the asian business alliance, asian law alliance, the asian pacific american leadership institute, chinese-americantural association, chinese american political association, citizens for better community, culture to culture, why in the chamber of commerce of northern care of -- kawai and chamber of commerce of northern california, northern california chinese athletic association, national association of american professionals, national federation of independent business, national federation of filipino americans, the filipino chamber of commerce, around of applause for all of our community partners, please. that was a lot. [applause] >> i am so glad he had to do that. our next speaker is u.s. congressmen. he is representing the 15th congressional district of california in the u.s. house of representatives. in congress, he is a member of the powerful house appropriations and budget committee. share of the democratic caucuses, new media working group, house democratic senior went, and the original author of the equity and excellence commission now housed in the u.s. department of education. his distr

we have the first asian-american actress in hollywood. the first asian-american nba player. the first members of congress. these interns are the future of our community. they are the reason why we are here today. we're also here to celebrate and recognize one of the greatest members of our community. this year it is the first year we are giving the lifetime achievement award. the lifetime achievement award this year is going to secretary norman manetta. he is a trailblazer. a man who paved the way for many of us. he was the first asian-american mayor of a major city. he was elected to congress 10 times. he was the first person to serve two presidents in a cabinet. first as secretary of commerce to president clinton, secretary of transportation to president bush. it was on 9/11 that secretary mineta showed us what he was made of. he made the call to ground all of the planes. it was secretary mineta who instituted the policy is -- policies at tsa. it was secretary mineta who prevented the profiling of arab- americans and muslim americans in our country. tonight, we honor secre

and e late 1990s saw the asian economic crisis-- slowdowns in some soutast asian counies had a dominofect on singapore. to stay ahead, singapore needs to keep finding new ways to set itself apart. it's now a gbal hub ofechnological innovation-- a wired island. singapore s a long-term sttegy to develop into an information society, and that's been one of the major things that's been happening in singapore-- to allow your companies and your headquarters and regional headquarters or international headquarters to communicate with the rest of the world. poon: singapore is a very wired island. it doesn't have natural resources the way, say, the other countries arou the region have, so what it does is it makes a lot of investments in its people. and when it comes to it, that's people resources. so what singapore has actively been promoting is to try and get the island as wired as possible, which means to say there is all in place an infrastructure that's ready to go when you need to fax, that's ve, to telecommunications. just because it sees itself as aelecommunications hub. sein:we have inve

so the quintessential swing vote is the asian american vote. as tobey said, this is a vote that is just growing over time. we had 2000 voters, and we anticipate even more as you get the second generation that are entering into voting age and more enthusiasm among asian american voters. >> christine, in north carolina, asian americans make up 2.3% of the population. that's larger than the margin of difference between obama and mccain in 2008. in florida, asian americans are 2.4% of the population. nevada, around 8%. virginia, around 6%. how big of an impact do you expect asian americans to have in these critical swing states. >> well, especially in nevada and virginia, we've actually seen a lot more activity. both from nonpartisan organizations, was also at the same time, the presidential campaigns. for instance, in virginia, i've heard that chinese americans se being reached out by robo calls, by the romney campaign, by utilizing secretary ciao. both in in romney and virginia, they're utilizing field workers to take volunteers door to door and

a lot of asians use to shy away from politics, as you know. we used to -- generations before us, our parents said to not go into politics. on your own business. be a financial person. the lawyer. you went to moscow. be a lawyer, make money. those were safe things. -- you went to law school. to make sure we can be -- as american as anybody else. shore leadership skills and values and share those values that are looked upon as strong. looking out for everybody. making sure that society is safe for everyone and looking at the whole family, as a whole for everybody. our values that i am lucky to share as the first asian american mayor of san francisco. >> we will give you the last word. >> sometimes people ask me, if being mayor as the first asian- american or the first woman more difficult? i would say the asian american community has come into its own. we have a few glass ceilings to break. i am proud of that. that is where the chinese exclusion act and all the anti- chinese legislation started nationally and historically. my family and i helped

