Tag: asian
All-Girl Group BLUSH Unveils First Holiday Single and New Music Video “Christmas Lights”
Created by Award-Winning Director Trey Fanjoy, “Christmas Lights” also marks BLUSH’s first co-written song Los Angeles, CA— BLUSH, the #1 US Billboard Dance/Club Chart artists and first-ever Pan-Asian girl group who has toured internationally with such noted artists as Justin Beiber, Black Eyed Peas, Jesse J and recorded with Snoop Dogg, just released their new Christmas [...]
[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 [...]
Southeast Asia in Southern California: Events Calendar
Presentations, Conferences, Performances, Festivals, and More… (Exhibitions Below) Friday – Sunday, November 2 – 4, 2012 Benefit Sale for UCLA Fowler Museum Features Lao Textiles and other SEA Arts and Crafts Friday 11am–5 pm; Saturday, 11am–5 pm; Sunday, 12 noon–whenever Mor York Studio 4959 York Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90042-1609 Directions from UCLA: Take the [...]
‘One Malaysia,’ an economic model for a diverse nation
Malaysia is only country in Southeast Asia that produces its own cars (Note: The author who became a full-fledged journalist right after college is a witness and at the same a victim of Philippines’ corrupt society, whose worsening economic conditions back then forced him to abandon his country to work as a reporter abroad – [...]
Pacquiao wwept up in Linsanity
Boxing champ to meet with Jeremy Lin in New York  tomorrow By Nimfa U. Rueda LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 – Like much of America, Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao has been swept up in Linsanity. “I’m so proud of Jeremy Lin,†Pacquiao told Balita Media after a press conference on Tuesday at the Beverly [...]
Joel Bander faces more legal problems as more victims surface
By Rhony Laigo JOEL BANDER, the lawyer who now claims to have been set up probably by his own victims or by those who have an axe to grind against him in what is turning out to be a celebrated sex scandal that he allegedly committed in the Philippines, may yet face more legal problems [...]
Dr. Manny Calayan: We were never shut down
Dr. Manny Calayan speaks to the media and says operations at the Calayan clinic in Los Angeles never stopped despite a sting conducted by the Medical Board last year.
‘We were never shut down’ – Dr. Manny Calayan
By Rhony Laigo LOS ANGELES – Contrary to reports, the Calayan Surgicentre Corp. never stopped operations despite a reported sting last August by the California Medical Board that alleged that the clinic of the famous Filipino plastic surgeon was conducting illegal surgical procedures at their Los Angeles clinic. In a news conference held Wednesday at [...]
Philippine quake kills 43
MANILA, February 6, 2012 (AFP) – At least 43 people were killed when a powerful earthquake triggered landslides, collapsed homes and smashed bridges across the central Philippines on Monday, authorities said. The 6.8-magntiude quake hit a narrow strait between the heavily populated island provinces of Negros and Cebu around lunchtime, with aftershocks nearly as [...]
Sen. Schumer’s recommends Lorna Schofield, a Fil-Am, to Federal bench
Washington DC – On Monday, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) recommended Attorney Lorna Schofield to the White House as a candidate for federal district court judge in the Southern District of New York. If nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first Filipino American to serve as an Article III [...]
