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Postwar adoptee spends his final days helping orphans

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A photo of a 12-year-old North Korean boy on Sam Han’s laptop computer pulls the dying man a half-century back in time

North Dakota teacher wants more students to learn Mandarin

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With a morning class of Fargo South High School students dragging, the Mandarin Chinese teacher beckons one of her charges to the front of the classroom to play a Chinese version.

The top 10 amazing Asian American achievers of 2010

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A Korean American West Point graduate, Dan Choi became the face of the movement against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT).

Private school finds answers in Singapore method

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Educators at a small private Christian school in Olde Town Augusta are seeing results with a math curriculum imported from halfway around the world.

Cambodian refugee goes home as U.S. Navy commander

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SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AP) — The distant thuds of gunfire and bombs weren’t nearly as memorable for Michael Misiewicz as fishing barehanded with

SF students race to save their peer who faces deportation to Peru

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More than 80 students and community members gathered outside California Sen. Barbara Boxer’s office on Nov. 12 to protest the scheduled

What’s in a name? — Battle over who can use ‘yogi’

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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Six years after the death of spiritual leader Yogi Bhajan, three legal battles are under way in Oregon and California

Like the Bible, Hindu text being put in Houston hotels

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HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Pull open a drawer in some Houston hotel rooms, and beside your room-service menu and Gideons Bible, you might find a copy of the Bhagavad Gita.