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

further, several people told me that the asian community as a whole -- asian-american community as ale -- tends to vote more on policy than personality. >> thank you. we will watch and see what happens. still ahead, we talk about what it will take to win virginia and what we can expect to see in the final 19 days of campaigning. scott pelley: "you made on yourinvestments, personally, about $20 million last year, and you paid 14% in federal taxes, that's the capital gains rate. is that fair to the guy who makes $50,000 and paid a higher rate than you did? so you think it is fair?" romney: "yeah, i think it's the right w to encourage economic growth." lower tax rates for him...than us. is that the way to grow america? i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. >> welcome back to our " battleground virginia" special. quick question about the first presidential debate -- as you know, republicans were out there on the ledge ready to jump before that debate, and then the poles song in that other direction. how do you account for that? >> in some ways, you might argue that mitt romney wa

we showed the video regarding the asian scam.also the chief and commander biel has gone on chinese television to talk about the asian scam. i've been on the radio with david chan from safe. we had a call in about the asian scam and people are calling in to us, telling their experience. we had a tip line in cantonese, and we told the callers or listeners, to call in to this tip line and have officer sam nune do all the follow ups. we did out in the community with flyers, posted flyers all along china town. we gave video of the re-enactment to all the banks in china town, our beatmen leon and stuart, passing them out to the senior centers. we wanted to educate the community about this. first i thought everyone knew about the scam, and then suddenly we started having them again. so we had to do more. also created an asian task force of five people who to help financial crimes. they just focused on this scam. and three of them are bilingual. they did a lot of work for them so we worked in partnership because i felt that financial cri

we had discussions here in moscow with the russian foreign minister lavrov so it is your of those asian really likely to be reforms in the near future because i've been hearing that i mean talk about reform a couple of years and yet when the u.s. seen fact being. consistently through its life it was born as they see a political process. the charter of paris and ninety nine t. transformed it institutionalized that it moved from being this. to the u.s.c. stored in an organization in istanbul at the summit in one thousand nine there was a charter adopted them the organization equipped itself to live within its new security challenges the more global challenges to security and starting moving in a different direction a couple of years ago or at the summit enough. there was a new concept the surface the concept of a security community we need to flesh out this concept and develop it better and my view there is a need to update the agenda of the organization to yes to introduce a certain element of reform here and there you said you said that the organization has been changing over the years

again, it is older asian or chinese women. it involves the theft of jewelry and money obtained under false pretense. nearly 50 of these cases have been reported in san francisco. it's totaled over $1.5 million of losses in cash and jewelry. many of these cases also again have taken place not only in chinatown but also sunset and richmond district. similar cases also have been reported in new york, chicago, boston and seattle. i wanted to invite up a number of the reps from our law enforcement and community agencies from the police department, san francisco district attorney's office rebecca prozan and david chan. first lieutenant art stelini. he's the chief investigator. thank you, lieutenant stelini. >> thank you, good morning, supervisors. as the lieutenant in the special victim's unit oversees the crimes district the responsibility of these crimes have fallen under our umbrella. as you can see in the handouts before you, to date of 2012 we have approximately 50 of these such cases reported to us. they are broken down into s

at busan, asian filmmakers can connect with the world. about 180 international distributors have set up sales booths creating opportunities to talk with filmmakers the organizers say that every year here about 100 films get a business deal. >> it's a good place on the one hand to meet with distributors, to try to sell the films on the other side to try to view some asian titles maybe from japan or korea. >> busan is not just for established industry types. 24 young filmmakers have been invited to work closely with professionals. the participants bring a script for short films which they complete with assistance during the festival. the films are screened to the public. this filmmaker is a 33-year-old aspiring director from laos where there are no film schools. >> i think it's also good for us to get together to know each other, to share ideas, maybe even in the future we can work together. so it provides opportunities so i think it's very great to be here, yeah. >> organizers are planning more programs like this in the future. >> translat

