Obama has deployed almost 100,000 troops to Afghanistan. The Taliban is again on the rise. Civilian and military deaths are doubling and tripling. So called Afghanistan “experts” are on the news 24/7. But do we know...
Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch helps us go behind Google's ultimatum to China following a wave of cyber attacks on users' accounts: no more censoring of search results. What will this mean for the...
An award-winning radio journalist and Bay Area activist, Hotta was most known for being the founder and producer of "Apex Express", a weekly radio show on KPFA-FM covering Asian Pacific Islander politics and culture....
The Chinatown Film Project, up now at the Museum of Chinese in America, is a film exhibition that aims to confront stereotyped representations of Chinatown by presenting new work reimagining the space geographically and...
The last few weeks we have seen countless images of Iranians on the street--and the police brutality they are meeting--as the country confronts the election of Mahmoud Ahmadijinad over Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mohsen...
In September 2007, thousands of Buddhist monks took to the streets of Rangoon to protest the military junta. In a few days, protestors swelled to 100,000. The regime countered by shutting off the Internet and clamping...
On May 12th, 2008, China's Sichuan province was devastated by an earthquake that left 88,000 people dead and more than 5 million homeless or displaced. A year later, rebuilding continues while many children...
On February 12, 2009, Assiya Zubair was found murdered at the Bridges TV's studio, the Buffalo-based station founded by her husband to bridge understanding among diverse cultures and populations. Her husband...
Since CNN Health Correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, was announced as a nominee for the Surgeon General post last week, the media and Congress has expressed mixed feelings about him taking on the position. Gupta has been...
Last week, AsianWeek announced that it would cease publication, effective immediately. Just shy of its thirtieth anniversary, it was the oldest continuously-published Asian American periodical in the U.S. The paper,...
