Heros & Kudos! // unsung heroes & accolades
Vancouver Mayor, distant relation of Dr. Bethune, visits China
Vancouver’s Mayor Gregor Robertson is in China this week, along with a group of “green” business people. Mayor Robertson is a distant relation of Canadian, Dr Norman Bethune. An article in a local paper last week, gloated over the opportunities that will be presented to Vancouver’s “green” industries. One of the individuals on this trade delegation was...
The Ties that Bind: virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s history
The Ties That Bind virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s official history TORONTO, August 25, 2010 Chinese Canadians are making history with a more inclusive interpretation of Canada’s official story in a new online exhibit that draws attention to their contributions in achieving the national dream – the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Nearly 125 years since the driving...
History: the fabulous Kim Sisters
The year is 1960, and The Kim Sisters have set the Vegas Strip afire with rich harmonies and an ability to play dozens of instruments. The sisters had been in the United States only two short years at the legendary Thunderbird—after singing for American GI’s during and after the Korean War. From there, they became a...
Grassroots efforts on saving old Chinatown restaurant make front page news
Yesterday, respected community leader and author, Jim Wong-Chu, met up with a few of us to celebrate yesterday’s Vancouver Courier newspaper article on the banana lead effort on saving Foo’s Ho Ho restaurant ( read our earlier articles here, here, and here) Jim was delighted of the community news coverage, and mentioned, We’ve got no budget for...
New Chinatown mural by Arthur Cheng
Everyone who has visited Vancouver’s Chinatown has seen at least one of Arthur Cheng’s (Cheng Shu-Ren) works of art. He is the artist / sculptor who designed the Chinatown memorial square statue at the Keefer triangle, of the Chinese Railway Worker and the World War Two soldier. It is here that Vancouver pays respect...
some amazing Asian kids & their music
Most of our younger, web savvy readers have seen these videos before… but we figure that many of our blog readers are of an ‘older’ … uh, mature, demographic. So the following cool vids of Asian kids, may be new to you. Enjoy the amazing talents of the following youngsters: Howard Wong, 3 years old: Sungha Jung, 10...
our blog’s evolution: to celebrate North American-Asian culture
We think our blog is evolving. Well … we’d like to think that this blog will evolve into something more appealing and relevant. It’s been much of a bitch blog for years, and we’d like to move our focus away from all the belly aching, and to start celebrating our unique bananaesque qualities that are worth celebrating....
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Vancouver Mayor, distant relation of Dr. Bethune, visits China
Vancouver's Mayor Gregor Robertson is in China this week, along ...
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coming to giant Imax screen: John Woo’s “Flying Tigers”
We had earlier written a post about the American volunteer ...
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Website shares untold history of Canada’s national railway
The following article was published by the Vancouver Sun, Saturday, ...
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The Ties that Bind: virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s history
The Ties That Bind virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s official history
TORONTO, ...
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50 years of Filipino-Canadian history
Yesterday's post on "reason no. 77, why I love Vancouver", ...
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Reason #77 why I love Vancouver
by David
It's been a very beautiful summer here on the ...
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Chinese ‘languages’ still at each others’ throats
Chinese "languages"?
No. It's actually, Chinese dialects.
But to the outside observer, ...
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