Daily Dose: 05/30/08
May 30, 2008
> AsianWeek Market Report
> Asian-Americans Underrepresented in College Presidencies
> Art Contest Aims To Prevent Hate Crimes Toward Minorities
> Asia Society Texas Center Breaks Ground
> “Grandfather’s Story Cloth” shines light on Alzheimer’s Disease and Hmong Culture
> Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Recognized as One of The ‘Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans’
> Fashion House Drops Actress Stone From Ads
> South Korea to resume US beef imports
> Bomb kills 2, wounds 19 outside southern Philippine air base
Compiled by Beleza Chan and Steffi Lau
AsianWeek Market Report
| AsianWeek Market Report | ||||
| Asian Stock Indexes | ||||
| NIKKEL_225 | Tokyo | 14,338.54 | 214.07 | 1.52% |
| HANG SENG | Hong Kong | 24,533.12 | 149.13 | 0.61% |
| KRX | Busan | 3,827.23 | 17.22 | 0.45% |
| SSE IX | Shanghai | 12,048.24 | 101.10 | 0.85% |
| BSE | Bombay | 16,415.57 | 99.31 | 0.61% |
| HOSE | Ho Chi Minh | 414.10 | 0 | 0% |
| SET | Bangkok | 833.65 | 3.04 | 0.37% |
| Asian American Market Report | ||||
| Yahoo! | Y | 26.76 | -0.31 | (-1.15%) |
| Citigroup | C | 21.89 | -0.15 | (-0.68%) |
| Amkor Technology, Inc | AMKR | 10.66 | -0.20 | (-1.84%) |
| Sybase | SY | 32.02 | -0.30 | (-0.93%) |
| UnionBancal Corp | UB | 50.06 | -0.75 | (-1.48%) |
| East West Bank corp,Inc | EWBC | 13.24 | -0.50 | (-3.64%) |
NATION
Asian-Americans Underrepresented in College Presidencies
Many efforts have helped increase the number of women and ethnic minorities in college presidencies the past two decades, but Asian Americans have not kept pace with other historically underrepresented demographics. In fact, Asian American presidents are barely replacing themselves on the national landscape as they retire. This fact appears even more stark when considering that Asian American faculty outnumber other minority instructors; meaning they clearly have an ample pool to produce executive leadership.
“It’s a main source of our pessimism,” says Dr. Leslie Wong, president of Northern Michigan, referring to sentiments among his counterparts of Asian descent. Wong was one of only five Asian Americans heading U.S. public universities in 2005, according to ACE.
The dearth of Asian American presidents has multiple causes. They have been stereotyped as hard workers and good managers, but aren’t historically viewed as leaders.
-DiverseEducation
Art Contest Aims To Prevent Hate Crimes Toward Minorities
NEW YORK CITY-The Organization of Chinese Americans, New York Chapter, the Ana Luisa Garcia Youth Center, Chinatown Youth Initiative, South Asian Youth Action, and the United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park will be collaborating on a project that trains high school students on hate crime prevention and organizes a city wide art contest to prevent hate crimes and promote cross-cultural awareness.
Hate crimes in 2006 rose 8% nationwide, of which 522 incidents were reported in New York. Last year, nooses were found hanging at Columbia University, outside a post office at Ground Zero, and at a police precinct in Long Island. Violence against Latinos has been misplaced as anti-immigrant sentiment rises. Over the past several months, Asian American students have been targeted in Queens and Brooklyn; one was severely beaten after months of persistent bullying by two of his peers in a middle school.
Although great strides have been made to implement hate crime legislation, the hate incidents against youth in New York City continues to be a significant problem, many of which go unreported.
Asia Society Texas Center Breaks Ground
HOUSTON- The threat of rain couldn’t stop Asia Society Texas Center from breaking ground on its long-awaited new facility on two city blocks of land in Houston’s Museum District.
More than 300 people attended.
The 38,000-square-foot building is designed by renowned Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, best known in the US for his 2004 expansion to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Asia Society President Vishakha Desai described the Texas Center building as a “bridge between America and Asia.”
The groundbreaking festivities featured a variety of entertainment from Asia, including Lee’s Golden Dragon Lion Dancers, Indian Dhol drummers, and Bukharan music. Local children in brightly colored traditional dress showcased the diversity of Houston’s Asian population. Shanghai-born NBA star Yao Ming, of the Houston Rockets, offered photo opportunities and added star power.
The new building is slated to open in 2010.
-Asia Society
BAY
“Grandfather’s Story Cloth” shines light on Alzheimer’s Disease and Hmong Culture
WALNUT CREEK - “Grandfather’s Story Cloth,” written by Linda Gerdner and Sarah Langford, provides a sensitive and touching look into an increasingly common situation among extended immigrant families: children facing changes in their grandparents due to dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. This warm loving story addresses a confusing issue for children, while the bilingual text makes it perfect for sharing between native Hmong speakers and young children.
Writer Linda Gerdner PhD, RN has dedicated her career to research related to the care of elders with dementia in an effort to improve their quality of life. Writer Sarah Langford is a Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing student. She is especially interested in the health care needs of immigrants and refugees living in the United States.
For more information or to request a review copy, please contact Shen’s Books at (925) 262-8108.
