Myanmar’s Educators Reach Out to the World

By LARA FARRAR Published: May 5, 2013 YANGON, MYANMAR — Yangon Technological University has come a long way since it was the site of anti-government student protests in 1988 that eventually spread across Myanmar. The campus has been refurbished and a sense of normality is beginning to return. Undergraduate students, barred for about a decade, are back, although they all...

First-Ever Singapore-Myanmar Film Festival on July 7, 2013

Singapore and Myanmar developing foreign relations through film By Lwin Mar Htun Singaporeans will get a chance to view the best of Myanmar film-making at what is being billed as the first-ever Singapore-Myanmar Film Festival on July 7. Five Myanmar films from among those submitted by more than 30 directors have already been selected for screening at Singapore’s Golden...

ASEAN Economic Ministers Roadshow to LA, Silicon Valley, and Washington,D.C.

On June 10-14 the US-ASEAN Business Council, in collaboration with the U.S. Government and the governments of ASEAN, is organizing a Roadshow for the ASEAN Economic (Trade) Ministers to Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. highlighting job-promoting trade and economic opportunities between the United States and Southeast Asia.  The reception is a unique...

Why Immigration Is an Asian American Issue

By Tram Kieu | May 28, 2013 Asian Americans* are the fastest-growing immigrant population in the United States today. According to 2011 Census data, almost half of all immigrants in the United States—18.2 million—came from Asia. This group overwhelmingly supported President Barack Obama for re-election—by 68 percent—and cares deeply about fixing the immigration...

FREE Music Classes for Youth! Music LA Celebrates Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

MAYOR ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA, THE LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL, THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS (DCA), THE ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH (APIAHM) COMMITTEE, AND THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY INVITE YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 7TH ANNUAL MUSIC LA APIAHM HERITAGE MONTH CLASSES Youth ages 13 -19 are invited to participate in hands-on instrumental and vocal music...

Burmese refugees flock to Iowa meatpacking town

By RYAN J. FOLEY — Associated Press COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa — The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked on his progress. The school had long been accustomed to educating the children of the Mexicans, Hondurans and Salvadorans who came to work at the sprawling Tyson...