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Video Storeowner Dies After Robbery: Kai Hau Chung remembered as friendly and outgoing
A makeshift memorial of chrysanthemum flowers, crayon-colored cards and a porcelain angel marks the site of a robbery on Thursday, June 10, which left a popular storeowner dead after injuries he had sustained during the incident.
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Translators for Difficult Times: SFGH may lose half of interpreter staff
The two-hour wait for an interpreter at San Francisco General Hospital may take even longer as severe budget cuts threaten to reduce the number of full-time translators, a vital lifeline in the immigrant community that has been slowly diminishing in the past several years.
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Youth Interpret Medical Terms
Sandy Zhou was just 12 years old when she found herself in a cold hospital room with her mother and a physician who told her that her mother needed an emergency hysterectomy. Zhou had only been in the United States for two years. Still struggling to grasp basic English, she had to understand and translate […]
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Letters to the Editor
NFL Must Address Racial Insensitivity
Editor’s Note: Assemblywoman Judy Chu wrote the following letter to Paul Tagliabue, commissioner of the National Football League.
As an Asian American public official who represents a large Asian Pacific American population in the Los Angeles area, and as the chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Hate Crimes, I am writing […] -
Where’s Asian Pacific America in Middle America?
CINCINNATI, OHIO — I’m in the middle of Middle America. And if Flip, my dog, were with me, I’d paraphrase Judy Garland: “Flippy, we’re not in California anymore.”
Specifically, I’m in Ohio, a state that is 85 percent white, 11.5 percent black, 1.9 percent Latino — and just 1.2 percent Asian Pacific American. -
UpFront News Briefs
CHINESE ADOPTIONS
Returning to Chinese Roots
A growing number of American children adopted from China are returning to explore their homeland and discover their heritage. The thousands who were adopted by American parents shortly after China opened adoptions in 1992 are turning an age that brings questions about who they are and where they come from. -
Matsui and Nomo Homer in First Meeting
Hideki Matsui and Hideo Nomo traveled thousands of miles to a different league in Los Angeles before facing each other at last.
Matsui hit a three-run homer in his first at-bat against Nomo, and Brad Halsey won his major league debut June 19 in the New York Yankees’ 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. -
School Sexual Harassment
A San Francisco Youth Commission hearing in April regarding sexual harassment was recently called by none other than the Youth Commission. What had brought the issue into the limelight was a recent case at Wallenberg High School where a group of males had forced a young female into performing oral sex.
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Kimiko Soldati Claims Olympic Slot
Kimiko Soldati bounced back from a poor dive during the U.S. trials on June 12 in St. Peters, Missouri to win 3-meter springboard and a slot on the women’s team.
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Sirloin a Lot: Tenderloin joint steers customers with hearty Vietnamese fare
For those who are meat-phobic, you may not want to continue on with this week’s column. It’s all about beef, beef and more beef. I’ve been hearing about the Vietnamese seven-course beef meal for sometime now, so last Friday, I rounded up three friends with strong and sturdy stomachs to join me in an afternoon […]
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Julia Moon Shoots for the Stars
Like baseball players, the most talented dancers go west, where ballet companies offer artistic challenges, status on the international dance stage and above living wages. Principal ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan took that path to the San Francisco Ballet, as did Sue Jin Kang of Stuttgart Ballet and Miyako Yoshida of England’s Royal Ballet, to name […]
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‘Freshmen’ Tops the Head of the Class
It’s a typical Sunday night at Orchid, one of L.A. Koreatown’s newest hotspots. There’s a bar serving more varieties of martinis than even James Bond would know what to do with, private karaoke rooms upstairs that promise the most up-to-date technology for your singing pleasure, and large TV screens showing the first game of the […]
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