By Jeff Gammage
Inquirer Staff Writer
City school district officials formally acknowledged yesterday that 17-year-old Hao Luu was not connected to a street gang - an allegation that was used to ban him from South Philadelphia High.
Evelyn Sample-Oates, the district’s vice president for communicat...
by Isaiah Thompson
By now, you’ve heard the story: On Thursday, Dec. 3, more than 20 Asian students were attacked on their way home from South Philadelphia High School (SPHS) by a mob of as many as 100 of their peers, most of them African-American. The incident — which is still under investigation ...
By Kristen A. Graham and Jeff Gammage
Inquirer Staff Writers
Having seen many of their classmates punched and beaten all day long, a group of Vietnamese students told teachers they feared walking home.
At the end of the school day Dec. 3, they left South Philadelphia High, backed by a group of adu...
Inquirer Staff Report
An Asian civil rights group said today it filed a complaint with the Justice Department charging the Philadelphia School District discriminated against Asian students at South Philadelphia High School.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund alleges the District a...
By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY
The words dieu tra jumped out at Quyen Vuong as she perused the 2010 Vietnamese-language Census form online.
“It’s a very scary connotation in the sense that there is a crime and the government needs to investigate,” says Vuong, a member of two Census outreach committe...
More Assurances Needed That Data Will Be Confidential, Says Legal Group
By the Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The government is fumbling some efforts to assure immigrants that U.S. census data will not be used against them, including gaps in outreach and foreign language guides that refer to the de...
By Jonathan Saltzman
The state’s highest court yesterday struck down a provision in a Lowell ordinance that made it a crime for children under 17 to violate a curfew, a ruling expected to affect other Massachusetts communities that have adopted or are considering similar local laws.
The Supreme Ju...
By Sarah Fitzpatrick
Special to The Washington Post
When Lauro L. Baja Jr. returned to his native Philippines in 2007, he had just finished a four-year stint as ambassador to the United Nations that included two terms as president of the Security Council. A storied diplomatic career that began in ...
By JIM DWYER
Behind the gray curtain of a voting booth in Chinatown, Fun Mae Eng pulled a slip of paper from her pocket. She had never voted for president before. She did not read or write English. But on the paper, she had drawn the letters that represented the candidate’s name.
First was a C.
S...
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
A group of Chinese restaurant workers have filed a claim this week with the National Labor Relations Board against Wu Liang Ye, a Chinese restaurant group which the workers sued for labor violations in April 2008.
In the original lawsuit, 25 workers — waiters and delivery worker...
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
A federal judge has awarded $4.6 million in back pay and damages to 36 delivery workers at two Saigon Grill restaurants in Manhattan, finding blatant and systematic violations of minimum-wage and overtime laws.
In a decision dated Monday and released on Tuesday, Magistrate Jud...
Volume 20 Issue 20 | Sept. 28 – Oct. 04, 2007
By Skye H. McFarlane
Environmental advocates and local officials agree that the road to comprehensive 9/11 healthcare runs straight through Washington, D.C. Nevertheless, the city is driving forward on its own, expanding free treatment for residents, w...
By NEHA SINGH and KHIN MAI AUNG
A SHY high school freshman, Harpal Singh Vacher, ended the school year last spring as the latest collateral damage in a citywide political tussle. What began as a childish argument with fellow students on May 24 ended with Harpal crouched on a bathroom floor at Newto...
By Cara Buckley
It was the evening rush one recent night in lower Chinatown, and chaos was unfolding in its usual way.
Cars slowed to a crawl around Chatham Square, an asterisk of an intersection where seven streets converge. Traffic safety officers frantically waved their white-gloved hands, tryi...
By Anthony Faiola
NEW YORK — The deliverymen of Saigon Grill labored for years at the bottom of Manhattan’s food chain. Biking swiftly down the avenues in biting cold and searing heat, they schlepped up high-rises and walk-ups with bags of steaming noodles and shrimp fried rice.
Then they surprise...
By Steven Greenhouse
Happy Lee can hardly believe that the nail salon across the street from hers charges just $7 for a manicure.
I dont know how they can make it, said Ms. Lee, the owner of Happy Beauty Salon in Carle Place, Long Island, which employs nine manicurists.
Ms. Lee said her industry ...
Tuesday, July 31: AALDEF hosts a reading of the novel Chambermaid with author Saira Rao. Ms. Raos witty and humorous debut novel follows a young attorneys eventful year clerking for a federal judge. The book will be available for sale at the event, which includes a discussion and book signing.
Loca...
By Elizabeth Llorente
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, founded in 1974, says it’s setting up an office to address “the unmet legal needs of Asian-Americans in New Jersey.”
The New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project — which is part of the national group — will run the office.
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July 2, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle
By Khin Mai Aung and Christina Wong
When the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on Seattle’s and Louisville’s school integration cases came down, our offices received a flurry of calls inquiring how the rulings impact Asian Pacific Americans. Without a doubt, the ...
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Starting on July 30, 2007, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will increase its filing fees for applications, petitions, benefits, and services. Applying for citizenship now costs a total of $400; however, the total fee will become $675 by the end of July. This new t...
