The basement diaries: A construction worker clearing out a house in Fife, WA recently found a World War II-era satchel containing letters, documents, notebooks and diaries belonging to the Fujita family, providing a rare look at life inside Japanese American internment camps.
New church thrills area Vietnamese Catholic community: After years of sharing space with various host churches, the members of the St. Philip Phan Van Minh Catholic Church, a Vietnamese Catholic community in Orlando, finally have their own house of worship.
Tracing My Roots Back to Korea: An adoptee writes about her emotional, life-changing journey back to South Korea to find her birth family, twenty years after her adoption.
Paula Kamen investigates friend's suicide in 'Finding Iris Chang': Here's a book review from the San Francisco Chronicle on Finding Iris Chang
, Paula Kamen's investigative biography on the life and death of friend/rival Iris Chang. It sounds like a book I'd like to check out... but reviews have been really mixed.Confessions of a CEO: Being 'ruthlessly aggressive' took this guy to the top of the corporate world... and nearly ruined his life. A warning to potential corporate climbers. Don't become this guy.
Slain man was a top crime boss: There's apparently been some kind of Asian gang war going on in Vancouver, with a recent rash targeted shootings over the last few weeks. The police department has started to set up their own Gang Violence Task Force to confront the violence: Names of shooting victims released, as VPD sets up Gang Violence Task Force
From Streets of China to Family Life in Queens: Part of the Neediest Cases Fund, here's the story of one family's struggle to stay together and survive, eking out a "Dickensian existence" in China, separated by the Cultural Revolution, but eventually finding their way to New York City.. to face cancer.
