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Pete Hoekstra’s Offensive Anti-Asian Super Bowl Ad

What I Learned From Posting A Dragon Lady Personal Ad

Jeremy Lin Shows He’s Just What The Knicks Need

What if Jeremy Lin Weren’t Asian?

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Deftones’ Chi Cheng Wakes Up From His 3-Year Coma

Via Radio 104.5: “After spending the past 3+ years in a coma due to a tragic car accident, Deftones’ bassist Chi Cheng has finally awaken and is showing promising signs of recovery. From responding to doctors to moving his feet up and down, Cheng is on his long road to recovery, according to fansite OneLoveForChi.com.” (Hat tip: Jasmine)

By Ernie

Music

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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!

By Moye

Current Events Family Lifestyles

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Report Reveals APA Gay & Lesbian Organizations Only Receive 0.7% Of Available LGBT Funding

AAPIP’s Queer Justice Fund recently released the report Missed Opportunities: How Organized Philanthropy Can Help Meet the Needs of LGBTQ AAPI Communities. This report calls out the lack of LGBTQ Foundation funding to LGBTQ AAPI communities and highlights the need to fund AAPI ally organizations that engage in LGBT issues and autonomous LGBTQ AAPI organizations: “Missed Opportunities found that funding in 2009 to LGBTQ AAPI communities amounted to barely 0.7 percent of the total amounted [...] Continue »

By Ernie

LGBT Lifestyles

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California Shark Fin Soup Suppliers Sue State Over Ban

A group of Shark Fin Suppliers has sued the state of California over the state’s ban on Shark Fins. The Asian American Rights Committee of California says that the new law violates the U.S. Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce. New fins are currently banned from being imported into California in an attempt to help shark stocks by affected by fin harvesting, but fins already in the state can be used through July 1, 2013.

By Jeff

Food & Drink

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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 »

By Mihee

Current Events Politics

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U.S. Education Department Investigating Harvard and Princeton for Discrimination against APAs

An Indian American student has triggered an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights into discrimination by Harvard and Princeton University against Asian Americans. Studies from Princeton itself conclude that Asian Americans need higher test scores in order to gain admission. Harvard “does not discriminate against Asian-American applicants” says Harvard spokesman Jeff Neal. Princeton spokesman Martin Mbugua states: “We make admissions decisions on a case-by-case basis in our efforts to build [...] Continue »

By Jeff

Discrimination Education

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NPR Interviews Fred Korematsu’s Daughter On His Civil Rights Work & Celebrating Fred Korematsu Day

NPR recently interviewed Karen Korematsu, the daughter of civil rights leader Fred Korematsu, on her father’s legacy and how she discovered his role in Japanese American history: “I didn’t find out about my father’s Supreme Court case until I was a junior in high school. And it was in a social studies class when my friend Maya(ph) got up in front of all of us to give a book report, an oral book report, about [...] Continue »

By Moye

Discrimination History

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The Office’s Mindy Kaling Has Comedy Pilot Picked Up By Fox

Mindy Kaling, author if Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and best known as Kelly Kapoor on The Office, may soon have her very own show. Via The Hollywood Reporter: Fox “has officially picked up to pilot an untitled comedy from The Office‘s Kaling that would star the writer-actress as a young Bridget Jones-type doctor trying to navigate both her personal and professional lives. The project, which hails from Universal TV, would be written and [...] Continue »

By Moye

Comedy Entertainment TV

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Another Side Effect of the Year of the Dragon: Increased Tourism in the U.S.

Tim wrote about the side effects of the Year of the Dragon and here is another one: increased tourism to the U.S. While Chinese traditionally go home for the Lunar New Year, a growing number are going abroad, with top destinations being Europe, the U.S., and Australia. China’s National Tourism Bureau is expecting the number of Chinese traveling abroad for the holidays to be 60% higher than the previous year. Chinese students are said to [...] Continue »

By Jeff

Business Family Lifestyles

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Apply for The CAPAL 2012 Internship and Scholarship

College undergrad and grad students: if you’re like me and find that this is the time of year where you’re constantly looking for a way to procrastinate or fretting about summer/future plans, think about applying for CAPAL’s (Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership) 2012 Internship and Scholarship. For these summer internships, CAPAL places you at a federal government agency and gives a $2000 stipend, the goal being to foster leadership potential. Read the descriptions and requirements [...] Continue »

By Lily

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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 »

By Moye

Current Events Entertainment Politics Technology

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APALC Proposes Los Angeles Redistricting Plan

Recently, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) submitted a citywide redistricting plan to LA’s City Council Redistricting Commission that would help keep Asian American neighborhoods intact and strengthen Asian American voices as the city looks to redraw its electoral lines. Because of how diverse the city is, I imagine that it’s not an easy task to try and accommodate as many communities as possible. APALC says that their proposal tries to balance the interests of the [...] Continue »

By Lily

Politics

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