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Is Ziyi Zhang the Next Meg Ryan?
SLEEPLESS IN SHANGHAI
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Reading their Way to dot.com Profits
Abebooks.com has acquired the Berkeley-based BookFinder.com, a free Internet web service for finding and buying new and used books.
Launched as a final project for a class at UC Berkeley, -
Nation Briefs
Sketch Released of Suspect in Deliveryman Murder
NEW YORK — Police released a sketch of the person they’re looking for in connection with the killing of 54-year-old FaHua Chen, a -
Korean Culture at 16th Annual ‘Chuseok’
The beauty of Korean dance and music enveloped the well-dressed patrons who enjoyed the 16th Annual “Chuseok” Gala, a celebration of Korean arts and culture as in its traditional holiday of Thanksgiving held at the Asian Art Museum, Chong Moon Lee
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Lop Cheung on Thanksgiving for 3,500
SAN FRANCISCO –– More than 3,500 bags of groceries were distributed to mostly Chinese American residents in San Francisco just eight days before Thanksgiving.
In Chinatown, a line of 2,800 senior, disabled and low-income -
S.F. Puts in Mercury Warnings
Mercury in seafood signs will warn patrons of San Francisco restaurants and grocery stores, after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a new ordinance passed earlier this month.
The sign, which targets pregnant women and mothers of young -
What I’m Thankful For
I spend a lot of time in this column criticizing what’s out there, but with Thanksgiving upon us, I’d like to list what I’m thankful for in the world of Asian Pacific American film, TV and theater.
I’m thankful for the increase in APA faces as regular characters on -
Mayor Villaraigosa Reaches Out to APAs
When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asked the city on the day of his inauguration to “dream with [him],” it was unclear how Asian Americans would fit into that dream. He was the city’s first Latino mayor in 133 years, and Time magazine named him one of the
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Arts Briefs
Sandra Oh Wins Diversity Awards
Korean American actress Sandra Oh has won the “Creative Liberty” award from the Multicultural Motion Picture Association’s Diversity Awards. The organization aims to foster cultural and intellectual -
Bay Briefs
Asians Under Investigation 2 ChiAms Indicted in Missiles Scheme
SANTA ANA, Calif. –– Chao Tung Wu and Yi Qing Chen, two naturalized U.S. citizens born in China, are the first to be indicted -
Global Briefs
S. Korea’s Main Opposition Sweeps By-elections
SEOUL, South Korea –– South Korea’s main opposition party swept parliamentary by-elections, dealing a blow to President Roh Moo-hyun and his ruling party.
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Letters to the Editor
FCC Doesn’t Want West Bay Money
“The Daly Machine?” (Nov. 10) suggests that the Filipino Community Center is vying for West Bay’s frozen funds.
The FCC has no intention of applying for West Bay’s withheld funding should it become available. We are focused on serving the Filipino community in the Excelsior, and the recent debacle surrounding […]
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Dear "observer": You are absolutely right about my personal education history, insofar as I was lucky to be one of only three? Chinese-American students at Horace Mann Grade School in San Jose, way back in the mid-'20s, Half-"right" in the ensuing fact I attended Francisco Jr.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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I have a feeling that Christian and Frank Eng went to all-white schools and don't know what it's like for Asians to attend "diverse" schools, so I post a 2005 article: http://www.
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As a reader, I feel I have joined the conversation too late to make sense of this, since it's already at the level of polemic.
eric henderson on Arab Americans as Asian?
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"And I understand that those Asian-Americans who do uncritically embrace racist ideas about black people usually glean them from the dominant (i.
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Jammer: You are more than "right." Your experience is, likely, not all that different from ANY suffered at the hands of bullies.
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To experience the unique dancing style of Jabbawockeez is feeling their movement, seeing their vision, laughing, crying, shouting and knowing that there is still hope.
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Well my only viewing of Last Comic Standing was unfortunately seeing Esther Ku say jokes at the expense of Asian men that only a racist would love.
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Well, Christian, even though I acknowledge many of your arguments that I've read in your posts, racism is a two-way street.
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Dear Christian: For I find you "dear," as in "endearing.: And I question not one line in your riposte other than that NO "community," of any stripe, is ever "free" of its lowest common-denominators.
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Is it LAMEN or RAMEN? ANSWER; it should be spelled in English as LAMEN. see here an EMAIL from a veteran language man, a reporter/editor in NYC: http://www.
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