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DAILY NEWS:
Shinseki Honors Hawaii AJA Veterans of WWII Hawai'i's Japanese veterans overcame enemy fire, racism and doubts about their loyalty in World War II. Read the complete article in The Honolulu Advertiser
In Jews, Indian-Americans See a Role Model in Activism When Anil Godhwani and his brother, Gautam, looked into creating a community center for Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley, they turned to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco as a model. Read the complete article in New York Times
Asian American Lawyers Support Same-Sex Union A team of Asian American attorneys and advocates here and in San Francisco announced Wednesday, September 26th that a coalition of over 60 Local, State and National Asian American organizations will be filing a legal brief in support of equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples. Read the complete article in Asian Journal
Asian American Magicians Have the Magic Touch It was a night of illusion and mysticism, with psychological games, ventriloquists, acrobats and audience participation. Asian American magicians Andrew Ngo and Carlos da Silva II, along with members of multiethnic magic group Prophecies of the Element, took the top three spots at San Francisco’s 10th annual Stage Magic Competition on Sept. 21. Read the complete article in Asian Week
Asian American Pastors Often Minister Across Culture Gap Pastoring is a tough assignment by any measure, but for many English-speaking ministers in some of the nation's 7,000 Asian congregations, the work is made harder by cultural differences inside their own churches. Read the complete article in Los Angeles Times
South Asian Stories Featured in Seminar Series Thousands of writers migrated to the United States over the past 200 years and used various forms of literature to portray their hardships. Read the complete article in The Daily Vidette Online
WWII Meant Opportunity for Many Women, Oppression for Others A man's role in World War II was clear - if he was able-bodied, he went off to fight. The iconic image of women in World War II is Rosie the Riveter, a made-up character in a poster promoting the need for women to step into manufacturing jobs vacated by men. Read the complete article in San Francisco Chronicle
Hate Crime Reported at Avon Lake High School There are 1,200 students attending Avon Lake High School. Two of them have managed to embarass the entire school by committing a hate crime against an Asian American student. Read the complete article in WKYC
Speaking Their 'Heart Language' According to the dictionary, "first generation" refers to the offspring of immigrants, i.e. the first generation born in this country. Read the complete article in Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest
The Road to 'Durango' Nothing sets the stage for adventure like a road trip. But as many families know, conflict can percolate in the confines of a car. By telling a quintessentially American story from a Korean family's perspective, rising-star playwright Julia Cho puts a fresh spin on the tensions that arise when a father fails to achieve his American Dream. Read the complete article in Los Angeles Downtown News
Rhythm Nations An unexpected torrential downpour hasn't dampened the spirits of the mostly volunteer staff setting up this year's New York-Tokyo Music Festival; it's only water, after all. Read the complete article in San Francisco Chronicle
Best & Brightest: Community College Grad Competes with the Best In an auditorium brimming with a sea of the country’s brightest young scholars attending prestigious universities like Georgetown and the University of California, Berkeley, Tiffany Dang recalls looking around, and asking herself, “What am I doing here? Am I really at their level?” Read the complete article in Diverse Issues in Higher Education
SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL ROLLS OUT 8TH SEASON The San Diego Asian Film Festival has announced its eighth season, taking place at the Mission Valley UltraStar Cinema at Hazard Center, October 11 -18, 2007. Read the complete article in Film Threat Magazine
Is California Ready for Same-sex Marriage? Several organizations and community leaders are holding public meetings and lobbying for the signing of bill AB43 to be signed into law. AB43, also known as the marriage equality bill, is a legislation that would grant same-sex couples the ability to marry. Read the complete article in Asian Journal Online
‘You don’t have to meet someone but it’d be nice’ Finding a date is hard enough but for many modern Muslims in the west it’s even tougher. Meeting in bars is prohibitively difficult due to Islamic temperance laws. Read the complete article in Financial Times
