Asian-American News

Joel Buenaventura and Chris Chanyasulkit, Members of the Massachusetts Asian American Commission, join State Sen.

The seeds of Woo Jin Edward Lee's commitment to social equality were sewn back in his childhood.

On February 1, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin sentenced Arvind Ahuja, a Milwaukee neurosurgeon, to serve three years of probation and to pay a fine of $350,000 following his conviction by a federal jury of one felony count of willful failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank Account and one felony count of filing ... (more)

Sinh Lam mans an overflowing grill Sunday in Old Sacramento, preparing his San Jose company's Thai Kabobs.

The problem of batteries draining out has been intensified with the arrival of smartphones as these phones come loaded with hundreds of applications that consume lot of battery.

South Bay Democratic Rep. Mike Honda, seeking 2014 re-election, has announced a host of endorsements from Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders - including actors George Takei and Kal Penn, and Maya Soetoro-Ng, the sister of President Barack Obama.

Chen Guangcheng is a blind self-taught lawyer and famous human rights activist in China.

June will begin with a diverse variety of opportunities for serious listening. For those interested in talent of the future, the 28th annual Irving M. Klein String Competition will take place on June 8 and 9. I plan to write about that in greater detail in the near future, but the other concert activities of that weekend are likely to be just as ... (more)

If Mohammad Rahro, 91, had gone to just any senior center in Maryland, chances are he would not have encountered someone who remembered the headmaster with four wives who rode to school each day on a beloved white donkey.

Whether you like it or not, gaining weight during pregnancy is inevitable. The growth and development of babies depend on it.

A grassroots organization on the Lower East Side is working hard to reduce the high rate of suicide in the Asian American community, and for the first time in years, they believe they are making progress due to the highly publicized suicide of soldier Danny Chen.

So far there are no Filipino casualties in tornadoes that wrecked havoc in Oklahoma and other Midwest cities in the United States, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported on Tuesday.

Noel Coward once sang that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun," but he never attended the Pacific Rim Street Fest, where more than 10,000 visitors poured into Old Sacramento on Sunday.

Since its inception in December 2012, Kiriko -a joint project between graphic designer Dawn Yanagihara and Compound Gallery owner Katsu Tanaka-has taken off.

In celebration of Asian Heritage month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee of Actors' Equity Association and ReImagined World Entertainment presented "The Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project," a free evening of original works created and sung by Asian American theatre artists.

Asian-Americans have the highest income and education levels of any racial group in the country.

Boggs will attend University of Georgia in the fall, where he is undecided, but may major in Chinese with double minor in Korean and chemistry.

Instead of a "national reconciliation" pronounced by the Prime Minister on the night of election, what we are witnessing today is the "national aggravation" of race-relations by all UMNO and BN-related machinery, particularly the Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia and Umno's team of bloggers and cyber-troopers. The situation, with absolutely no restraint ... (more)

When it comes to buying entertainment for ethnic viewers, there is no-one-size-fits-all concept.

Channel 7 sports presenter Sandy Roberts caused a Twitter stir after putting on an Indian accent during a news broadcast.