Oakland city council has decided to consider regulation on nail salons and possibly a moratorium on these businesses in the city. Most of the nail salons employ Vietnamese immigrants who would be severely affected economically by a moratorium. The city’s business leaders stated a high concentration of one kind of business can be fatal for…
Charges dropped against Hmong community leader Vang Pao in connection with alleged plot to overthrow the government of Laos Federal prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against prominent Hmong community leader Vang Pao. The original charges were from the summer of 2007 relating to a plot to violent overthrow the government of Laos. Arrests were conducted…
I’ve been on a mission to get people to register to vote recently. In the midst of wrapping up my mission, I read a short article on Asian American’s and voting. With a rapidly growing population, it only makes sense that more Asian Americans are heading to the polls. In fact, according to a recent…
After finding an apartment complex on Midvale Avenue, the brothers of Lambda Phi Epsilon at UCLA decided to host a housewarming party on September 22nd that would dually serve as a recruitment mixer for new members. The party took a turn that night. Three students and four non-students were arrested in the early morning hours…
Mark your calendars! The Asian American Studies Center at UCLA is hosting a Welcome Reception to be held on Tuesday, September 29 from 5-7 in the Powell Library Rotunda, and it’s the opening event for the exhibit that will be displayed there from September 25 to December 11. (Pacific Ties will also be part of…
On Saturday, Virginia Sen. Jim Webb won the release of an American prison inmate in Myanmar after talking with reclusive leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. After swimming across a lake to Suu Kyi’s villa in May, Missouri resident John Yettaw, 53, was arrested in May. Yettaw was sentenced…