On August 7, news broke that in Afghanistan, ten members of a medical team — six Americans, a Briton, a German and four Afghans — were shot and killed by militants as they were returning home from a remote aid mission, reported the New York Times. The attack, the largest massacre in years of aid [...]
Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel, who has been doing press for his role as Zuko in “The Last Airbender”, recently spoke out to CNN Entertainment about Hollywood’s institutional racism, saying that “Asian actors are limited to roles as terrorists, taxi drivers or geeks.” He added, “Because ‘Slumdog’ was such a big hit there was a [...]
The death toll from landslides in northwestern China more than doubled August 10 to 702, as crews in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people, according to the Associated Press. Rescuers digging by hand through mud found a 52-year old man who had been trapped for [...]
An American warship docked August 10 in central Vietnam where the former foes planned to conduct naval training in a sign of growing military ties amid new warnings from China for the U.S. to stay out of its backyard, according to the Associated Press. The USS John S. McCain’s port call comes as the U.S. [...]
The Associated Press reported that on August 10, Japan apologized to South Korea for its colonial rule over the country, seeking to strengthen ties between the two countries ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula. During Japan’s occupation from 1910-45, many Koreans were forced to fight as front-line soldiers, [...]
Hundreds of Filipino guestworkers lured to teach in Louisiana public schools were cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars and forced into exploitative contracts by an international trafficking ring run by labor contractors. A federal class action lawsuit was filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of more than 350 Filipino teachers [...]
The police raided the office of Google Korea in Seoul on August 10 over allegations of illicitly collecting sensitive personal information from wireless networks reports the Korea Herald. Investigators from the Cyber Terror Center of the National Police Agency confiscated computer hard disk drives and paper documents from the office. The local unit of Google [...]
San Francisco could become the first city in the country to adopt green standards for its nail salons. It’s a move advocates hope will kick-start a movement toward greener and healthier products that has been stuck for years, despite a pioneering state law aimed at making cosmetics safer. A new ordinance, introduced by Board of [...]
The Los Angeles Times reported that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated 3rd District Court of Appeal Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye as the next chief justice on July 28, which would make her the first Asian American to lead the state’s judiciary and give the California Supreme Court a female majority for the first time in its [...]
Via New America Media Imagine a not too distant future when China has taken over the United States. The US is not indebt to China, butt its been literally invaded by China. Chinese soldiers with guns on Californian streets; San Francisco segregated into militarizes zones; you need a pass to go through the Van Ness [...]
In Baltimore, Maryland, four Filipina ex-staffers of Bon Secours Hospital say they were fired from their jobs in April, allegedly because they spoke in Tagalog during their lunch break. According to the ABS-CBN North America News Bureau, Corina Capunitan-Yap, Anna Rowena Rosales, Jazziel Granada and Hachelle Natano were fired from their jobs at the Bon [...]
When South Philadelphia High School erupted into racial violence on December 3, community liaison Violet Sutton-Lawson was one of the few school staff members who did something about it—apparently risking serious injury—to protect Asian students who were being beaten by mobs, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. She worked with pregnant students and teenage mothers, was [...]
For the Vietnamese Americans living in the Gulf Coast region, the oil disaster is especially complicated. It’s made murky by language barriers, cultural misunderstandings and a history of challenges that have shaped them for more than half a century, reports CNN. The Vietnamese interpreters BP first brought in for safety and cleanup training stirred painful [...]
Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline. As more Americans shun BP gasoline as a form of protest over the Gulf oil spill, station owners are insisting BP do more to help them convince motorists that such boycotts mostly hurt independently owned businesses, not the British oil giant, reports [...]
The advocacy organization, Restore Fairness, profiled Filipina Shirley Tan and her experience as a homosexual woman, mother, and potential deportee. According to the Restore Fairness site, Tan came to the United States from the Philippines over two decades ago, and built a life with her partner Jay Mercado, giving birth to twin boys. Now, Tan [...]
