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4 unusual facts about Asian


Asian-American jazz

Most of the first musicians associated with the movement were of Japanese or Chinese ancestry, though more recently musicians of Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, and Iranian descent have also become active.

In 2000, Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance for their recording of Ellington-Strayhorn's Far East Suite.

Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature

Honorable Mention: Linda Furiya, Bento Box in The Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America.

New Asian–African Strategic Partnership

The New Asian–African Strategic Partnership (NAASP) was founded on 22–23 April 2005 by Asian and African countries for the future cooperation between the two continents.


1993 Asian Baseball Championship

The tournament was won by defending champions Japan; their eleventh Asian Championship and their third consecutive title, equalling the record they set in two separate sequences previously: 1955-1959-1962 and 1965-1967-1967.

A G Noorani

He is the author of a number of books including: 'The Kashmir Question', 'Badruddin Tyabji Ministers' Misconduct', 'Brezhnev's Plan for Asian Security', 'The Presidential System', 'The Trial of Bhagat Singh', 'Constitutional Questions in India' and 'The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour' (LeftWord 2000).

Ah-So

Ah-So is a line of Asian sauces and marinades from Allied Old English, Inc., Port Reading, New Jersey.

Asian French

The 13th arrondissement of Paris hosts Paris' Chinatown, a major community for the city's Asian population, as does the Belleville neighborhood.

Bill Lann Lee

He has received many honors for his outstanding career in civil rights law, including the Thurgood Marshall Medal of Justice (1998), the Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (1999), and the John Randolph Distinguished Service Award, U. S. Department of Justice (2001).

Black shaheen

(Black) Shaheen Falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator), South Asian subspecies of Peregrine Falcon

Central City Opera

The World Premiere of Chinese opera, Poet Li Bai, commissioned by the Asian Performing Arts of Colorado, was presented in 2007.

Charles Hampden-Turner

1997, with Fons Trompenaars, Mastering the infinite game: how East Asian values are transforming business practices.

Chinatown, Las Vegas

Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn officially designated the area as Chinatown in October 1999 and it continues to grow as the Asian population in Las Vegas expands rapidly.

Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

CICPA became a member of the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in October 1996 and May 1997 respectively, and has developed friendly cooperation and communications with more than 50 professional accountancy organizations in other jurisdictions.

Chris Iijima

He, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and "Charlie" Chin, were the members of the group Yellow Pearl; their 1973 album, A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America, (originally recorded on Paredon Records now Smithsonian Folkways was an important part of the development of Asian American identity in the early 1970s.

Cinema Asia Releasing

Cinema Asia Releasing is a film distribution company founded by Ko Mori of Eleven Arts and Tim Kwok of Convergence Entertainment in 2011 to spread Asian films throughout the United States.

Colin Masica

At the University of Chicago, he taught Hindi at all levels, and occasionally other South Asian languages, along with North Indian cultural history and literature, for three decades, and published on both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages.

Derby sex gang

This case occurred after other incidents in Rochdale, Preston and Rotherham, where Asian gangs, usually Muslim Pakistani men, had been convicted of child grooming and rape.

Djiboutian cuisine

Djiboutian cuisine consists of a mixture of Somali, Afar, Yemeni and French cuisine, with some additional Asian and Indian culinary influences.

GANEFO

Consequently, only 17 Asian countries participated in the second tournament in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in November 25-December 6, 1966 which was named '1st Asian GANEFO'.

Genetic studies on Sri Lankan Tamils

Furthermore, a study looking at genetic variation of the FUT2 gene in the Sri Lankan Tamil and Sinhalese population, found similar genetic backgrounds for both ethnic groups, with little genetic flow from other neighbouring Asian population groups.

Ghain

Ghayn, the corresponding letter in the Cyrillic orthographies for several Central Asian languages

Gregory Pterotos

while Warren Treadgold theorized that Gregory may have served as Count of the Opsician Theme, which was the Asian theme closest to Constantinople and hence of particular importance for the stability of the regime.

Hideo Levy

He graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies, and later received his doctorate from the same school for studying Kakinomoto no Hitomaro.

Igor Savitsky

Thereafter, Savitsky began collecting the works of Central Asian artists, including Alexander Volkov, Ural Tansykbayev and Victor Ufimtsev of the Uzbek school, and later those of the Russian avant-garde – including Kliment Red'ko, Lyubov Popova, Mukhina, Ivan Koudriachov and Robert Falk – whose paintings, although already recognized in Western Europe (especially in France), had been banned in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin’s rule and through the 1960s.

Jahcoozi

Jahcoozi have collaborated with and been remixed by a number of artists, including Modeselektor, Siriusmo, M.Sayiid, Barbara Panther, Ramadanman, Ikonika, Stereotyp, Asian Dub Foundation, Guillermo.E.