asian quadrants, everything from northeast asia to north asia.the key states along this belt have been responding to the kinds of kate increases that were described at some length and the great clarity in the first panel. the chapters that focus on this in the book constitute literally half the book. because they deal with extraordinary levels of detail and extraordinary levels of nuance, i urge you at some point to read the chapters themselves, and whatever i do this morning will be really an incomplete summary because there are real differences of nuance given the diversity of the countries involved. there is a chapter that looks at northeast asia, that in some detail, examines japan's response, south korea's response, and taiwan's response, and as you might imagine, there's considerable difference in, for example, the way japan thinks about the rise of the military power and now south korea ya does with taiwan in between. there's a chapter looking at indonesia, vietnam, and australia in some details while also talking about the continental sou

more recently, the asian scam which the chief was talking about. our crime statistics -- aggravated assault for this year is down 16%. homicides -- we have not had a homicide this year. last year, we had three. robberies are up by 3%. rape, we are even -- we at 10 of last year and we have had 10 this year to date. burglaries', we are down 17% for burglary thought cars, but there are still 725 break-ins in the central district. auto theft, we have seen a spike plus 30% this year, but the good news is we have a very high recovery rate for stolen vehicles, about 90% are covered within a few days. burglary we are down a 6%, arson down 55% for the year. we have a lot of protest, first amendment right issues in the central -- sari -- we practice constitutional policing. some of the protests this year have been the occupied march, local 87 demos. recently, they just settled their contract disputes, said they are not demonstrating for awhile. that is good news, so occupy and revolt against the rich and labour rallies -- since i have been here, we have had

if you are black or hispanic or asian you get 20 points. if you have an average instead but the average you get 20 points. one full grade point. that was a little too explicit for justice o'connor's case. she struck that down but under the suppose a ballistic system they substituted for it, they have used larger racial preferences at the university of michigan than they had before they were struck down. this doesn't seem to be consistent with the spirit of the supreme court decision and the same has happened at a lot of other places. evidence suggests large racial preferences, 204 as the key points, gaps in gpa between mean scores of black and white students and most elected schools. another principle stated in router was it is unconstitutional to use racial preferences to the extent that unduly are members of any racial group. that is a quote. we argue, and we think the evidence shows that preferences in texas unduly harm members of every racial group. they unduly harm the asians primarily first and foremost to are excluded and whites or e

it's called improv asian carts and it's the 25th anniversary. i have been a strong supporter since the inception and give thanks to the many people for their work to strengthen communities to show the history of the asian and the pacific islander experience in their art and also how they fight for more cultural equity in our communities. please join us at 7:00 p.m.. another key part of the celebration of 25 years of asian improv arts is support other artists and wang wallace and others and lucy lynn and the director of the grant frs the san francisco arts commission but it's also unveiling a new piece by john chang and one key piece will be a portrait where i am narrating part of it and a chance to work with the jazz and improv community and also that support the cultural equity in the neighborhoods and i will narrate a key piece with that. thank you. >> thank you supervisor. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. colleague i want to recognize two that have passed in the nation and george mcgovern and my first election then when i was paying attention

they say we do not worry about asians. there are a lot of asians. is a demographic measure. if you are trying to find individual comfort levels, breaking it down between african-americans and hispanics -- >> you are the ones in your brief who has assumed that their value in different races differently, but asian numbers have gone up, under however they have structured this pai, and as i understand their position, race is balanced against other issues like social economics, the strength of class's people took. it is not a stand-alone. even a white student, i presume, who goes to entirely black or latino school and becomes class president would get points because he has or she has proven that they foster or canned dealing in a diverse environment. that is how i understood their plan. it is not because of race. it is combining that with other factors. >> there is a plus because of race. there are many other factors. the white student president of the class in an ethnically different school is a measure of leadership. leadership is an independent factor. he is not getting that p

