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

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. representatives. in congress, he is a member of

the asian-american pacific islander voter is more energized.r registration efforts wells those taking advantage of early voting. even more importantly is that the discussions in our own community about the importance and what's at stake, not only in this election, but as we move forward. especially when you look at how close elections were won in virginia and nevada and you see the growth of our community and how it doubled the size of the margin of difference in those states for the presidential election. >> talk about how the two groups are similar. party identification is one of them, as you know very well, for the asian-american as well as latino-american groups. party affiliation is not necessarily something that's been historic. their votes are up for play. >> very much so. both for latinos and asian-americans we see a similar pattern among those who have identified with one of the parties, democrats enjoy a much larger advantage for both groups. but you still have about a half of asian-americans and a similar proportion of latinos that h

then you look deeper and it looks like most of the asian voters that they surveyed, most of the asian voters that they're looking at come from new york and california. those are two very blue states. >> bill: that's where primarily the asian communities are, though. >> right. so what i'm saying is -- >> bill: in the democratic machine. but i don't know why they would get into the democratic machine anyway. what was the asian american vote, the raw vote? >> in 2012, as a percentage of the electorate, 3%. 73% obama. 26% romney. >> bill: african-americans were 10%, right? >> yeah. a little higher than that. >> bill: 'cause they weren't quite as high as last time. >> but they're saying that both parties need to pay attention to the asian vote because it's -- >> bill: you put together a latino vote, african-american vote and the asian vote, 25% -- and the women, they broke for romney. >> democrats have been reaching out more to the asian community. >> bill: how do you do that? >> target them with your advertising. i'm not taking that bait. come on. >> bill: i want to know how you reach out

asian heads of state were quick to offer their congratulations, but the u.s. faces hurdles to remain an active player in the fast-growing region. in his first term, obama shifted u.s. foreign policy toward the asia pacific, an area notable for its rapid economic expansion. enthusiasm over obama's reelection rippled through the region. students at an elementary school in the indonesian capital jakarta cheered loudly. obama attended the school when he was in the third grade. japanese prime minister yoshihiko noda contacted the president and pledged his cooperation. u.s. and japan have the opportunity to improve ties, especially since relations between japan and china have soured over the senkaku islands conflict in the east china sea. south korean president lee myung-bak said he's sure the u.s. and south korea will continue to develop their alliance. australia is another key ally in the region. prime minister julia gillard pledged cooperations during president obama's second term. >> i'd like to welcome president obama my warmest congratulations on his reelectio

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

. >> and >>> happyxd asian thanksgiving.l you. >> we want to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving. specifically a happy asian thanksgiving. >> they want to do this because their parents were immigrants and they grew up first generation americans. >> our partisan became american citizens so we celebrated it differently. we relied on our american friends. >> they had to figure out what was this thanksgiving thing? >> wake upfá early to catch the macy's parade and then bikenb a 11:00 a.m. -- bake at 11:00 a.m. sharp and eat dinner at 5:00 p.m. and then the adults get drunk and wake up early for the black friday sale! >> most americans that celebrate the traditional way do it like that and had observations. did hat traditional food at thanksgiving but the turkey was always dry and fried onions under baked. >> guess what they stuffed in the turkey? >> we came to appreciate how asian our thanksgiving was. we had pork and noodles and hot pockets. >> if it's cooked right, sticky rice is good. instead of asian, it was mexican. >> don't

asian relationship. she wrote, one of the most important tasks of american statecraft over the next decade will be to lock in a substantially increased investment, diplomatic, economic, strategic and otherwise in the asia-pacific region. the secretary went on to describe the work ahead. success requires maintaining and advancing a bipartisan consensus on the importance of the asia-pacific to our national interests. we seek to build upon a strong tradition of engagement by presidents and secretaries of state, of both parties, across many decades. the breath and tenor of leadership, diplomatic work across many years and spending both political parties at our panelists represent today. and it's the work that georgetown has committed itself to pursuing to the expanding work of our asian studies program, and several other programs across our campus, that explore through teaching scholarship of research, the vibrant economic cultural and social life of asia. it's the only title vi national resource center for

