm by william_lee_intern
The founder and executive director of Empower A Village Mihiri Tillakaratne, has been awarded as “Outstanding Woman of the Year” at ASPIRE’s Asian American Women in Leadership Conference at Harvard University. Her parents are Sri Lankan and they are also on the advisory board of Empower a Village.
Their organization is also into breast cancer awareness workshops, English literacy programs and has also supported a pre-school in Sri Lanka.
South Asian Americans Leading Together has executed a 10-week leadership program to teach Asian-American high school students about Asian American history, social issues and current events.
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Posted in Sports at 12:32 pm by william_lee_intern
“Hopefully they treat the hosts better,” Yao joked Thursday. He is referring to the referees that would treat him the easier way this time, when China and U.S. are going to be together in one event. He wants big probabilities for his team to be on top eight at this year’s Olympics.
Although he took a break for his rehabilitation for his fractured left foot, maybe by now or in Olympics time he will surely get it on.
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Posted in Crime at 12:31 pm by william_lee_intern
A Korean-American was arrested 10 years after Washington requested Seoul to hand him over. This Korean-American killed a former policeman at his own house and committed burglary as well, last 1996 and was released on bail after a year.
When the time came that he was arrested he even suspected the U.S. judiciary that if they sentenced him to death, it will be a racial discrimination.
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Posted in World News at 12:30 pm by william_lee_intern
Brig. General Oscar Hilman US Army Commander of the Brigade Combat Team was considered a hero for the Filipino contract workers in the United States. It is because he protected the Filipinos from the Iraqi troops, the Iraqi once threatened a Filipino truck driver to behead him. That situation alarmed the President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remembered to bring back the 51-humanitarian contingent to the Philippines.
Brig. Gen. Hilman then, was tasked to avoid pulling out people in one of the largest US military bases in Irag, which is Camp Anaconda just for their safety. Hilman, came up with a plan to give human rights or privileges to those who stayed. He gave the contractors base privileges and in return for acknowledgement the Filipinos should then provide basic services for them such as janitorial tasks, transport and food delivery. “We are going to treat [the contractors] with dignity and respect,” the general persisted. And then he was allowed to give the Filipino contractors another extension of privileges.
His hard work were praised by the Filipinos, who had trusted Hilman, because of he is one good-hearted Pinoy.
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