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October 04, 2012
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Opinion: Asian-American Vote Increasingly Diverse, Important WNYC Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are the nation’s fastest growing racial group, growing by as much as 46 percent during the first decade of this century. According to Karthick Ramakrishnan, Director of the National Asian American Survey (NAAS), AAPIs are an important and growing political constituency. While only 5.6 percent of the U.S. population is of Asian descent, six hundred thousand new AAPI voters participated in the elections for the first time in 2008 and a similar number is expected to do so this year.

Opinion: Asian-American Vote Increasingly Diverse, Important
WNYC

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are the nation’s fastest growing racial group, growing by as much as 46 percent during the first decade of this century. According to Karthick Ramakrishnan, Director of the National Asian American Survey (NAAS), AAPIs are an important and growing political constituency. While only 5.6 percent of the U.S. population is of Asian descent, six hundred thousand new AAPI voters participated in the elections for the first time in 2008 and a similar number is expected to do so this year.

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August 31, 2012
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K-Pop Finds a Breakout HitWNYC It has been the Season Of Carly Rae Jepsen – until now. Jepsen’s hit “Call Me Maybe” has been the indisputable Song Of The Summer, and the video has topped YouTube’s music chart as well. But now she’s been displaced – by an invader from Korea. Psy is a chunky but loose-limbed singer/rapper/dancer from Seoul, and his song “Gangnam Style” has been a juggernaut in the world of K-Pop, as the Korean pop music scene is known, for much of the summer.

K-Pop Finds a Breakout Hit
WNYC

It has been the Season Of Carly Rae Jepsen – until now. Jepsen’s hit “Call Me Maybe” has been the indisputable Song Of The Summer, and the video has topped YouTube’s music chart as well. But now she’s been displaced – by an invader from Korea. Psy is a chunky but loose-limbed singer/rapper/dancer from Seoul, and his song “Gangnam Style” has been a juggernaut in the world of K-Pop, as the Korean pop music scene is known, for much of the summer.

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August 14, 2012
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Second Soldier Pleads Guilty in Danny Chen Hazing Trial Nearly a year after Private Danny Chen took his life as a victim of military hazing in Afghanistan, former Specialist Ryan Offutt pleaded guilty to the maltreatment and hazing of Chen in North Carolina on Monday. Although the more serious charges of negligent homicide and reckless endangerment were cleared, Offutt was sentenced to six months of confinement, a reduction in rank to private and dishonorable discharge from the Army, reports WNYC. Continue reading →

Second Soldier Pleads Guilty in Danny Chen Hazing Trial

Nearly a year after Private Danny Chen took his life as a victim of military hazing in Afghanistan, former Specialist Ryan Offutt pleaded guilty to the maltreatment and hazing of Chen in North Carolina on Monday.

Although the more serious charges of negligent homicide and reckless endangerment were cleared, Offutt was sentenced to six months of confinement, a reduction in rank to private and dishonorable discharge from the Army, reports WNYC.

Continue reading →

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June 07, 2012
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Broken Permitting System Forces Food Trucks Into Black Market WNYC Running a food truck may be the hippest job around. But there is a shadowy side to food trucks’ fun and quirky image. In order to get started, many of these gourmet trucks flout the law, and pay high prices to obtain black-market vendor permits. They say they have no choice.

Broken Permitting System Forces Food Trucks Into Black Market
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Running a food truck may be the hippest job around. But there is a shadowy side to food trucks’ fun and quirky image.

In order to get started, many of these gourmet trucks flout the law, and pay high prices to obtain black-market vendor permits. They say they have no choice.