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1st API female doctor to three U.S. presidents speaks on honoring Filipino roots

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Her memories of being a girl who could enter a vice admiral’s house only through the back door with her father, Angel Mariano, are still fresh.

Latino and Asian spat erupts in changing Orange County district

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The changing face of one of Southern California’s wealthiest counties helped Democrat Loretta Sanchez win an upset election to Congress 14 years ago

Reader’s Corner: The top 10 lessons on life and politics that I learned from my brother, Wing Luke

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Editor’s note: For Seattle Rotary, Bettie Luke from the Organization of Chinese Americans gave a short presentation on the top 10 lessons on life and politics she learned from her brother, Wing Luke.

Reader’s Corner: More Sweet than Bitter: Author Jamie Ford’s reading at the Panama Hotel changes one life

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The decision to attend the reading of “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” was an easy one. Sometime after reading the book, I read an interview published in a local API paper.

Dustin Nguyen a ‘Fool for Love,’ but also soulful and deliberate

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Actor Dustin Nguyen wanted a role that was “light and sort of fun” after playing a mentally challenged martial artist in the 2009 film “The Legend is Alive.”

Gender-bending APIs spotlight overlooked segment of Asian population through pageant

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That’s what the night called for at Purr, a local bar on Capitol Hill. Purr was one of the many bars that teamed up to help David Luc Nguyen

A new season of Asians: A-pop is a monthly column of all things Asian in popular culture

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Fall is shaping up to be a season of new beginnings for Asian American celebrities, and personally, I am very excited for them.

Semi-Pro: Korean American keeps football dream alive

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Rich Lee-Kim first played football in the fourth grade. However, he was told that he needed to play with the sixth and seventh graders because he was bigger than all of his classmates.