April 12, 2013

Seattle

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Actress Huang "Junie" Hoang has lost her lawsuit. She sued IMDb for refusing her request to remove her correct age from her IMDb Pro account. A federal jury in Seattle ruled against her lawsuit.  

Hoang, now 41, originally filed suit in October 2011 against IMDb.com and its parent company Amazon.com for revealing her true date of birth, which she said opened her up to age discrimination. 

In March 18, 2013, all of her claims against Amazon and all but one of her claims against IMDb were dismissed, and on April 12, 2013, a jury found that IMDb was not liable for the remaining claim for breach of contract.

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by Suzanne Joe Kai

In 2010, the Asian American Journalists Association honored Mario Machado inducting him onto its new Honor Roll of Asian American Pioneers in U.S. Journalism (1925-1975) at AAJA's 29th annual National Convention in Los Angeles.

In 1999, Machado was honored by the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco. The CHSA produced this video which has excerpts of some of his early broadcasts.

As fellow pioneer television broadcaster Christopher Chow says about Mario:

"Everybody in our field and in the Asian American community owes him for opening doors for us and for helping us to gain credibility and opportunities.  Not only did he perform well on air but he actively advocated for us, for our inclusion, for the hiring and promoting of Asian Pacific Islander journalists by news media organizations all across America. Mario, we salute you."

Chow wrote about Mario in his "Casting Our Voices" for the Chinese Historical Society's tribute to Chinese American Pioneer Broadcasters:

"His father's Portuguese name and his Chinese mother's heritage steeled...

In the largest live worldwide concert in history, LIVE EARTH concerts raised awareness to combat Global Warming to millions of people. View images of the Shanghai and Tokyo concerts, part of a series taking place over the 24-hour period July 7 across seven continents.

In the largest live worldwide concert in history, LIVE EARTH concerts raised awareness to combat Global Warming on July 7, 2007.

Launched by former US Vice President Al Gore to combat Global Warming, with partner Kevin Wall the producer of Live 8, Gore hopes that finally, this can be the tipping point of a "Green Revolution" worldwide to save the planet.

View images of the Shanghai and Tokyo concerts, part of a series that took place over the 24-hour period across seven continents.

The concerts in New York, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney were joined by more than 10,000 "Friends of Live Earth" events in 129 countries, and all 50 states in the U.S.

Find out how you can participate by going green!

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Academy-Award-winning director Jessica Yu's PING PONG PLAYA is the AAIFF08 Closing Night Presentation.

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In her narrative feature debut, Academy-Award-winning director Jessica Yu (BREATHING LESSONS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARK O'BRIEN, IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL) departs from her usual fare of documentary film into the sport of ping pong and, along the way, lampoons the common perceptions and misconceptions regarding the Asian American experience for the AAIFF08 Closing Night Presentation: PING PONG PLAYA.

In PING PONG PLAYA, all that's politically correct and incorrect coalesces in Christopher "C-dub" Wang, Jimmy Tsai's caricature of a trash talkin', smart aleck, b-baller-wannabe who spends his time lamenting the genetic shortcomings that have prevented him from becoming the first Chinese American to play in the NBA. When older brother, doctor and model minority, Michael (Roger Fan, FINISHING THE GAME, BETTER LUCK TOMORROW), sustains a wrist injury, it's up to C-dub to defend the family's title at the National Golden Cock Tournament.

The Closing Night Reception & Awards Ceremony will follow the screening. The filmmaker discusses her creative process in an intimate "One On One with Jessica Yu," Saturday, July 19 at 145pm, as part of our inaugural New Landscapes: Media & Its Adaptations panel series.

When: Thursday, Jul 19, 700pm
Where: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th St)
Tickets: Closing Night Presentation...

Tokyo

May 13, 2013 

Haruki Murakami Photo credit: Random House
When Haruki Murakami's latest book became available for pre-order in Japan last month it broke the country's record for pre-orders on Amazon.co.jp within eleven days.

After the first week of the release, Bungeishungu, his publisher in Japan ordered one million copies to be printed. Last month book stores in Japan opened at midnight to greet long lines of customers. Haruki Murakami's latest novel is Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. This is his first new novel since writing best-selling IQ84 three years ago which also received worldwide acclaim. Murakami's books have been translated into 42 languages. Murakami lives near Tokyo and was born in Kyoto in 1949. 

Murakami was a writing fellow at Princeton Univeresity in Princeton, New Jersey, Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

No word yet on when Murakami's latest book will be translated into English, but if you can read Japanese you can check it out here.

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