asian. wow. [applause] >> now that the mayor and board chair has helped us through this point, may i invite them up for some pictures? >> thank you, mr. mayor. thank you, tony. let me repeat once again the three qualities we want our visual identity to convey. a new perspective, bold and confident, and asian arts museum invites all to engage. as you may know, this inverted market is from a mathematical science known as a universal quantifier. we whaant everyone to know thate are here to engage you. we want to awaken and inspire. let me show you a couple of examples of how you can use this. we have window treatment for everyone. and then we have a new visitor'' guide, a new membership material, a new look. you can take us with you. and also, out and about. i still strongly about this market because it is very versa tile. you can superimpose images from diverse cultures coming asian, not asian, and we can use this in a powerful way. imagine, we can even commissioned artists to do a rendition of thi

law caucus and other asian lawyers and asian law students protesting the admissions criteria, the elimination from the admissions criteria. and there was janana here r invitingly and other attorneys to go on her show to talk about that. i remember that very first interview. the microphone was stuck in my face. "as a first-year law school student, what do you think of this?" and i went, "community." that was all i could say. but i remember jan, and i have watched you for so many years progress over so many different topics. both david and janana in my opinion are the media heroes i grew of with, and they continue even today to the marvelous job of continuing to inspire everybody, bring the news, the stories, the culture forward, so it is my privilege tonight, in light of their accomplishments, to announce that for the very first time, in these awards that we are announcing tonight, that we will be announcing both of them as our winners for the lifetime achievement award finalists. [applause] congratulations. and please come on up here. [applause] [applause] >> i think that ed lee certainly kno

more than one-third of the population is asian-american and pacific islander. you rock. next speaker is no stranger to this event, but within the last few years, he represented mayor newsome at this very celebration. in january of this year, a new chapter was written when the board of supervisors unanimously voted in city administrator edwin lee to be the mayor of san francisco. he was noted as the best candidate for leading the city for work because of his more than 25 years of experience as a leader in city government. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the hon. edwin m. lee, the mayor of san francisco. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you for that wonderful introduction and thank you for being here. it is the seventh annual celebration. sydney already explained our history, what president carter did for us, and what we are doing for ourselves, joining the whole city and region in celebrating asian-pacific portage month. i am so grateful to the board of supervisors for this whole four months of leaving this great city. i will say once again as i have said throu

you say asian people in the united states are not supportive of asian actors, asians in the arts. >> not the young people. they're doing it. they're very hungry. i'm talking about my generation. >> hinojosa: what do you think that's about? >> well, two things. one is they are busy surviving. >> hinojosa: yeah. >> working, you know? the other thing is-- this is my theory and i am sticking to it-- chinese have an innate disrespect for artists. >> hinojosa: i know, and when you when you said that i was like... >> because historically, an educated man, a cultured man, has to know how to paint, has to know how to write poetry, how to be... he has to know everything, but he does not earn a living by it. how does he earn a living? by being an official. or being a hermit. if you are earning a living doing these things, you are not an artist, you are a craftsman. and craftsmen are treated quite differently. so even my father... my father was one of the greatest actors. of course, famous, blah, blah, blah. but in the end, even when i was a child, i would get children say, "and who do you think

today, i want to again invite everybody to our new asian. we promised it will be all- inclusive plan and offer you something to be awakened and inspired about. >> thank you. first, it has been a real pleasure and privilege to work with the museum, with such a clear vision, bold vision. it is a dream plan situation for a company like wolff olins to work with the asian art museum. the journey started in january of last year where we did extensive research with the museum. everything from analyzing the visitor journey to understanding macro and museum trends. we did ethnographic research with visitors, lots of insight, but a key foundational inside or that visitors wanted to connect more viscerally with museums and the arts. they are looking for museums to provide a platform for discussion, interaction, for discussion, even as an outlet for creative endeavors. some of the challenges that will faced museums like the asian is the subject matter is just a bit more difficult for people in the u.s., so the nation has to work harder to provide more c