bob dole won asians. a lot of people don't remember that. we are in a position now where we have gone through differences in policy, differences in tone, and differences in candidates. reached out in a way that we have never -- reach out in a way that we have never reached that before we will not be successful as a national party. >> can you reach hispanic voters or the changing the stance on immigration? " no. -- >> no. immigration is not the most important issue for hispanics. the economy is the most important issue for hispanics. the town sets a tremendous -- the tone sends a tremendous message. the time has come for republicans to slap the catch on, break the habit or we will die. -- slapped the patch on, break the habit or we will die. >> can any of the openings be exploited while the party is where it is on immigration? >> no, there are other issues that matter. but this is a litmus test. this is a threshold issue. it is how you're talking about our community. it is how you're talking about families. as long as the republicans maintain

some believe women voters and the asian vote could tip the balance either way on tuesday. >> asian-americannergized. >> reporter: in northern virginia, surae chinn, 9news now. >> turns out that more than 52,000 residents in the nation's capital voted early in this year's election. the board of elections says that's more than 10% of the district's registered voters and more than double the number of early voters in the september 2010 primary. >>> we've got continuing coverage of the upcoming national and local elections on the website. you can go to wusa9.com and click on the campaign 2012 banner at the top of the home page. >>> well, the redskins coach, mike shanahan has given up on the team making the playoffs. following today's loss to the panthers shanahan suggested players would be playing for their jobs after week five. >> the words can really be misconstrued, but when they initially were said, all the media folks and people that were listening in on tv were just like waving the white flag, what's going on. we're only week nine. the skins were back home playing a one-win team that has

>> guest: i teach southeast asian history. i concentrate on tie lan and vietnam. >> host: why is it important for students to know southeast asian history. >> guest: united states is still very much engaged in that corner of the worldment we have many alis and partners we're working with, and many students, midshipman, are going to be officers who are going to go to southeast asia and represent our interests there. so i think it's important for them to know southeast asian history to be comfortable with the culture and have some knowledge of their history. >> host: well, professor ruth. one of our long-time allies is thigh taken, and you have written a book called "in buddha's company: thai sole soldiers in the vietnam war." what role did they play? >> guest: thailand was a close ally of the united states during the vietnam war. many people who are official with the circumstance good-familiar with the circumstances of she vietnam, but not only thailand sent troops but also served as a base for many of the aircraft that were fl

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

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

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,

. >>> 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

it's been there for 7 years and it does an asian type fooded. >> latin and asian. >> and we're going to talk about appear and panetta. we have the recipe online. i'll walk you through it really fast. it's really easy. this is an asian appear. you can't find this in super markets, but you can usually. we have it chopped up in apple juice and you're going to saute it down with sugar and butter until it caramelizes a little bit and cool that and mix with sour cream and cream cheese and you can buy pastry in the grocery store, crimp it down with egg yolk and seal it up and fry that a little bit. we serve it with goats milk caramel on top. gives it a little bit of tanginess. >> and what else do you put on it. >> do you have some ice cream we can put on top of that. this is latin style caramel ice cream. >> that looks good. >> you have the hot and cold textures and a little bit of sesame seed garnish on this. >> that is nice. you have other dishes. >> these are a couple other dishes, this is a desert but this is more like an appetizer, mahimahi and it's not overwhelmingly spicey. it's a sm

very well known as the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history.ned balancing the budget to keep san francisco safe, solvents, and successful. he reformed city pensions. his focus is on economic development, job creation, and building san francisco's future. a great job, especially for helping out families. we want to keep families here. i also wanted to mention a little bit of his past. he was born in 1952 in the beacon hill neighborhood of seattle, washington. his parents immigrated to the u.s. from china and the 1930's. his father fought in world war ii and worked as a cook. he passed away when the mayor was 15. his mother was a seamstress and a waitress. mayor lee has five siblings, he graduated from college in maine, he also went to uc- berkeley law school and finished in 1978. he and his wife have two daughters. i also want to mention, prior to becoming mayor, one of the key points in his contributions to the community is after he completed law school, he worked as a managing attorney for the san francisco asian law caucus, where he was an ad