World-champion tennis star, Andy Roddick was stunned in the fourth round at Wimbledon by an 82nd-ranked Taiwanese player who hadn’t won a match at the All England Club the past four years. According to the Associated Press, on June 28, Yen-hsun Lu beat out Roddick in a match that lasted over 4 1/2 hours. Lu [...]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s brother-in-law was elevated June 7, to the second-most powerful position in the leadership, reports The Los Angeles Times. The promotion of Jang Song Taek, 64, long believed to be one of the most powerful men behind the scenes in North Korea, was announced after an unexpected meeting of the [...]
A South Korean rocket appears to have exploded moments after take-off, ending the country’s latest attempt to join the space-launch industry, reports the BBC. The Korea Space Launch Vehicle 1 is thought to have blown up 137 seconds after take-off, said science minister Ahn Byong-man. The rocket lifted off from Goheung’s Naro Space Centre but [...]
Asian Americans may have the lowest unemployment rate of any racial group nationwide, but a new report shows college-educated Asian Americans have a harder time finding jobs than whites, reports New America Media. The new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), “Hidden Disadvantage: Asian American Unemployment and the Great Recession”, shows that in the [...]
Addressing the nation three weeks after a military crackdown on protesters, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva presented what he called a “letter to the Thai people” on June 10, calling for reconciliation in a country shaken and divided by months of turmoil and scores of deaths, reports The New York Times. The plan, as he described [...]
According to the BBC, China says a North Korean border guard shot and killed three people near the countries’ border on June 4. A fourth person was reportedly injured in the incident near the north-eastern border town of Dandong. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a regular news conference in Beijing that the four residents [...]
Fearful of a U.S.-style real-estate collapse, China has doused the country’s sizzling housing market with new rules aimed at cooling property speculation, reports the LA Times. The measures, which include raising minimum down payments and restricting purchases of second homes, are already forcing investors to the sidelines. Now policymakers reportedly are planning to add a [...]
New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Apr 22, 2010 PHOENIX, Ariz. — Law enforcement officials from California to North Carolina joined a chorus of national voices against an Arizona proposed law that would make it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant, arguing that it will waste resources and make communities unsafe. Among [...]
Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan, the first Sikh in a generation allowed to complete U.S. Army basic officer training without sacrificing the articles of his faith, completed the nine-week training March 22nd after Army officials made an exemption to a policy that has effectively prevented Sikhs from enlisting since 1984, reports the Associated Pres. Rattan had [...]
According to the New Jersey news agency, The Record, a burglar — or a group of burglars — has broken into about 60 Asian businesses in recent months, breaking down a front door or window and snatching whatever cash is in the register in almost every one, authorities said. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and [...]
According to the BBC, authorities arrested two hospital workers on March 30 in eastern China after the bodies of 21 babies and fetuses were found dumped on a riverbank, state media reports. Officials said the babies’ families had paid Zhu Zhenyu and Wang Zhijun to dispose of the bodies but instead they had dumped them [...]
According to the LA Times, a United Nations report says that despite progress in the last two decades, 2.4 billion people around the world still lack access to basic sanitary facilities—including an estimated 638 million in India alone. Lacking access to a toilet, something most people in the developed world don’t think about, involves more [...]
South Korean search teams have suspended their efforts to reach missing sailors on a sunken warship because of poor weather conditions reports the BBC on March 31st. The move comes a day after a diver died searching the wreckage of the ship Cheonan, close to the border with North Korea. Forty-six sailors have been missing [...]
According to the Philippine News, Kmart Corporation will pay $120,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age harassment, constructive discharge and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced on March 24. The EEOC had charged that Kmart discriminated against a 70-year-old pharmacist at a Honolulu store. According [...]
During nearly three weeks of mass anti-government demonstrations, luxury cars have had to share the streets of Bangkok with the blaring megaphones of rural discontent, reported the New York Times. There is no history of major tensions between rich and poor here, and most of the country is peaceful despite the noisy protests. But more [...]
