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DECEMBER 2002 NEWS

US Asians would like to personally express our hope that the Christmas season of all our worldwide supporters will be filled with thanksgiving and holiday cheer during these historic times.

Our invitation is extended to discover the many exciting things and people that are from and/or affecting the Asian/Asian Pacific American communities.

Discover the latest events in the following categories

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YOUR MUSICAL INPUT IS NEEDED as we seek identify the best songs from our music artists.

Click HERE to have your opinion heard on the following music groups:

  • Quell (Industrial Noise)
  • Ghost Orgy (pop)
  • Bad Candie (folk rock)
  • Second Wind (r&b)
  • N.E.R.D.
  • String Cheese Incident (jam band)
  • Junoon (rock)
  • Vanessa Mae (International Pop)
  • A-Mei (R&B/Pop)
  • Silverscene (Rock)
  • Eskapo (Rock
  • Kristine Sa (Pop)
  • Mango Pirates (Alternative)
  • Sprakataks (Rock)
  • Karmacy (rap)

Click HERE on your views if people would come to a Hollywood night club showcasing prominent Asian Pacific American music artists.


FEATURED ARTISTS & LEADERS

Deborah Marr

DEBORAH MARR Deborah T. Marr is the CPU architect responsible for Hyper-Threading Technology in the Desktop Products Group.

Hyperthreading technology makes a single physical processor appear as multiple logical processors; simply put, the physical execution resources are shared and the architecture state is duplicated for each logical processor.

From a software or architecture perspective, this means operating systems and user programs can schedule processes or threads to logical processors as they would on conventional physical processors. From a microarchitecture perspective, this means that instructions from both logical processors will persist and execute simultaneously on shared execution resources.

Deborah has been at Intel for over ten years. She first joined Intel in 1988 and made significant contributions to the Intel 386SX processor, the P6 processor microarchitecture, and the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor microarchitecture.

Her interests are in high-performance microarchitecture and performance analysis. Deborah received her B.S. degree in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, and her M.S. degree in ECE from Cornell University in 1992.

The Cornell graduate is one of a handful of female computer chip designers in a field that is 95% male.

Sue Ann Kim

SUE ANN KIM

Ms. Kim was born in Taegur, South Korea, and taught and worked as a principal there for over ten years.

She is a survivor of the Korean War and remembers a time in South Korea when "all the country was just ashes, everything was just burned."

She came to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1959. Kim received her doctorate in education at UCLA in 1970. Her dissertation focused on how vocational education could be improved in South Korea.

She was the first Korean woman to receive a doctorate degree from UCLA.

Kim has served as President of the YWCA of Los Angeles; chair of the Board of the Pacific Consortium on Employment (PACE); vice chair of the Board of the Korean Institute of Southern California; and on numerous other community organizations.

She also has been honored by the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission in its "Bicentennial Salute to Los Angeles Women of the Year" and has received numerous other awards.

EAST WEST PLAYERS

East West Players

East West Players is the first and foremost Asian Pacific American theatre in the country.

EWP is the "place" where Asian Pacific American theatre was born, producing a variety of different plays including traditional classics, huge Broadway productions, and plays specific to the Asian American experience.

Perhaps even more encouraging is that EWP has been a model for the numerous other Asian Pacific American and Asian Pacific Canadian theatres now in existence in North America.

East West Players was founded by nine artists in 1965 and is now home to over 600 ethnically diverse artists each year. Over seventy-five percent of all Asian Pacific performers in the acting unions living in Los Angeles have worked at East West Players.

East West Players has provided training and opportunities to many emerging and professional artists who have gone on win Tony Awards, Obie Awards, Emmy Awards, Theatre L.A. Ovation Awards, and nominated for Academy Awards.

EWP alumni include Mako, John Lone, B.D. Wong, David Henry Hwang, Philip Kan Gotanda, Freda Foh Shen, Roberta Uno, R.A. Shiomi, Judith Nihei, Alec Mapa, Wakako Yamauchi, Amy Hill, Sala Iwamatsu, and Nobu McCarthy.

East West Players has also had the opportunity to work with many respected artists and faculty such as actors Danny Glover, Tsai Chin, Lauren Tom, and Nancy Kwan, directors, Lisa Peterson and Oskar Eustis, musician Dan Kuramoto and instructors Calvin Remsberg and Fran Bennett.

Since its founding, EWP has premiered over 100 plays and musicals about the Asian Pacific American experience and, through its many artistic and educational programs, has held over 1,000 readings and workshops.

EAST WEST’S LATEST PROJECT
ANDREW TSAO’S “THE TEMPEST”

Cast of the Tempest

“Matthew Yang King does the most chameleonic double duty as he switches between the character who is the play’s homeliest and the character who is the play’s handsome young stud.” -- Los Angeles Times

“The unique interpretation of a classic tale is compelling and spell-binding and is the performance for fans of old and new.” -- NoHo LA

On an island somewhere far away from here and now lives the exiled Duke of Milan Prospero and his daughter; a spirit; and a half-human beast. Fate and destiny come together to bring Prospero’s enemies to this magical island where revenge, desire, love and forgiveness all work to bring a wronged man back to humanity. Acclaimed Shakespearean director Andrew Tsao blends Eastern and Western techniques in movement, costumes and music to create a hip, young, sexy production

Esther K. Chae, Daniel Dae Kim, Matthew Yang King, Kipp Shiotani, Trieu Tran, Gwendoline Yeo and Ogie Zulueta are featured in Andrew Tsao’s version of Shakespeare.

