that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice fong. i said, do you want to be in the city? yes, i want to be in the city. they were asking me about twitter. they play some of the zynga games. they did not know that their headquarters were here, but they need to know that, growing up. we want the chinese companies to also use san francisco as their headquarters and to continue to be the gateway. people love that about the city. asian families, the matter their income -- they could be a hotel workers, garment workers, for ceo's, they all want -- or ceo's, they all want a quality city. my job is to make sure they trust government, so that when we say something, we do it. what i do not like it, and past relationships with the government, they could not do what they said. that is where the mistrust comes out. that is why i am going around talking to every community possible. if i can take care of it, i will tell them. if i cannot, i will tell them honestly. i think honesty in governme

that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice fong. i said, do you want to be in the city? es

. >> reporter: asian students are hungry for education. they want the best degrees and they're willing to travel. a fast-growing share of the world's international students come from this region. higher education has become big business. in singapore, attracting foreign students is a national policy goal. the country offers full scholarships and dormitories that look more like hotels. singapore believes is future is at stake and is determined to lure the best and the brightest. >> a good place to study. i study architecture so it was a perfect place for me to study here. >> reporter: japanese universities are also on a recruitment drive in a fast-aging society, enrolling international students has become a matter of survival. which country will win out? today we focus on asia's race to make the grade. >>> currently more than 3 million people around the world are studying abroad. asian nations in particular are seeing a sharp increase. let's take a look at this chart. it shows the number of people studying abroad from asian countries. from

i can go off and preach about the fact they think so many of us asian american authors and asian authors in general tend to go back and write about our ancestors and write about things in our past not our specific past but may be of of ancestors and mothers and grand mothers. we have been telling their story. i think the generation to come, will be telling stories of living here. it will be different stories. but the oppression of our voices have been for so many, many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a

on wednesday, the asian development bank lowered its 2011 growth forecast for 45 asian countries and regions, from the 7.8% predicted in april, to 7.5%. this includes japan, australia and new zealand. china's projected economic growth for this year was downgraded from 9.6%, to 9.3%. largely due to lower demand from its european trading partners. in india, there is major concern over inflationary pressure caused by soaring food and fuel prices and rising wages. the bank lowered its estimate for india's growth this year, from 8.2%, to 7.9%. noting that, exports have been powering the growth of emerling asian economies. the adb set an economic slowdown in industrialized nations has put the brakes on this trend. and that's our report from hong kong. back to you in tokyo, shery. >> julian, thanks. suzuki motors says it wants out of its nearly two-year partnership with volkswagen. the japanese firm announced last week that it would seek to end the union, asking volkswagen to unload its suzuki shares. >> last week, suzuki's board of directors decided to scrap the company's capital tie-up wi

grasslands in eastern colombia as well as building a pipeline and other facilities to open up the asian market for south america's fourth -largest oil producer. colombia's oil reserves are estimated to be around 1-point-9 billion barrels,... but currently, nearly all of its daily production of 2- hundred-67-thousand barrels are heading to the united states. the construction of a pipeline connecting the llanos basin and the andes mountain range with a seaport in the pacific is believed to facilitate shipments to asian countries. in fact, one of the two existing seaports in the pacific coast of colombia, the buenaventura port or the tumaco port will be improved with additional facilities and designated as an exclusive port for oil exports to asia. three korean companies, including state-run korea national oil corporation, currently hold stakes in ten oil development projects in colombia. the ministry also added that the project, which could be worth up to 10-billion us dollars, will create a win-win situation for both countries. if successful, the "look asia" project will open up more opp

central asian railroad in the 1870s and 1880s. but it's important to note that even the most hawkish british strategic thinker, when writing about the impending russian threat to british india, marching through afghanistan, virtually all of them acknowledge that this was a far way, if not impossible, thing that would happen. and the main concern was not actually hordes of russian caustics as it were invading reach india as it was the rumor of a russian army on the doorstep of british india which would spread around the bizarre and destabilize the security of the british indian state internally. >> so, professor hopkins, is the east india company responsible for british involvement in afghanistan? or how did that work? >> yeah. well, it was really driven by personalities in large part. there are a number of players in the 1830s as the east india company is recovering from part of a global depression and reassessing its role in south asia. some of the other echelons of the company start to look for new opportunities. and one of the