COMMERCE
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Recognized as One of The ‘Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans’
BENTONVILLE, AR- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced that it has been named one of the “Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans” by Asian Enterprise magazine, the largest Asian-American small business-focused publication in the country.
Created in 1998, Asian Enterprise’s “Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans” award recognizes FORTUNE 500 companies that create innovative initiatives to include Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, as well as other people of color in their corporate culture.
As one of the largest private employers in the country, Wal-Mart employs more than 39,000 Asian Americans and more than 5,000 Pacific Islander Americans, and has established internal initiatives and programs to ensure that it supports diversity at all levels of the company.
Wal-Mart further serves the APIA community through its partnerships with several national organizations, including the U.S. Pan-Asian Chamber of Commerce, Committee of 100, and Asian Women in Business, among others.
GLOBAL
Fashion House Drops Actress Stone From Ads
BEIJING - French fashion house Christian Dior said Thursday it has dropped Sharon Stone from its Chinese ads and released a statement from the actress apologizing for saying China’s earthquake may have been bad karma for its treatment of Tibet.
The public relations manager for Dior in Shanghai who gave only her surname, Guo, said Stone would no longer appear in the company’s advertisements in China.
The 50-year-old actress said, “Due to my inappropriate words and acts during the interview, I feel deeply sorry and sad about hurting Chinese people. I am willing to take part in the relief work of China’s earthquake, and wholly devote myself to helping affected Chinese people.” Stone models for Christian Dior SA, and the company’s Shanghai office issued the statement.
- Associated Press
South Korea to resume US beef imports
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea’s government announced Thursday it is going to resume imports of U.S. beef, while thousands of protesters took to the streets to denounce the move.
The new regulations call for South Korea to import nearly all cuts of American beef without restrictions on the age of the cattle. It cleared the way for American beef to return to South Korean store shelves for the first time since last year.
Agriculture Minister Chung Woon-chun sought to dispel public concern over mad cow disease, saying the government would immediately halt imports if a new case of the illness breaks out in the United States.
Thousands gathered Thursday night, holding a candlelight protest at a plaza in front of city hall before some dispersed to march in nearby streets. There were no immediate reports of clashes.
- Associated Press
Bomb kills 2, wounds 19 outside southern Philippine air base
MANILA, Philippines - A homemade bomb exploded outside an air force base in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing two people and wounding 19 others in a possible attack by al-Qaida-linked militants, police said.
The cell phone-detonated bomb was apparently concealed in one of several bags of civilian commuters waiting to hitch a ride on an air force C-130 cargo plane outside Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga city, police Chief Superintendent Jaime Caringal said.
A man and a woman, both waiting to get on the plane, were killed in the blast, police said. Caringal said no one had claimed responsibility for the bomb.
Investigators were looking at the possibility that al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants were involved in the attack. The militants have clashed in recent days with Philippine marines on nearby Basilan island.
- Associated Press
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This is as good a “peg” as any on which to hang today’s “hat” of a headline, John Pilger’s more than disheartening piece on the Info Clearing House blog.
Mutual mayhem and murder in the Philippines and business par excellence for Wal*Mart vis-a-vis APAs?, seems sufficiently bipolar to entertain the sad thesis in the Pilger piece, which, in a nutshell, likens Obama to RFK, and BOTH to a continuation of Yankee oligarchy.
No one who reads carefully and at least “frequents” on occasion so-called “liberal” or “progressive” blogs can beg innocence of the obvious herein, that there is NO WAY Obama could get where he is, Clinton/McCain protests notwithstanding, sans “Establishment” sanction.
So, weep, all you hopesters and hypesters for “change” and a “new” “old” America.
Fidel Castro, couple of days ago, on ICH, questioned the Obama bona fides in re his “liberalism” and “progressivism.”
So, what’s left? for two-thirds of the American electorate that have repeatedly “voted” to “bring the troops home” and “now” rather than later, who weary of the “endless” “war,” and who are cinching their appetite belts in the face of joblessness and five-bucks-a-loaf bread, forget the gas and travel.
While sex goddesses and Tibet-lovers AND AsianWeek columnists continue to focus the Kliegs on god-kings and Darfur, the while ignoring the wholesale slaughter continuing in Iraq AND Palestine, read today’s guilt-inducing challenge to the IDF from a Palestinian father who lost his 10-year-old daughter to an Israeli rubber bullet fired 15 feet away from the youngster.
So, as hero-worshipping apparatchiks awaken to their misplaced idolatry, what possible “hope” is left for the American EVERY(wo)man?
Not a helluvalot, for sure.
But, bottom line, especially in view of the Clinton/McCain circle-the-wagons line, the only pitiful pittance of a “hope” STILL lies in Obama.
At least he maintains he will “talk” before shooting.
Ah, such “interesting” times.
Frank Eng
P.S.: And the media still insists that there are “issues” between all three “candidates,” and that the “race” is “close,” despite the findings in today’s Field? poll in California that has BOTH Dems 17 points ahead of the old man of the Hanoi Hilton.
P.P.S.: A question for John Pilger, who WAS THERE, right beside RFK in that “hail of bullets”:
Are you positively certain that said “hail” emanated solely from Sirhan Sirhan’s gun?