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	Community Fears Loss of Chinese Language Programming KPST Channel 66 Sold By Ji Hyun Lim For most Americans, television offers a bewildering array of programs aimed at just about every audience and every mood. Dry political sermons can be swapped for garish music videos with a deft wave of the remote control. Yet for over 400,000 Chinese-speakers in the Bay Area, watching children’s programming, drama, and even the news has been limited to two Chinese language channels, KPST 66 and KTSF 26, and only during certain hours. To make matters worse, with Univision’s recent acquisition of KPST, their choices are likely to shrink even further. COMPLETE STORY...		APA Women Flex Muscles (Feature) President's Advisory Commission on AAPI (in National News) Community Fears Loss of Chinese Language Programming (in Bay Area News) AsiaWeek Magazine Closes (in Business) The Next Big Thing (in Sports) Death Becomes Him (in A&E) Emil Amok: Mineta Minutes (in Opinion)

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Stanford Students Sit-in for Worker’s Rights By Benjamin King Some say Asian Pacific Americans are apathetic. Tell that to Bryan Kim and Kuusela Hilo, chair of Stanford’s Asian American Student Association and Pilipino American Student Union respectively, two of the six students who were arrested in an act of civil disobedience on Nov. 29 at Stanford University Hospital. The six student activists were arrested at the office of Stanford Medical Center’s Vice President for General Services Louis Saksen, while protesting a recent decision to subcontract labor at Stanford Hospital.

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