it is reported that the president received african-american and asian voters. there was another demographic that played in the president's favor. >> for young adults, the question was asked at one of the debates about financial aid. he said ask your parents for money. so a lot of lat teen nos that are first generation college going students don't have access to parents paying the tuition. >> it is also about the messaging. some say they didn't connect with the massachusetts governor. >> i would like -- i would not like romney. according to the people, he is going to do everything for the rich people and obama is going to do a lot of things for the poor people. >> there is a generation gap among voters. older generation people 10 to be more conservative. young people vote more liberal. >> this is what they try to gauge what the public is four years you from now. >> they are going to know if four years from now they start talking a friendly game towards latinos and asians they will be suspicious of their motives. they have to change. >> even though the president

>> innovative transportation concepts are required to prevent cities from collapse, but only a few asian cities have already laid ground to cope with future needs. >> one theme at the asia-pacific conference of german business is that the infrastructure of asian cities needs to be completely reexamined. everything from roads to electricity. >> there is not enough capacity for power generation here. that has to be improved, and in the delivery of electricity, there are losses of up to 25% between the power station and the customer. >> german companies hope to play a role in upgrading and expanding the infrastructure. >> still to come, who are the next rulers of china? >> and how a german university is relocating to the red sea. >> we will be back in one minute with more. >> stick around. >> welcome back. while the u.s. goes to the polls next week, china's political elite will be preparing to hand over power. >> 500 top officials are attending the secretive special committee meeting to finalize appointments ahead of the 18th party congress, which begins next week. >> analysts say anyone ho

take a look at some of the asian indecks as well. australia's index, it is down .75% at 4483. >>> obama's going to spend much of his time until the end of the year trying to avoid the fiscal cliff and we spoke with rich ars katz, editor in chief of "the oriental economist report." >> 50/50 chance the fiscal cliff can be avoided. if people come to their senses and compromise the impact will be small. if the fiscal cliff goes on for several months there's a very good chance the u.s. will go back into recession, a drop of 3% annual rate. that will have a disastrous effect on air shark it will cut u.s. imports from asia, it will hurt japan, it will hurt the european recovery. it would be a disaster. on the economic thing, i think obama will continue the same policy he has. quiet diplomacy. to get the chinese to raid the rmb. that's risen by 25% against the dollar since 2005. he won't call china a manipulator, he won't use sanctions. on particular trade issues where china has been doing things like dumping, obama will go to the world trad

. >>> korean and other asian automakers are going gangham style. ♪ >>> i'm bill griffeth. up on "closing bell," larry summers, the president's former top economic advisor, weighs in on whether he feels the fiscal cliff deal can get done before the new year. >>> we'll also hear from jpmorgan chase chairman jamie dimon on how he feels the market would react if the nation did in fact go off the fiscal cliff. >>> remember the ceo we talked to about a month ago who said he would fire employees if president obama were re-elected? he's back with us today to tell us why he gave them all raises this week. that will be coming up at the top of the hour on "closing bell." see you guys then. >>> a bill sign of the times in the auto industry. american carmakers have been trying to turn things around but in the end could we be a country that will forever more choose asian brands? phil lebeau, what's the story here? >> the numbers say it all, mandy. look at the year-to-date market share for the big three versus asian automakers versus the european automakers. it's pretty clear. asian auto

it's for asians. it's for african-american.t be a party of opportunity and prosperity and growth for all these groups. with welcoming committees. that's what's missing here. >> absolutely. these are people who believe in the american dream. they belief what we do. i was encouraged by three things. one, i think marco rubio is going to play a big role together with jeff flake who's been a proponent of immigration reform. secondly, we had sean hannity, a very prominent talk show host on a different network but also a radio, who says i've evolved, i'm looking for now a pathway to citizenship. big movement out there in the grassroots. >> right, that's key. >> third, we saw john boehner today say, yes, he's in favor of moving ahead on immigration reform. >> finally. >> we should make this our issue, the republicans' issue. leapfrog the president. don't wait for him to put something on the fable. they want on issue, want a fight, we want a solution. >> ed rogers, you've been around a lot of these campaigns. what i'm asking for is a fr

