Jeremy Lin, an Asian-American Harvard graduate, couldn’t find a role in the league. Then he scored 53 points in two games for the Knicks.
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Jeremy Lin Has Burst From N.B.A. Novelty Act to Knicks Star
Founded to teach Americans about Asia, an organization is trying to strengthen ties among Asians too.
A former senior policeman calls for the murder of an Asian waiter in Lanarkshire more than 13 years ago to be re-investigated.
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Call to reopen 1998 murder case
The S.&P. 500 was statistically unchanged for the year, while the Dow was up 5.5 percent. Major European and Asian indexes declined by double-digit percentages.
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American Stock Markets End 2011 Where They Started
The shift across the international date line is intended to align Samoa with its Asian trading partners, making it easier to do business with Australia and New Zealand.
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Samoa to Skip Friday and Switch Time Zones
Although it's the people from Guangdong province who have the reputation for eating just about anything, Shanghai foodies are no slouches. You can find plenty of weird eats around the city that you might actually enjoy if you know where to look. For this list we stayed away from the shock value – no sheep penis here – and sought out what locals are actually eating. Read “Shanghai's weirdest foods” on CNNGo. View This Poll
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What’s for dinner? In Shanghai, it’s bees and sea worms
As traffic whizzed past them, a group of tiny Asian women in long bright skirts and plastic sandals walked single file along the edge of East-West Highway in Riverdale, headed for the Megamart. Deomaya Dharjmer, 49, led the way, cheerfully determined to conquer her alien new world. Barely a year ago, she and her friends were living in bamboo and thatch huts in Nepal, waiting for someone to decid e their fate. For 18 years, they had languished in crowded U.N. camps, where 100,000 mostly Hindu refugees of Nepalese descent had been driven from next-door Bhutan by a Buddhist regime. Read full article > >
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Refugees from Bhutan face strange new world of Maryland suburbs
Shares in Asian makers of computer chips fall after industry leader Intel cuts its revenue forecast due to floods in Thailand.
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Intel forecast hits chipmakers
GUAM — As he hopscotched across the Asian Pacific over the past nine days, President Obama cast himself as a leader determined to protect American interests and spread American values, willing to project power and take political risks for the sake of a better future. It was a message that returned a degree of lift and optimism — and the notion of American exceptionalism — to the president’s political oratory, elements that have been largely absent in recent months as he has focused on the grinding task of creating jobs and curbing unemployment at home . Read full article > >
As he begins a nine-day trip to the Asia-Pacific region on Friday, President Obama is aiming to reassure jittery U.S. allies and emerging nations that they have another avenue to prosperity, at a time when an increasingly aggressive China is extending its own sphere of influence. At each stop — a pair of regional summits in Honolulu and Bali, Indonesia, sandwiched around a visit to Australia to highlight a military alliance — Obama will send a clear signal that the United States is a “Pacific power,” eager to help build economic success and security in the fast-developing region. Read full article > >
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Questions surrounding a death at an American outpost in Afghanistan threaten to harm attitudes toward the military in the Asian-American community.
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After Soldier’s Death, a Chinatown Family Seeks Answers
Maryland’s General Assembly on Thursday approved — and Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law — a partisan plan designed to pick up another House seat for Democrats by anchoring most of the state’s eight congressional districts in suburban Washington, where minority populations are surging. Most dramatically, the plan stretches a rural Western Maryland district held by the state’s senior Republican lawmaker nearly 200 miles from the border of West Virginia to the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County to pick up African American, Asian, Hispanic and other reliably Democratic voters. Read full article > >
BANGKOK — Hoping for a lenient sentence, a shackled U.S. citizen pleaded guilty Monday to charges of defaming Thailand’s royal family, a grave crime in the Southeast Asian kingdom punishable by up to 15 years in jail. Thai-born American Joe Gordon has been detained since late May for translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and posting them online. Gordon committed the alleged crimes years ago while living in the U.S. state of Colorado, where he worked as a car salesman. The case has raised concerns about the reach of Thai law and how it is applied to both Thai nationals and foreign visitors. Read full article > >
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American man pleads guilty to charges of insulting monarchy in Thailand
When volunteers open the doors at the Arlington Food Assistance Center these fall mornings, people are always waiting. They are young and older, white, black, Hispanic, Asian and all of the other ethnicities found in the increasingly diverse county. Some have children in tow; others grasp only the handles of their reusable grocery bags. Some have familiar faces, but many waiting quietly in line are new clients, and there are more and more of them. Read full article > >
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Arlington food bank sees record demand
MANILA, Philippines — The second typhoon in a week battered the rain-soaked northern Philippines on Saturday, adding misery to thousands of people, some of whom still perched on rooftops while several other Asian nations also reeled from flooding. Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore midmorning Saturday south of northeastern Palanan Bay in Isabela province with winds of 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour and dangerous gusts of 121 mph (195 kph). Read full article > >
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