As Hmong refugees in Thailand face deportation back to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Hmong activists in the U.S. are seeking help from President Obama to prevent what would be involuntary deportations. President Obama has stated in an earlier letter before taking office that as president, he would bring back American commitment to international human…
DetailsThis year’s story is a fictional account of life in Hong Kong during the 2003 SARS epidemic. Information provided courtesy of Hong Kong Student Society and the event’s Facebook page. Hong Kong Culture Night 2009 May 11, 2009, 6:00pm-10:00pm Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA “愛.疫：In Love and In Sickness” 一百日非典型生活…一千七百多人病倒…近三百人失去生命… 2003年春天發生的故事，成為了香港人的集體回憶 小小病毒，曾經令人疏離…互相猜忌…這家人憑著團結精神，渡過難關 但…生命…亦從此不一樣 A hundred days…
DetailsInformation provided courtesy of the UCLA Asia Institute website. Theme: The Legend of “Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih” Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Ackerman Grand Ballroom UCLA Campus Los Angeles, CA 90095 It’s free and open to the public. No tickets required. I’m going and so should you! 🙂 5:00 PM –…
DetailsEach week, Pacific Ties will be featuring a strip from “Two Item Combo,” a comic strip by Rickmond Wong, who is a Pacific Ties alumni from back in the day 🙂 We dug this up from our archives and they’re too cool to hide away in a filing cabinent. These comics ran in issues of…
DetailsThis afternoon four of us at Pacific Ties attended the Imagined Futures Conference at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. It was a free one-day conference to inspire and network with Asian Pacific Islander American artists of all disciplines. Nakamura’s presentation was really inspiring. We’re at an exciting point in time in which…
DetailsNegar Tehrani’s opinion piece in this past Wednesday’s Daily Bruin addressed a question I’ve wondered about too. Why don’t applications provide a box to check for “Middle Eastern”? Currently Middle Eastern Americans check off “other” or white” for lack of better alternative. At UCLA, the Iranian American, Arabic American, and Israeli American student organizations are…
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