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		<title>Lunar New Year commemorated with USPS forever stamp</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The colorful Year of the Dragon stamp is the latest collectible in the U.S. Postal Service’s Celebrating Lunar New Year series, which began in 2008 with the Year of the Rat. The Year of the Dragon began Jan. 23 and ends Feb. 9, 2013. The stamp is on sale at post offices nationwide, online at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much of Asia expects more babies born in the Year of Dragon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Annie Huang The Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, but you wouldn’t know that from visiting the obstetrics department at Taiwan Adventist Hospital. The hallways were abuzz this week with dozens of women lined up for ultrasound checks and other appointments with obstetricians. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban U.S. Chinatowns shrink back as Asians head to the suburbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hope Yen and Ben Nuckols The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s historic Chinatowns, home for a century to immigrants seeking social support and refuge from racism, are fading as rising living costs, jobs elsewhere, and a desire for wider spaces lure Asian Americans more than ever to the suburbs. As the Lunar New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAPAC chair calls for congressional hearings on hazing in the military</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a series of high-profile hazing incidents endured by members of the United States Armed Services, CAPAC Chair Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-32) along with 12 other Members of Congress sent a letter Friday to the House Armed Services Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committees requesting a hearing on the military’s hazing and harassment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Minnesota State Senator Mee Moua to lead AAJC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Directors of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), has named Mee Moua as president and executive director of one of the nation&#8217;s premier civil rights organizations. On March 19, Moua will succeed Karen K. Narasaki, who announced in June she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam-born woman to reunite with aid worker who saved her</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jackie Hutchins Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — Tobi Snyder has had a special wish for much of her life. And just before Christmas 2010, she sent off an e-mail with the hope that wish could be fulfilled. Just after Christmas, she got an answer — and it set off a year of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mariners sign Japanese free-agent pitcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners have signed free-agent Japanese pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma to a one-year contract. The team announced the move last Thursday. Iwakuma has a 107–69 record in 226 career games in Japan. The right-hander was selected the 2008 Pacific League Most Valuable Player and winner of the Eiji Sawamura pitching award after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adopted kids become mini-ambassadors come Lunar New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leanne Italie The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With its fireworks, family reunions, and feasts, Lunar New Year is the longest and most important celebration for millions around the world. For kids adopted from China, it holds special meaning. Lunar New Year makes them mini-ambassadors of a culture they know little about firsthand. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Huntsman objects to ad featuring his adopted kids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Holly Ramer The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman, who often speaks movingly of his adopted daughters while on the campaign trail, said last Friday that Ron Paul’s supporters were out of line in using the girls to argue that he is un-American. An online ad posted by “NHLiberty4Paul” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dentist from Alaska helps honor Nisei soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Beth Smetzer Fairbanks Daily News-Miner FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The day Pearl Harbor was bombed, Dec. 7, 1941, Brian Yamamoto’s father, Edward, was attending the University of Southern California on a baseball scholarship. Born and raised in Los Angeles, the college student was as surprised as the rest of America about the Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland mayor under fire over Occupy protests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Terence Chea and Terry Collins The Associated Press Oakland Mayor Jean Quan at Oakland&#8217;s Lake Merritt OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Mayor Jean Quan made history in January when she became the first Asian American woman to lead a major U.S. city. Less than a year later, the Democratic mayor is quickly losing support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army transfers 8 U.S. soldiers after Danny Chen’s suicide</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Hawley The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eight U.S. soldiers have been charged in the death of a fellow GI, a Chinese American who apparently shot himself in Afghanistan after being subjected to what a community activist said were assaults and ethnic taunts from his comrades. The soldiers face charges ranging from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson to lead infrastructure trade mission to India</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Commerce Secretary and former CEO John Bryson laid out his priorities for the Department of Commerce, including supporting advanced manufacturing, increasing exports, and attracting more investment to America from all over the world.  In conjunction with those priorities, the Department of Commerce is announcing that Secretary Bryson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New proposed bill would ban abortions based on sex or race</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Crary The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The practice of sex-selection abortion, usually targeting a female fetus due to parental preference for a son, has few defenders in the United States. Yet a proposed federal ban is drawing vehement opposition from liberal advocacy groups who call it a veiled attempt to undermine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diner from Hawaii banned from Japanese restaurant due to comments</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU (AP) — Negative feedback on a customer comment card has landed a Honolulu diner on a “no serve” list at a Japanese restaurant. Dave Young recently learned he’s no longer welcome at Tanaka of Tokyo’s three Oahu restaurants. Young, 59, of Makiki, is one of 17 on that list, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Older Chinese riled by proposed SF bag fee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Schurmann and Summer Chiang New America Media SAN FRANCISCO — San Mateo resident Dan Lin Shen says he often comes to San Francisco’s Chinatown to purchase fresh produce. But if a proposed piece of legislation that seeks to impose a tax on the use of plastic shopping bags goes forward, the 63-year-old says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jesse Washington The Associated Press Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one box for her race: white. “I didn’t want to put ‘Asian’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Koreatown schools at forefront of education reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Katherine Kim NEW AMERICA MEDIA “Good night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,” intones a pint-sized, pink-cheeked Kelly Park, reciting a soliloquy from the leading role in Romeo and Juliet. Park, 11, who was born in Incheon, Korea, diligently delivers her lines on the stage of the Coconut Grove Auditorium, the same spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New guidance supports voluntary efforts to promote diversity and reduce racial isolation in education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, the Departments of Justice and Education released two new guidance documents — one for school districts and one for colleges and universities — detailing the flexibility that the Supreme Court has provided to educational institutions to promote diversity and, in the case of elementary and secondary schools, reduce racial isolation among students within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam vet shares his dark history, one peck at a time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Bradley The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — At the very worst of times, John W. Nash came clean. “If I tell you what I did over there, you won’t love me anymore,” he told his wife. He was a big, tough Marine, and he cried that day. Since coming home [...]]]></description>
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