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West Coast Helps Launch National Hepatitis Testing Day
22 May 2012 11:30 PM | No CommentsU.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) highlights Hep B Free and Hep C Task Force for Los Angeles and San Francisco as part of nearly 100 testing events across U.S. SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES, CA – May 19, 2012 – Fresh on the heels...
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Free Hep B and Hep C Testing at AHSC’s Healthy Living Pavilion
18 May 2012 11:42 PM | No CommentsThe Healthy Living Pavilion at the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration taking place at San Francisco’s Civic Center on May 19th, will provide free and low-cost health services, professional medical advice, interactive activities with prizes and health-related education materials. Located on Larkin Street between...
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Amok again: Have a “Lin-sane” Street Fair!
18 May 2012 11:35 PM | 1 CommentWhat, another year? Another heritage month? Why not let your friendly longtime amok columnist slice and dice things up for you nicely? This year we replaced poor Asian American YouTube hater, Alexandra Wallace, the blonde buxom bully of Asian Americans in the library, with basketball...
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SF Hosts Largest Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration Saturday, May 19 at Civic Center
18 May 2012 11:11 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO – The City is hosting the largest pan Asian street fair nationwide to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage month on Saturday, May 19th at San Francisco’s Civic Center. The 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, produced by the AsianWeek Foundation, will feature a...
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Rob McKenna Opens WA Campaign Office In Seattle Chinatown/ID
18 May 2012 1:53 AM | No CommentsI got this in my e-mail box. I first ran into Rob McKenna when he ran for Attorney General back in 2000 on the campaign trail for Supt of Public Instruction. Now he’s a favorite to be the next governor against Jay Inslee. While Rob...
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Lead Editorial Archive
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Quakes Have No Deadlines – Build CPMC
Posted on August 19, 2011 | 8 CommentsSan Francisco can quibble about sports stadiums, delay museum construction to preserve murals or stall a community college for immigrants in the name of preserving views or an obscure landmark. However, with California Pacific Medical Center’s $1.9 billion for a Cathedral Hill campus and $250... -
‘In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee’ Premieres Tonight on PBS’s POV Series
Posted on September 15, 2010 | 4 CommentsSAN FRANCISCO — Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee, even though the eight-year-old girl knew that she was not. Yet, over the course of forty years Deann Borshay Liem came to forget that day she arrived in America in March 1966, a transnational... -
Time for immigration Reform is Now
Posted on June 25, 2009 | No CommentsEDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media (www.newamericamedia.org) a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country this week to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform. The White House and members of Congress must... -
Saluting Chinese American Heroes
Posted on March 24, 2009 | No CommentsAsianWeek wants to salute Heroes and Noble Contributors in our Asian American community, initially focusing on the largest group of Asian Americans, the Chinese Americans. With Chinese Americans spread across the nation and in history, this would be formidable and time consuming search, except for... -
To Our Readers
Posted on December 31, 2008 | No CommentsAsianWeek has played a long and significant role in helping develop Asian Pacific America, from publishing the first 1980 U.S. Census data on Asian and Pacific Islanders Americans to co-publishing the most comprehensive textbook analyzing 2000 Census data with UCLA. -
Progress for APA Education
Posted on December 26, 2008 | No CommentsAsian American and Pacific Islander college students are not exactly the first group that comes to mind when thinking of those underserved in higher education. -
Mr. Chu Goes To Washington
Posted on December 19, 2008 | No CommentsPresident-elect Barack Obama’s decision to nominate Chinese American Steven Chu, physicist and Nobel laureate, as secretary of energy not only fulfills Obama’s campaign promises of bringing change to Washington and focusing on alternative energy, but it is also an astute decision on three fronts: politics,... -
Pacquiao Pride
Posted on December 12, 2008 | No CommentsBoxing is one of the most important sports in the Philippines, a nation that has long had an inferiority complex about producing athletes capable of competing on a world stage. Filipinos worship basketball but have yet to produce a basketball player worthy of playing in... -
We Can Help Ourselves
Posted on December 5, 2008 | No CommentsThe notion that Chinese Americans — the largest Asian minority group in the nation, representing approximately 25 percent of our community — are a homogeneous and monolithic entity has now been shattered thanks to a recently released study entitled, A Portrait of Chinese Americans. -
Obama’s Legacy Begins Now
Posted on November 28, 2008 | No CommentsWith his raft of new appointments, President-elect Obama is proving himself to be both thoughtful and decisive, as well as both thorough and swift. He’s bringing in both experience and new blood, both