Even though I’m no longer part of Pacific Ties, I would just like to make one more post. Recently, Pacific Ties won the Best Overall Publication award from Campus Progress – a non-profit organization that supports student journalism on college campuses throughout the US. Without their generosity and…
Hong Kong held a vigil last night to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the government-sanctioned massacre at the 1989 pro-democracy demonstration at Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Excerpt from BBC News article: When the UK returned Hong Kong to China in 1997, the territory retained its own legal system, including…
Excerpt from today’s Los Angeles Times article: North Korea put two American television journalists on trial today for allegedly entering the country illegally after vigils calling for their release were held in at least nine cities across the United States, including Los Angeles. Laura Ling and Euna Lee,…
Last Friday I watched UCLA’s 2009 Chinese American Culture Night. It brought up a number of themes of relevance to Asian Pacific Islander (API) Americans today, one of which was eating disorders and poor body image. A 2007 feature article in Audrey magazine goes into depth about the…
According to Justice Department statistics, Asian Americans suffer the least amount of violent crimes relative to other racial groups. The government study defined Asian Americans as a group whose ethnic background can be traced to the Far East, Indian subcontinent, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. The figures…
Though the Vietnam War ended in the 1970s, even today, being accused as a communist or a communist sympathizer is still enough to start up a controversy with protests and rallies. Individuals who have been targeted in the past generally tried to merely tolerate the accusations. But now,…