REVIEW OF ANDREW TSAO’S “THE TEMPEST
The cast is up for the athletic demands, but playing multiple roles works against East West Players production . . . . . .


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R.I.P. - KAM FONG
KAM FONG passed away on October 18.

From 1968 to 1978 Fong played Detective Chin Ho Kelly on "Hawaii Five-O" the second longest-running police series in television history (the series ended in 1980).

SHINSEKI’S FIGHT VS. TERROISM
Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army's chief of staff, is helping to direct a low-intensity war in Afghanistan and preparing for a possible invasion of Iraq.

His most formidable adversary these days is on the third floor of the Pentagon: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

JOHN WOO’S “THE HOSTAGE
BMW films and RSA USA, Inc. announced today the line-up of renowned Hollywood directors who will take the helm of the next three installments of The Hire Internet film series. The films are underwritten by BMW and includes a production by John Woo.

BEAU SIA AND STACYANN CHIN ON BROADWAY
A revolution is being undertaken at the Longacre Theatre, and it's being led by Russell Simmons and Stan Lathan.

The two men behind Def Poetry Jam on Broadway are dedicated to proving that poetry needn't be ancient or stodgy, but that it can still prove driving and inspiring to the current generation with multi-ethnic performers such as Beau Sia and Stacyann Chin.

REVIEW - “A DRAGON’S ROAR”
Review of the September 1, 2002 music event that featured groups from Japan, Hong Kong, Florida, San Francisco, Houston and Southern California.

ANNIE GUO
Asian Pacific American organizations in demanding that Ventura County Police admit to gross negligence in the shooting of 14-year-old Anna Guo, end its malicious prosecution and release her immediately.

CHINA’S RICHEST BUSINESS PEOPLE
Larry Rong Zhijian (CITIC Pacific Group Hong Kong), Xu Rongmao (Group Shanghai) and Sun Guangxin (Guanghui Group) are among China’s richest business people.

RACISM DURING WWII
Racism was rampant following the Japanese attack on that infamous Sunday morning. Wartime hysteria led to the imprisonment of about 120,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps that peppered the western part of the nation.

Ted Ohira’s (recipient of three Bronze Stars) memory of that white face, that voice so saturated with hate that stated "Hey you dirty Jap."

"After all that combat. I went through five major battles in Europe, and I received lots of awards and medals. … And then one day, in downtown Los Angeles, I hear this: `Hey you dirty Jap.'

"I don't cry. I didn't then. I got mad and I wanted to beat that guy up, but I said `this guy is ignorant.' I had enough of fighting and I just walked away."

REVIEW OF YOYO MA’S “SILK ROAD PROJECT
The message of cultural understanding works well, but host Yo-Yo Ma's overwrought playing raises some interesting questions at UCLA’s Royce Hall performance.

SHI ANN HUANG
Shi Ann Huang gets kicked off "Survivor." She mentioned in her final words that she was "really honored" to be the first Asian American to be on the show and said a few words in Chinese to her family.

NAVY DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
The Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award were given in acknowledgment of the work of many Japanese Americans during World War II as Japanese language teachers at the U.S. Navy Language School in Boulder, Colo.

“THE ROCK” WINS DIVERSITY AWARD
"The Rock," whose real name is Dwayne Johnson, received the 2002 Nova Award as the voters' choice for the best rising star of the year.

Johnson's movie credits include "The Scorpion King" and "The Mummy Returns."

BLT’S RELEASE DATES
Sources tell us that Justin's film BETTER LUCK TOMORROW will be released in three (3) cities that weekend - LA, NY, and SF by MTV in early 2003.

APA’S ON TV

  • September 30 - October 6, 2002
  • October 7 - 13, 2002
  • October 14 - 20, 2002
  • October 28 - November 3, 2002
  • November 11 - 17, 2002
  • November 18 - 24, 2002
  • November 25 - December 1, 2002
  • December 2 - 8, 2002

    APA FIRST WEEKEND FILM CLUB
    Support the films listed in David Magdael’s “APA First Weekend Film Club” e-zine.

    APAIT OBSERVES WORLD AIDS DAY
    The Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT), Southern California's largest provider of HIV/AIDS services to Asians and Pacific Islanders, observes World AIDS Day on December 1, 2002 by presenting "A Journey to Hope" in Little Tokyo.

    HEROES OF COLOR
    With the “Browning of America” - that's meant new marketing strategies for studios.

    "What we're seeing is the browning of America," says Santiago Pozo, who has served as marketing consultant for Universal films such as "The Mummy Returns" and "Scorpion King."

    "So young moviegoers want black and brown heroes. When they see the Rock or Vin Diesel, they recognize themselves."