and this is a show where the asians and the asian americans in the show are not necessarily portrayed as villains. there are villains... there's the good guys, and there's the villains. or what is perceived as the villain. because stereotypically a lot of asian actors in a lot of american shows would be maybe the triad leaders, or gang leaders, or what. but with this, the romantic lead is asian, the romantic lead, the leading lady is asian, and george takai is the lead guy. >> hinojosa: what i love is the fact that you are here, this international star. because your music, you've, like, what, gone multiplatinum on who knows how many records? but you still have to go in sometimes and read for a part. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: right? >> absolutely. >> hinojosa: you still have to do that. and people might not know this, because, you know... >> i still have to audition. >> hinojosa: ...people don't necessar... i always watch all of the credits on everything, especially because i have kids. whenever i go see anything animated i want to see who did the voices. >> right. >> hinojosa: you did the

please come up and put your mark on the asian. >> so thank you. i want to welcome everyone to a very exciting announcement around a pilot project we are kicking off today. and i also want to welcome everyone to one of the most parking challenged neighborhoods in san francisco, russian hill. i think it is well known that i do not own a car for good reason. but one thing i do want to mention is i used to live on russian hill. i actually did own a car for six months. it was a miserable experience. not just the cost of car ownership and gas and insurance and repairs, but every single night i had to spend half an hour looking for parking and when i didn't do a good job of parking, sfmta provided me with a ticket. so it was a very exciting moment when about two years ago, then city add vater -- administrator ed lee and i had a conversation with the c.e.o. of car share about what we could do to expand car share in the neighborhood that is incredibly defense and that does not have the parking lots and the garages where city car share and zip car often put

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

he has been such a part of our asian pacific american community, and thank you. [applause] >> let me simply congratulate the committee and the people who sponsored this. started seven years ago, as indicated by claudine. for me, it is one of the most events every year. in pencil it out just as it is my birthday. i am here to celebrate with you, and i congratulate all of the honorees and awardees on this very special occasion. happy asia-pacific american week. thank you. [applause] >> and i heard the supervisor kim has joined us. thank you for being here. >> i look at david and jan and i would not be here if it were not for them. you have heard the professional side of it. 20 years ago, i was a very young reporter in montgomery, alabama, and our -- they decided, they had come out to san francisco and decided that they needed someone that looked just like her, and i was the only one in the newsroom in montgomery, alabama that look like her. do you know they forced me to do this show, and that started me on my road to coming out to san francisco and the bay area to

what will this mean for asian stock markets?ill this mean more expensive borrowing costs and currency movements in? >> i do not think it will be any more exaggerated than what we saw in september. the u.s. economy has come back stronger than was expected. that is counterbalancing some of this. and germans are beginning to feel the pain of a credential downgrade, the fact that their bond auction was not successful entirely last week. i think the germans are now being induced to perhaps be a little more constructive in their efforts in europe. there might be a little more positively coming out of europe in the weeks ahead than what we have been used to. >> asian issues, such as china's monetary policy, that could be impacted by eurozone. could we also seek more interest rate cuts from the asian banks? >> it could happen. i am not sure. the sentiment issue is starting to impact consumption in asia. we're getting some signals that domestic consumption and other domestic indicators across asia are all starting to turn south. i think

please says that asian americans don't go. they don't live.i did a coal mining story, similar to a similar to a small town in west virginia. standing out there doing a standup reshoot the camera. and somebody comes by and shouts, connie chong. that is the only asian americans that they had contact with as a newscaster. and to me, that's shocking. it's a sad state. i'm glad i can be out there and she's not the only one. >> for you as katie tom? where did she work? and explained that. >> at the time she was one of the local anchors for the five at 11:00 news. on abc. and she was for me the first asian-american, chinese-american i'd ever seen. i just told her i was a big fan. i watched her every night on the 5:00 news. i had to become a news counselor when she grew up. she invited me to this site. i have a picture on the set, sitting there. so was a thrill years later. i was with bloomberg and redistribute the contents for channel 11 here in new york. she switched over to p. i x. we actually had a moment where she talked to me. she said let's get

