Daily Dose: 08/18/08
August 18, 2008
» AsianWeek Market Report
» New York Asian-language Speakers Left Behind in School
» SHIP’s Cynthia Wong Guides Students Through Healthcare Internship
» Ricky Zhou is First to Win Fedora Project Scholarship
» Fiona Ma Proposes Plan to Stop Recycling Wars
» Korean Mexicans Visit Southern California
» Manga Exhibit at Napa Valley Museum
» Malaysian Islamists Slam Avril Lavigne
» Kazuo Matsui on DL With Disk Injury
» James Back Captures Victory at AJGA’s Ping Phoenix Junior Open
» Indian Women Abused By Husbands At Risk For HIV Infection
Compiled by Leila Kang
| AsianWeek Market Report | ||||
| Asian Stock Indexes | ||||
| NIKKEI 225 | Tokyo | 13,165.45 | 146.04 | 1.12% |
| HANG SENG | Hong Kong | 20,930.67 | -229.91 | -1.09% |
| KRX | Busan | 3,250.96 | -10.32 | -0.32% |
| SSE IX | Shanghai | 7,833.09 | -400.32 | -4.86% |
| BSE | Bombay | 14,645.66 | -78.52 | -0.53% |
| HOSE | Ho Chi Minh | 508.05 | 19.11 | 3.91% |
| SET | Bangkok | 697.23 | -10.25 | -1.45% |
| Asian American Market Report | ||||
| Yahoo! | YHOO | 19.77 | -0.67 | (-3.28%) |
| Citigroup | C | 17.77 | -0.78 | (-4.20%) |
| Amkor Technology, Inc | AMKR | 8.41 | -0.36 | (-4.10%) |
| Sybase | SY | 35.61 | -0.56 | (-1.55%) |
| UnionBancal Corp | UB | 73.25 | 7.76 | (11.85%) |
| East West Bank corp,Inc | EWBC | 13.37 | -0.34 | (-2.48%) |
NATION
New York Asian-language Speakers Left Behind in School
NEW YORK — Nearly one in five of the public school English-language learner students in New York City is Asian.
According to a recent report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, these students are often forced into certificate or GED programs, allowed to drop out with little or no intervention or expelled.
English-language learners are students who speak a language other than English at home and score below a state-designated level of proficiency in English upon entering the New York City schools.
Asian Pacific American staff, faculty and administrators in New York City public schools are underrepresented in New York City schools, Zeyen Wu, education policy coordinator of the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, said in testimony to the New York City Council Education Committee.
Wu also called for the expansion of a program that prepares paraprofessionals to become certified teachers in bilingual education.
— Gotham Gazette
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SHIP’s Cynthia Wong Guides Students Through Healthcare Internship
STATEN ISLAND, NY — Dr. Cynthia Wong, creator and director of Summer Healthcare Internshp Program (SHIP), helped sixteen Staten Island public, private and Catholic high school students complete their internship at the Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC).
Wong said the hands-on experience “gives them a more realistic view” of the medical field.
The teens shadowed some of the West Brighton hospital’s medical residents on their rounds in the pediatrics, OBGYN and emergency departments. They also learned how to make the perfect stitch (on a pillowcase), test for diabetes and perform CPR on “Stan the Man,” a computerized mannequin that mimics bodily functions, such as breathing and heartbeat.
Dr. Wong paired the students with medical residents because the teens can relate more to those closer to their age and who have recently completed their schooling.
By giving the teens a sampling of some of RUMC’s medical specialties, Dr. Wong said it allows them to explore and focus their interests.
— Staten Island Advance
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Ricky Zhou is First to Win Fedora Project Scholarship
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the newly created Fedora Scholarship program recognizing college and university-bound students across the globe for their contributions to free software and the Fedora Project. The inaugural scholarship recipient for 2008 is Ricky Zhou who will attend Carnegie Mellon University this fall.
As a Fedora contributor, Zhou has made numerous contributions including work with the Infrastructure, Websites, Localization and Package Maintainer teams. He first started working with Fedora by updating and theming the project’s various sites and applications. Zhou has also helped with the localization of Fedora and translating its Web site across multiple languages to make Fedora more accessible worldwide. On the Infrastructure team, Zhou has assisted in administering servers and developing Web applications. He has also worked on porting applications to work with the Fedora Account System to improve the new contributor experience.
— marketwatch.com
BAY/CALIFORNIA
Fiona Ma Proposes Plan to Stop Recycling Wars
Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, has come up with a sensible way to crack down on this theft of recyclables. Her AB1778 would bring a semblance of order to this quick-cash industry by requiring salvage yards to record the identification of scavengers bringing in loads of $100 or more. Her bill would also require that the payment be made by check or electronic deposit.
Ma noted that $100 represents 2,000 cans or bottles.
Ma’s AB1778 cleared the Assembly on a 45-24 vote but hit a roadblock in the Senate last week, when 10 senators voted yes, 18 voted no (including Democrats Leland Yee of San Francisco and Patricia Wiggins of Santa Rosa) and 12 failed to vote.
