Researchers are finding the first evidence that some Asian immigrant families are using U.S. medical technology to have sons instead of daughters, apparently acting on an age-old cultural prejudice that has led to high ratios of boys to girls in parts of China and India.
The new research, produced by independent teams of economists who arrived at similar conclusions, focused on Indian, Chinese and Korean families who first had girls and then used Read the rest of this entry »

Efforts Seek To Raise Hepatitis B Awareness Among Asian-Americans, Address Minority Infant Mortality Disparities, More
The following summarizes efforts that seek to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
campaign, which aims to raise hepatitis B awareness — especially among Asian-Americans, who are disproportionately affected by the disease. As part of the effort, advocacy teams were established to work in Asian-American communities to Read the rest of this entry »

A growing number of Asian women are using Class A drugs, according to leading Asian drugs charity Nafas.
Ten years ago drug misuse amongst British Asian women was unheard of.
Now, Nafas says it is treating 20 to 25 women for heroin addiction a year in east London alone – a figure it believes is just the tip of the iceberg.
Zarina (not her real name) is one of them. The 25-year-old is fashionably dressed but painfully thin with eyes like saucers Read the rest of this entry »

Last year’s death of six Chinese infants and sickening of 300,000 others from tainted baby formula has created a nightmare for Bay Area food importers, who say they won’t be able to get many of their products on local shelves in time for the lunar new year.
“Consumers are going to have less than half the usual choice this new year,” which begins Monday, said Taylor Chow of the Burlingame-based Oriental Food Association, which represents Northern Read the rest of this entry »

HONG KONG, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Malaysian plantation worker
Rajam Murugasu became blind in one eye after she slipped and
accidentally sprayed the weedkiller paraquat in her face.
“It was raining. I fell down and the chemical shot straight
into my eye,” said Murugasu, a 40-year-old mother of four. “I
was in and out of hospital for a whole year,” she told Reuters
at Teluk Intan town in northwestern Malaysia.
Paraquat, a herbicide that protects crop Read the rest of this entry »

12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, September 18, 2008
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A “Symphony of Autumn” will bring not music but flowers to Dallas this month. And it also brings three teachers from Japan.
events starts today at Bent Tree Country Club, 5201 Westgrove Drive in Dallas.
, director of the Sogetsu Instructors Committee, and teachers
will demonstrate Japanese floral arrangement at a 10 Read the rest of this entry »