Category: Asian Americans
KOREAN AMERICAN ACTOR KEN JEONG RETURNS IN THE HANGOVER PART III
The third and final film in director Todd Phillips’ record-shattering comedy trilogy opens May 23 Korean American actor Ken Jeong returns in THE HANGOVER PART III, the third and final film in director Todd Phillips’ record-shattering comedy trilogy. Jeong reunites with stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha for the epic conclusion [...]
Asian groups launch voter mobilization campaign for local polls
LOS ANGELES – With the approach of the May 21 election for the City of Los Angeles, Asian American community groups have developed new resources to assist voters as they decide how to vote at the polls. The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), in partnership with Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander organizations in Los [...]
Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora
Book talk by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis Monday, November 19, 2012 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Young Hall 4216 (near the Court of the Sciences) UCLA Campus Vietnamese diasporic relations affect—and are directly affected by—events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding [...]
Call for Papers — Critical Histories of Activism: Indonesia’s New Order and its Legacies
UCLA Indonesian Studies Conference April 13-14, 2013, UCLA, Los Angeles, California Conveners: Jeffrey Hadler and Nancy Peluso (University of California, Berkeley) This conference will give scholars and activists an opportunity to reassess the emergence or resurgence of new forms of activism and protest during the New Order period in Indonesia. In the face of state [...]
[CSEAS-SOCAL] Southeast Asia Announcements
Announcements 1. Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Small Grant Awards: American Institute for Indonesian Studies 2. Indonesia Research Fellows: Harvard University 3. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships For Language Study Abroad 4. Call for Papers: Southeast Asian Studies Symposium 5. Call for Papers: The Cultural Dynamics of Region Formation in Southeast Asia: Sport, Popular Culture, Literature, Education [...]
ASIAN AMERICAN VOTERS BREAK FOR OBAMA
Asian Americans Largely Ignored by Both Parties, Voted for Obama by Huge Margin Washington, DC—Asian Americans voted for President Barack Obama in enormous numbers this election, according to the Asian American Election Eve Poll, a joint project of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) and Asian American Legal Defense [...]
RESULTS OF THE CONSULAR OUTREACH IN LAS VEGAS, NV
  Los Angeles, 5 September 2012 – Consul General Mary Jo Bernardo Aragon led a team from the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles and conducted a two-day consular outreach program in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. on 1 – 2 September 2012.The consular outreach program was undertaken in cooperation with the Filipino American Heritage Foundation – [...]
Pinay lawyer achiever
The Asian American Bar Association of Chicago will be installing Marion Victoria Cruz, Esq. as its 25th President during their black tie gala event on August 18, 2012. Marion Victoria Cruz was born in Quezon City to parents Edwin Chito Cruz and Lolita Loreto Cruz. She has two siblings – Tim and Anna Marie. She [...]
Free admission ticket raffle promo for the US-Philippines Expo 2012 is extended to July 31
Weekend Balita and the US Asian Post are holding a raffle promotion to give away 100 free admission tickets to the US-Philippines Expo 2012. There will be 50 winners who will receive two free admission tickets each. The raffle draw, which was originally scheduled to end on July 27, 2012, will be extended for four [...]
APALC expresses disappointment with Los Angeles City Council redistricting map
Approved Map divides Koreatown LOS ANGELES – Today, the Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance which sets out the City Council electoral lines for the next 10 years. During the Los Angeles City Council redistricting process, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, and [...]