Roberts Returns in Korean-Am debut Fireflies in the Garden may be Dennis Lee's first feature film, but the Korean American director just snagged Hollywood heavyweight, Julia Roberts as one of his leading ladies. Read the complete article in Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine
Ex-Army Chief to Speak at Memorial The former Army chief of staff, retired Gen. Eric Shinseki, will be the keynote speaker Sept. 30 at the O'ahu Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans Council's second annual memorial service remembering those killed in World War II and conflicts since then. Read the complete article in The Honolulu Advertiser
Yee Angered By Belated Report On His Treatment After waiting three years for the report of a Defense Department inspector general, James J. Yee of Olympia was outraged Wednesday by a two-page executive summary sent out by the department. Read the complete article in The Olympian
Tiny Bhairavi Desai Unlikely Leader of New York City Cabbie Strike She is the unlikely leader of New York City's cab drivers: a college graduate, a woman, barely 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, soft-spoken. Read the complete article in Goldsea Asian American Daily
Japanese Americans Push to Preserve WWII Internment Camps Not much remains of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center amid the Bighorn Basin sagebrush in north-central Wyoming - just a brick smokestack and a couple long, narrow buildings. Read the complete article in Goldsea Asian American Daily
“Color-Sighted" Casting and Subsurface Diversity Make the Hsiehs More Than a Multiculti Act Kathy and David Hsieh want you to know that, in contrast to what many Seattle theater people believe, they are not married; they're siblings. Read the complete article in Seattle Weekly
Nafve Reacts to Appointment of Sen. Burr to Veterans Committee WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Alliance for Filipino Veterans Equity (Nafve) issues this statement on the appointment of Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) as the new ranking member for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. Read the complete article in Philippine News
Hsu's History of Shady Dealings The first time Norman Hsu got in serious trouble with the law, he was an unassuming Foster City businessman - a guy with a nervous tic, sloppy clothes and vague ties to some shady characters, who worked out of borrowed Oakland office space and promoted oddball investments. Read the complete article in The Mercury News
Star Lineup: Audrey's Fashion Fusion 07 Presented by Toyota LOS ANGELES—(U.S. ASIAN WIRE)— Audrey Magazine, the nation's premier publication for Asian American women by Asian American women, presents its second annual fashion show highlighting independent, up-and-coming Asian American designers and talent. Read the complete article in U.S. Asian Wire, Inc.
Indian-American youth use politics to firm up identity Indians may have to stop bandying around the term “ABCD” whenever their cousins from the United States visit them. ‘American Born Confused Desis’ have become a lot less confused these days and one reason is that the new Indian-American youth has discovered a role in the US civil society. Read the complete article in Hindustan Times
Ken Burns' 'The War' Looks Through the Eyes of the Soldiers Near the end of Ken Burns’ latest 15-hour, historical masterpiece, “ The War,” World War II paratrooper Quentin Aanenson said he found it difficult to describe to his friends and relatives the strong emotions he felt when he returned home after the war. Read the complete article in The Buffalo News
The ABCD of an American Born Confident Desi A decade ago the acronym ABCD was automatically understood to mean “American Born Confused Desis.” Today Indian-American youth have taken so many strides in defining an identity that the letter C more accurately means “confident.” Says 21-year-old Boston University student Varun Mehta. Read the complete article in Hindustan Times
Johnson, Leung, Lew, Llana and Raymundo Bring Broadway to L.A. Sept. 16 Asian Americans On Broadway: Heart and Music is the title of the Sept. 16 concert, which will be performed at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Read the complete article in Playbill
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, a major exhibition that asks what it means to be Asian American in today's world. Read the complete article in Electronic Flux Corporation
Ex-FBI Agent Claims Racial Discrimination A former FBI agent cleared of suspicion of spying for the Chinese said in remarks published today that she came under scrutiny because of racial discrimination. Read the complete article in Daily News Wire Services
Korean-American Snares Julia Roberts for Debut Film Julia Roberts will make her bigscreen return in 37-year-old Korean-American director Dennis Lee's family drama "Fireflies in the Garden", according to sources on Thursday. Read the complete article in The Chosun Ilbo
