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, journalists working for San Francisco-based Current TV,…
DetailsLast 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 multiple issues that API women struggle with…
DetailsAccording 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 in this government study show that only…
DetailsThough 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, after years of accusations, some Vietnamese Americans…
DetailsExcerpt from The Independent (UK) article on Thursday, May 14: Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be facing up to five years in prison after being charged with violating the terms of her house arrest. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was today charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest…
DetailsIn China, the landscape of child adoption is changing. New regulation on international application has made it harder for prospective parents outside of China to adopt. According to the U.S. State Department, Americans adopted 7,906 Chinese children in 2005, a number that dropped to 3,909 children in 2008. However, Melody Zhang from Children’s Hope International…
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