that is the latest in the asian markets. details on how the eurozone crisis is affecting india, i am joined by a professor of economics at a university in delhi. how was the economic crisis in the eurozone ended the u.s. being viewed in india? -- and in the u.s. being viewed in india? >> right now, it is not affecting much currently. but it will. if we really need a much more systematic attempt to resolve the fundamental problem of imbalances. so far, political efforts do not seem to accomplish much and that is a big problem. >> is the view in india that bureau leaders are handling their ongoing -- european leaders are handling their ongoing debt crisis properly, especially where it concerns austerity measures? >> it is my view that it is completely the wrong way to go. the gdp increase keeps falling sharply because the austerity measures. what you need is more public spending to actually cause the recovery of the economy. you have to grow your way out of it. you cannot just hope to reduce your gdp. >> grow your way out of i

they are currently so many people, asian-american youth and diverse youth. it is wonderful to finally come here to the bay view. last year i know there were many community leaders here working in the aftermath of a couple highly publicized incidents of crime. and this uncovered, frankly, decades worth of frustration in how our community is dealing with public safety and how we're making sure our young people are part of the solution. c.y.c. has really helped to model for the rest of us how we need to do conflict resolution, mediation, lordship training and i really just want to thank the staff, board members and supporters of this great organization for doing what you're doing. and, frankly, i want to join all of us for coming together. our mayor, board of supervisors, our community leaders representing the african-american, the asian-american, latino communities. i want to thank our wonderful state assembly men and your leadership in trying to get funding for programs for young people. all of the representatives from our city agencies and our nonprofit part

the squad went undefeated in the asian final qualifier, with four wins, one draw. >> congratulations qualifying for the olympics. how do you feel now? what impressions are you bringing back from the competition. >>translator: after returning from the world cup, we immediately played matches and went to the asian qualifiers. playing in those days were very intensive. >> after the world cup, people took it for granted you would win a spot in the olympics. did you feel pressure? >> there are some pressures. for the sake of the future of japan, go to the olympics. there was pressure that we had produced results at the world cup, which gave us confidence. i believe with these members, we could win. >> you battle through a tough schedule, playing five matches in 11 days. what do you think you learned from the qualifiers? >> i only played three out of the five matches. even if the veterans or their players like me set out like in the last match against china, it was good for the team. young players could produce results. it was good for japan. >> almost everyone on the world cup squad was a

is going on. >> i'm here at the asian market, to find out what's up with the asian market.-- all right. does this place even got, like, a door? i don't know. is this the door? i -- i came here to, like, ask you some questions about the, like, the asian market. >> i can't say anything about it because i don't know anything about it. >> one time this guy, like, he told me, like, he had this machine, he was starting his own stock market and he said he uld turn, like, he could turn a raisin into a grape. and he was like, you should invest in this. >> and then he became rich? in and then, like, he just ucks stopped calling me. yeahahi've come here to ask you some important questioio about what's going on in this asian market. >> uh -- yeah, the market -- everybody's nice. >> wow, like, you got, like -- you got bananas. those aren't good babanas, i hate to say. you should eat those, like, really quick, because odds are, like, tomorrow, you won't be able to eat them. like, it's kind of like a race, you know, to eat fresh fruit. that's not fresh. that's rotten. but yeah, i think i

pipeline thursday that is designed to provide gas to its far eastern territories and, potentially, asian consumers. the 18-hundred kilometer-long pipeline, the largest in the far east region, connects the untapped gas fields off sakhalin island, khabarovsk..., and the pacific ocean port vladivostok. russian prime minister vladimir putin attended the pipeline's opening ceremony... saying that residents in the nation's far eastern territories will benefit from the link that will provide natural gas at cheap prices. however, he added that the long-term goal of the pipeline is for it to grow into a hub that serves the energy needs of neighboring asian countries, including korea and japan. russia's national gas giant gazprom owns and operates the pipeline... which it says will be capable of transferring up to 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually. in the long-term, russia plans to build a new line that sends natural gas to south korea via north korea and connect it to the sakhalin-khabarovsk- vladivostok line. although the development of sakhalin island's massive gas fields has topped russi