we saw also some key asian forces trading lower. let's keep an eye on banking stocks and there's continued concern about credit rating down grades for eurozone economies which pulled the financial stocks lower, the likes of bank of america, merrill lynch, which was down around 4% morgan stanley and citigroup trading lower. a lot of focus there on the euro and you mentioned some levels earlier. let's have another look at the currency levels this tuesday morning in japan. you can see they're 77.99-04. holding steady there. we will see how it develops through the day. >> ramin, we have a holiday shortened week in japan. what should we watch for after markets close thursday. >> a lot on the agenda. bank of japan has a two day policy meeting, and trade balance figures for jap for november. and let's not forget in october, dipped into the red first time in two months. thursday, ai auto production numbers for november and that flooding in thailand. we will see if those effects come into the numbers as well. still quite a lot for investors

i sought asian neighborhood design. central city sro collaborative. side david addington outside, urban solutions, so there are a lot of folks here. this is really an example of how many people have been part of this process to make market street work, and we are really excited to continue to work with everyone here to make this the street that everyone wants to see it. thank you. [applause] >> as supervisor kim said, central market does belong to the entire community. we have been blessed to have the commitment and energies of the board president helping us as well. [applause] supervisor chiu: good morning. anybody hundred? i know as an elected official not to get between people and food, so i am going to be very brief. six years ago, i ran a technology company that was located half a block from here. my employees asked me to move from this neighborhood. the reason for that was they did not feel safe. second, we did not have a community of innovators and creative folks all around us, and third, we were getting tired of eating doughnuts and vietnamese

see you as an individual and your group as role models for young asian women? >> yes. like as said before, i would like to represent them. i talked a lot about representing women in our lyrics. i hope that touches everybody in the world. >> talking about k-pop, how the future does it have in the global entertainment industry? >> i think it is just the start. i hope it gets bigger and bigger. i do not know if we want to categorize ourselves into one thing. but i hope k-pop becomes bigger and bigger. >> that is the conversation with the lead singer of korean hip- hop band 21. you have been watching tuesday from the bbc. i am in singapore. bye-bye. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global strength to work for a wide range of financial companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles. 

fourth area of investigation that the exhibition looks at is the larger concerns of the asian and latinmunities intersecting with popular cultur one best example -- when he's exemplified is what you see when you enter into the culture. >> this piece refers to restaurants in tijuana. when you are driving, to speak chinese and you read chinese characters. you see these signs. i was trying to play with the idea of what you see and the direction you read. when you start mixing these different groups of people, different cultures, i like the idea. you can comment on somebody else's culture or someone else's understanding about culture. >> one of the hopes we have for visitors is that they go away taking a better understanding with the broadest and the breadth of issues impacting both the asian and latin communities here in california and how they spell out into the larger fabric of the communities we live and work in.

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

. >> we have more chinese and asians than in any time in africa's history. unfortunately, we now have criminal syndicates that have penetrated the continent as never before. they are flush with finance and they are rapidly moving elephant ivory and other animal commodities to asian markets. the challenge just keeps escalating. >> law enforcement officials are struggling to keep up the smugglers. this is the latest seizure of illegal ivory, often used as the gateway in an illicit trade. 1.4 million tons were confiscated early this month. as long as asian economies continue to grow, the demand for ivory will not decline. >> the polls have closed in jamaica in a general election dominated by concerns over the island's economy. the prime minister has only been in office for two months and called for snap elections a year early. whoever wins will face deep economic problems. the island has a punishing debt of roughly $18.6 billion. that is 130% of gdp. it is thought that tough austerity measures will have to be implemented to pay the debt back. there has been ele