Revisiting the genocide Mention the Khmer Rouge and Thida Loeung stops speaking. The 42-year-old Cambodian-American looks away and takes deep breaths before she can talk about the dark abyss in her motherland's history when an estimated 1.7 million people were killed by mass execution and starvation under the extreme regime of tyrant Pol Pot. Read the complete article in The Boston Globe
Zenna Noodle Bar What’s three times better than a Vietnamese restaurant? Read the complete article in The Phoenix
NY university to study discrimination vs Asian Americans Elizabeth N. Brondolo, Ph.D., a Psychology Professor at St. John’s University in Queens borough and her team of graduate students have expanded their research on the physical and mental health effects of discrimination against specifically targeted ethnicities to include Asian Americans. Read the complete article in Philippine News
Let Your Inner Asian American Superhero Out with "Secret Identities" There seems to be nothing hotter than Asian American graphic novelists and comic book artists. (Be sure to check out Issue 12 of Hyphen for a great story on South Asian-centric Shakti Comics at Virgin and what desi comic artists have to say about it.) Read the complete article in Hyphen Magazine
Asian-Americans label angler's death racist Fifty people attend a vigil at Montrose Harbor, where a Vietnamese fisherman drowned within seconds after being shoved into the water. Read the complete article in Chicago Tribune
Chinese Immigrant Mother Wins Asylum A Chinese woman who miscarried twins after federal authorities hustled her into a van and took her to an airport to deport her will be allowed to stay in the United States, an immigration judge has ruled. Read the complete article in Associated Press
Oscar winner Miyoshi Umeki dies Miyoshi Umeki, one of the stars of the all-Asian American cast of Flower Drum Song and Oscar winner for Sayonara, died last week. Read the complete article in Hyphen Magazine
NYK's Devi restaurant shut; workers to continue fight Workers' lawsuit against the owner of Devi - the only Indian restaurant with a single Michelin star in the US - for labour malpractices will continue irrespective of shutting down of the popular eating joint in New York. Read the complete article in Economic Times
Asian Culture Center draws students to annual event The Asian Culture Center held its annual welcome reception Friday to introduce new and returning students to the services it offers and to the subsidiary organizations within it. Read the complete article in IDS News
New (American) Girls in town For the first time in five years, the company has introduced two new dolls: Julie, an athletic 10-year-old growing up in 1970s San Francisco with divorced parents, and her best friend, Ivy, a Chinese-American gymnast torn between modern interests and her old-world grandparents. Read the complete article in Sun Times
Modern East Contemporary Chinese Art makes its way to Connecticut In this visual trope, Gu becomes the modern version of an ancient Chinese alchemist, venerated for the supposed ability to create an elixir that ensured immortality. Read the complete article in Republican American
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SEPTEMBER 2007: 2007 South Asian International Film Festival
The festival will open with Manish Acharya's LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS at Loews Cineplex in Lincoln Square on October 3, 2007. Walking the red carpet will be the full cast and crew including, Shabana Azmi and Ajay Naidu. A film set over three days, in Edison, New Jersey, where five Indian-Americans and one Jewish Indophile participate in the first DESI IDOL, a Bollywood-style singing contest sponsored by a pork millionaire. For seventy-two hours, armed with a song, these seven strangers are going to war. We are excited to kick off the week long event with such an entertaining film that our audience will really enjoy and relate to," said Manjri Srivastava, SAIFF's Festival Director. "It is SAIFF's continuing mission to discover and promote up and coming independent South Asian filmmakers and we believe Writer-Director Manish Acharya is one to watch in the future. Manish Acharya is a multiple award winner from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film program. "Indie filmmaking is like running a marathon," he says. "All the blood, sweat and tears are completely worth it when watching the film with an appreciative audience. I know how important it is for us have the 'perfect' audience for this film for its American debut, and that is why I am so excited about having its premiere here at SAIFF." LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS was presented the Dennis Riese Award by NYU faculty, and has won the Best Feature Film award at the 65th Annual First Run Film Festival. For more information, please contact SAIFF.
ASIA, The Journal of Culture & Commerce, Branches Out in Los Angeles San Diego Publication To Also Serve API Community in L.A.
