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Zac Goldsmith is playing with fire as he bids to lure Asian voters
Edit The Observer 17 Apr 2016
A few weeks ago, bemused Asian voters in London started to post online different versions of a similar leaflet from Conservative London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith, targeted at Hindus, Sikhs and Tamils ... Like many Asian voters, I couldn’t care less whether Goldsmith supports Modi or what his views are on a Sikh temple thousands of miles away ... In the UK, relations between Asian communities are generally good....
Jeremy Lin enjoying time in Charlotte
Edit San Francisco Chronicle 17 Apr 2016
[...] he’s well aware that virtually anything he says or does could be viewed through the context of him being Asian American ... [...] as I get older, I see it more and more as an opportunity, and I see how broken the whole view on Asians and Asian Americans really is in America ... There’s no traffic, (but) ... sometimes I miss being able to get Asian food, or get Asian dessert, or stuff like that. > ....
Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu hits out at Ghost in the Shell over reports of testing CGI yellowface
Edit Digital Spy 17 Apr 2016
Fresh Off the Boat's Constance Wu has slammed the Ghost in the Shell remake after reports emerged that CGI to make white actors look Asian was previously considered ... Alongside Wu, Agents of SHIELD's Ming-Na Wen previously hit out at Ghost in the Shell's producers for casting Johansson in an Asian role....
Rights, Freedoms Are Victims Of Central Asian Economic Crisis
Edit Radio Free Europe 17 Apr 2016
Freedom House just released its annual Nations In Transit (NIT) report, an indispensable look at the human rights situation in 29 countries, including all five Central Asian states ... While two Central Asian countries – Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – have regularly been ranked at the bottom of the list, this year’s NIT report saw Kazakhstan, and particularly Tajikistan, drop in the rankings....
AFC Champions League MD5: Standings & Fixtures (AFC - Asian Football Confederation)
Edit Public Technologies 17 Apr 2016Max Landis Blames Scarlett Johansson ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Casting Controversy on ‘Broken System’ in ...
Edit The Wrap 17 Apr 2016
There are fewer and fewer stars who mean anything,” said Landis, pointing out that these days, Asian actors such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Lucy Liu are no longer the same box office draws they were in the ’90s ... Another report last week took Paramount to task for experimenting with visual effects tests that would’ve made a supporting cast member look more traditionally Asian....
New General Secretaries laud AFC induction programme (QFA - Qatar Football Association)
Edit Public Technologies 17 Apr 2016
(Source. QFA - Qatar Football Association) ... Fifteen GSs representing all five zones making up the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) took part in the two-day programme in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, home of the AFC ... As top administrators of their football federation, the General Secretaries play a key role in implementing the strategy, which has the overarching aim of the Asian continental body becoming the leading Confederation ... (noodl....
Coast Guard seeks two teens swept out to sea at Ocean Beach
Edit San Francisco Chronicle 17 Apr 2016
An urgent search is under way for two teenage boys who were swept out to sea Saturday afternoon while playing in the surf at Ocean Beach. The Coast Guard dispatched two 47-foot motorized lifeboats and a helicopter to search the water for the boys, who Coast Guard Lt ... The boys, who witnesses said appeared to be Asian, were in the ocean in water up to their waists when they were swept away about 4.20 p.m., Medina said ... ....
NZDF response to Cyclone Winston draws down (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand)
Edit Public Technologies 17 Apr 2016
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand) ... 'The New Zealand Government responded rapidly to Cyclone Winston, and we have committed more than $15 million for relief and recovery activities to date,' Mr McCully says ... Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand issued this content on 17 April 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein ... (noodl....
State to tie up with ADB for funding nine transport projects
Edit DNA India 17 Apr 2016
-->. The state government is in process of tying up with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for funding for nine upcoming transport projects in the coming years. Highly placed sources in the department claimed that a meeting was held between the ADB India head and the chief minister Devendra Fadnavis last week to work out the details. The bank reportedly has offered an interest rate of less than 1% to the government ... Naziya Alvi Rahman. ....
Six months on, life is still the same for Geeta
Edit Khaleej Times 17 Apr 2016
Geeta made international headlines when she returned to India from Pakistan 13 years after she had unintentionally crossed the border ... Ansar had tried to ask Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj about Geeta on Twitter, "but instead of responding to me, she blocked me." ... Messages and phone calls to Vikas Swarup, the official spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, did not elicit any response ... ....
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