doughnuts are not a cambodian food. this was a sort of chance occurrence. >> so how do you plan all kinds ever -- apply economic theory to that? >> if you want to use a highfalutin term, this is what an economist calls path dependence. some randomly occurrence sets history of an industry off on a -- in a particular direction so that -- and then skills begin -- networks gib to be created. and -- begin to be created and becomes more likely that a cambodian will get into the doughnut shop then and doughnut business ask then say in a the acrylic nail salon business which is dominated by vietnamese people in los angeles. >> what did you say again? >> manicurists which i don't write about in the book but i have written about elsewhere. and then it is also more likely that -- less likely somebody who is not a cambodian had get into. it is not impossible. there are people who are not cambodians that open doughnut shops. it is an example of the sort of unpredictability of the way the economy works. >> why do you use that -- what

she saw a disconnect between the vietnamese and cambodian students graduating high school.fill that need. congratulations, diahann, and congratulations to 4c the power. >> wow. to be recognized for something that we are so passionate about, and that is educating every single youth that comes to our door, in particular my passion for asian-american students who do not fit the somewhat stereotypical thought about asian students. we have been commit with our mentors. i am a little more nervous because i did not expect this. you have to pardon me. it with our mentor is helping youth, connecting them to their culture, creativity and their community, all the while building confidence. i think the young children here proved it perfectly. that our fifth graders who will not probably remember what was on the california standards test they just talk, but 20 years from now they will remember the dance they learned, the culture they study the, the creativity they were able to share with all of you, and most important confidence to come out here and do that. from the bar ofbottom of our

she saw a disconnect between the vietnamese and cambodian students graduating high school.fill that need. congratulations, diahann, and congratulations to 4c the power. >> wow. to be recognized for something that we are so passionate about, and that is educating every single youth that comes to our door, in particular my passion for asian-american students who do not fit

the coast guard police and custom officials say they found export documents of the cambodian register ship during a search in october in osaka port. the firm has been designated for an asset freeze for violating sanctions violating weapons to north korea. they say the paperwork shows a ship transported four large special vehicles from shanghai to the north korean city of nampho. japanese officials say it's likely these vehicles match those displayed as missile launchpads during a military parade in april in north korea. they also say exporting this type of hardware violates u.n. security council resolutions. the resolutions ban countries from sending materials related to weapons of mass destruction to north korea. japanese officials are reporting their findings to the u.n. a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson is denying the accusations. >> translator: china firmly opposes proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. we strongly implement unsc resolutions. >> he added firms in china do not export goods that are banned by security council resolutions or chinese law. >> our senior re

. >> the -- cambodian one? >> yeah. >> what about the taxes? >> i don't remember. i remember cambodia thing came up. put him right into a partisan kind of anti-war. doesn't matter what we were or members of the committee. hay thought that was outside. he was p comfortable. >> but he couldn't prevent it. >> no. he couldn't. but -- you asked me what he thought. >> this was -- do you think it was something he did to appease -- >> yeah. he had to. that was -- but it is a vote. his judgment would be not to do it. that wasn't his call. >> part of the pressure on him and -- you mentioned this to me off camera, you said the white house tried to -- >> right. you know, it is the cliche, you know. italians are mob connected. there was a lot of corruption. his roommate -- became mayor, he went to prison. there were a lot of politicians around newark and surrounding area that went to prison, had connection to organized crime. so the white house immediately upon -- once the process began started putting stories out that he was -- he was influenced or in some way connected to the

we have gone requests in the past for cantonese, spanish, vietnamese, cambodian, russian, and caribbean, and their services we have been able to accommodate and work with folks. happy to stop there. we're in discussions with the budget analysts. we're not in complete agreement yet, but i anticipate we will be by this time last -- next week. supervisor chu: thank you. with regards to your expectations for the department going forward, in terms of the number of appeals, you still have a large number of outstanding appeals, but the expectation is that is going to come down, correct? >> correct. we have a two-year lag. so we're working on appeals from two years ago. so over the next two years, we will see a pretty significant drop in appeals. talking to realtors and people in the industry, it is clear that the market has started to significantly rebound. we believe that two years from now, we probably will not be needing those 24 time-limited staff. if circumstances change, obviously we would bring that back before this body. but that is what we anticipate. supervisor chu: we have recently

he'll say, to all my cambodians, good morning! everybody will go, hey, good morning.orous times in here too, you know what i mean? this is our life. we got to laugh. you know? can't be always mad. >> all the time! >> all the time! >> good night.

. >> plow, the hmong community, cambodian americans, the same poverty rates as blacks and latinos. >> she says that should not give lost in the numbers. >> coming up, dangerous chemicals in couches. a bay area scientist has been sounding the alarm for years. how her efforts may have paid off. >> you are a rock star, at least >> you are a rock star, at least in the sou discover britvisit:lumbia. >> sofas and other upholstered furniture sold in california and the rest of the country will soon have fewer toxic chemicals. julie watts explains that say for items should be in the stores and about one year. >> you cannot see the chemicals in your postal furniture but they are there because a longstanding and some say out of date california requirement. that rule is now going to be changed and the furniture industry is taking notice. governor jerry brown has ordered state regulators to draw up new flammability standards for furniture sold in california. he cites concerns that the chemicals could be responsible for a host of health problems including cancer and infertility. berkeley's scientis

themselves one type of political group that particularly dark darker asians like filipinos, mung, cambodian, laotians. they are racialized i think in a very different way than the japanese, chinese and korean americans are go okinawans are darker and seen a certain way etc. but reticular leg -- so it's been here since the empire started in 1898 and we still haven't gotten far. we haven't done too much. we are not any kind of model minority and my argument is to my students, you know, how do you see this sort of common ground that you know, filipinos in daly city find with african-americans or samoans in san diego? .. and what makes it such that there are these wonderful alliances, too. so, i mean, i think my default answer is this notion of the wedge being driven, you know, asian-americans being on the cover of "time" magazine in 1986, whiz kids. it's not even on spoken, but kind of acknowledgement that okay, asians are going to do well in math and science, etc. and they're going to make it. you have ucla filled with asian-americans. but, you know, there are still asian-american brothers an