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JANUARY 2003 NEWS
As we enter the year of 2003, an 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 listed below. Upon “clicking” on each link, one will have the ability to obtain additional specific information on each event. OBITUARIES MEDIA NEWS
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MUSIC NEWS FEATURED LEADER REVIEWS INTERVIEWS NEWS FROM ASIA
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FEATURED ARTISTS & LEADERS In November 2002, as Computer Associates International Inc. (whose software is used by companies to run mainframe computers and manage networks) fights off challenges on legal and financial fronts, Charles Wang stepped down as chairman with Sanjay Kumar taking his place. This is 26 years after co-founding a company that became virtually synonymous with his hard-driving persona to spend more time with his charitable and personal business interests. Wang, though sufficiently software savvy, is primarily known as an empire builder who has engineered Computer Associates' takeover of more than 50 software makers. Despite being known as an undiplomatic and combative competitor, he has made CA a global company with 16,000 employees and one of the most prominent public companies based on Long Island. Computer Associates is fifth in the world among all software makers and second only (at $3.5 billion in annual sales) to Microsoft among software makers that are not tied to a single computer hardware manufacturer. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1944 and moved to the United States with his family in 1952 after his father, a judge, fled Shanghai in the wake of the communist revolution. Wang grew up in Queens Village, where neighbors once took up a petition to keep his Chinese family from moving in, went to Brooklyn Technical High School and then Queens College. He put more energy into after-school jobs at a grocery store and the post office than homework. Wang's father, Kenneth, went to night school so he could practice law again and became a St. John's Law School professor, while his mother, Mary, took a library clerk job and later became branch manager. They settled in Queens, their former ornate home in the French Quarter of Shanghai replaced by a walk-up in Queens Village. The pragmatic native of Shanghai, China, who had a knack for math and physics, decided computer programmer was the job that was in greatest demand and that's what he would become. Upon graduating from Queens College, Wang became a programmer trainee at a Columbia University research lab, where Russell Artzt became his friend. In 1976, they formed Computer Associates, which began marketing software in the United States for a Swiss company of the same name that was given a 50-percent stake in the new CA in New York City. Wang, 51, began acquiring companies shortly after he bought CA in 1976, with the money he'd made selling the tiny company's mainframe data-management program. In the company's early days, Wang, who was married and father of a daughter, had to borrow $400 on his credit card to make his payroll. This was the start of a brilliant but turbulent and often controversial career at Computer Associates and fended off fierce attacks on many of the company's practices and tactics regarding excessive executive pay, prickly customer relations, questionable accounting and weak corporate governance. In 2002, its accounting was being investigated by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company went public in 1981. As a result, $12 million was raised that launched a stock that was used for many acquisitions through the years. Mr. Wang is personally philanthropic and active in charitable causes such as The Smile Train, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and many other philanthropic activities focused on children. Wang and Kumar accumulated enough wealth by 2000 that they were able to buy the New York Islanders hockey team for 175 million dollars. As of the 2002 proxy, Wang personally and through stock held by his wife and in trust for his children, as well as those in a charitable foundation, owned 28.44 million shares in CA, currently worth $437 million. His wife, Nancy Li, is head of a CA subsidiary. . Wang's local real estate companies include Island Properties LLC, which owns 70 properties, mostly in downtown Oyster Bay, and Plainview Properties LLC, which owns 144 acres of former Nassau County land and buildings in Plainview. Wang is divorced from his first wife. He and his second wife have a 3-year-old daughter and live in a mansion in Cove Neck. ASIAN AMERICAN CENTER The center's (officially known as the Charles B. Wang Center) opening in the Fall of 2002 coincides with the start of Stony Brook’s new academic department of Asian and Asian-American studies, with courses ranging from Indian music to Chinatowns of the world. It is the first university department, where nearly a third of the students are of Asian descent, that combines Far Eastern and Asian American studies. The center houses a theater, teleconferencing and lecture halls, galleries, a chapel, multiuse space and pools, gardens, atriums and courtyards for casual gatherings. The architect, Pao-Hwa Tuan - a distant Wang in-law - designed it for live performances, films, lectures, seminars, exhibits and other activities. The complex will have a food court offering Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean and Thai cuisine. The center was nearly three years behind schedule because Charles Wang’s original gift for $25 million “hallway renovation” eventually blossomed into a $55+ million 120,000 feet complex. Mr. Wang's gift, through his foundation, is the largest private donation to the state university system, part of a welcome trend in these times of tightening government aid. Ironically, the center has stirred a bit of controversy because some students have grumbled that other groups with rich cultures lack a special center because they do not have a wealthy benefactor. OBJECT OF RACISM Despite his enormous success and wealth, Charles Wang had tasted the power of racial prejudice. In 1998 Wang had initiated a $9 billion hostile tender offer for the shares of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). The Washington Post weighed in on the side of CSC's management by alluding to CA's "ties to foreigners". It was a pointed reference to Wang's origin and CA's clients in China. The suggestion was that becoming linked with CA would jeopardize CSC's contracts with U.S. government agencies. After much agonizing, Wang dropped the tender offer. The episode remained in his mind as his first encounter with overt racial discrimination in the business world. That his ethnicity might negatively influence the government's pending investigation would certainly have entered his mind. Key dates in the career of Charles Wang
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R.I.P. - JOHN CHANG
DIVERSITY COALITION UNDER FIRE
YA WANNA BE A STAR?
