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Sustainable Health Care For China’s Earthquake Victims: Campaign to create rehabilitation center
SAN FRANCISCO — Long-term care, including physical and mental rehabilitation, is essential for children injured in China’s recent earthquake, according to the health care organization Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere). The group launched a publicity campaign last week with the goal of creating a pediatric rehabilitation center in the disaster zone.
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Victoria Mayor Brings City to S.F.
SAN FRANCISCO — Over 200 people gathered at the Fairmont Hotel on June 5 for a reception welcoming the Canadian city of Victoria, British Columbia, to San Francisco. The day marked United Airlines’ first direct daily two-hour flight between the two cities.
At the event, Victoria Mayor Alan Lowe expressed interest in expanding tourism to and […] -
Tila Parties With Parents
This week on A Shot at Love II, Tila Tequila met with the families of the remaining four would-be paramours in their respective hometowns. What ensued was an hour-long parade of sexual innuendos, canoodling, outright orgiastic mash-facing, boob-fondling and belt-whipping with, believe it or not, the parental figures themselves. It became such a pornographic allusion […]
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Chinese Christians Gather for First Time
Although Christianity is still almost invisible in public, the Chinese Christian population is growing as the country opens up economically and spiritually. -
Lunar New Year Across Asia
We all knowthat the Chinese New Year, or Lunar New Year, began on Feb. 7 and that New Year’s festivities go on until the 15th of the first lunar month, when the moon is brightest. People in China take a few weeks off from work to celebrate the new year. And, of course, […]
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Global Briefs
Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular
TOKYO — Until recently, cell phone novels — composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens — had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, The Tale of Genji, a […] -
Global Briefs
American Beatboxers In Cambodia
Forty years after the U.S. became embroiled in military conflict in Southeast Asia, the U.S. State
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Global Briefs
A New Generation Of Chinese in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa’s Chinese community is the oldest and largest on the continent. South Africa’s first Chinese immigrants arrived from southern China in the 1870s. -
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China’s One-Child Policy: 400 Million Fewer People
BEIJING — It’s the 30th year since the launch of one-child policy in China. The policy prevented the births of 400 million people, which saved 111 billion kilograms of food and slowed the rate of environmental deterioration by 20%, according to the World Journal. -
Children Hold the Key
Once in a while, we are privileged to witness a social experiment taking place, and we see it evolve through time. Some experiments fail, while others take hold and prosper.
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Remembering Japanese American WWII Veterans
The story of American World War II servicemen and women of Japanese heritage remains one of the great American stories of the 20th century. They distinguished themselves through their patriotic service and sacrifice in the face of great adversity at home and abroad.
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Global Briefs
First Chinese Mayor in North America Dies
It was people, not politics, that inspired Peter Wing to become the first mayor of Chinese descent in North America, his brother said.
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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.
Observer on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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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.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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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.
John Fluker on JabbaWockeeZ Wins! America’s Best Dance Crew Recap
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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.
Jammer on Not-So-Funny Funny Asian
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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.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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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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