On the Scene
February 19, 2009
Hello dear online readers - I am back to greet you, only this time on your monitor and not your own printed copy of the newspaper. Please let me hear from you, that you are enjoying reading about your community via the computer as much if not more so. I hope to be able to post more of your photos with the column so we can prove the adage, a picture is worth 1000 words. Read more
No Redemption for Bill Richardson
January 1, 2009
Don’t forget him: Wen Ho Lee is 2008’s person of the year
I know, Lee made news back in 1999. But people forget, and they need to remember. That’s especially true now that Lee’s main tormentor, Bill Richardson — the former energy secretary under Clinton and now Read more
To Our Readers
December 31, 2008
AsianWeek 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. Read more
Not Just a Man, A Whole Country
December 31, 2008
At noon, on Jan. 20, when the 44th President of the United States of America raises his right hand and swears on the Lincoln Bible as he takes office, the United States closes a sordid page of its history and opens a new chapter on its own identity. Read more
Progress for APA Education
December 26, 2008
Asian American and Pacific Islander college students are not exactly the first group that comes to mind when thinking of those underserved in higher education. Read more
Christmas Dog
December 25, 2008
No, I didn’t eat one for Christmas dinner.
But this year, it was a dog sitting on my lap who gave me my first real sense of Christmas. It was a quiet moment when a simple living being just looked up at me, and all seemed right with the season. Read more
Odds and Ends
December 24, 2008
Alternative Energy Czar
Steven Chu may look like a fine, Nobel Prize-winning energy czar. He’s brilliant in developing alternative energy and an advocate of biofuels. But if “coal is my worst nightmare,” as he stated repeatedly in a speech Read more
Relax, It’s Only a Game
December 23, 2008
As an avid World of Warcraft player, I feel it is only right to tackle a serious issue that the game’s unbelievable popularity has created: a whole new brand of racist and classist stereotypes unique to the game world. Read more
Delicious Irony
December 22, 2008
Former Philippine News publisher Alex Esclamado received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Philippine American Press Club (PAPC) last Dec. 20. As Alex was too ill to travel from his home in Raleigh, N.C., I had the honor of accepting the award as I have been associated with Alex for more than 28 years, including 21 years as a weekly columnist of the Philippine News. Read more
Stocking Stuffer
December 18, 2008
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…
With the Federal Reserve cutting bank lending rates to near zero, and “safe” T-bills yielding near zero returns for consumers, let me be the first to welcome you to the new Zero World. It even comes with its own salutation of the season: Happy Zero Christmas! Read more
Victory and Challenges
December 17, 2008
First, let’s rejoice! As of January 2009, Viet-Americans can call at least one among the 535 members of Congress as their own. That would be just about 34 years after they came to this country as refugees. Not too shabby.
O Sony, Where Art Thou?
December 16, 2008
From king to pauper in one generation
Somewhere in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata are clinking together crystal glasses of premium liquor, adjusting their monocles and belly-laughing until their top hats fall off. Read more