EWP INVITE FROM MR. SULU
Although our families had been a part of the United States since the 1800s like many other families, our presence and true histories had yet to be recognized by the industry and the general public as Americans.
Finally, in 1965, a group of actors forged their own solution: to form their own theatre company.
Our dear friend, Beulah QuoBeulah Quo, was one of those brave pioneers. She was a tireless advocate for East West Players. Though her sudden passing saddened us, we continue on with her spirit and force.
Because of your support, the quality of our artistic and educational programs makes EWP a leader in creating engaging and empowering theatre that gives voice to the Asian American experience.
I hope you will take the time to consider East West Players this holiday season.
George Takei - EWP Council of Governors
VP RECORDS SIGNS WITH ATLANTIC RECORDS
VP Records (formed by Vincent and Pat Chin - , established in 1979 as a retail store, is the largest independent label for new Jamaican music in the United States, and holds a predominant position in the influential hip-hop-flavored dancehall niche.
This new agreement excludes certain selected territories where VP currently has distribution arrangements in place.
NO SEOUL FOR BOND
It is the target of fierce criticism among young Koreans who claim the picture is culturally ignorant and degrading to Korea as a whole.
CBS SHOW WITH AN ASIAN PLOT
Does their plot regarding an Asian crime ring provide something positive or negative?
LILO’S $45M START
The approximately $45 million in revenue to the studio ranks as one of the biggest opening days for a video title for 2002.
ASIAN PAY TV RISING
The current number of 157 million pay TV subscribers should grow to 228 million in the next eight years, with the China and India markets key to this growth.
The cable and satellite association (CASBAA) also expects digital TV to expand from 7.9 million homes in 2002 to 166 million by 2010.
CHINA GOES DIGITAL
ABC’S GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
The program is designed to assist high school and college students as well as members of non-profit arts institutions by providing support to assist their development of a new creative idea or the completion of an existing creative project.
ABC will distribute the financial support in the form of scholarships and/ or grants to help finance these creative efforts.
Selected participants will be paired with a mentor.
The program concludes with a 3-day workshop in Los Angeles at ABC Entertainment and the Walt Disney Studios.
ABC will award the scholarships/grants through the participating high schools, colleges/universities, civic/social service, professional organizations, educational governing boards, etc.
AWARDS IN SHANGHAI
BILL HING ON DEPORTATION
Contrast that sentence with what awaits lawful immigrants and refugees convicted of minor offenses such as shoplifting and bad-check writing: deportation.
Yes, some have committed more serious crimes involving violence or narcotics, but all have been incarcerated and then deported on top of that.
APA FIRST WEEKEND FILM CLUB
UNIVERSAL BEATS DISNEY TO CHINA
APA’S ON TV
TAKE CARE OF MY CAT REVIEW
Hollywood films about recent high school grads tend to focus on sex, partying, and planning for college.
These Korean girls have their share of fun, but they have critical life issues to deal with, and the film presents them in a painstakingly realistic way.
DISNEY IS GOING ONLINE GAMING
SOUTH ASIAN HEALTH REPORT
JIN & DEVON ARE FAST & FURIOUS
The role of the film's top auto mechanic went to Jin, a Chinese-American hip-hop artist Singleton discovered "doing freestyle rapping, shutting all the brothers down"
on a BET music show.
WELLESLEY’S ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN
Set to open in 2005, AUW will be a residential liberal arts university, with extensive professional training programs, for women from Asia, with a special emphasis on educating women from diverse social, economic, and religious backgrounds.
FILIPINO AMERICAN LEADERS
JACKIE GIVES TO CHARITY
The donation, made in memory of his late mother Lee Lee Chan who died in February 28, 2002 and will be used to buy a machine to identify genes which cause cancer and other diseases.
BEIJING GOES HOLLYWOOD
AVAILABLE GRANTS FOR ARTISTS
GODZILLA SIGNS WITH THE YANKEES
INTERVIEW WITH YOYO MA
EUGENE LEAVING S.E.S.
MICHAEL CHANG INTERVIEW
APA MAGAZINE
Their mission statement states that they want "to illuminate Asian America through informative, engaging investigation of lives, culture and politics."
CLICK2ASIA’S ONLINE DATING SERVICES
Here you can find your ideal Asian partner for everything from pen pals, casual dating, to serious relationships.”
Click2Asia’s mission statement is “to build and promote a globally accessible community in which Asian singles of (all ages), interested in meeting other quality Asians could comfortably find romance or friendship.
Given the hectic schedules of today’s young professionals, traditional avenues of meeting and dating are simply not effective enough to accomplish the goal of finding a suitable match.
Click2Asia will enable people to easily and actively search for their ideal mate and then facilitate opportunities to meet at fun and exciting offline events.”
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