• Asia's Diversity Poses Challenge in Efforts to Form East Asian community: MM Lee
  By: Michiyo Ishida
  Date Posted: May 29, 2007
  News Source: Channel NewsAsia
  
  TOKYO: Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew says it will be difficult for East Asia to form an integrated community based on the European model. He was speaking at the "Future of Asia" symposium in Tokyo attended by Asian leaders. "If you expand too quickly as they did in Europe, suddenly they became 27 from six. So the French people suddenly felt unhappy that they have ...
  
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• European Diversity Truck Hits the Road
  Date Posted: April 25, 2007
  News Source: Europa Rapid Press Releases
  
  The European Diversity Truck will hit the road in Strasbourg today and embark on its tour across Europe. Starting from the seat of the European Parliament, the Truck will promote diversity and equal opportunities for all. The journey will take in 19 countries, covering more than 18,000 km. Visiting city centres, universities, job fairs, and public festivals, the mobile information platform will ...
  
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• How Diversity Makes a Team Click
  By: Kelley Holand
  Date Posted: April 24, 2007
  News Source: The New York Times
  
  WHEN consultants at Bain & Company are transferred to the Delhi office, they don’t pack just their BlackBerrys and toothbrushes. Each one also receives a copy of a manual written by consultants who are, or have been, posted there. It spells out in precise consultant-speak suggestions for nightclubs, gyms and Hindi teachers. But it goes beyond that, by discussing meeting protocols, dress cod ...
  
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• MGM Mirage diversity hiring practice
  By: MARGARITA BAUZA
  Date Posted: April 18, 2007
  News Source: Detroit Free Press
  
  Terry Lanni, chairman and chief executive of MGM Mirage, spoke with the Free Press following the opening of a staffing center late last month in Detroit, where the casino is interviewing candidates for 1,000 new jobs. The MGM Grand Detroit Casino LLC, a unit of MGM Mirage, is to open later this year. With a budget of $765 million, it is the largest construction project under way in Michigan. ...
  
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• Proposed NYC Public School Causes Stir
  By: The Associated Press
  Date Posted: April 16, 2007
  News Source: The New York Times
  
  NEW YORK (AP) -- This city has dozens of small public schools that focus on themes -- sports careers, the arts and social justice. Few generate controversy. Then, someone decided to start a school covering Arab language and culture. ''Jihadi,'' ''public madrassa'' and ''segregationist'' are some of the labels tossed at the plan. Conservative Web sites have ranted against the idea, as have ...
  
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• WINS GALVANIZE WORKERS AT CITY'S ASIAN EATERIES
  By: I-Ching Ng
  Date Posted: April 10, 2007
  News Source: CityLimits.org
  
  Many Chinese restaurant workers in New York City are savoring a recent court ruling that found owners of an East Broadway restaurant guilty of paying below the minimum wage and stealing tips. The ruling has triggered a new wave of labor rights activism radiating out from the immigrant enclaves in Chinatown and initiating a new wave of lawsuits targeting hip Asian eateries in Manhattan. Eleve ...
  
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• Asian American Journalists Association Calls for Newspaper Editors Not to Lose Sight of Diversity Amidst Industry Changes
  By: Asian American Journalists Association
  Date Posted: March 28, 2007
  News Source: PRNewswire
  
  WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- With newspapers across the country experiencing dramatic changes in recent months due to consolidation, convergence and staff downsizing, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) today called for the nation's newspaper editors not to lose sight of the importance of diversity in newsrooms and in the coverage of the country's diverse communities. & ...
  
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• inability to speak English fluently is a powerful barrier to attaining jobs, Asian American Justice Center report says
  By: Asian American Justice Center
  Date Posted: March 12, 2007
  News Source: PR Newswire
  
  WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With interest in the pressing need to improve programs for English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOLs) at an all-time high, the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) today released a comprehensive report detailing strategic investments and approaches that can transform this critical educational arena. "A number of demographic, economic an ...
  
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• 'Will there be any Hawaii left?'
  By: Martin Kasindorf
  Date Posted: March 08, 2007
  News Source: USA Today
  
  Census studies show Native Hawaiian numbers are slowly shrinking. The islands' low-paying service jobs in tourism and the high cost of living — 27% above the national average — have driven so many to migrate to casino jobs in Las Vegas that Hawaiians now call the Nevada city "the ninth island," says Ronald Becker, chairman of the criminal justice program at Honolulu's Chaminade Univer ...
  
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• Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2007
  By: News Release
  Date Posted: March 02, 2007
  News Source: U.S. Census Bureau
  
  WASHINGTON, March 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In 1978, a joint congressional resolution established Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. The first 10 days of May were chosen to coincide with two important milestones in Asian/Pacific American history: the arrival in the United States of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) and contributions of Chinese workers to the building of the ...
  
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