he got creamed losing asian-american voters 73 to 26. this is a shocking result, not only because just 20 years ago george h.w. bush carried asian-americans comfortably or because the margin is so wide, but because the entire category of asian-american is so obviously construction there's little reason to suspect members of the group would vote with each other in any discern anybody pattern. think about it for a moment. what exactly do a filipino nurse in hartford, connecticut, and a pakistani oil man have. same can be said for latinos, even african-americans, heck, even gaffe white people. that's because race is a social construction, not something out there in the world but something we as a society create the rules, rhetoric, and identities for. and in the political process, nothing more assuredly creates firm political group identities than the experience of prejudice, contempt, marginal lieization and condescension. that is, in american history, the racial identity of those not classified as white tends to be forged in the furnace o

from asian women's shelter we have orchid, [speaker not understood]. (applause) >> from mujeras juan a flores, and my commission on the status of women vice president nancy rodriguez, president julie sue, and commissioner andrea shorter. (applause) >> so, thanks to the work of the people behind me, i'm happy to say that despite the fact that our police department receives 4 thousand cases of domestic violence annually, to date we have zero domestic violence homicides. that's something to celebrate. (applause) * >> 10 years ago we were looking at 10 or 12 domestic violence homicides a year. and today, knock on wood, we still have zero. it's really a testament to the community-based agencies, to the $3 million investment led by the mayor's office in direct services to our domestic violence direct services. and what the past year has taught us is that there are many misconceptions about domestic violence in our community, and i want to set the record straight. for the record, number one, domestic violence hits all demographics, regardless of income, regar

and these are aspects of the eastern, the east asian world; touched on those a bit with buddhism, we'll see buddhism is in the mix, but the sense of the oneness, the unity of all things. now, think for a moment religiously how different that is. we don't have what i would call ontological dualism, we don't have a situation here where the world is here, human life is here, we live in history, and god angels the forces of creation are apart from that. what if everything belonged to one system? we are moving along the line more on the line of a monist. how would you react, ethically, if you felt that you, though you might have a different position in this oneness, you were a part of it, truly a part, there is a part in a part thing you have been dealing with the whole semester? that's a part of the instinct, that move to harmony and balance. if all is one, and there is no way you can opt out of the system, then the impulse is to truly develop ethical patterns of action that honor other people, that keep a balance that keep harmony. now obviously as we've seen all religious systems, it's no

it's helping with the asian development bank and international monetary fund. this is after a year of political reform. we are joined by our bbc editor for the burmese service. >> the money is going to be used primarily to provide financial governance to the government and, also, to create conditions for growth and jobs. that's where the money is going to be spent. this is a tremendous boost to the burmese government, because in the last 20 decades there were western sanctions and it had not received any assistance financially from institutions such as the world bank and the asian development bank. the burmese government has always said the western sanctions have prevented them from getting aid. because of that, the development programs were postponed or have not taken place. this is a tremendous boost to the burmese government and is a recognition to their reform process. >> china has always been its main ally in the region. are other countries concerned about the growing influence of china? or is it a question of everybody wants to invest in this country? >>

they both seek closer ties with southeast asian countries as part of their competing regional strategies. >> it's important that our two countries cooperate to build a more secure and prosperous future for the asia-pacific region and for the world. >> despite their friendly words, both sides took their differences with them to the east asia summit. obama called on the country's concern to quickly draw up the code of conduct. one indirectly said the united states should not be involved, stating that the disputes should not be internationalized. now, obama's trip to asia is a sign that america's so-called pivot to asia strategy remains unchanged after his re-election. his visit to myanmar was criticized by some observers. they say it was premature. obama went ahead anyway, a signal of his desire to increase u.s. influence in southeast asia and keep china's ambitions in check. nhk world's matthew field reports. >> reporter: obama's visit to myanmar was the first to the country by a sitting u.s. president. people waving american flags lined the streets of yangon to welcome him. the trip was