led missions to thailand, indonesia and malaysia during the asian currency crisis. i met with him to talk about challenges we fast now and some of those in the future. i want to start talking asian countries, they have really been a bright spot for the global economy. but we are seeing, economies of europe and the u.s. starting to really stagnate. we are seeing a slowdown in china. and india. wondering how much can asia continue to support growth? >> as we see,isha^ kra asia re leader. we expect asia to grow 5.5% this year, rising to 6 poe% this yea above global growth. i would say, you will see demand pick up in asia and keep growing -- growth active and robust. >> speaking of domestic demand, how much will that be able to really shield asian countries, do you think from the global slowdown we are seeing. what do policy makers need to do to ensure that domestic demand continues? >> this is a very important issue. they're dealing with this, two ways to handle this. there is ram oom to build new stimulus on the fiscal side. for many countries, inflation is back in th

asian americans could see changes too.new york state could be poised for its first asian american to congress. that person with me now. assembly woman grace payne is running in the new york's 6th congressional district. also with me, sayu bhojwani who is founding director of the new american leaders project, a national organization focused on preparing first and second generation americans for civic leadership. she's an immigrant of indian descent raised in belize. chloe angyal and michael traynham. tell me about this report coming out tomorrow. >> we're here to talk about the very important milestone of having this many candidates, 80 congressional candidates from immigrant communities. i want to be clear that that includes latinos. i think it's important to mark that moment. i also want to say that it's not a coincidental thing. as you said, demographics, redistricting immigrant voter engagement by nonprofits. but the thing that we found to be most dramatic is that it actually is not going to shift the representation all

the boxes were caucasian, black, asian, hispanic, etc.. i had to give a bit of thought to the purpose of these boxes in which box by fit in. so, i was born in iran and it is in the continent of asia, a marked agent. so, in asian. you should have seen the look on the administrator when i turned in my application. today those boxes no longer applied. we all live in one world and we are all the same. we are part of the same energy. we can no longer take the attitude of not in my backyard. in today's world, if someone in china sneezes, we all catch the flu in san francisco. we have seen the impact of such a ripple effect in the recent economic crisis. in today's global economy, peace in the least, the aids epidemic in africa, the world hunger crisis, and making sure that every child has access to a decent education is all -- our responsibility. we have to use diplomacy to prevent war. we have to have compassion for mankind, no matter which continent they are from or which color they are, creed or religion. we all have to do our part to bring p

and then in the newspapers i saw two asians and they were speaking always passionately about asian american civil rights. well, they were professor ling chee wang and henry durham. and when i was actually quite despairing, i was quite despairing, it was coming down it a crucial vote in 2007 and then 2008 for the college board to support this campus, they came to the fore, they organized the community, the community rose up probably one of the first few times in the history of the chinese community in san francisco, they rose up from the ground and they said, we want this campus, we're fighting for this campus and you better vote for this campus, and guess what, we passed it and we got the campus. so this campus has been built and raised and all of us community activists, ling chee wang, all you old-timers, we built it for current generations and generations as yell yet unborn. our forefathers came hear to build the railroads. they came hear to build the railroads but really to build a better life for themselves and their families. they would be so proud. they would be so proud to know that

. >>> this particular scam tends to deal on an asian suspicion. there is a lotto scam prevalent now. it is whatever the flavor of the day. whatever they think they can get away with, they will do. >> and as supervisor mar mentioned, i think it is important to work with some of the senior groups right now to inform seniors of this. maybe they are the most vulnerable people that are targeted. i imagine it occurs in all age groups. >> absolutely the seniors are most vulnerable. that is where we concentrate our outreach efforts. >> can i ask this to either inspector loftis or lieutenant stalini or captain tom. who's orchestrating all these? if they are chinese nationals and it seems like it is orchestrated, who is at the top kind of coordinating this, do you know? >> i don't think we know yet. there's obviously some central command structure in their group, or there may be multiple command struck -- structures and multiple groups. it doesn't take too much of criminal moxie to put together a group of four, five people and target individuals on the stre

