Asian-American News

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month-a celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

Selangor Gerakan chief A. Kohilan Pillay has suggested that at least two Indians be appointed in the Selangor State Executive Committee to better serve the needs of the Indian community and promote a more inclusive politics.

As Bradford's National Media Museum celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema, Irna Qureshi looks back at how immigrant mill and foundry workers from across the north used to come to the city to catch a Bollywood film on their day off A detail from an image used by Bollywood Icons: 100 years of Indian cinema at the National Media Museum in Bradford ... (more)

Filmmaker and Torrance, Calif. resident, Steven Itano Wasserman , is a fourth-generation American of Japanese and Russian Jewish descent.

One of the smaller entities in the transformation of 14th and Union into an island of food and drink activity is closing its doors after one last night of service - and delivery.

A Korean group is asking school officials in Fort Lee, Leonia and Palisades Park to use textbooks that refer to the "Sea of Japan" as "The East Sea," according to a report on northjersey.com. The Korean-American Association of New Jersey has presented 1,500 signatures in favor of the name change to school officials in the three towns, according to ... (more)

Rudresh Mahanthappa creates an explosive blend of South Indian classical music and progressive jazz.

Three middle-aged women posing as psychics stole $2,000 from a superstitious Manhattan resident during a classic "bait-and-switch" and cops believe they might have committed similar crimes, sources told The Post today.

It's graduation season, and Columbia College is throwing one hell of a party before it sends its students out into the cold, hard world.

Sally is a young Hong Kong Chinese woman. She is bright, attractive, likeable - and transsexual.

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

Members of Malaysia's new cabinet have been sworn in before the King in a ceremony steeped in royal traditions.

KUWAIT CITY, May 15: The Philippine Embassy through its lawyers filed multiple rape charges against a retired Kuwaiti Marine Officer who allegedly runs a brothel in Hawalli by luring Filipino Household Service Workers to escape from their employers to work in a coffee shop but they ended up in a brothel in Hawalli.

MANILA The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh will open a field office at the Olaya District to extend consular services to Filipinos, particularly those working to correct their residency and labor status before the grace period of the Saudi Arabian government ends on July 3, 2013.

On the 24th floor of Century Plaza Towers, in his office at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, attorney Hyongsoon Kim enjoys expansive views of West L.A. and the Pacific Ocean but revels in what's closer to hand: a mess of legal briefs, boxes and court documents strewn about the room.

Pupils at Goddard Park Community Primary School enjoyed learning the arts of Origami - paper folding - and calligraphy, as well as sampling Japanese cuisine and dressing up in traditional costumes of the country.

KNOWN for innovative and ground-breaking products and services, Globe Telecom recently launched Globe DUO Korea, an international inbound calling offer for Koreans in the Philippines.

What it's about: Debut novel, set in rural Mississippi, about a young black man whose family has been ruined in the Great Flood of 1927 and is seeking his place in a violent and unjust world.

According to US tax code, all residents, green card holders and citizens of the US must declare and pay tax on their global income in the US.

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.