if you look at australia and other asian markets they fell by 1.5% to 2%.his axillary to the downtrend somewhat. as you said, we did have a slight recovery. i think there's uncertainty about the succession play. we know kim jong un will be promoted to be the leader in the nation. that's still some suspicion, perhaps there could be contentious issues with him being the leader. >> there could be a power vacuum? >> that is correct. >> it could be the brother-in-law or maybe some of the older generals who have been in place for a while? >> yes. >> as a result of what happened today, there was also a lot of movement in the currency markets, especially with the korean wan. there was a big sell-off today. we're tracking at currency traders looking stressed out today in seoul, as you can see. let's take a look at what happened with the wan against the dollar here. there was a sell-off at the same time, around noontime local time when the news came out. we saw a big sell-off towards that time, if we can look at the graph. i don't know if we have that. there's been a

. >> you see, we have more chinese and asians in africa than at any time in african history. unfortunately, in these committees we now have criminal syndicates that have penetrated the forest as never before. they are flush with finance and they are rapidly moving wildlife commodities to the asian markets. they are also corruptible forces able to buy the pathways that moved this ivory in large consignments off of the african continents. asians have come in and filled niche when the trade ban came into effect. 23 years later, we have a full blown challenge. thousands of elephants are being killed, just to these 13 seizures represent around 2500 elephants. that is just 13 seizures. i think this has a dramatic impact on the elephant numbers in the congo basin. we're getting reports that those that were mature populations in east and southern africa, well protected, monitored. these populations are losing all of their tuskers. >> animal quality laws are changing in the u.k. this means that the animals will not have to spend as much time in quarantine but activists say that there

satisfied with what they are getting from the system, but it is especially among people of color, asian americans feeling almost assaulted on a daily basis by the kind of news and coverage that is especially in the mainstream commercial media. they are still denigrated. they feel marginalized. they feel that their struggle in america is not properly represented, and i have been in the commercial media for 35 years as well as being a dissident, with another at "democracy now!" we feel frustrated with the american press representing our people. from the very beginning of our press and why it has been so difficult to have a fair and representative press in the area. tavis: you use some strong language. assaulted, denigrated. marginalized. why do they feel this way? >> the media is constantly portraying us as the other, as the problem, whether it is with immigration, arab-americans and muslims in the country, the sense that -- slaves against their masters. people of color have consistently been portrayed as the other, as the threat, and this has the impact of the young people growing up in

living on merced hall, i joined an asian student group that did barbecues and held house parties and spent hours producing the music and the dancing stuff and i emceed for them. i worked for pg&e in the mail room. when i finished the promoted me to a public relations in the audiovisual technical field. i was in charge of all their video gear, audio taping, recordings. in 1982, being bored there at the corporate level, i quit to do -- to be an entrepreneur. i wanted to explore the situation of making a fun part time side money thing into a real business. i quit my job to do this. in 1982, i decided to learn everything i needed to know about the entertainment business in san francisco. from being a d.j. i managed bands and booked the bands. the street fair, the cherry blossom street fair, even worked on the coordination involved, bringing bans and entertainment to the community for their fundraiser uses. at the same time hosting -- over 500 events at that time. the largest one but myself, i had 3000 people at a new year's eve party -- by myself i had 3000 people at a new year's eve par

keen to pair the menus with asian wines.eems surprised by their quality. >> if you don't tell me, i would never imagine i was drinking a chinese wine. >> reporter: but the price on the other hand is not going down so well. >> $700 for chinese wine, that's -- >> but in a restaurant. in a restaurant. >> that's challenging. >> reporter: for today, though, the focus is the food. and francis doesn't hold back. within seconds of the starter being served he's already found a fault with it. >> this is for sharing or this is for a place setting in front of you? >> it will be a place setting. >> one person. >> this is what the guest would get. >> one person. the plate could be a bit -- >> challenging. >> challenging. this is the first time we taste our christmas menu. we will go through many before we find it perfect. there's a ways to go. i think we are going in the right direction. as a profession as myself, there are many things we can do to make it better. >> reporter: francis believes he knows his asian customers better than anyo