Social networking website strictly for multicultural ethnicity individuals. "Share, talk, communicate in a user led social network for individuals, family members and those members of the community. Share the wealth of your experience and plan for the future with those like you. Find others with similar interests and goals." Link

Only offered for the Nintendo DS system, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is an entirely original entry into the GTA series. The game brings a new level of interactivity with the use of the DS touch screen, players navigate their way through the streets as they uncover the truth behind an epic tale of crime and corruption within the Triad crime syndicate. Chinatown Wars is the highest rated DS game ever. Such as the recent release of Mirrors Edge by EA Games, It good to see a trend of gaming with the introduction of Asian characters as the lead of the story. Link

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Taking design cues from Tokyo's Shibuya district, central London's Oxford Circus has begun work on a £5m project to pedestrianize the street crossing. Oxford Circus is one of the most famous landmarks in the world, with more than 200m visitors a year. This is part of a large series of design improvements for London's Olympic Games in 2012. Eliminating street clutter and barriers along the Oxford Circus crossing will allow for people to cross in all directions- diagonally as well as straight ahead. The redesign is expected to open in November 2009. Link

Pii May or Lao New Year is considered the most important and largest traditional festival in the country. The festival coincides with the end of the dry season and the beginning of the monsoon season - seen as a day of rebirth and purification. Although already passed, (San Francisco April 11, 2009) the festival was intended to celebrate, collaborate, educate, and advocate 30 years of Lao history in the United States. "As a result of the Indochina Conflict (Vietnam War), Lao refugees have called the US home for the last thirty decades. The first wave of Lao refugees came to the US in the late 1970s. Close to one million people of Lao descent now live in the Us, and about 35,000 of them reside in the San Francisco Bay Area." Link

Hosted by Yu-Ai Kai Senior Community Center, Sake San Jose combines a sake tasting of various sakes as well as a walk through San Jose's Japantown businesses and restaurants. Each business and restaurant will host a various assortment of sakes made in Japan and the United States. 

The White House today hired actor Kal Penn to join the staff as an associate director in the Office of Public Liaison for President Barak Obama's administration. "His role will be to connect Obama with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities, as well as arts groups. Penn starred as Kumar in the movie, 'Harrold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.'" link

The annual Hot import Nights car show returns to San Mateo, California tomorrow, and is still hot as ever. Stepping into Hot Import nights is like mixing the country's largest automobile modification contest with a nightclub atmosphere. Since its beginnings in the late 1980s/ early 1990s in Southern California, the import car scene has become a huge subculture, dominated by Asian Americans. Whether just a hobby or a career, auto modification is just like any other art form. Just like a canvas is for an artist, the automobile is for the tuner.  link

Hapa/Multiracial Films and Events featured in 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Presented by the center for Asian Amercian Media, "SFIAAFF is the nation's largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films, annually presenting approximately 120 works in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. Since 1982, the SFIAFF has been an important launching point for Asian American independent filmmakers as well as a vital source for new Asian cinema." link