Happy Birthday!
It’s the museum’s 40th anniversary, and we will be celebrating with a pan-cultural birthday party. Come enjoy fun crafts, performances, demonstrations, hands-on activities and of course free admission to the galleries.
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Presented by the National Asian American Coalition
Join us in observing Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at the Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego. This community celebration will focus on Asian and Pacific Islander cultures as well as our contemporary Asian American culture!
The Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego will be held on Sunday, May 1st, 2011, from 10am to 6pm, at the NTC Park at Liberty Station, at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Cushing Road, 92106.
During this free, fun, family friendly, festive event, there will be martial arts, cultural dances and exhibitions, cooking demos, entertainment, games, and of course, food!
The Asian Cultural Festival is a pet friendly and smoking-free environment.
By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) — A powerful earthquake hit Myanmar Thursday near its borders with China, Thailand and Laos, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake hit in eastern Myanmar, about 70 miles (110 km) from Chiang Rai, Thailand, the survey reported.
It had a magnitude of 6.8, the survey said, revising the estimate down from an initial reading of 7.0.
It was a relatively shallow quake, which can be very destructive. The Geological Survey initially said the quake had a depth of 142 miles (230km), but it later revised its estimate to say the quake was 6 miles (10 km) deep, putting it fairly close to the surface.
The U.S. Census Bureau today released more detailed 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics to the governor and leadership of the state legislature in California. These data provide the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from the 2010 Census.
The official 2010 Census Redistricting Data Summary File can be used to redraw federal, state and local legislative districts under Public Law 94-171. The census data are used by state officials to realign congressional and state legislative districts in their states, taking into account population shifts since the 2000 Census.
The British colonial-era buildings in Yangon are in dire need of repair after years of neglect. Activists seek to preserve the structures, which they fear will be leveled by Chinese property developers.
source: Los Angeles Times, Reporting from Yangon, Myanmar —
They stand like ghosts from a bygone era, struggling to maintain a shabby dignity in the face of creeping foliage and years of neglect, all the while fueling a debate: Should they be protected as rare treasures or leveled as worthless junk?
Preservationists fear that Yangon’s several hundred colonial-era buildings, a legacy of the British Empire at its height, will succumb to voracious Chinese property developers with a history of building tacky shopping malls for a quick buck.
Several low- and mid-market malls have sprouted up in recent years, most a few miles from the run-down, old downtown area where the vintage buildings are concentrated, raising concern that Yangon will become just another noisy, ugly Asian city of mini-malls and sprawl.
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Successful DV applicants are notified by the Department of State, Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) by letter, NOT Email and are provided instructions on how to proceed to the next step in the process. The KCC will not ask you to send money to them or to this Embassy or any other U.S. Embassy by mail or by services such as Western Union.
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Network of Myanmar American Association (NetMAA), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) annd American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Southern California Chapter present a FREE Immigration Clinic where you can get answers to your questions about green cards, visas, citizenship, and other immigration matters. This clinic serves members of the Myanmar community.
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WHERE: MONTEREY PARK CITY LIBRARY,
318 S. Ramona Avenue, Monterey Park, CA
ROOM INFO.: Friends Room , 2nd Floor
TIME: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
DATE: Sunday, April 3, 2011
By: Harry Hpone Thant
The blue waters off the Tanintharyi coast of Southern Myanmar are home to a race of people called Salone in the Myanmar language. Also known as Moken, they are a nomadic people. They roam the seas in their fragile canoes looking for sea cucumbers, pearls and otherwise searching the sea bed for their livelihood. Even the deadly sea urchins with their prickly and poisonous spikes are handled with ease by them. The Salone families hop from island to island, making their canoes their home, never touching land except when the seas get rough during monsoon time. All their worldly possessions are piled in their small boats, not excluding the household dogs even, as they wander from one deserted island to another as their forefathers had done thousands of times in as much years. And this had earned them an epitaph as Sea Gypsies.
Listeners turn to foreign genres, rejecting folk songs often associated with the military regime. A school, though, is scrambling to save what’s left of a rich tradition.
LOS ANGELES TIMES | A Times Staff Writer
U Tin cut his teeth as a musician playing Burmese folk songs for silent movies, which in this time warp of a country remained popular well into the 1950s.
The 80-year-old recalls the challenge of playing guitar, watching the conductor and looking at the screen simultaneously, four shows a day. Periodically they’d mess up the sound effects, leaving the audience to wonder why a bang occurred well after the gunfight ended.
“Some of the band leaders were quite drunk, particularly by the late show,” he said. “But we managed.”
Today, he sits on his well-worn floor surrounded by memories and his beloved string instruments lined up like sleeping maidens.
With minimal encouragement, he grabs a sort of battered hubcap attached to a cricket bat, his homemade banjo, and croons a folk song about a girl from Yangon worried about keeping her skin fair.
The U.S. population grew 9.7% in the past decade to 308,745,538, the slowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau says.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the 2010 Census showed the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538. The resident population represented an increase of 9.7 percent over the 2000 U.S. resident population of 281,421,906. The U.S. resident population represents the total number of people in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The most populous state was California (37,253,956); the least populous, Wyoming (563,626). The state that gained the most numerically since the 2000 Census was Texas (up 4,293,741 to 25,145,561) and the state that gained the most as a percentage of its 2000 Census count was Nevada (up 35.1% to 2,700,551).