(USAW) -- March 8, 2010 -- Community members and Supervisor Eric Mar will honor poet/activist and Fillmore District native Al Robles on March 14th 2010, at 12:30 pm in San Francisco's Fillmore Plaza on Fillmore and O'Farrell Streets with music, poetry and remembrance.
(USAW) -- March 5, 2010 -- Fil-Am UFC Fighter and NCAA Wrestling Champion Mark Munoz hosts the grand opening of REIGN TRAINING CENTER Saturday, March 13th at its brand new location in Lake Forest, California.
(USAW) -- March 2, 2010 -- The Seventh Annual Asian Heritage Awards is accepting nominations in 14 categories to be celebrated July 10 aboard the USS Midway. The event will honor outstanding Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. The ceremony will also will pay special honor to Tom Hom, the first Asian American elected to City Council.
(USAW) -- February 24, 2010 -- Today, President Obama nominated Goodwin Liu for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Robert N. Chatigny for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
(USAW) -- February 23, 2010 -- The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians has become the 200,000th partner for the 2010 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. The number of partners supporting the 2010 Census exceeds the 140,000 that signed on to support the 2000 Census.
(USAW) -- February 21, 2010 -- MEDIA ADVISORY: HBO and Verizon honor NJ heroes John Basilone and Robert Leckie with Raritan Premiere of the HBO Miniseries Event THE PACIFIC on Saturday February 27.
(USAW) -- February 18, 2010 -- The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) announced Loyola Marymount University's sponsorship of J Camp, a multicultural high-school journalism workshop.
(USAW) -- February 17, 2010 -- The 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour is part of the largest civic outreach and awareness campaign in U.S. history - stopping and exhibiting at more than 800 events nationwide.
(USAW) -- February 10, 2010 -- Now, you can send New Year's greetings to friends and family back home for little to no money using Skype ª, a worldwide leader in Internet communications.
(USAW) -- February 5, 2010 -- Today in Lanham, Maryland, President Obama proposed the expansion of two critical Small Business Administration (SBA) lending programs, aimed at allowing small businesses to refinance and increasing limits for working capital.
(USAW) -- February 3, 2010 -- Giant Robot is proud to host Year of the Tiger, a group art show celebrating year 4708 on the lunar calendar. Pieces will include illustration, oils, pencils, prints, watercolor, sculpture, and other mediaÐall dedicated one of the most powerful but also most sensitive animal in the Chinese zodiac.
(USAW) -- February 3, 2010 -- Asian Sisters Participating In Reaching Excellence (ASPIREª) is proud to announce Rashmi Jasrasaria as the grand prize winner of the 2nd Annual ASPIRE Outstanding Woman of the Year Award.
(USAW) -- February 2, 2010 -- Today, President Barack Obama outlined the new Small Business Lending Fund, which will transfer $30 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to a new program that will support small business lending.
(USAW)--February 2, 2010--Today at 3:30 PM EST, Gene Sperling, Counselor to the Treasury Secretary will hold an on the record conference call to discuss details of a new small business lending proposal that President Obama will outline at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire today.
(USAW)--February 2, 2010-- On Tuesday, February 2, 2010, President Barack Obama will hold a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire where he will outline the new Small Business Lending Fund. He will be joined by Small Business Administrator Karen Mills.
(USAW) -- January 29, 2010 -- At the Chesapeake Machine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, President Obama announced details of the Small Business Jobs and Wages Tax Cut, one of his new proposals to create good jobs and bring relief to small businesses.
(USAW) -- January 28, 2010 -- Tom Hom, one of San Diego's most influential Asian Americans, will be honored as this year's Special Recognition Honoree at the Seventh Annual Asian Heritage Awards on Saturday, July 10, aboard the USS Midway in downtown San Diego.
(USAW) -- January 25, 2010 -- I send my warmest wishes on behalf of the American people to the people of India and to those here in America and around the world who are celebrating Republic Day.
(USAW) -- January 25, 2010 -- Tuttle Publishing, a leader in English language books on and about Asia for over 60 years, is proud to present children's books and language materials depicting the rich, cultural diversity of the Filipino heritage.
(USAW) -- January 20, 2010 -- Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves will conduct the first count of the 2010 Census in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Noorvik, Alaska Ñ a remote village north of the Arctic Circle with a population of about 700.
(USAW) -- January 20, 2010 -- Today, President Obama nominated Jon DeGuilio, Judge Audrey Goldstein Fleissig, Judge Lucy H. Koh, Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson and Judge Tanya Walton Pratt to be United States District Court judges.
