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Karin Wang, the Vice-President of Programs & Communications at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), will be honored today as the 2011 Woman of the Year for the 49th Assembly District. 

APALC, a member of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, is the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization serving Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.  Before her current position, Wang directed APALC’s immigrant rights project and helped file a landmark civil rights complaint against Los Angeles County on behalf of limited English speaking welfare recipients, leading to major reforms to the department’s services to immigrants and payment of $1.7 million in back benefits.  Wang also ran the first Los Angeles field office of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, enforcing federal civil rights laws across the Southwest and the Pacific.

On 13 August, Noam Chomsky delivered a speech at the Peking University in Beijing. Chomsky, one of the leading public intellectuals of our age, is famous for his political activism and contributions to linguistic and philosophy. The talk, titled Contours of World Order: Continuities and Changes, was mostly about two dominant threats facing humanity: nuclear wars and environmental degradation.

While Chomsky has re-emphasized his criticisms on the United States, he has also expressed his opinions on China. In Chomsky’s view, emerging countries like China and India still have a long way to go to challenge the America. Of particular concern is the environmental cost of China’s development model, and the many internal and social problems that China has to tackle. This week, the Southern Metropolitan Daily publishes an interview with Chomsky. An excerpt of the interview is translated below.

Tomita was born in Okinawa, the daughter of Shiro and Asako Tomita. She is of one quarter-Filipino descent (her mother is half Filipina, half Japanese). Before becoming an actress, she won the title of Queen at the Nisei Week Pageant in Los Angeles in 1984, and Miss Nikkei International in 1985.

Check out her filmogrpah here at IMDB Website

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Tamlyn Tomita, whose inspirational career as an actor spans movies, television and the stage, and whose leadership and activism spans the Japanese American and Asian American Pacific Islander communities.

Joongang - A large portion of Koreans born in the United States, Canada and some other countries with sizable time differences with Korea have two different birth dates on their passports and social security numbers.

That’s because Korean law mandates that Koreans born abroad have their births registered in Korean time, not local time. For example, when a Korean couple gives birth to a baby in New York at 1 p.m. on July 10, it translates to 2 a.m. on July 11 here.

The baby will have July 10 as a birth date on his or her U.S. passport and Social Security card, while the baby’s residence registration certificate and Korean passport will have the later date. And in extreme cases, a person born on the last day of the year can have even the year of birth extended due to the time gap.

Double nationality holders complain they are at time mistaken for being illegal immigrants. Sometimes, they can even be black-listed by overseas immigration offices.

LA Times - Judy Chu can trace the beginnings of her career as a San Gabriel Valley activist and political leader back to the early 1970s and her freshman year in college.

As the young math major, intent on a career in computer science, was crossing the UC Santa Barbara quad one day, someone thrust into her hand a flier about a new Asian American studies course. She decided to give it a try.

"It was like a light went off in my head," Chu recalled. She learned about the history of Asian immigrants and their children, the discrimination and stereotypes they endured and their contributions to American life and culture.

One of the guest speakers was Pat Sumi, a third-generation Japanese American whose activism included registering blacks to vote in Mississippi and Georgia and organizing protests against the Vietnam War.

VisualizAsian.com - Continuing with our AAPI Empowerment Series at visualizAsian.com, our next guest is Phoebe Eng, author of "Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power," Vice Chair for the Ms. Foundation for Women and head of Creative Counsel, an organization that connects artists and entertainers with social causes.

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Professor Russell C. Leong, director of UCLA's U.S./China Media Brief, asked one of Chicago's leading Asian American educators, Dr. Yvonne Lau of De Paul University, to comment about Obama's work in Chicago to integrate the Chinese language and less commonly taught tongues into the Chicago and Illinois school curriculums. Obama's work in this area is little-known. Dr. Lau provides an "insider's view" of Obama's "Chinese connection."

Dr. Lau writes about Obama's activism in Chicago's multiracial and multicultural communities, and about his support of, in Lau's words, "more American students to learn about Asia, Asian Americans, and the study of Asian languages."

Japan & USA. Animal Planet collaborated with eco-terrorists claims Institute of Cetacean Research

Thursday, 30 October 2008

The Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), a Japanese scientific body that studies whales, today accused the United States television broadcast channel Animal Planet of involvement in ecoterrorism, following criminal attacks against its research ships in the Antarctic Ocean.