Daily Dose: 04/30/08
April 30, 2008
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> AsianWeek Market Report
> CAA Staff Honored as “Local Hero” by KQED
> Cynthia Park of Kang & Lee Advertising Receives Advertising Women Award
> Senators, CAPAC meet AAPI Small Business leaders
> Rose Chen Appointed SVP, Private Banking for Encore Bank
> Nordstrom Exhibit Celebrates Asian Pacific American Artists
> Viz Media Redesigns Official Online Store
> Philippines to permanently ban foreigners from receiving kidneys
> India Prime Minister Denounces Abortion of Females
Compiled by Irene Aranya and Lisa Wong Macabasco
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CAA Staff Honored as “Local Hero” by KQED
SAN FRANCISCO - Chinese for Affirmative Action’s Christina Mei-Yue Wong has been chosen by KQED and Union Bank of California as a “Local Hero” for her advocacy of educational equity on behalf of Asian and Pacific Americans.
Wong is the Director of Community Initiatives at CAA, where, for nearly a decade, she has transformed the way San Francisco Unified School District works to meet the needs of APA students. Wong’s educational policy work focuses on issues including school integration, language access, parental involvement, multilingual programs, and violence prevention and intervention.
As a leading advocate for parental involvement in public schools, Wong has created pathways to increase opportunities for immigrant parents to be engaged in their child’s education. In 2001 Wong successfully advocated for the first SFUSD translation department which provided Chinese and Spanish translation of district documents.
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Cynthia Park of Kang & Lee Advertising Receives Advertising Women Award
New York – Cynthia Park, president of K&L Advertising, was honored n April 30 with a Changing The Game Award, in the Quantum Leap category, from Advertising Women of New York.
The Quantum Leap category honored women who have spurred change in the way society views or thinks about something.
As president of the leading Asian American multicultural consulting and communications agency in North America, Park has had an enormous role in changing the way that corporate America views and values the Asian American market. She has helped corporate America realize that multicultural marketing is a business imperative.
Park has worked with clients such as AT&T, Western Union, Harrah’s Entertainment, Allstate, Pernod-Ricard USA, among many others. Early in her tenure, Park established K&L Direct, the first company to tailor the benefits of direct marketing to the cultural and in-language needs of the Asian American consumer.
Senators, CAPAC meet AAPI Small Business leaders
WASHINGTON — The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus celebrated National Small Business Week with Asian and Pacific Islander American small business leaders from across the country.
“Small business owners in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities face unique challenges in accessing capital, government contracts and business counseling, particularly with language and cultural barriers,” said Rep. Mike Honda, Chair of CAPAC.
“Today’s discussion was an important step in assessing the need for improving avenues of opportunities for our Asian Pacific American small businesses,” said Rep. Enid Faleomavaega, Vice Chair of CAPAC. “According to the Small Business Administration, Asian and Pacific Americans rank among the lowest in numbers of total small businesses.”
“Small firms generate close to 75 percent of newly created jobs,” said Rep. Mazie Hirono, member of CAPAC and the House Small Business Committee.
—India Post News Service
Rose Chen Appointed SVP, Private Banking for Encore Bank
HOUSTON — Encore Bank, N. A., a subsidiary of Encore Bancshares, Inc., announced the appointment of Rose Chen as Senior Vice President - Commercial Banking for Encore Bank.
Chen brings 15 years of banking and financial expertise to Encore. She most recently was associated with Sterling Bank as Senior Vice President, Commercial Lender. Before that time, she served as Senior Vice President and Area Business Manager for MetroBank N.A.
Chen graduated from Texas Tech University with a B.S. in International Economics, and attended the American Institution of Banking located in Houston. She serves as Secretary for the National Association of Asian American Professionals and Treasurer of Delta Phi Epsilon, an international business fraternity. She is also a member of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce.
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Nordstrom Exhibit Celebrates Asian Pacific American Artists
SEATTLE—During the month of May, Nordstrom is showcasing work from nine Asian American artists reflecting Asian Pacific American-inspired themes in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Now in its fourth year, the exhibit celebrates both accomplished and up-and-coming Asian-American artists: MalPina Chan (Olympia, Wash.), Grace Chen (Oakland, Calif.), Jui Ishida (Long Beach, Calif.), Pearl Ling, (Waianae, Hawaii), Tristan Longstreth (Phoenix, Ariz.), Naoko Morisawa (Lynnwood, Wash.), Sherwin Parayno (Austin, Tex.), Yihsin Wu, (Taipei City, Taiwan), and Adrienne Yan (San Francisco, Calif.).
The exhibit will be displayed in the windows of select Nordstrom stores (San Francisco Centre, San Francisco; Irvine Spectrum Center, Irvine, Calif.; Michigan Avenue, Chicago; Downtown Portland, Portland, Ore.; Southcenter, Tukwila, Wash.; Santa Anita, Arcadia, Calif.; Ala Moana, Honolulu, Hawaii; and Downtown Seattle) and online at Nordstrom.com throughout the month of May.
VIZ MEDIA REDESIGNS OFFICIAL ONLINE STORE
San Francisco – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has redesigned its official online store.
The new outlet, which is an extension of the VIZ Media corporate website, is easier to navigate and features quick search tools to access a wide selection of products for some of the company’s most popular anime and manga properties including BLEACH, NARUTO and DEATH NOTE.
“The new VIZ Media online store will make it easier than ever for fans to browse an extensive collection of products,” says David Rewalt, Senior Director of Retail Development at VIZ Media. “The web is now one of the most utilized channels for fans to buy the latest anime and manga and related items, and the new VIZ Media online store will become a bookmarked and regularly visited outlet for casual as well as die-hard fans. “
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Philippines to permanently ban foreigners from receiving kidneys
MANILA - Foreigners will be permanently banned from receiving kidneys for transplant in the Philippines to prevent the country from becoming a major Asian center in an already thriving black-market trade, health officials announced Tuesday.
Extensive kidney trading involving impoverished Filipinos and prisoners, who sell their organs for paltry sums to syndicates catering mostly to foreign clients has been reported by the local media in recent years.
“The sale of one’s body parts is condemnable and ethically improper. We have to stop it,” said Health Secretary Francisco Duque, adding that kidney transplants for foreigners have risen in recent years.
The sale of organs is illegal in the Philippines. The ban, intended to protect poor Filipinos from exploitation, will prohibit foreigners from getting donated kidneys unless they can prove a donor is related to them by blood, Duque said..
Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral said at least 500 kidney transplants involving foreign patients were conducted last year in the Philippines.
–AP
India Prime Minister Denounces Abortion of Females
NEW DELHI — The Indian prime minister described the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses as a “national shame” on April 28, and called for stricter enforcement of laws devised to prevent doctors from helping parents to avoid the birth of unwanted daughters.
In his first speech on the subject, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh highlighted an “alarming” decline in the number of girls for every 1,000 boys in India, slipping to 927 in 2001 from 962 in 1981, according to the latest census figures. “This indicates that growing economic prosperity and education levels have not led to a corresponding mitigation in this acute problem,” he said.
“No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women,” Mr. Singh said.
— New York Times
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