Jeff Yang

Yang is also known for his books, including Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to the Cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (with Jackie Chan), Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence in American Culture, from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism, and Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.

Jignas

His superlative performance at the schooling age of 14 while studying class IX in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur has brought fame to the entire Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh archery fraternity and also to Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, who died in an accident while travelling back home along with

June 2001

The Harehills riots takes place in Harehills, Leeds, UK, after a questionable arrest of an Asian man for possession of an illegal car tax disc.

KBFD-DT

Although the station airs various programs from many Asian countries, most of the programs seen on KBFD are geared to a Korean audience since most of its lineup features programs acquired from the Korean Broadcasting System, the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation and SBS.

Kenneth Moraleda

Notable theatre credits include creating the role of Roger Chan in Nick Enright’s A Man With Five Children for the Sydney Theatre Company directed by George Ogilvie and most recently playing Banzai in the Australian/Asian Tour of Disney’s The Lion King directed by Julie Taymor.

Lambdas

Lambda Phi Epsilon, a nationally recognized Asian-interest fraternity based in the United States

Linguistic profiling

In a 1992 study, D. Rubin found that undergraduate university students would comprehend material more poorly if they heard a non-accented lecture presented with a picture of an Asian female.

Ma Xuejun

The Chinese, and Asian, record is currently held by Xiao Yanling with 71.68 metres.

Mill Mountain Zoo

Recent additions are red wolves, Cinereous Vultures, a Canadian lynx, four Asian short clawed otters, and pallas's cats (will be out once an exhibit is built).

Mojtaba Moharrami

He also was banned for a year for attacking referee Jamal Al Sharif during Iran-Japan match in 1992 Asian cup.

Mongol language

Mongols, a Central and Northern Asian ethno-linguistic group

North Dumfries

The ethnic makeup of the township is 98.5% White, and 1.5% visible minorities, of which the largest groups are Black (0.4%), South Asian and Latin American (0.3% each).

Oliver Bozanic

In June 2013, Bozanic was among three players to be linked with Asian clubs, having been attracted by South Korean sides Busan IPark and Pohang Steelers.

Operation Luna

Religious diversity: Although the narrator, Steve, hints at his and his wife's vague Christianity mitigated by agnosticism, and the existence of a "One True God" is assumed, the reality of a diverse number of religious traditions is affirmed, including Native American (specifically Zuni) beliefs, Norse mythology, Asian traditions (specifically Chinese mythology), and Judaism (in a small part, as Steve regards the holiness of his Jewish neighbors with reverence).

Order of battle for the Gallipoli Campaign

Note: When the campaign commenced, the Fifth Army comprised two army Corps; the III Corps was defending the Gallipoli peninsula and the XV Corps was defending the Asian shore.

Park County, Wyoming

95.6% were White, 0.6% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.2% Black or African American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.4% of some other race and 1.6% of two or more races.

Pétrus Ky

In 1851, Truong was granted a scholarship by this school to study at the Penang Seminary, then the main centre of Roman Catholic training for Southeast Asian countries.

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival founded in 2006 by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja and held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to show mostly recent films and music by artists with Asian ethnic origins, such as from Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines.

Sitka High School

The school's student body is primarily composed of Caucasians, Alaskan Natives, and Asian-Pacific Islanders.

Sudeki

David Leonard's review for PopMatters expresses considerable concern about the Orientalist packaging of the Asian setting of the game as well as the currents of "female hypersexuality", "racism, sexism and simulations of the war on terror".

Talat Ahmad

Talat Ahmad was recommended for the position by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to USA, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent Scientist and former Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.

Telecommunications in Sri Lanka

The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.

The Sacred Art of Stealing

; Detective Inspector Angelique de Xavia : Glaswegian police officer and loyal Rangers F.C. supporter (despite the fact she is Catholic and her brother is a Celtic F.C fan) who feels isolated as a female Asian police officer.

Timothy Light

A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Light is a scholar in East Asian languages and literature.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

The Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs is responsible for United States relations with the countries of the Middle East and all of the countries of North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt to Morocco.

Walter Truett Anderson

He is on the editorial boards of several journals including The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning, and Futures Studies, The Journal of Futures Studies (Tamkang University, Taiwan), and Cadmus: The Journal of the South East Asian Division of the World Academy of Art and Science (Zagreb).

Wong Kew-Lit

In 2005, he was selected as one of five directors from various Asian countries to produce and direct a documentary for internationally acclaimed TV station Phoenix Satellite TV of China (Phoenix Television), in commemoration of its 10th anniversary.

Wonkwang University

Shin Joon-Sup, retired boxer who won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1986 Summer Asian Games


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