For five years, ASIA, The Journal of Culture & Commerce, has been serving not one Asian community in San Diego, but all 26, from Brunei to Filipino. Now, the same commitment that has made this newspaper and its resources so successful in San Diego is coming to Los Angeles. Beginning Oct. 19, 2007, Los Angeles will have its own version of ASIA, covering the local Asian Pacific Islander community in the same manner it has successfully covered the API community of San Diego. ASIA will distribute throughout Los Angeles, at more than 2,000 locations, most of them where Asians and Asian Americans live, work and recreate. Every two weeks, the newspaper will carry community news, a calendar of activities of interest to the Asian community, stories about people making a difference, as well as news on Asian businesses, real estate, food, fashion, health and education and the arts. The same award-winning columns will also be part of ASIA Los Angeles, including Ray Wong's "Family Matters," Dr. Tammy Lin's "MedicAsian," and Wayne Chan's light take on life called "Wayne's Worlds". California State Sen. Leland Yee will be added to this roster, covering political issues and news from Sacramento affecting the daily lives of all Asian Pacific Islanders living in California. For more information, please visit ASIA.
UC DAVIS to Launch ASIAN AMERICAN CENTER on DISPARITIES RESEARCH
UC Davis has been awarded a five-year, $3.9-million federal grant to launch a national research center focused on mental health issues facing Asian Americans. The grant, from the National Institute of Mental Health, will establish the Asian American Center on Disparities Research. Headquartered at UC Davis, the new center will support and coordinate the efforts of a network of researchers who study Asian-American mental health issues. The network, which is expected to grow over time, will start out with 36 researchers from 18 universities in nine states, Puerto Rico and Taiwan. "Health disparities" refers to differences in access to or quality of health care on the basis of race or ethnicity. "Contrary to the 'model minority' myth, Asian Americans have serious needs for mental health care that have been inadequately addressed," said UC Davis psychology professor Nolan Zane, director and principal investigator of the new center. "Not only are their rates of mental illness much higher than previously believed, but Asian Americans who enter into the mental health system tend to be more severely disturbed than other ethnic groups. In addition, there is compelling evidence that mental health services are inadequate for many Asian American clients, along with serious doubt as to whether treatments that have been validated with predominantly white patient populations are actually effective for Asian Americans. The center's research will address these issues that continue to challenge the mental health field." Zane will formally announce the grant and formation of the new center on Thursday, Aug. 16, at the annual meeting of the Asian American Psychological Association in San Francisco. The center will provide seed grants to support promising research; build an Internet information server, videoconferencing and data-sharing capabilities to make it easier for researchers nationally to share knowledge, avoid redundancy and isolation and get technical assistance; inform mental health providers and policymakers about how to effectively serve complex, shifting Asian American communities; mentor young researchers on campuses that may not have senior faculty with expertise in Asian American mental health issues; and link researchers with community organizations that serve Asian Americans. The center will partner with the National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association, whose members include most of the mental health and health agencies nationwide that specialize in serving Asian American communities. For more information, please visit UC Davis.
AsianWeek Launches Newly Designed AsianWeek.com Beta Website
AsianWeek, the longest established and most popular source of news and information for the Asian Pacific American Community, today launched a completely redesigned version of AsianWeek.com that adopts new web technologies and formats based on the latest open source and blog software. The new AsianWeek.com has an interactive layout designed to improve readability, and provides readers with an opportunity to comment on articles. Now, AsianWeek readers can view their favorite columns on mobile phones, PDAs, or on news readers such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, or Bloglines. This new, interactive experience provides readers with an opportunity to discuss the day's news in real-time dialogue and gives anywhere access to the information. "The articles on the new AsianWeek.com are now much easier to read," said James Fang, President of AsianWeek. "Our readers should enjoy this new layout, and we also want them to participate with our new tools and services. We are excited to bring these new features to our online audience. As we add more features throughout the year, we encourage feedback." The website relaunch responds to demands from AsianWeek.com readers, as well as advertisers using AsianWeek.com to reach this highly active and affluent market. For more information, please visit AsianWeek.
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