on the asian children's book the five chinese brothers, a play called four chinks and a dike. there's also the dream of kitsumura which was inspired by a dream you had about your father. this play, way back, before it became this play was an adaptation of the 1954 play rashamon. how did you get from rashamon to this. >> the original idea was that i was going to do an adapt daition of rashamon. cary pearloff said you want to do a play for us, how about adapting rashamon. i said, sure. as is the case when i do this, sometimes i go in a straight line and sometimes i end up somewhere totally different. i've grown to accept it, that i'm going to follow the horse wherever it goes and hope that the theater is comfortable with it. so it started off as rashamon and i couldn't find an entree into it. for me, when i do an adaptation, i try to frame it in present day life context or contextualize it in another moment and bring that skeletal story line structure into it. and i couldn't make any headway. then a story that had been kind of floating around in my head kind of came to the fore,

what about the asian section?et's get the update out of sync pore. >> a lackluster day of trade for asian bourses. we saw weakness across financials, energy and consume are plays. airlines lost ground after air china terminated its fund-raising plan. the hong kong market is closed for a public holiday. we will watch share reaction of china mobile tomorrow after better than expected q3 earnings following yesterday's close. elsewhere, the nikkei recovered in late tried keep its longest winning streak in 15 months. electric power tumbled 13% after canceling its dividend. kospi extended a three day losing streak as ship builders tanked. but steel maker pasco also shed 2% ahead of q3 earnings. but lg display gained on the ipad mini hopes. meanwhile mining mains and banks outperformed in australia, but losses in technology shares capped the gains on that market. send zsex lower by 0.4 at the moment. >> now you let's recap what happened overnight. trading jabs on foreign policy in their third and final debate. romney cal

all right well speaking of asian companies are secular what's happening in the asian markets.moving from from very bad to actually good because right now we've had chinese manufacturing come in had almost expansion forty nine points and that's a significant improvement in previous quarters and that may be a sign that china's economy is not due to rule to go to a hard landing and that's after a very bad session in the united states on choose day we saw the dow jones decline almost two percent on the back of poor caterpillar results and the nasdaq was driven by it down by apple shares now they lost over three percent after the company unveiled a lot less expensive and a smaller version of the i pad let's take a look at that and more detail of the price of the anticipated tablet appeared to be much higher compared with similar gadgets on the market spurring concerns over expected sales apple also introduced a new fourth generation i pad a liter of prowl and i'm a desktop which all did not help much to the firm's shares for me it's. all right burn the currencies market we're seein

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

asians in northern virginia, i think that is the biggest asian group in a target state. the republicans have been working them pretty hard in fairfax county and if you listen to romney's answer in immigration in the second debate, he is trying to be more palatable to latino voters to see an anti illegal immigrant stance as being more cautious out to hispanic people. it was mostly -- aimed precisely at asians. there are less concerned about illegals. there are fewer illegal asians and the idea of stapling a green card to a diploma hits the spot with many asian americans. >> if i could add what michael said about the minority of boat looking ahead, hispanics as a group have grown much faster than any of us expected looking at the census data. they still have what the great demographer at brookings calls a translation problem. the population is so young, many are not registered citizens. we expect 21 to turnout on election day. for whites that number will being 51 or 52 overall. that is an important thing to remember. this population is coming very fast and something that r

in texas there are about 3% of the population is asian american. there are problems with all of these numbers, and that is to use the overall percentage of the population, do you use high school graduates or do you use high school graduates who arbor able to go to some college at all, or maybe elite colleges like the university of texas but leaving those aside for the second. they constitute 60% of the entering class and those that apply to the university of texas get admitted obviously at a higher percentage than everybody else so let me make a couple of points and in some ways. they have accepted. the diversity is a sufficient rationale for the university's to attempt to include more minorities in their class. i think that universities should be able to decide how they want to structure their class and that academic achievement alone does not and should not be the only criteria they can take into account. .. >> if you accept diversity as a rationale, what is it texas can do besides the top 10% which the university says it not adequate for the rea