Like most of our editions, this week’s AsianWeek shows the diversity in our community as well as the myriad of issues facing us. On the lighter and happier side, there is the phenomenon of greater API representation both out on the field and on the big screen. In a trend that began with Hideo Nomo, […]

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By Emil Guillermo
Have we all forgotten Wen Ho Lee, our accused spy? Last week an internal Justice Department review concluded the FBI bungled the investigation by narrowly focusing on Lee, missing opportunities to look for other national security breaches.
Now that’s cause for celebration.
It also points out the emerging double standard that appears to exist between […]

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By Phil Tajitsu Nash
Those of us raised on fast-paced half-hour sit-coms are not used to scenarios that proceed unevenly or haltingly. On television, problems are solved in 30 minutes. In real life, they may go on for decades.
Here in the real world in Washington, D.C., the API community is watching the latest chapter unfold in […]

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Administrators order actions after racial attacks
By Heather Harlan
Following an attack at SUNY Binghamton against four Asian American students that allegedly involved members of the university’s wrestling team, school administrators ordered all members of the team participate in programs on diversity, conflict resolution and alcohol awareness.
Administrators at the university will also informally review the wrestling program […]

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By Diana Lau
Traditionally, May is the National Stroke Alert Month. However, for health professionals, educating the public on the disease continues year round. Last month, St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco conducted a free community blood pressure screening during the Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco. There, some 465 people were screened for […]

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Candidate vies to become first API New York City Council member
By Janet Dang
In the Flushing area of New York City, Asian Americans make up nearly half of the population. But it’s no surprise to many residents there that no Asian Americans represent that electoral district—or any of the other 50 citywide districts in New […]

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By Brendan Riley/AP
Art Shibayama was just 13 when he and other family members were forced from their home in Peru in 1944 and put on a ship for a three-week voyage to the United States—and an internment camp in Texas.
The Shibayamas and tens of thousands like them who lost their freedom and property were […]

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By Frederic J. Frommer/AP
The Senate passed legislation May 18 that would make it easier for members of a Laotian ethnic group to become U.S. citizens, agreeing on compromise language on who would be found eligible for citizenship.
The bill waives the English-language requirement for Hmong and other Laotians who were recruited by the Central Intelligence […]

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Issue of racial profiling raised
By Karen Ivanova/Great Falls Tribune
Chan Sung Zhen jumped ship in Seattle last October and made a beeline for the Amtrak station. Within hours, the undocumented immigrant was on the Empire Builder train, headed to Alabama with a recruiter of Chinese chefs he arranged to meet at the Seattle depot. But the […]

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Asian and Asian Americans in Major League Baseball
By Anthony Hayes

This spring the New York Mets’ Benny Agbayani accomplished something that every young baseball player dreams of: He hit a grand slam home run to win the first game of the major league season before 60,000 screaming fans.
The twist is that Agbayani, 28, and a native […]

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A regional roundup of events of special interest to Asian Americans
Regions: Northern Calif., Southern Calif., Rest of the West, East Coast

Arts
Asian Explorations Robert Apte, developer of the genre Photo-Icon-Ographs, will show his works on images of Japan, Korea, Bhutan from June 13-July 23. Apte focuses on hidden aspects of photographs enhanced with a computer. (Triton […]

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By Lenora Chu
“New economy.” The buzzword used by journalists, economists and Internet gurus alike to encapsulate today’s unusual economy symbolizes the radical change in the way we think, invest our money and do business.
And overseas? It turns out that in Asia, the business sector has shown an unprecedented shift toward conducting a more “western” […]

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