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Is Kim Jong Un Dead? Assassination Rumors Hit the Internet

Is Kim Jong Un Dead? Assassination Rumors Hit the Internet

The rumored death of Kim Jong Un is taking China’s biggest microblogging service Weibo– and now Twitter– by storm. With headlines and captions asking questions like “Did Twitter Assassinate Kim Jong-Un?” by Gawker, everyone wants to know if there is any truth behind the purported North Korean Leader’s Assassination. Unfortunately, North Korea is not known for being forthcoming with news. So, just two months after becoming the country’s supreme leader after the death of his [...] Continue »

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Woman In China Gives Birth To 15 Lb Baby

From the AP: “A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country’s founding in 1949.” The baby was born via c-section and nothing out of the ordinary was reported about the pregnancy. Aside from the fact that the baby was 15 pounds. In other news, Asian babies rule!

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Behind The Scenes With Team Janet & A Call To Help Janet Find Her Match

Behind The Scenes With Team Janet & A Call To Help Janet Find Her Match

By Emily, My name is Emily and I am the Publicity and Media Director of Team Janet. After Janet was diagnosed with leukemia in 2009, she and her closest friends immediately set up a website to encourage people to register to be bone marrow donors and to promote awareness about the dearth of minority donors. I became involved by volunteering to help with registration drives in Northern California. After Janet went into remission in June [...] Continue »

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Twitter Controversy in South Korea About Posts from North Korea

From the New York Times: “Park Jung-geun, 23, a photographer who specialized in taking pictures of babies, was detained last month on charges of violating South Korea’s controversial National Security Law, which bans ‘acts that benefit the enemy’ —North Korea — but does not clearly define what constitutes such acts. The Twitter account Mr. Park was accused of reposting is run by the North Korean government Web site, Uriminzokkiri.com, which South Korean news media regularly cite for [...] Continue »

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Jay Chen Announces Run for Congress

Jay Chen Announces Run for Congress

Hacienda-La Puente, California School Board Member Jay Chen this week announced his run for California’s 39th Congressional District. His announcement is posted on his campaign site and blog as well as his background: Jay Chen, a Democrat, was raised and educated in Hacienda Heights. A first-generation American, Jay’s parents came to the United States from Taiwan to seek a better future and taught him the value of hard work, the importance of a good education [...] Continue »

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Michelle Kwan Inducted Into Figure Skating Hall of Fame

Michelle Kwan Inducted Into Figure Skating Hall of Fame

Michelle Kwan honored at the U.S. Championships during a break in the women’s competition Saturday, January 28th evening. Last week to no one’s surprise, figure skater Michelle Kwan was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in San Jose, California: “Kwan was the face of figure skating for a decade, beloved as much for her grace and humility in defeat as her long list of triumphs. Though she won five world and nine [...] Continue »

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I am Bruce Lee Documentary Trailer & Why We Should Remember His Legacy

I am Bruce Lee Documentary Trailer & Why We Should Remember His Legacy

Bruce Lee. Do I really have to write anymore? Those two words are worth more than anything I will write, mainly because there’s just some many different takes and angles on this incredible person who influenced the world in more ways than one. But too many people don’t realise, he was far more than the punchs and kicks, he was someone who was fully in tandem with how life incorporates both the body and the [...] Continue »

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Join Team Janet & Help Find A Bone Marrow Match For Janet Liang

Join Team Janet & Help Find A Bone Marrow Match For Janet Liang

Janet Liang is a recent UCLA graduate of Chinese descent. On August 24, 2009, she was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia. In order to survive, she needs to find a bone marrow donor by April. The most likely match for a donor will be a Chinese American. The process of registering as a donor is easy, and testing if you are a match is a simple, painless cheek swab. There are several big names in the [...] Continue »

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Trend Reveals Asian Americans Leaving Chinatowns For The Suburbs

Trend Reveals Asian Americans Leaving Chinatowns For The Suburbs

Nineteen years ago, my parents decided to move our entire family to the suburbs. As it turns out, we weren’t the only ones. A recent Washington Post article highlights the national trend of APAs moving away from urban Chinatowns and into suburban communities. Back then, I didn’t really understand why we were moving so far away. We were living in Elmhurst, Queens, and had a fairly comfortable life. We attended a local Chinese church and we [...] Continue »

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North Korea Turns Cell Phone Use Into War Crime

As if living in North Korea wasn’t hard enough. Now the regime is instituting a 100 day mourning period, which prohibits the use of mobile phones. And they’re serious about it: “[T]he ruling Workers’ Party has warned that anyone found using a mobile phone during the 100 day mourning period following Kim Jong-il’s death will be punished ‘like a war criminal.’” Now I wonder if this applies specifically to using your cell phone to make [...] Continue »

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National Online March for Reproductive Justice, Rights and Health

National Online March for Reproductive Justice, Rights and Health

Dr. Sophia Yen is a big supporter of trusting woman to make their own health care decisions, and is launching a national online effort for Trust Women Week to drawn attention and support for reproductive justice, rights and health during the anniversary week of Roe v. Wade which made abortion legal. There has been a long concerted effort to slowly chip away the rights of women’s reproductive rights since Roe v. Wade. Recently, Congress passed [...] Continue »

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The Side Effects Of The Year of the Dragon

The Side Effects Of The Year of the Dragon

This past Monday, January 23, 2012 marked the arrival of the Chinese/Vietnamese/Asian Pacific Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon. The new year brings with it some well-known and some not so well-known side effects. It’s already pretty common knowledge that the Year of the Dragon means more births in the Asian and Asian American community, as a child born in the Year of the Dragon is considered auspicious and will have good luck. [...] Continue »

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