Word: lai
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...Lai expressed concern that people are unaware of the pervasiveness of hate crimes, particularly against Asian-Americans, because they are not familiar with issues Asian-Americans face...
...This is the 20th anniversary of his death,” said AAA Co-President Sophia Lai ’04. “We want...to increase awareness of how discrimination can affect you even as a Harvard student...
...police raids on news offices following publication of information embarrassing to the government. That's only supposed to happen in the large communist state across the straits. So Taiwanese journalists were surprised last week when police swept through the offices and printing plant of Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai's Next magazine. Some 160,000 copies of the flamboyant weekly were seized before they could reach newsstands. Authorities threatened to bring charges against a Next reporter for leaking national secrets...
...government seems determined to keep it that way. But Jimmy Lai, whose publications are as sensational as they are crusading, won't be easily silenced. "The raid didn't make me either angry or annoyed," he told Time. "I just thought about how to get our magazine onto the newsstands." Using a second printing house kept secret from the authorities, Lai put out an updated edition the next day, with added coverage of the police raid. When it comes to media repression, it looks like Taiwan could learn a trick or two from the mainland...
...SONYA M. LAI...