[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQMHRpxqG8] According to the American Liver Foundation, “Hepatitis B is a serious disease that affects one out of ten Asian Americans and their families. Among immigrants, the prevalance can be as high as one in seven.” Sounds scary, huh? But we college students got the vaccinations in high school, so we don’t have to worry,…
DetailsWhat is up with UCLA’s Chinese placement test? Currently students may only take the placement test in the Mandarin dialect, the standard language of mainland China and Taiwan. Of course, Mandarin is a very useful dialect to know, since it is the most widely spoken language in the world today. However, Cantonese is a major…
DetailsUCLA’s daily student newspaper – The Daily Bruin – wrote an article on our photochallenge competition in today’s paper: http://www.dailybruin.com/news/2009/jan/29/pacific-ties-holding-contest/ Just to clarify – we’re an Asian American Pacific Islander magazine…NOT JUST PACIFIC ISLANDER. To enter out photochallenge, go here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=49008821490 THEME: PASSION DEADLINE: FEB 6
DetailsIn the 90s, ‘cybering’ referred to the non-exchange of bodily fluids kind of sex – internet sex. Moreover, it involved a connection between individuals across any distance, a rarity in the age of pre MySpace. But hey, who really uses the word ‘cybering’ anymore? With the cyber space littered with hundreds of social networking sites…
DetailsEven as American audiences gush over “Slumdog Millionaire,” some Indians are groaning over what they see as yet another stereotypical foreign depiction of their nation, accentuating squalor, corruption and impoverished-if-resilient natives. READ MORE
Pacific Ties is all about the diversity, not Bennetton colors style but more like “hey look at all these cool people you did not know about”. Let’s start with the first family: New York Times: In First Family, a Nation’s Many Faces
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