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Celebrate Asian culture with the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association. The evening will include dancing and dulcimers, wushu and Filipino tinikling, not to mention all kinds of Asian food. General admission is $7; get your tickets at the Harvard Box Office. 8 p.m. Lowell House dining hall. (ECMV...
World-renowned writers Han Ong, Elif Shafak and M.G. Vassanji gather to read excerpts of their celebrated novels The Disinherited, The Saint of Incipient Insanities, and The In Between World of Vikram Lall. Ong, a Filipino-American, Shafak, from Turkey and Vassanji, from Kenya via Tanzania and Canada, all focus their recent novels on stories of exile and love, and the emotional attachments of one’s culture. No ticket necessary. 6:30 p.m. The Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...
...Philippines is a land of storytellers, but the saga of the modern nation remains largely unknown beyond its own shores. Han Ong would appear to be in a good position to fill the post of bard. The native Filipino immigrated to the U.S. when he was 16, achieved success there as a playwright and won a MacArthur "genius" fellowship. His first novel, Fixer Chao, was about a Filipino male prostitute in New York City who poses as a feng-shui expert to fleece the rich...
...DISCOVERED. CALAYAN RAIL, a new species of flightless bird; on Calayan Island, northern Philippines. The crow-sized bird, which has an orange-red bill and makes a sound like a trumpet, was found by Filipino wildlife biologist Carmela Espa?ola during a rain-forest expedition. Conservationists believe the birds number only about 400 and are vulnerable to extinction because they cannot fly. Island locals, who call the birds piding, sometimes kill them for food...
...religious and political goals were dropped in favor of kidnapping for ransom. The group was paid millions of dollars by the governments of Malaysia, Libya, Germany and France to release hostages seized from a Malaysian diving resort in April 2000. In 2001, Abu Sayyaf kidnapped three Americans and 17 Filipinos from a resort in the Philippines; two of the American hostages and one Filipino died...