(USAW) -- January 15, 2010 -- Sandra Oh, John Cho, Aaron Yoo, Lisa Ling, Archie Kao, C.S. Lee, Joan Chen, Justin Chon, Far East Movement, Kaba Modern and over 100 other members of the creative community will appear in a series of videos supporting the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF).
(USAW) -- January 14, 2010 -- With estimates that as many as three million people may be affected by the catastrophic earthquake which hit Haiti Tuesday, the American Red Cross is releasing an additional $9 million for earthquake relief, bringing its total commitment so far to $10 million to support relief efforts in Haiti.
(USAW) -- January 13, 2010 -- The American Red Cross is sending money, supplies and staff to Haiti to support relief efforts there after yesterdayÕs earthquake, which caused catastrophic damage and loss of life.
(USAW)-- January 6, 2010 -- Acupuncture Ambassadors (AA), an international educational and medical NGO, has announced the scheduling of a mission to Kathmandu, Nepal, in February 2010.
(USAW) -- January 4, 2010 -- The 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour set out today from New York City's Times Square, launching a cross-country interactive experience designed to increase awareness and encourage participation in the nation's once-a-decade population count.
(USAW) -- January 1, 2010 -- Mark Munoz UFC Middleweight, Filipino Wrecking Machine (6-1) will fight Ryan Jensen of Omaha, Nebraska (15-4) in UFC 108 this Saturday January 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is Munoz second fight as a Middleweight contender at 185 pounds.
(USAW) -- December 29, 2009 -- On the eve of the 2010 Census, as the Census Bureau prepares to conduct an actual count of the nation's population, the bureau projects that on Jan. 1, 2010 - three months out from Census Day - the total U.S. population will be 308,400,408. This would represent an increase of 2,606,181, or 0.9 percent, from New Year's Day 2009.
(USAW) -- December 16, 2009 -- China's population is projected to peak at slightly less than 1.4 billion in 2026, both earlier and at a lower level than previously projected. Meanwhile, IndiaÕs population is projected to surpass China's population in 2025, according to new data being released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
(USAW) -- December 16, 2009 -- How r u? The way we communicate is rapidly evolving, as evidenced by the fact that the number of text messages sent on cell phones has more than doubled from 48 billion in December 2007 to 110 billion in December 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010.
(USAW) -- December 9, 2009 -- Available for Interview: Anne Avery (Anne Kwon), CMS Asian American and Pacific Islander Outreach Coordinator.
(USAW) -- December 9, 2009 -- Available for interview: Dr. Kim-Quy Kieu MD, Medical Officer for the Division of Quality Improvement CMS Spokesperson for the Vietnamese community.
(USAW) -- December 9, 2009 -- Available for Interview: Mr. Meng K. Lee, Chairman of the Board and the Director of the Community Service Division, CCACC.
(USAW) -- December 9, 2009 -- Available for Interview: Anne Avery (Anne Kwon), CMS Asian American and Pacific Islander Outreach Coordinator.
(USAW) -- December 8, 2009 -- MEDIA ADVISORY -- WHAT: U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves will brief the media on the status of 2010 Census operations. Groves will provide an assessment of the Master Address File, which serves as the source of addresses for mailing and delivering more than 130 million 2010 Census forms next March.
(USAW) -- December 8, 2009 -- Today, the President laid out some of the broad steps that he believes should be at the heart of our efforts to help put Americans back to work and get businesses hiring again. This announcement is part of the PresidentÕs ongoing effort to take every responsible step to accelerate the pace of job growth.
(USAW) -- December 4, 2009 -- The New York Community Media Alliance held the 2009 Ippies Awards ceremony at Baruch College on Thursday December 3. The Ippies are the only journalism awards in NYC that honor reporting in English and languages other than English in the ethnic and community press. 2009 marks the 8th consecutive year that the NYCMA has presented the awards.
(USAW) -- December 1, 2009 -- New America Media [NAM] condemns the merciless killings of, to date, 57 Filipinos, including women, lawyers and 30 media professionals, who were part of the convoy of Vice-Mayor Ismael Mangudadatu in the southern province of Maguindanao in the Philippines.
(USAW) -- December 1, 2009 -- The Philippine American Press Club USA, together with concerned journalists, invite everyone to a memorial mass for the 30 Filipino journalists who were massacred together with 27 innocent civilians in Maguindanao, Philippines last Monday, November 23rd.
(USAW)--December 1, 2009--The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is encouraging Medicare beneficiaries to take advantage of the annual Open Enrollment period to make sure they have the best coverage available to meet their healthcare needs in 2010.
(USAW)--February 13, 2009--Having drawn such renowned performers as rapper Jin the Emcee, former American Idol contestants Jasmine Trias and Jose "Sway" Penala and Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas, the 5th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration is once again inviting talented artists to grace its stages.
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