The measure is expected to return to the Senate floor for reconsideration this week. It deserves to pass, not only for the sake of cleaner and quieter streets but for the efficacy of our recycling programs.
— SF Chronicle
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Korean Mexicans Visit Southern California
LOS ANGELES — Young Korean Mexicans, descendants of Koreans lured in 1905 by ship to plantations on the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, recently visited with dignitaries in Southern California.
Their Korean ancestors were sold to plantation owners and forced to cultivate henequen, a plant whose tough fiber was used to make things like rope. The Koreans and their descendants came to be known as the Henequen, in part because they were so sturdy and hard working. They had fled a Korea that was under Japanese rule, and despite their struggle, they sent money back home, hoping to help their countrymen gain independence. But few ever saw their homeland again.
In the ensuing decades, they spread to other parts of Mexico — and increasingly intermarried with Mexicans. Little by little, they abandoned the Korean language.
For decades, as Korea struggled under foreign rule and wars, the Korean Mexicans were largely forgotten. Various estimates place their numbers at up to 30,000.
— LA Times
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
Manga Exhibit at Napa Valley Museum
The Nichi Bei Times is collaborating with the Napa Valley Museum to bring a month-long exhibit of the ever-popular artform of manga and anime to the heart of Napa Valley.
Titled “Manga & Anime: An Exhibition of Popular Cartoon Art,” the exhibit will include the work of the past two Nichi Bei Times Manga Art Contest winners, features from the past three Nichi Bei Times Anime and Manga Special Editions, and the work of two Manga Art Contest judges.
There will be two special corner exhibits on Manga Art Contest judges Tak Toyoshima, whose “Secret Asian Man” comic is the first nationally syndicated comic with an Asian American lead, and Deb Aoki, whose “Bento Box” comic runs in the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper.
It will be held from Aug. 15 to Sept. 14 at the museum, 55 Presidents Circle in Yountville, Calif.
Admission is free for museum members, $3.50 for those 7 to 17 years old, and $5 for adults.
For more information: (707) 944-0500 or visit napavalleymuseum.org.
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Malaysian Islamists Slam Avril Lavigne
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Islamic political officials in Malaysia say they don’t want Canadian pop rocker Avril Livigne performing her show there because it’s “too sexy.”
A party official told reporters Lavigne’s stage show revealed too much skin and was too controversial to be performed on the eve of the nation’s Aug. 31 Independence Day.
“It’s not good for viewers in Malaysia,” the official said. “We don’t want our people, our teenagers, influenced by their performance. We want clean artists, artists that are good role models.”
An official from Malaysia’s Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry said the government has not given permission for the concert.
— United Press International
SPORTS
Kazuo Matsui on DL With Disk Injury
HOUSTON — The Houston Astros placed second baseman Kazuo Matsui on the 15-day disabled list with an irritated disk in his back Saturday and purchased J.R. House’s contract from Triple-A Round Rock.
Matsui left Tuesday’s game against San Francisco with a sore back and will go on the DL for the third time this season. He missed the first 16 games while recovering from surgery to repair an anal fissure, then sat out 15 games after straining a hamstring in June.
The 32-year-old Matsui is hitting .285 with 19 stolen bases and 28 RBIs in 85 games this year. He had appeared in every game since coming off the DL on July 8, and Houston manager Cecil Cooper acknowledged that he might have overused him.
— sportingnews.com
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James Back Captures Victory at AJGA’s Ping Phoenix Junior Open
PHOENIX — After firing a final-round 5-under-par 67, James Back of Seoul, South Korea, bounded from third place to his first AJGA Open victory.
In the Girls Division, Victoria Sungmin Park of Irvine, Calif., began the day one stroke behind second-round leader Michelle Yang of Los Angeles but shot a Girls Division low final-round score of 4-under-par 68 to claim her first AJGA championship. Park, a seasoned junior golfer, had never won an AJGA event.
The birdies kept falling for Park who recorded five on the day en route to a tournament total of 6-under-par 210 and the title of champion in the PING Phoenix Junior.
Kyung Kim of Chandler, Ariz., carded an even-par 216 that landed her in second, while second-round leader Michelle Yang finished the tournament with a 2-over-par 218 to round out the top three.
— worldgolf.com
GLOBAL
Indian Women Abused By Husbands At Risk For HIV Infection
A new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found that married Indian women who experienced physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their husbands were approximately four times more likely to become infected with HIV than married women who were not abused.
The results showed that more than one third (35.5 percent) of the married Indian women reported experiencing physical violence with or without sexual violence from their husbands. Of these women, 27.8 percent experienced physical violence alone, while 7.7 percent experienced both physical and sexual abuse. The researchers found the risk for HIV infection among married women who experienced both physical and sexual violence from their husbands increased by a magnitude of 3.9 over the infection risk for women who were not abused. Physical violence alone was not associated with risk of HIV infection.
The data came from a survey conducted across all Indian states between 2005 and 2006.
— emaxheatlh.com
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