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China Sends the United States Jobs
By Joe McDonald/AP
Haier Group in Qingdao, China, is sending the United States a new Chinese export: jobs. China’s biggest appliance maker just opened its first U.S. factory, hiring 180 people in Camden, S.C., to make refrigerators under its own brand name. Last year, Haier started a design studio in Los Angeles to get closer […] -
Steady Republicans
ARM WRESTLING: Supervisor Sue Bierman tried to wrest the gavel from Housing and Social Policy chairwoman Mabel Teng. But Teng won as she declined to stop a standing ovation on May 8 in a packed committee room, where she and Amos Brown declared their opposition to the state’s plan for a parole center in Visitacion […]
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Assembly Bill Threatens Traditional Markets
A new assembly bill may soon change the way Chinatown merchants conduct business in their live animal markets. For years small market operators have sold live animals such as turtles, frogs, fish, and birds, for consumption. Aside from some protests from animal rights groups, these markets have largely operated without much regulation from the government. […]
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Central Freeway Revisited
By Janet Dang
A move by Supervisor Leland Yee to direct Central Freeway property funds to projects that will improve traffic congestion in the western section of the city failed to garner enough support from his fellow members at the supervisors meeting on Monday.
In last November’s election, San Francisco voted to tear down the […] -
Something for Everyone at L.A. Film Fest
By Jeff Liu
If you were looking for something to make you laugh or cry, the annual Visual Communications Asian Pacific Film and Video Festiva film fest, which opened last Thursday in Los Angeles, was it.
Celebrating its 15th edition, the L.A. film fest is a showcase of some of the best films and video from […] -
From Shanghai Noon to Saturday Night
Jackie Chan wins new fans across America
By Sam Chu Lin
Dressed in an all-white suit, shirt and necktie, Jackie Chan hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend. And during the opening monologue, Chan rubbed his hands together and confessed to the audience, “I’m scared!”
But he is anything but that in his new movie, Shanghai Noon. In […] -
Beauty and Brains
By Fiona Ma
LABOR OF LOVE: The Miss Gay Globe 2000 Pageant was sponsored by the Filipino Task Force on AIDS (FTFA), the only Filipino-specific AIDS organization in the country (www.FTFA.org).
“This first Miss Globe beauty pageant was truly a labor of love on my part as well as the rest of the FTFA board and […] -
Another World
By Tony Wong
Ana Mandara brings not only the food of Vietnam to San Francisco, but the culture as well. Once you pass through the entrance and foyer, where the maître d’ station is located, you might as well have traveled through a wormhole and been transported to another time and another place. I walked […] -
An All-American Pastime
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 […] -
Gone Too Far?
Citizens are always calling for the need to reduce crime through tougher laws, more jails and police officers, gun control, better prevention programs—whatever it takes. It is no wonder then, that when Proposition 21—the Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act aimed at trying minors as adults—hit the March ballot this year, 62 percent of […]
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The Great Date Race
By Loan Kim Ly
Who is your dream date? What if so and so asked? Would you go with him? Why don’t girls ever ask guys? What if I get rejected? Dang, I still don’t have a date? Should I take someone from school or not?
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Love Bug Thoughts
When one says Filipino hacker the image of the old dictator Ferdinand Marcos comes to mind. Can you see it? The curmudgeonly Marcos revving up his back swing, teeing it up at the Philippine golf course called “wack-wack.”
Now that’s a Filipino hacker.
But now we’ve got a whole new ball game.
The new Filipino hacker is the […]
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I agree that some of the school board candidates are hedging their bets on JROTC. I have come out in support of reinstating JROTC and have posted my views on my web site at http://www.
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An inspirational article. It makes me want to join a Dragon Boat team.
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Sorry, folks: This duncehead corner is not quite "done" for the day, as in still baying at the moon here.
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Dear Linda & Sue: Gee . . . "beauty" -- well, in this case, let's make it "handsomeness," or "hunky"?, who knows what sexists are reading these posts? -- lies in the eyes of the beholder? In which case, Sue, it would seem thzt your eyes have been glazed by too many subscriptions to too many glossy mags and equally surreal movies and teleseries.
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Mmm, let's see here. This piece, while not as "celebrated" as the author's third effort in the same vein and while it IS "old," still has legs.
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To Yul and my brother Mark -- way to go, I am so proud of you. Keep it up! We are all pulling for you.
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Assembly Bill AB 2565 is just being used to keep the body on life support so they can keep the body warm until they can get family consent to rip out their organs for donation.
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Thanks, Terry, for pointing out Archie from CSI. I didn't include him because he's condiered a recurring character as opposed to one of the "regulars.
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I rarely see good looking AA men. I wonder do they even exist??? I have so far seen handful of good looking AA men in my life.
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A great idea to acknowledge the beauty of Asian men in a proactive way. However, we mustn't overcompensate by forming unrealistic images of the other kind.
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