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Archive for July, 2007

Hate Crimes Against Asians…have we made progress?

In a previous posting, I wrote about a case where Vincent Chin was murdered on the night of his bachelor party and the perpetrators never spent any time in jail ... Read more..

Monday, July 30th, 2007 Posted in Discrimination | Comments Off

9 Man Volleyball

For those of you familiar with volleyball, you know that this is traditionally played with 6 players on a side, but mainly in the Chinatowns in major cities in the ... Read more..

Monday, July 30th, 2007 Posted in Sports | Comments Off

China Food Scare Harming Asian Americans?

Recently there has been a bit of press about products such as food or medicines or toothpaste or whatever coming out of China that are anywhere from unsafe to lethal. ... Read more..

Saturday, July 28th, 2007 Posted in Current Events, Discrimination | Comments Off

Boston Protest for Transliteration on Ballots

A group of Asian-Americans gathered in Boston on July 9th at the Massachusetts State House to support fully-translated bilingual Chinese-English ballots. The Massachusetts Secretary of State William Gavin opposes ... Read more..

Thursday, July 26th, 2007 Posted in Current Events | Comments Off

Discrimination Giving Us Health Problems?

An article in HealthDay News talks about research that routine and even subtle discrimination can place mental stress that leads to chronic illness. The research was based on ... Read more..

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in Discrimination | Comments Off

GQ: Hidetoshi Nakata

GQ magazine is a magazine that doesn't seem shy to place Asians in their magazine, even guys. In the July 2007 issue, it even included a 10 page spread ... Read more..

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Fashion, Sports | Comments Off

30th Annual Asian American International Film Festival Kicks Off

The 30th annual AAIFF kicked off this past Thursday in New York City and will run through July 28th at the Asia Society. AAIFF is known as "The First ... Read more..

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 Posted in Film | Comments Off

Another Chinese player entering the NBA: Yi Jianlian

In the 2007 NBA Draft, 6'11" Yi Jianlian was selected sixth overall by Milwaukee. Highly touted as the next Yao Ming, he has been working out and playing with ... Read more..

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 Posted in Sports | Comments Off

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We can't even get away from it on our own site! So, we placed some Google ads on the right column, and even some of those ads make ... Read more..

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 Posted in Miscellaneous | Comments Off

The Injustices: Vincent Chin

Although this is from a while back, I wonder if this would play out that much differently today. Back in June 19, 1982, Vincent Chin was murdered on the night of ... Read more..

Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Posted in Justice | 1 Comment »