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AsianWeek

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AsianWeek was America’s first and largest English language print and on-line publication serving Asian Americans. [1]

31 relations: American Book Awards, Asian American Journalists Association, Asian Americans, Asian Heritage Street Celebration, BBC World News, Castro Street Fair, Chinatown, Chinatown Handy Guide, College admissions in the United States, Emil Guillermo, Georgetown Law, Hepatitis B, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, James Yee, Japanese American redress and court cases, Jay Leno, Murder of Vincent Chin, Norman Mineta, Running amok, San Francisco, San Francisco Independent, Society of Professional Journalists, Supreme Court of the United States, Tabloid (newspaper format), The San Francisco Examiner, Washington, D.C., Water cooler, Weekly newspaper, Wen Ho Lee, 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay.

American Book Awards

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".

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Asian American Journalists Association

The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) was founded in 1981 by several Asian American journalists in order to support greater participation by Asian Americans in the news media.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.

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Asian Heritage Street Celebration

The Asian Heritage Street Celebration is an Asian American event held in San Francisco, California.

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BBC World News

BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel.

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Castro Street Fair

The Castro Street Fair is a San Francisco LGBT street festival and fair usually held on the first Sunday in October in the Castro neighborhood, the main gay neighborhood and social center in the city.

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Chinatown

A Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of Chinese or Han people located outside mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan, most often in an urban setting.

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Chinatown Handy Guide

The Chinatown Handy Guide was one of the early Chinatown tour books published by a Chinese American author and World Catalog..

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College admissions in the United States

College admissions in the United States refers to the process of applying for entrance to institutions of higher education for undergraduate study at one of the nation's 2,675 schools.

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Emil Guillermo

Emil Guillermo is an American print and broadcast journalist, commentator and humorist.

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Georgetown Law

Georgetown University Law Center, commonly referred to as Georgetown Law School or simply Georgetown Law, is one of the professional graduate schools of Georgetown University, a private research university located in Washington, D.C. Established in 1870, it is the second largest law school in the United States and receives more full-time applications than any other law school in the country.

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Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) that affects the liver.

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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (H.R. 2580), also known as the Hart–Celler Act, changed the way quotas were allocated by ending the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act of 1921.

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James Yee

James J. Yee (or 余优素福, also known by the Arabic name Yusuf Yee) (born c. 1968) is an American former United States Army chaplain with the rank of captain.

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Japanese American redress and court cases

The following article focuses on the movement to obtain redress for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and significant court cases that have shaped civil and human rights for Japanese Americans and other minorities.

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Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host.

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Murder of Vincent Chin

Vincent Jen Chin (May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982) was a Chinese-American man who was severely beaten in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park, Michigan, in June 1982.

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Norman Mineta

Norman Yoshio Mineta (born November 12, 1931) is an American politician.

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Running amok

Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok or gone amok, also spelled amuk, from the Southeast Asian Austronesian languages (especially Malaysian and Indonesian), is "an episode of sudden mass assault against people and/or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Southeast Asia's Austronesian cultures, but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior".

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Independent

The San Francisco Independent was the largest non-daily newspaper in the United States.

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Society of Professional Journalists

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Tabloid (newspaper format)

A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet.

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The San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner is a longtime daily newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Water cooler

A water cooler or water dispenser is a device that cools and dispenses water.

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Weekly newspaper

A weekly newspaper is a general-news publication that is published once or twice a week.

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Wen Ho Lee

Wen Ho Lee (born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese-American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and commonly known as Beijing 2008, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 8 to 24 August 2008 in Beijing, China.

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2008 Summer Olympics torch relay

The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008, prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, with the theme of "one world, one dream".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsianWeek

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