Asian-American News

The Indian Community Centre in Belfast has received a threat letter from Protestant extremists asking immigrants to leave Northern ireland or face bomb attacks.

DOZENS of Asian families across the North West fear they have lost fortunes in foreign investment schemes.

The conference, with the theme of "For a community of solidarity and strength, contributing to national construction", will expect the participation of about 1,000 delegates, including 650 overseas Vietnamese, who represent Vietnamese communities in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide.

Legal documents filed on behalf of Sinopec Engineering and SSEC Canada say the man agreed to contribute part of his wages to social welfare and insurance funds in China.

By Gurmukh Singh, Toronto, July 9 : Welcoming the decriminalisation of homosexuality by the Delhi High Court, a known lesbian Indian American scholar says India should now follow Nepal and allow same-sex marriages.

China could launch its first woman into space as early as 2012, state media reported.

Vietnamese culture. Pham Duc Thanh, a world renowned musician who specializes in the monochord seen here, will be performing at Viet Summer Fest on Aug.

The father of Kapil Goel, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to vehicular homicide in a car crash that killed his two roommates, is seeking an independent investigation into allegations that a police officer refused to help the three Indian American victims because of their race.

On the eve of July 4, six council members from San Gabriel and Alhambra, two cities in Los Angeles County, encouraged Chinese Americans to raise the American flag as a display of patriotism, reports the Sing Tao Daily.

But China's most popular internet portals and forums have carried a stream of abuse from Chinese directed at Uighur Muslims, the ethnic minority at the heart of the unrest in the country's far West.

TWO Chinese women are facing deportation following raids on suspected brothels in Chalkwell and Westcliff.

Women in Toronto's South Asian community are not being tested for sexually transmitted diseases during checkups as consistently as other women, a health activist says.

Actor Kal Penn has started his new job as a liaison between the White House and Asian communities.

MINNEAPOLIS - A series of drug raids across the Twin Cities this week highlights what authorities say is a growing national trend: Sophisticated pot-growing operations at homes in quiet suburban neighborhoods.

Kuala Lumpur, July 5 : The Malaysian Indian Congress wants to rope in a network of NGOs to reach out to the Indian community that it hopes to win back after last year's poll setback.

Togo W. Tanaka, a former journalist and businessman whose reports on life inside the Manzanar internment camp illuminated divisions in the Japanese American community after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the tensions that eventually erupted in riots at the World War II-era detention center, has died.

External Affairs Minister S. M Krishna on Sunday concluded his four-day visit to Japan.

India Gazette Saturday 4th July, 2009 Indian hockey team captain Sandeep Singh will be inducted as an officer in the Haryana police, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced Saturday.

When my Native Sun News broke the story about the Custer figurine astride a motorcycle, packed into a McDonald's Happy Meal, most Native Americans - particularly the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho - were not happy.

Less than three years ago, a young Vietnamese woman fell to her death from the 10th floor of a block of apartments in Singaporea s Toa Payoh District.