CHINESE
IN LOUISIANA
"From China to Louisiana" program features four prominent Chinese-American
families who have lived in New Orleans for three or four generations since
the 1800's.
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CNN
DROPS CONNIE CHUNG
Veteran anchor Connie
Chung has decided to leave CNN after the network dropped her prime-time
show.
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RATNER
LEAVES SUPERMAN FOR A RUSH HOUR
Brett Ratner has dropped from the troubled Superman production to do the
next installment of the Rush Hour franchise.
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SONY
FILM BEING SHOT IN SHANGHAI
Sony has purchase worldwide distribution rights to "Ultraviolet,"
a female-driven futuristic action $30M thriller to be shot in Shanghai.
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JOHNNIE
TO'S FULL TIME KILLER W/ANDY LAU
Johnnie
To Kei Fung and Wai Ka Fai's"Fulltime Killer" includes Andy
Lau in their latest action flick.
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DIVERSITY
W/TV REPORTERS
Women and minority reporters are becoming more visible on the broadcast
network evening news programs, with Joie Chen and John Yang made the list
of top 50 busiest reporters.
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GEORGE
& ARLENE CHENG
Pacific Symphony's Chinese American League was formed by George &
Arlene Cheng to strengthen ties between the Chinese-American community
and the Pacific Symphony.
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APA'S
DIVIDED OVER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
San Francisco-based Asian American Legal Foundation want to end race-based
admission policies while the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium,
a coalition of 25 Asian civil rights groups, sides with the University
of Michigan and urges the court to preserve affirmative action.
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KWAN
WINS 5TH WORLD TITLE
Michelle Kwan won her fifth
world title at the World Figure Skating Championships in 2003.
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LESLIE
CHEUNG JUMPS TO HIS DEATH
Cantonese pop star and actor Leslie
Cheung Kwok-wing, who starred in the hit film "Farewall My Concubine,"
jumped to his death in Hong Kong.
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KOREAN'S
100TH ANNIVERSARY
100+ members of NYC's Korean American community gathered to hear Governor
Pataki commemorating the Centennial anniversary the arrival of Koreans
in America.
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SARS
- NOT AN ASIAN DISEASE
As Chinese-Canadians complained they were being victimized for the spread
of the respiratory illness SARS, a top U.S. health official said it is
not a disease unique to Asians.
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TWO
TONGUES INVADE L.A.
Chicago's I Was Born With Two Tongues, one of the hottest young Asian
American spoken word ensembles, performs in L.A.
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DAN
DUONG ARRIVES IN THE U.S.
After months of negotiations, the U.S. government has reached an agreement
with Vietnamese officials to allow actor Don Duong to leave his native
country and live
permanently in the United States.
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CHINESE
IMMIGRANTS INVOLVED IN POLITICS
Unlike other immigrant groups, Chinese
immigrants aren't waiting for the second generation to win office.
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EDWARD
CHIN - SOLDIER
The world watched Edward Chin, a Marine corporal, climbed up a statue
of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and covered its face with an American flag
just before the monument was pulled down and torn to pieces by cheering
Iraqis.
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BASKETBALL,
CHINATOWN & YAO
Most outsiders (non-Asian) do not know, how deeply basketball is cherished
here in Chinatown. . . .and so grateful for Yao Ming.
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VIEWS
ON A MAGAZINE'S DEMISE
Read Jeff Yang and Stanley Lim's responses to Monolid's Eric Lai's article
on aMagazine's demise.
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STATUS
OF ASIAN DOCTORS
Out of approximately 600,000 physicians in the US, more than 70,000, or
about 12%, are Asians (over-representing the Asian American population
about four times, as we make up just 3% of the total population).
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AUTO
LENDERS DISCRIMINATION
Toyota, WFS Financial and Honda Finance were accused of unfairly charging
blacks and Hispanics higher rates for car loans.
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HK
FILM AWARDS
Oscar-nominated martial arts epic "Hero" and "Infernal
Affairs" swept up almost every prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards
- one of the most prestigious events on the Chinese movie circuit.
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ZHANG
YIMOU - "HERO" IS A "RING?"
"Hero" has a spectra of wonderful images that are in many ways
similar to what is in director Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.
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SARS
AFFECT HK BOX OFFICE FIGURES
Hong Kong box office was badly hit by the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) cutting shows.
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KATRINA
LEUNG - AN ACCUSED SPY
Katrina Leung is accused of being a Chinese
double agent who was having long-term sexual affairs with two veteran
FBI counterintelligence agents. She received $1.7M from the FBI for services
since 1983. She was a key source for a special Justice Department campaign-finance
investigation.
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OBJECTION
TO "TONIGHT SHOW" HUMOR
Coalition of Asian American organizations sent a letter objecting to humor
based on inflammatory depiction of Koreans and other Asians eating dogs
to the Tonight Show's top corporate sponsors.
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MORE
AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM
U.S. military sprayed roughly 1.8 million more gallons of dioxin-containing
herbicides like Agent Orange in Vietnam then had been previously estimated.
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THREE
CHINESE SUSPECTS RELEASED
Jonathan and Ching Chan (associated with the Ghost Shadows gang), with
Alice Ling (sister), were arrestedin
the Sunday slaying of bouncer Dana
Blake, who was stabbed after telling Jonathan to put out his cigarette,
in keeping with the city's new smoking ban.
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TIGER
WOODS SUPPORT KIDS
Tiger Woods Foundation will raise $25 million to build and operate the
Anaheim's Miller Golf Course that will be free to youths 8 to 17.
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SARS
AND BUSINESS
SARS has forced firms to be creative while doing business in Asia while
minimizing the risk of exposure.
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HOT
IMPORT NIGHTS
California import scene mirrors the melting pot of the West Coast -- a
big, loud, over-the-top multiculti rainbow coalition of communities consisting
primarily of Asians that apreciates custom Japanese auto installations
- along with the vast number of Asia models at the shows.
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AMY
TAN ROCKS FOR CHARITY
Amy Tan, as a member of the feel-good Rock Bottom Remainders music group
(w/Roger McGuinn), raise monies for charities.
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GOP
NEWS
GOP news regarding race,
gays and blacks.
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SPORTS
UNITE ASIAN AMERICANS
Wing Luke Museum's exhibit "Playing for Keeps: Asian
Pacific Americans in Sports" is a historical survey of famous
and not-so- famous athletes who represent a tradition that's blossoming
today but goes back generations.
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LOCAL
FILM FESTIVALS & PERFORMANCES
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