Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest on November 13th. Suu Kyi was held for protesting against the military junta that currently has power in Burma. She has been under arrest for fifteen of the last twenty-one years. Suu Kyi is one…
Jeannie Suk, a Korean American, is the first Asian professor to be granted tenure at Harvard Law School. On October 14, she was granted tenure through faculty vote. She is an alumnus from Harvard Law School, and became an assistant professor at the Law School in 2006. The…
After dragging itself out of a dispute over rights to the original story, Oldboy (a Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya that was adapted into a critically acclaimed Korean movie in 2003), is back on track to be made into a Hollywood remake. There are three…
Filep Karma, an advocate for Indonesia’s indigenous Papua group, is currently serving a fifteen-year prison sentence. His crime? Raising the Papuan Morning Star flag. A few years ago, he and two hundred others raised the flag. Police then stormed the crowd, arresting Filep Karma. They reportedly beat and…
Not for the first time, Hollywood is planning to whitewash a movie (or several movies). All You Need is Kill, a Japanese sci-fi novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, and Akira, a 1980s cyberpunk manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, have both been picked up by Hollywood for mass-American consumption. All You…
Following several days of tallying votes, results have concluded that Jean Quan won with 50.98% of the votes, compared to her opponent Don Perata’s 49.02%. When inaugurated to office in January, Quan will be the first Asian American woman mayor of a major US city and the first…