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February 2009

Panda Poop to Produce Fine Quality Paper!

published by ANBM on Sat, 02/28/2009 - 21:55

It’s really nice to watch those gentle giant pandas in a reserve. But, from the environmental point of view, keeping the reserve out of their poop is not that easy. Researchers at a southern China’s giant panda reserve have come up with a better solution to this - recycle the poop!

Taking inspiration form paper made from elephant dung, the researchers planned to recycle the surplus of the ‘fiber-rich’ panda excrement into high quality ‘paper.’ They think that panda poop would produce an even finer quality paper.

Liao Jun, a researcher at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in Sichuan province hopes to have a product line of panda poop-made paper available by next year.

Presently, the base is on with talks with several paper mills on turning the droppings of Jing Jing, Ke Bi, Ya Ya and dozens of other pandas into reams of office paper and rolls of wrapping paper at the base.

Liao said,

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The Invisibility of Asian-American Scholars

published by archive (not verified) on Sat, 02/28/2009 - 20:38
By Frank H. Wu | For the Chronicle of Higher Education
http://yellowworld.org/academia/226.html

While we can probably all cite at least one or two respected Asian-American scholars, they are hardly household names. No Asian-American professors have intellectual influence that extends far beyond their campuses. No Asian-American television commentator regularly analyses the crises of the day. No Asian-American columnist's nationally syndicated views reach the heartland. No Asian-American activist of any prominence can be relied on to respond to anti-Asian-American bias -- or can count on being offered a forum for doing so. Nor are there periodicals dedicated to Asian-American conversations but possessing crossover appeal -- read by those who do not hold doctorates or who claim other forebears -- like Commentary and Tikkun, or the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Black Issues in Higher Education, and the defunct Emerge.

Public intellectuals have always been marked by notions of racial or ethnic identity, whether they sought to impose restrictions on others or escape from the limits set on them.

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President Obama Picks former Gov. Gary Locke as Commerce Nominee

published by ANBM on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 12:10
Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke is President Barack Obama’s new choice for Commerce secretary. Obama officially announced Locke as his pick for the post on Wednesday.

“I am confident that Governor Locke will make investing in our country and getting our economy back on track a priority,” said U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., in a statement.
Locke, the nation’s first Chinese-American governor, served two terms from 1997 to 2005. He is Obama’s third choice for Commerce after New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, a Republican, dropped out. - bizjournals

From Asianweek:
Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke has been named as President Barack Obama’s third nominee for commerce secretary. Locke if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, will be the third Asian American to join the cabinet, after Eric Shinseki, Secretary of Veteran Affairs and Stephen Chu, Secretary of Energy.

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politics
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Chinese Language Newspaper Exits U.S. Market

published by ANBM on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 15:05
Chinese Language Newspaper Exits U.S. Market

After more than a decade on newsstands, Ming Pao Daily, a Chinese language newspaper based in San Francisco, kissed its readers goodbye on Valentine’s Day.

“It’s regrettable, but also understandable, given the current economic crisis and the stiff competition among Chinese-language print media,” said Ling-chi Wang, a professor of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley. “The competition from its two older and more established competitors, the World Journal and the Sing Tao Daily, is probably the major factor behind the decision.”

Other factors also explain its closure. As a latecomer to the already highly competitive Chinese media market in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004, Ming Pao Daily gained fewer advertising clients and did not have a strong relationship with local Chinese community organizations, compared to its two major rivals.

As a result of the closure, more than 50 employees will be laid off. And unlike its New York sister paper, Ming Pao San Francisco will not keep publishing online. - Asianweek
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media
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Census Bureau Data Show Characteristics of the U.S. Foreign-Born Population

published by ANBM on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 14:55
WASHINGTON—(U.S. ASIAN WIRE February 19, 2009)— According to a new analysis of data about the U.S. foreign-born population from the 2007 American Community Survey (ACS), a higher percentage of people born in India have a bachelor’s degree or higher (74 percent) than people born in any other foreign country. Egypt and Nigeria had rates above 60 percent.

Based on 2007 ACS data, these figures come from new detailed characteristic profiles on the foreign-born population — people who were not U.S. citizens at birth — available by country of birth.

Meanwhile, among the nation’s foreign-born, Somalis and Kenyans living in the United States are the most likely to be newcomers, and Somalis are among the youngest and poorest.

“These new ‘selected population profiles’ highlight the diversity among the many different foreign-born groups in the United States,” said Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau’s Immigration Statistics
Staff. “This diversity is due in part to the way the various communities were established, whether it be through labor migration, family reunification or refugee flows.”

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asian australian
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Amazon yanks Japanese rape simulation computer game

published by ANBM on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 12:14
Sometimes all we can do is just shake our heads at the things people try to sell, although I would not be surprised if people did buy this.
Online retail giant Amazon has yanked from its virtual shelves a Japanese computer game that lets players simulate raping girls. A “Rapelay” videogame being hawked on Amazon by a third-party merchant was deemed inappropriate and the product’s page taken down after it was brought to the California Internet firm’s attention Wednesday night. “We determined that we did not want to be selling this particular item,” Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith said Friday of the computer game.

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Far East Movement

published by ANBM on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 11:45

Trying to pick up women speaking chinese?

published by archive (not verified) on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 15:38
I came across an interesting and amusing story I stumbled on in a China blog, the cross socio-cultural context was what made it interesting . As overseas asians have all at least witnessed once or heard of spooky asiaphiles trying out their pick up lines on asian women in asian languages.

Let's switch the situation a little bit and put this in a different environment and scenario altogether.
Blogger Jonna Wibelius is Swedish traveller who  had moved to China to indulge in the culture, language and lifestyle, she's been blogging since 2007. In this blog she is writing about China, the real China not the fake imitation China we get fed through mainstream media. It's good for us that she is accurately communicating to the world the how China is as she sees it through her personal experiences and I'd give her credit for learning Chinese the right way.

Jonna stated interview with  Blogintervieweronline.com that her blog was written for

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China & G7 concerned about US trade protectionism

published by archive (not verified) on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 13:05
 
Baku– APA-ECONOMICS.
China said on Monday it was deeply concerned over trade protectionist measures a range of countries were adopting amid the economic crisis, singling out the United States for special criticism.
Following a "Buy American" clause in the huge US economic stimulus package and an Indian ban on Chinese toys, China’s commerce ministry warned it was looking to the World Trade Organisation to guard against rising protectionism.
"Some countries raised clauses to prioritise the purchase of products of their own countries in their economic stimulus packages," ministry spokesman Yao Jian told reporters.
 "We express deep concern about these (measures)."
Although Yao was commenting on unnamed countries, he then spoke out when asked specifically about the "Buy American" clause in the US economic stimulus package that lawmakers in Washington passed on Friday.
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List of Asian American characters we want and need to see in the media

published by archive (not verified) on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 11:06
What types of Asian American characters do we want and need to see more of in Hollywood?

Please provide the following:
1. Gender, including a physical description with dress style and fitness level
2. Profession
3. Hobbies
4. Education
5. Personality
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