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Vietnamese student in Okla. worries about diploma
Posted on 27 April 2010.
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Order could mean a $1.8 million refund to Filipino teachers
Posted on 22 April 2010.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A business that brought hundreds of Filipino teachers to Louisiana to work in public schools has been fined and ordered to refund placement fees that a teacher union estimates will total $1.8 million.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 17 | 4/24-4/300 Comments
Toyota to agree to huge $16.4 million fine, says Toyota insider
Posted on 22 April 2010.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. is expected to agree to a fine of more than $16 million, the largest government penalty levied against an automaker, for a four-month delay in telling federal authorities about defective gas pedals on its vehicles, a Transportation Department official said last Sunday.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 17 | 4/24-4/300 Comments
Republicans step up opposition to liberal nominee
Posted on 15 April 2010.
WASHINGTON — Republicans intensified opposition to the nominee for a San Francisco-based appeals court, setting up a test of whether President Barack Obama can win confirmation for an unabashed liberal.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 16 | 4/17-4/230 Comments
Marines honor 88-year-old veteran, Bataan survivor
Posted on 15 April 2010.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The commandant of the Marine Corps is sending a special letter of appreciation to an 88-year-old South Carolinian who survived the Bataan death march.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 16 | 4/17-4/230 Comments
Innovative census ads seek to boost minority participation
Posted on 15 April 2010.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Radio commercials blare ranchera tunes, beseeching Mexican Americans to fill out their census forms. Print ads with a portrait of a Thai family with a carved elephant in the background implore Thais to do the same. So does a Congolese basketball hero in another.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 16 | 4/17-4/230 Comments
Asian American group warns Democratic committee
Posted on 15 April 2010.
HONOLULU (AP) — An Asian American political group last Thursday warned the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee not to take sides in the special election for Hawaii’s vacant 1st Congressional District seat.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 16 | 4/17-4/230 Comments
U.S. prep schools push to recruit foreign students
Posted on 08 April 2010.
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Dixi Wu finished middle school in Kunming, China, she had a hard decision to make. The skilled violinist and top-ranked student tested into one of the most competitive high schools in her province. Yet Bullis School in suburban Maryland, faced with falling applications during the depressed economy, also wanted her.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 15 | 4/10-4/160 Comments
Toyota hit with $16M fine over recalls in U.S.
Posted on 08 April 2010.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. faces a maximum penalty of more than $16 million, a record civil penalty against an automaker, for failing to promptly notify the U.S. government about defective gas pedals among its vehicles.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 15 | 4/10-4/160 Comments
An Lac orphans reunite in Columbus after 35 years
Posted on 01 April 2010.
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Jason Robertson doesn’t know his birth date or possess a single memory of his mother or father.
He was only 3 years old when he was scooped off the streets of Saigon and brought to live in An Lac Orphanage, located in the city’s slums.
Posted in National News, Vol 29 No 14 | 4/3-4/90 Comments
