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Little India
March 25, 2018
The Hindujas have been named as the richest British Asians for the fifth time in a row. The family has an estimated net worth of Ãâã22 billion, according to the annual Asian Rich List published by UK-based Asian Media Group (AMG). They have been named the richest Asians in the United Kingdom sinceÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
March 24, 2018
The Hinduja family was today named the UK's richest British Asians for the fifth consecutive year, with an estimated net worth of 22 billion pounds. The London-headquartered Hinduja Group – headed by brothers Srichand P Hinduja, Gopichand P Hinduja, Prakash P Hinduja and Ashok P Hinduja – had aÃâà...
The News Minute
March 24, 2018
When caste follows you overseas: Ostracism, discrimination among South Asians in US. "My child was secluded when they found out we were Dalit," said one of the respondents in a survey on caste discrimination among South Asian Americans. Haripriya SureshÃâà...
The Advocate
March 23, 2018
Many of the most powerful countries in the world are owned by Asian businessmen and women — and many of them live in the UK. The Asian Rich List 2018, which will be presented on Friday night at the 21st annual Asian Business Awards (ABA) in London, recognises the 101 wealthiest Asians in the UK.
GenomeWeb
March 16, 2018
As they reported in Cell today, their analyses found that the Denisovan ancestry in East Asians originated from a different Denisovan population than the Denisovan ancestry found in South Asians and Papuans. It had previously been thought that Denisovan ancestry in Asians had been acquired throughÃâà...
Wicked Local
March 16, 2018
Serving up Asian cuisine has been in the Moy family's DNA for more than 30 years. Now, Canton resident Brian Moy has teamed up with Joslin Diabetes Center's Asian American Diabetes Initiative to shed light on the role healthy eating plays in diabetes management, especially within the Asian community,Ãâà...
wgbh.org
March 15, 2018
Indian Americans in Lexington pulled off a historic victory last week — something not to be said lightly in a town known for historic victories. People of South Asian origin accounted for about 5 percent of Lexington's population in the last census, but now that local election results have been certified, theyÃâà...
Chimes
March 15, 2018
These misperceptions carried throughout the early history of Hollywood as many films such as, “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu” and “Breakfast at Tiffany's,” continued to shape the American misconception of Asian people. This distorted and misguided presentation of Asians also cultured the problem ofÃâà...
MTV Asia
March 14, 2018
If there's one pastime that Asians can never escape, it's karaoke. No matter what country in Asia you're in, you'll be able to find a karaoke machine in even the smallest of towns. You'll find all sorts of venues to enjoy it, from private rooms and open bars, to town halls and your grandmother's home.
TTG Asia
March 14, 2018
As a lesser-known destination for foreign travellers, South Korea's Jeolla Province wants to leverage its rich cultural and agricultural assets to attract a greater share of visitors from South-east Asia. Park Hui Jung, chief tourism marketing, Jeollabukdo tourism division, told TTG Asia that the destination'sÃâà...
HuffPost
February 28, 2018
At the beginning of YouTube, the biggest stars were Asian ... They were able to amass incredible followings. I was introduced to it by my brother and I watched because it was like, “Wow, that's someone who looks like me and they're funny and they're great, and you never get to see Asians acting this way.”.
TTG Asia
February 12, 2018
Tokyo has come out tops in a ranking of Chinese New Year (CNY) destinations for Asian travellers in 2018, overtaking Bangkok which has held the title for the last two years, according to agoda. Other destinations that slipped down the rankings include Singapore and Chiang Mai, which respectively fellÃâà...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
Miyashiro said that, at the 88rising offices, the controversy reminded staffers of the power they had to shape perceptions of Asian people. But he noted that some of the Asian-American men in the office argued that it was up to those who felt emasculated to, as he said, “do something about it and be fuckin'Ãâà...
The Conversation US
December 31, 1999
A proposal to change the race question for the 2020 census would give Asians the option to mark their race as “Asian,” and also check off or write in their national origin as Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indian, Vietnamese and so on. For the first time in the history of the census, which began in 1790, “Asian”Ãâà...
Hollywood Reporter
December 31, 1999
He'll play a man who travels from London to his birth country of Vietnam to scatter his parents' ashes. Henry Golding is already poised to have a very big year. He's the lead opposite Constance Wu in Warner Bros.' Crazy Rich Asians (out Aug. 17) and will then be seen in Paul Feig's female-driven thriller AÃâà...
The Federalist
December 31, 1999
What the Times had neglected to mention in its coverage was the wildly disproportionate number of Asian students accepted into these schools. It is basically the inverse of what we see with Black and Latino students; over 50 percent of accepted students are Asian, though Asians only make up about 13Ãâà...
Hartford Courant
December 31, 1999
About a thousand Asian Americans, most of Chinese heritage, converged on the Legislative Office Building Thursday to support a bill that would ban the separation of data about Connecticut's students into ethnic subgroups in the public school system unless required by federal law. “You can tell we areÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Genius has been an underlying theme of this series, the second season of FX's “American Crime Story” — specifically, the creative genius of Gianni Versace (and to a lesser extent, the young architect David Madson) and the pathological genius of Andrew Cunanan, whose capacity for deceit and violenceÃâà...
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