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Category Archives: Politics
Hawaiian Singer’s “Occupy” Song At Obama Summit
With the refrain, “We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts, we’ll occupy the offices of you, till you do the bidding of the many, not the few,” Hawaiian singer Makana’s song, “We Are The Many,” “turned a top-security dinner of … Continue reading
Taiwan Working To Legalize Prostitution
In early November, Taiwan revised the Social Order Maintenance Act in which prostitution is legal in designated red-light districts. However, no local governments have been willing to create these zones. This is a highly controversial matter and there are split … Continue reading
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Why did UFC Use the Communist Vietnamese Flag for Cung Le?
A recent title card at UFC 139 showed UFC fighter Cung Le with the Communist Vietnamese Flag, even though Cung Le was born in South Vietnam three days before the fall of Saigon and represents San Jose, California. Either someone … Continue reading
Posted in Observations, Politics, Sports
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Philadelphia Elects First Asian American, David Oh, to City Council
After counting the provisional ballots from election day last week, Philadelphia has spoken. In a nail-biter, Republican David Oh edged out his opponent: Oh today finally bested Al Taubenberger in last week’s election, after absentee, military and provisional ballots were … Continue reading
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu Testifies Before Congress on Solyndra Federal Loan
This past Thursday, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu testified in front of Congress at the House Oversight Committee hearing regarding Solyndra, the high profile San Francisco Bay Area invest in solar energy company which took a Department of Energy (DOE) … Continue reading
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San Francisco’s Rose Pak Rise From Activist To Power Broker
Inevitably, when discussing San Francisco politics, one will read about a behind-the-scenes “power broker” named Rose Pak. I haven’t really blogged about her because, to be honest, I did not know much about her. Pak was one of the driving … Continue reading
Posted in Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
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San Francisco Elects First Asian American Mayor, Ed Lee
This past Tuesday, appointed interim Mayor Ed Lee became the first ever Asian American to be elected Mayor of San Francisco. Due to the sixteen candidates running to replace departed Gavin Newsom and ranked choice voting, the final results were … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
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State Representative William Tong Running for U.S. Senate In Connecticut
As someone interested in following Asian American candidates running for public office as well as elected officials, I think I had heard of Connecticut State Representative William Tong, but didn’t know much about him. Recently, his campaign reached out to … Continue reading
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Jon Huntsman Can’t Really Speak Mandarin Chinese?
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Presidential candidate, former Governor of Utah, and former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman has often said that he is fluent in Mandarin, which he learned … Continue reading
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The Perfect Villain: Straight Asian Men
Women get together and complain about men. It happens. Yet no other group of women display such visceral antagonism toward men of their own race as Asian women do. We Asian women never say generally “men are horrible.” We say … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Lifestyles, Observations, Politics
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NPR / KQED: Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse
As a Taiwanese American, I’m always interested in reading, hearing or watching in the American media discussions about Taiwan. So it was with great pleasure a few days ago that my local National Public Radio affiliate, San Francisco’s KQED, dedicated … Continue reading
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San Francisco Asian American Mayoral TV Interviews Online
The San Francisco mayoral election takes place next Tuesday, November 8th, and the local ABC 7 News affiliate has one-on-one television interviews with all the major candidates, with five out of the eleven candidates – Jeff Adachi, David Chiu, Ed … Continue reading
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