economies long been considered a safe haven a big global on the day asian markets finished their worst week since two thousand and eight how worried should they be and should we be about them. i think we should all be very can. and about this if you take the previous recession in the financial crisis in two thousand it was the asian markets although they took a hit and actually motored on through the thing with really not the kind of damage there we saw across the rest of the world if the early indicators and there are some good places like china are starting to creep towards recession then then we're staring across the precipice here we really are starting to hear into the abyss if the asian markets go down or really is something like a similar to his global recession that we could be in the early stages of or i.j. would be great senior economist in the new economic foundation thanks ever so much for the sort of the technical things. ok well that was the. economist at the new economics foundation if you want to find out all we've got more on the current financial turmoil and its impac

don sanchez shows us the new look. >> asian. wow.an art museum logo unveiled with splash and bravado . branding as the museum reinvents itself. we want to engage and make us a household name. >> it is meant to cross cultures of how the asian can make sure it is appealing to a broader audience. translated more's in the gallery. they will do it with poetry in play . it is done in soap. yes, soap. rebranding comes after a threat that the museum can close long-term debt. the city guaranteed that debt. >> with the city's help and leadership. we have a long-term strong solution. that is a structure in which to move on. the museum has always been vibrant. >> we got a preview of the opening. and featuring this incredible carriage. hot wheels that should draw a crowd and a look that captured the artist of j. tele. he expects that people will be surprised. >> it is a great connection between the artifacts of the past and modern interpretations. he's in the mustaches and drew on the a and encouraged others, too. i am not an artist and i do have

whites and asians are unfavored. >> bill: how much are they favored? blacks and hispanics?uch advantage do they have? >> let me give you analysis. everybody has heard if you smoke you have a likelier chance of dying of lung cancer. the odds of that are 14 to 1. let me compare that to what the odds are of getting into school at the university of wisconsin madison if you are black, compared to white or asian. you have a 576 times greater chance being admitted if you are black with the same grades and test scores as if you are white or asian. race plays a huge factor. >> bill: you are going to get admitted or white or asian person might not. >> that's exactly right. >> if you are black or hispanic student in high school and your scores are lower than the competing white or asian student, you can still leapfrog over that. >> you are still going to get admitted. that's exactly right. in fact, the highest scoring student black or hispanic actually scored lower than the lowest quarter of asian students it's a huge factor. >> the chancellors at the university are unrepentant. i mea

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japan intends to boost cooperation with other asian countries at the east asian summit scheduled for november. >>> now the big question in the business world can greece avoid a dpe fault? for the latest own the developments there, ai uchida joins us now. how can greeceiment plement its funds? >> on tuesday they agreed an additional tax hike that will fix the asset tax for the next three years, aimed at continuing support from european and international financial authorities. the country's finance ministry says the tax increase will generate 2 billion euros or about $2.7 billion in tax revenue each year. the legislation is part of actual austerity measures required by the european union and the international monetary fund as a condition for extending financial aid. other cost-cutting steps include temporary leave for government workers to cut personnel expenses in exchange for implementing these fiscal reconstruction plans greece expects to receive a loan of 8 billion euros in october to avoid a default, that is about $11 billion. but the latest move has triggered large scale protests

have not seen that much reaction on the asian markets which are still falling. what will this do in terms of sentiment? >> the statement is a statement ' it is the worst thing meant to express and its par for the course. i think where the markets have been challenged over the past few days is to see that being translated into specific actions. the confidence is low, and that is not going to be a it walked up talk. this is a very good top step. all these countries are to come together in a very concerted matter to recognize there is a bit of a preference out there. we have to bring the world back to normalcy. where it makes things difficult is you are confronting some of these issues in the context of an overall recession the of the world. normally markets would help some of these pre markets are challenged by a number of these issues. yes, it is a positive statement to make. that has to be very quickly back to buy specific actions that markets are getting implemented. they take that into account as the price rose. >> briefly, they include the bricks nations. the

poetry and fiction by south asian american writers. encounter people of asian decent in the americas her novel, braided tongue was published in 2003. i introduce rashne. >> i'm reading from a selection from a longer narrative. memory is no longer confused. it has a home land. from a farm by the late ali. sometimes the circle breaks and the woman meets the child. face-to-face. each one seeing for the first time her strength in the other. a poem by jenny. [inaudible]. after more than a year of e mails and phone conversations, amy,ling and i met at the university of wisconsin in madison. it was sometime during the mid 1980. calcutta was very hot, said amy. i wondered how our conversation about asian american literature veered to calcutta? calcutta was very hot but i got my first doll there. we spent some time in calcutta when we fled to the united states. the doll didn't look like me blond hair and blue ice bought from calcutta. she comforted me when i remember the sounds of the japanese bombs that forced us to leave our home. did you hav

