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Asian American Commercial Watch: Liberty Mutual Insurance’s ‘First Word | Truth Tellers’
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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A Guide To A Buddhist/Chinese/American Funeral
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Daughter of the Late Pat Morita Protests Karate Kid Remake
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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
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The Role of Asian Greeks Today
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Category Archives: Current Events
Chinese Railroad Workers Inducted into the U.S. Labor Hall of Honor & Reclaiming Promontory Point
On May 9th, history was made as the Chinese Railroad Workers were inducted into the U.S. Labor Hall of Honor. You can view the entire ceremony on the Department of Labor’s YouTube channel. If you don’t happen to know: “But … Continue reading
Eric Shinseki Resigns as Secretary of the Veterans Affairs
General Eric Shinseki has just resigned as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. (For the full Obama press conference, click here for the C-SPAN video). If you haven’t been following the news lately, there has been a lot of controversy of veterans … Continue reading
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Irwindale Drops Lawsuit Againt Sriracha
Mayor Mark Breceda of Irwindale is stating that the city has dropped the lawsuit against Sriracha after meeting with owner David Tran and two representatives from California’s Governor Jerry Brown and touring the plant. They will be revisiting the situation … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Food & Drink, Local, Southern California
Tagged irwindale, sriracha, srirachapocalypse
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Being Pushed Over the Glass Cliff
Almost everyone’s heard of the glass ceiling, the inability of women and minorities to get promoted to higher levels of the executive ranks due to discrimination. What most probably haven’t heard about is the new “glass cliff”. NPR discussed it … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Discrimination
Tagged Discrimination, gender equality, gender gap, glass ceiling, glass cliff, jill abramson, New York Times, sexism
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Stephen Guillermo’s Family Continues to Fight for Justice
This piece was originally published at SFGate and is republished on 8Asians.com with permission. By Emil Guillermo Getting his university degree was the most important goal in my cousin Stephen Guillermo’s short life. But on May 3, he earned a … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, San Francisco Bay Area
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Anti-Asian Hate Was One of Killer Elliot Rodger’s Motivations
While I had read that misogyny and a sense of entitlement were motivations of Elliot Rodger, the man who killed six people and then himself near Santa Barbara, I didn’t realize that anti-Asian hate was another one until I saw … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Southern California
Tagged Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista
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Isla Vista Stabbing Victims Were Asian American Males from the Bay Area
Via KGO/ABC7News.com: ISLA VISTA, Calif. (KGO) — Authorities have identified the three men found fatally stabbed in the apartment of Elliot Rodger, who police say fatally shot three others in a killing spree that ended with his suicide. The Santa … Continue reading
The White House Initiative on AAPIs – Opening Ceremony for AAPI Heritage Month 2014
As you may know, the month of May is designated as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. With that, The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders kicked off the month on May 6th, hosted by the … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Current Events, Politics, TV
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Pregnant Women from China and Taiwan Giving Birth in the US
From CBS Local (San Francisco): More and more mothers from China and Taiwan are willing to pay thousands of dollars to deliver their babies in the USA, specifically in California. “So-called maternity homes” have popped up in cities like San Jose.
Made In the USA: American Surrogates for Chinese
When I was in college, I stumbled across the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, by Bill Watterson. In particular I was quite taken with the strip where Calvin and his toy tiger Hobbes discuss where babies come from. By the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Health, Health and Beauty, LGBT, Technology
Tagged American surrogates, China, Chinese nationals, made in usa, one-child policy, surrogates
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New York Times’ Profile on Silicon Valley Judge Lucy Koh
If you’re in the smartphone industry, you know that Samsung and Apple have been suing each other over patent infringement for the past few years, and the case happens to be overseen by Silicon Valley based judge and coincidentally, Korean … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Local, San Francisco Bay Area, Tech
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California Shark Fin Ban Upheld by Federal Judge
I’ve blogged about the initial efforts to ban shark fin soup in California. Last July, the ban went into effect. I was aware of, but didn’t know exactly all the details of a law suit trying to overturn the law, … Continue reading