Nation, APAs In Sync ‘06
December 29, 2006
APAs in tune with the nation: According to Newsweek magazine, nationwide statistics showed APA voters leaned democratic, but less so than any other racial minority. Read more
Drug War in C-Town
December 29, 2006
The old photograph depicting a street scene of cops, a pile of drugs and a crowd of Chinese onlookers had hung on the walls of the San Francisco Police Academy for years. Old-time Chinatown residents used to tell stories of a public destruction of opium in the middle of Chinatown in the early 1900s. Read more
Heroic Filipina Honored in Hit-and-Run Case
December 29, 2006
This past August after a SUV hit-and-run spree left one dead and 18 injured, Filipina nurse Grace Lopez demonstrated remarkable leadership in the emergency department of San Francisco General Hospital. Read more
Air China Goes Full ‘Boar’ in Coming Lunar New Year
December 29, 2006
Air China started its China-U.S. route in 1981, but now is exploiting opportunities in the booming China business trade in advance of the Lunar New Year of the Boar. As general manager, Air China Los Angeles Zihang Chi announced, “We are totally committed to the U.S.-China market. Our CEO has stated that he who prevails in the U.S.-China market conquers the world.” Read more
The Year in Review: the Good, the Bad & the Tasteless
December 29, 2006
BEST 10 TIDBITS
1. The line starts here: Keanu Reeves announces in June that he’s ready to wed.
2. Rejected: Vanessa Minnillo nixes Nick Lachey’s marriage proposal, possibly ruining only chance for A-list fame via speedy divorce and reality show à la Jessica Simpson. Read more
Transporter Room, Millions to Beam
December 29, 2006
Asian Pacific Americans have traveled far and wide — whether it’s television’s reality show star Yul Kwon, or NASA shuttle astronauts Sunita Williams and Mark Polansky. APAs made well over 33 million person-trips in 2002 and spent 13 percent more than the average traveler, according to The Minority Traveler. Two out of five trips were for family visits. Another one out of four traveled for entertainment and recreation, while one-fifth of travels were for business — part of a market segment that Air China’s general manager Zihang Chi was pitching for with his airline’s comfortable wider, first-class and business-class seating. Read more
Hu’s on First
December 29, 2006
OK, so I’ve been catching up on my videos and books, but it’s not too late to add some fresh perspectives:
The Hapa Whole in One
December 29, 2006
I went to Kip Fulbeck’s show “part asian, 100% hapa” at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
“Hapa” was originally a derogatory term derived from the Hawaiian word for “half.” The word has been reclaimed as a term of pride by those whose mixed-race heritage includes Asian or Pacific Rim ancestry. The show comprises hundreds of framed photographs with every imaginable mix of races — and always a bit of Asian-ness thrown in. Read more
Letters to the Editor
December 29, 2006
Keep the Heat On, Yvonne
I caught some of ABC’s The View, and I watched in horror as Rosie O’Donnell (”Racist Ring Around the Rosie Tightens,” Dec. 22) made a blatant racist joke about the Chinese language on the air. I wrote an angry e-mail to ABC, but I doubt they will do anything about it. I’m pretty sure it’s racist, and I was definitely offended. Read more
CAAEN Inspires With Can-Do Attitude
December 29, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO — Bolstered by three years of providing corporate networking opportunities and civic service, the rapidly growing Corporate Asian American Employee Network, (CAAEN), recently announced the establishment of a one-of-a-kind leadership development/training program for Asian Americans who work in corporate America.
This six-month CAAEN Leadership Training Program is designed to cultivate and identify those skills and relationships needed by Asian Americans in the workplace to not only climb the career ladder, but ultimately contribute to the community through their newly developed leadership skills. Read more
Rewarding Scholars for Restaurant Values
December 29, 2006
There has been enough focus on war, disease, lies and failures in 2006. Let’s end the year focusing on a touching and inspirational story: the creation of the Shui Kuen and Allen Chin (SKAC) Foundation, and its first scholarship to help Asian Pacific American restaurant workers and their children. Read more
Curious Georges
December 29, 2006
BAD, GOOD & CURIOUS GEORGES: Intriguing that defeated republican U.S. Senator George Allen — whose labeling of Virginia’s S.R. Sidrath as a “macaca” started his political death spiral — was present at Pres. George Bush’s Dec. 18 White House signing ceremony of HR 5682, the U.S.-India Peace Atomic Energy Cooperation Act. Read more
