When a thousand participants commemorated the 60th anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China by storming through Seattle’s Chinatown last Sunday, serendipities occurred.
Archive | Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 – 10/2
Largest pro-China parade ever!
Posted on 24 September 2009.
Posted in Community News, Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 - 10/22 Comments
A parade! A parade!
Posted on 24 September 2009.
On Sunday, Sept. 20, people crowded the streets of Seattle’s Chinatown/International District to celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The parade demonstrated how tensions have eased between China and Taiwan supporters.
Posted in Community News, Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 - 10/23 Comments
If FICP builds it, will they come?
Posted on 24 September 2009.
Amid the hustle and bustle of Chinatown sits a quiet, unassuming park nestled behind trees on the corner of Seventh Avenue South and South Lane Street. A bronze dragon hovers over a giant yin-yang arrangement made of sand and grass. Rockery symbolizing the mountainous regions of the Philippines rests alongside a small slide and merry-go-round.
Posted in Community News, Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 - 10/20 Comments
Homeownership fell in ’08 — Asians get hit the worst
Posted on 24 September 2009.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Asians, many of them living in foreclosure-ravaged California, suffered the sharpest drop in homeownership last year, eclipsing declines felt by whites, Blacks, and Latinos, according to new Census data.
Posted in National News, Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 - 10/20 Comments
Chicken feet a bridge in U.S.–China relations?
Posted on 24 September 2009.
I could never imagine that chicken feet, despised by many Americans, would be the thing to link China and America in a win-win situation.
Posted in Food, Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 - 10/20 Comments
Bhutanese refugees get fresh start in Ohio — on a farm
Posted on 24 September 2009.
CLEVELAND (AP) — The families from the edge of the Himalayan Mountains arrived in Cleveland last winter as other refugees have — poor, cold, and bewildered.
Posted in National News, Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 - 10/20 Comments
Indian runner stripped of medal after a gender-test, empathizes with Semenya
Posted on 24 September 2009.
PUDUKKOTTAI, India (AP) — Considering suicide after being stripped of her medal and shunned by the people around her, Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan knows a bit about what Caster Semenya is going through.
Posted in National News, Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 - 10/21 Comment
Young foreigners hunt for jobs in China amid crisis
Posted on 24 September 2009.
BEIJING (AP) — When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work.
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Dry run: Beijing shuts down early for its 60th anniversary parade practice
Posted on 24 September 2009.
BEIJING (AP) — Police cleared the streets and office buildings in parts of China’s capital on Friday for a full dress rehearsal of celebrations for 60 years of communist rule. There was a mixture of excitement and resentment among ordinary Chinese who were told to stay away.
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Civil rights organizations oppose Arizona’s mandatory E-Verify law
Posted on 24 September 2009.
The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), along with other leading civil rights and labor organizations, recently filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court to challenge the state of Arizona’s mandatory E-Verify law.
Posted in Briefs, Vol 28 No 40 | 9/26 - 10/23 Comments
