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Global Briefs
Kyoto Pact in Force, Without United States
TOKYO — The Kyoto global warming pact went into force last week, seven years after it was negotiated, imposing limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases -
Nation Briefs
Funding the Hmong Fairly
The Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum has begun a grassroots push to correct inequities in federal funding that might shortchange some communities that serve newly arrived Hmong refugees. -
‘Constantine’ — ‘Hapaness,’ Theology and ‘Heavy Metal’ Hell
John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) sees dead people. But that’s not all: He also sees half-breeds — though, in this case, not half-Chinese Hawaiian, half-white folks like Reeves himself but the part-human, part-demon characters
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Letters to the Editor
Happy Valentine’s Day
Thank you Judge Doris Ling-Cohan (“NY Judge Ling-Cohan Rules for Gay Marriage,” Feb. 10) for doing the right thing. As a gay Asian American, you make me proud. Let’s just hope that the rest of the country understands that all -
Black History is Our History
February is one of the most multicultural months of the year. We’ve had Lunar New Year, Tet and our rockin,’ cockin’ Chinatown parade. You’ve partied enough for a thousand new years, leaving behind a trail of spent gunpowder, shredded firecrackers and ripped-open red envelopes.
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Cathay Airlines Touches Down in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — To the clamor of lion dancers and a throng of media, Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways officially opened its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco. The opening marked Cathay Pacific’s return to the area after a 15-year absence when the airline left for Los Angeles.
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Only the Oscars are Yellow
The role of Asians onscreen and in the box office still exists almost completely behind the scenes when it comes to critical cinematic acclaim. In the face of this Sunday’s Oscars, AsianWeek columnist Phil Chung expresses his disappointment with the lack of Asian individuals and works nominated for this year’s awards ceremony.
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What the Hell Was Imelda Celebrating?
After last month’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the landmark case against former President Ferdinand Marcos, former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos quickly gave it her personal spin. She claimed to have felt “exulted” by the decision and publicly celebrated it with her supporters in the Greenbelt section of Makati City near […]
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New York’s Chinese Schools Revival
One Saturday afternoon, 20 7-year-olds squirm in their seats in the basement of the Transfiguration School in New York City’s Chinatown. The ones who aren’t squirming are slouching. One industriously arranges and rearranges four practice booklets into patterns on his desktop.
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Mystery Koban Disappears Again
Walter Wong, an expert in permit expediting in San Francisco’s byzantine planning process, recently had a collection of kobans on his property in San Francisco.
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Chinese School Board Members Should Do the Right Thing
The history of urban America is one of ethnic communities striving to elect their own representatives to address their specific needs and concerns, as well as to represent the larger communities. For three decades, voters have opted to include Chinese American representation on the San Francisco Board of Education.
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Letters to the Editor
Father of the Tet Festival
DEAR EDITOR: The Center for Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement, now renamed the Southeast Asian Community Center, organized Tet celebrations as early as 1977 (“Tet, Lunar New Year’s Vietnamese Style,” Feb. 3).
AsianWeek at the Democratic National Convention
2008 Asian American Olympians
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Recent Comments
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Further investigation into the ages of China's gymnasts occurred because of multiple web site findings which listed the girls' ages as younger (not because of their physical appearance).
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To educator - I agree with you that it is possible to make insulting depictions of others intentionally.
Paul Corbero on Spanish Olympians - More Controversial Photos Uncovered
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There is a difference between a love relationship and a sexual relationship. A love relationship is when you get married and begin a family.
Noorie Lal on Committed Relationship, Unprotected Sex
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Oh, and furthermore . . . Speaking of "symphonies," orchestras that is, in my time and my dad as an inkstained wretch, Americans were still servile to the European models, and there was much fussing' and feudin' over whether the L.
Frank Eng on Sydney Orchestra "Synched" 2000 Olympics Performance (too)
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Oy! Aiyahhhh!! or Eeeeee!!! . . . as a character in "Taipan" mightk say . . . Doubles stabdards in "western" perceptions? In sexual mores? In self-anointing sanctities? Ia the Pope "Catholic"? Does he wear Prada? Do Oscars have genitals? Does anyone care? Other than Bette, that is.
Frank Eng on Sydney Orchestra "Synched" 2000 Olympics Performance (too)
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Dear pswing: Once more we meet in the shadows ot journalistic boonies here online. Political jiu-jitsu? I think Machiavelli was there first, or was it Tsun-tzu? Never mind, nothing's "original.
Frank Eng on Political Jiujitsu - Obama & Biden, McCain & Palin
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Dear pswing: Thank God it's "English" only hereabnuts. Were it any other tongue or script, I would have been renting a ricksha and hard put to haul that dumb tourist around Chinatown.
Frank Eng on Why Asians Speak English
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Bill C: "Popping out babies"> Aren't you oversimplifying a bit? And wouldn't THAT "problem" be more or less solved if the judgmentall authorities handed out condoms to sexually active children, in the ghettos especially, where they have scant opportunity, much less idea, of anything better? Like condescenion AND oppression? Reminds me of that pharmaceutical now promoting, nay, demanding, of society that ALL pubertal girls be "immunized," at 60 bucks a pop, in our "public" schools.
Frank Eng on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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Some Questions to all Spaniards and others who went through the Spanish education system from elementary school to high school as I am trying my best to understand that doing the slant eye gesture is not offensive or hurtful to Asians in Spain.
educator on Spanish Olympians - More Controversial Photos Uncovered
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It is difficult to associate specific countries by physical markers, so stereotypical dressing and activities is more common If the Olympics where in a Scandinavian country would we interpret a photo of players wearing helmets with horns and blond hair as insulting or as a players posing as honorary Vikings? If the Olympics where in Ireland would we interpret a photo of players dressed in green and blond hair as an insulting or as a players posing as honorary Irish? If the Olympics where in Scotland would we interpret a photo of players dressed in kilts and holding wind pipes as insulting or as players posing a honorary Scotch? If the Olympics where in Germany would we interpret a photo of players wearing lederhosen and Birkenstock sandals as insulting or as players posing as honorary German? If the Olympics where in India would we interpret a photo of players wearing a turban as insulting or as players posing as honorary Indians? If the Olympics where in Spain would we interpret a photo of players dressed in bullfighter garb insulting or as players posing as honorary Spaniards? If the Olympics where in U.
Paul Corbero on Spanish Olympians - More Controversial Photos Uncovered
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