all right so many people consider that segment very demeaning to asian americans and fox sports says it regrets that the segment ever aired and it was pulled from the network immediately what you guys think of that. going too far was that really that not p.c. is great the fox and this is offensive we're going to take it off the air a little bit more often i mean it just it took off. so it's a start of you got to start somewhere but why do you think i mean i watching that because it was actually the first time i'd seen those clips i thought it was going to be far far worse i thought it was going to be more intentional i mean those sort of people that have strong accents big deal i think that's what they were going for i mean i got to hand it to fox this is the first time i've seen a minority on the network so that's a positive but it's nice to know that there's a you know what fox news does the facts you know fox sports does to funny they just completely watch it but you know there's a unifying principle of racism there at fox so that's nice that's nice no they keep it they have a lit

. >>> we've been seeing all of those fears we were talking about earlier playing out on the asian stock markets as well as the european ones on monday. japan's nikkei index hit a six-month low. it had a hole day, actually, on friday so was catching up with the sharp declines on wall street and other asian indices. selloff continuing in hong kong with the hang seng losing more ground on top of last week's heavy losses. off by 1.5%. and shanghai off by 1.65%. but let's have a look at electronics sector. that was actually hit hard, too. presumably on fears of a global recession or at least a recession in europe and the united states. shares in panasonic and sharp were down by more than 4%. >>> trading gets urn way if wall street in a few hours. this is following a fairly brutal week for u.s. stocks. the roller coaster ride ended with gains by friday's close. as manoj was mentioning. on the day the dow ended up a third of a percentage point. the s&p 500 advanced nearly two-third. nasdaq gaining more than 1%. but here's over the week the dow dropped to nearly 6.5%. the s&p lost a little more

cha, india, and ten other asian nations are participating in the affair. it's the biggest event of its kind in bangladesh. local to operators, airlines and hotels have set up 190 stalls to showcase their services and cultural assets. about 30,000 people are expected to visit the fair. >>> the earthquake that hit the state of sikkim in northern india on september 18 has severely hit tourism, the mainstay of the local economy. the 6.8-magnitude tremor killed over 110 people and severely damaged roads and scenic spots leading many tourists to cancel their plans. to revive the industry, the state government is planning new strategies, including a snow festival to be held in january or february. >>> the u.s. state department announced on thursday that the assistant secretary of state, kurt campbell, will visit japan and other asian nations next week. campbell is scheduled to arrive in japan on october 6th. he will also visit south korea, hong kong, brunei and thailand and will wrap up the trip in beijing on the 11th before returning to washington. his meetings

we believe that this initiative can once again revived the shared prosperity that the asian silk road was provided across asia, consequently my government reveals corporation of the new silk road initiative as an integral part of afghanistan national development strategy and the kabul process. a final transition to increase alignment behind national priorities or common goal of full ownership responsibility and sovereignty. the nsi will incrsovereignty. the nsi will increase regional prosperity and stability to increase trade and investment. the resulting shared prosperity and job creation will reinforce efforts to promote reconciliation and reintegration of former confidence, which suffered an enormous setback last week with the assassination of my countries late president, professor rabbani. though not a comprehensive solution for all solutions at the alcan stayed, afghanistan views the wider close of the new silk road initiatives as operating hand-in-hand with my countries after to help create the conditions for political dialogue and successful transition. working closely together

are affecting the asian markets.hey are scaling back some other steeper losses made at the (korea's cosby continues to be sold off -- at the open. to bes kospi continues sold off. and u.s. crude futures fell more than 6%, echoing the sell-off in stocks, but recovering somewhat now in their asian trade appeared let's take a look at the currency's peg the dollar's rising, having its best day in more than a month. while the euro continue to tumble as well. the dollar-yen is currently trading at 76.26. admiral -- admiral mike mullen has accused pakistan's intelligence service in aiding the haqqani group last week. the group was effectively pakistani intelligence. >> last tuesday, a truck bomb attack in central kabul targets the u.s. embassy. now america says it was plotted by the help of its ally pakistan. by the end of the mayhem, 25 people were dead. they blame the haqqani network, which had help from the pakistani intelligence service. america's top military man, admiral mike mullen, one of the president's most closes