    EDITING OF ASIAN FILMS
    Tired of watching films "butchered" by American distributors, U.S.-based Asian movie buffs are demanding that Disney stop altering Hong Kong films they distribute.

    SHINQ-CHERN (SEAN) LIOU
    The Honorable Claude A. Allen, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, formally installed Sean Liou as the newest member of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 11, 2002.

    ACCENT DISCRIMINATION CASE DISMISSED
    The agency found direct evidence of national origin (Korean) discrimination where the selecting official said that complainant would never be promoted because her accent made her too difficult to understand.

    The agency found no evidence that complainant's accent would have interfered with her ability to perform a Budget Analyst position.

    On appeal, the Commission found that the agency failed to meet its burden of showing, by clear and convincing evidence, that it would not have promoted complainant during the period at issue even absent discrimination.

    MULTIETHNIC MARKETING
    Even in 2002, there are countless examples of big businesses offending minority communities and potential customers, by creating ad campaigns, corporate policies or making statements that are deeply offensive.

    'Respect is very important to everyone, but especially for Asian Americans,' stated InterTrend’s Rita Cheng.

    ASIAN LANGUAGE MARKETING
    Despite a lack of attention from mainstream advertisers, Asian language marketing remains the staple of Asian-American media consumption.

    The high volume of Asian-language media is no surprise, considering more than 60 percent of Asians living in the country are foreign-born.

    Asian-language media garnered $400 million in advertising for the fiscal year 2000, up from $300 million in 1997

    INDIAN AMERICAN MARKETING
    According to the Census Bureau, Asian Indians have the highest per capita income and spending power of any Asian ethnic group.

    RACISM TOWARDS INDIAN AMERICAN POLITICIAN
    Republican leaders withdrew their support of a state House candidate who questioned whether her opponent can represent Iowans since she is an immigrant from India.

    Karen Balderston made her comments about Democrat Swati Dandekar in a Sept. 29 e-mail to a conservative political action committee.

    STORIES FROM THE APIA COMMUNITIES
    A yearlong investigation by The Sun and the Orlando Sentinel has found that more than 2,000 Micronesians and Marshall islanders have been brought to the United States on one-way tickets.

    They were consigned to years of virtual servitude by a handful of small-time entrepreneurs who exploit a little-known 16-year-old Compact of Free Association that allows the island residents to settle and work here without visas.

    CHARLES WANG STEPS DOWN
    As Computer Associates International Inc. fights off challenges on legal and financial fronts, Charles Wang stepped down as its chairman yesterday - 26 years after co-founding a company that became virtually synonymous with his hard-driving persona.

    LISA LEAVES “THE VIEW”
    After three years, Lisa Ling leaving “The View” to take a job as an international reporter for National Geographic Television.

    QBERT & YOYO LOVE APPLES
    Watch qBert and YoYo Ma in their commercials for Apple Computers.

    UIC’S ASIAN AMERICAN CENTER
    Approved on November 7, 2002 by the new UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) provost, Michael Tanner, the Asian American Coalition Committee (AACC) will search for a director of the university’s upcoming Asian American Center.

    UIC’S 1ST HIRE - MARK CHIANG
    The UIC Department of English has hired Mark Chiang from the University of Pennsylvania and Helen Jun from the University of California, San Diego as the first two Asian American faculty member ever in UIC's history.

    Chiang and Jun will join the department for the fall semester of 2002. Jun also is a joint hire under the Department of African American Studies.

    L.A.’S LACK OF DIVERSITY
    Segregation is on the wane in neighborhoods across California, giving way to racially diverse communities from Vallejo to Moreno Valley, according to a study released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).

    However, diversity varies widely across the state - Los Angeles neighborhoods are still highly segregated, while those in Sacramento are far more racially diverse.

    CHINA’S RICHEST PEOPLE
    Li Ka Shing, Kwok family and Lee Shau Kee are three of China’s richest people.

    1ST VIETNAMESE VOTED TO SCHOOL BOARD
    Lan Nguyen won a seat on the Garden Grove Unified School District board.

    The victory makes Nguyen the first Vietnamese American to be elected to a school board, according to the Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials, a division of the National League of Cities.

    TORAICHI KONO - CHAPLIN’S PERSONAL VALET
    He was born 1888 and moved to the US at the age of 17 or 18 to become a lawyer. He saw an article in a newspaper providing a job as a chauffeur with Charlie Chaplin.

    APA POLITICIANS
    The number of Asian Pacific American Democratic candidates outnumbered Republican candidates by a 2 to 1 margin in last week's mid-term general election, according to research findings in “On the Ballot.”

    Some of the latest information regarding Asian Pacific American politicians are as follows:

    • 51% Asian Pacific American candidates won their elections
    • 91% of the incumbents won
    • 43% of the APA candidates were in Hawaii
    • 30% of the APA candidates were in California and
    • Japanese/Chinese American communities had the most candidates,

    NYC’S ETHNIC BREAKDOWN
    The Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute at New York University today announced the release of a report that examines the political, social, and demographic shifts in New York City that contribute to the current discussions on redistricting.

    The report is especially timely since district lines must be drawn to reflect the results of the most recent Census.

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