the last census showed, we were 53% asian-pacific islander. the community has continued to grow and change. everyone has really embraced that. we liked that sort of diversity here. >> now, let's meet the president of the dogpatch neighborhood association. she will tell us about life in dogpatch, a clean neighborhood on the eastern edge of potrero hill, and we will learn how the residents convinced the city to a vigil -- to designate the area a historic district. >> dogpatch and the health and cottages are the historic houses in the area. those were built for the union ironwork. this really is one of the most original live-work neighborhoods in san francisco. because of this mix of housing and industrial, they need to sit in terms of scale and mass and height for the neighborhood. during the whole dot-com boom, we saw many move into the neighborhood. we found ourselves in combat before the planning commission for one project after another, and that was actually an impetus for the community to try to become a historic district. >> the process to

three asian, one african- american, nine caucasians, at three latina. 77 male officers, 24 asian, four african-american, 36 caucasian, 10 latin, and three others. we also have a number of officers who speak languages other than english. including spanish, italian, curry and commander in, cantonese, and russian. statistically, the focal point when i arrived at richmond station was to deal with violent crime, robberies, assaults, a homicide, fighting, and things of this nature. consequently, year to date, we're fortunate in part one crime

we believe that this initiative can once again revived the shared prosperity that the asian silk roadwas provided across asia, consequently my government reveals corporation of the new silk road initiative as an integral part of afghanistan national development strategy and the kabul process. a final transition to increase alignment behind national priorities or common goal of full ownership responsibility and sovereignty. the nsi will incrsovereignty. the nsi will increase regional prosperity and stability to increase trade and investment. the resulting shared prosperity and job creation will reinforce efforts to promote reconciliation and reintegration of former confidence, which suffered an enormous setback last week with the assassination of my countries late president, professor rabbani. though not a comprehensive solution for all solutions at the alcan stayed, afghanistan views the wider close of the new silk road initiatives as operating hand-in-hand with my countries after to help create the conditions for political dialogue and successful transition. working closely together,

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the project together with other scientists and businessmen he's looking into how to make the end of asian center an international success today the cochairman of the skulk about foundation council craig barrett is my guest on spotting. the skolkovo innovation centers the favorite child of the russian president dmitri medvedev has been promoting the modernization of the country's economic and scientific future and grew to create an analogue of the silicon valley although the project is still largely on paper investment programs and research grants are being implemented already this year euclid acknowledges telecommunications energy efficiency and by medical technologist are in the spotlight and skulk about and many company managers believe the result of today's investment in some areas will soon be evident. oh mr perry thank you very much for being with us my pleasure to be with you first of all there are rumors that mr prong bence's from russian division off kisko could replace viktor vacs so they're going to the head of the foundation is there is there any ground for these rumors can you

majority of people surveyed in eu countries said that the us is more important than asian countries, suggesting that the transatlantic relationship for europeans remains relatively strong. the poll also found that 75 percent of europeans approve of us president barack obama's handling of international affairs,... higher than the approval rating they gave their own leaders. oh jee-hyun, arirang the italian government has approved a package of austerity measures... as it attempts to balance its budget. the move is expected to be viewed positively by moody's when it reconsiders the country's credit rating later this week. park ji-won reports. in the midst of continuing uncertainty over greece's debt woes,... the italian parliament finally approved a 54 billion euro package of austerity measures on wednesday. the lower house passed the center-right government's austerity budget plans... that aim to balance the country's budget deficit by 2013. the package of tax

there are african americans and asians administrative -- asian- americans in administrative places. i know more people in that office than anybody up there. i will work with them and inspire them to bigger and better things. have they will do well because they want to do well. >> i agree, as a matter of fact, they are reaching rounds of interviews where we are attracting many candidates for compensation. recruitment is not a problem. it is a very desirable place to work. it goes beyond that. i have restructured the office and we have the highest number of women that are in positions of authority. two women in the very top echelons. we are also looking to have people that have different skills sets whether it is cultural or language. i created working groups in the office. they are looking for ways to improve the quality of the offices. we have created a more formalized internship program. we're also creating more formalized training. the also want to make sure that people are promoted to based on merit. >> other areas of concern related to political corruption? and would you give sp

asian shares were pulled down today by a wrath of bad economic news. including signs of a manufacturing downturn in china that could reduce demand for commodities from other nation. the u.s. market is at the lowest in a year. analysts say it's in response to the fed's fear of a second recession. the fed's plan so far has been to lower interest rates, but that may not be