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...percent for Asians in America, as compared with 11 percent for non-Hispanic whites, 26.5 percent for blacks, and 27.1 percent for Hispanics. Furthermore, disaggregating the category “Asian American” demonstrates poverty rates of 25 percent for Vietnamese Americans and 45 percent for other Southeast Asian Americans. From these figures, it is clear that contrary to perception, a significant number of Asian Americans confront socioeconomic challenges...
After more than a year of trying to track down Jemaah Islamiah (JI), Southeast Asian intelligence agencies are now also focusing on another group: Laskar Jundullah. Following December's bombings at a Toyota dealer and a McDonald's restaurant in Makassar, the South Sulawesi-based Islamic group has found itself the target of police scrutiny, in part because of the group's own geneaology. One of its alleged co-founders, Agus Dwikarna, is a convicted terrorist serving a 17-year jail sentence in the Philippines, while the other is Kuwaiti Omar al-Faruq, the top al-Qaeda operative in Southeast...
...year, according to a model developed by Thea Sinclair and Guntur Sugiyarto at the University of Nottingham in Britain. And since Bali was a flagship destination not just for Indonesia--more than half the visitors to the country in 2001 spent time on the island--but for all of Southeast Asia, the ripple effect from the bombings may be felt throughout the region...
...Indian casinos popped up like new housing developments across Southern California, Martin moved a trailer onto the long-abandoned Augustine reservation in Coachella, a 500-acre desert tract then littered with garbage, discarded household appliances and junk cars, about 25 miles southeast of Palm Springs. There she lived with her three children and African-American husband William Ray Vance. In 1994, membership in the tiny tribe dwindled from three adults to one when Martin's two brothers were killed during separate street shootings in Banning, Calif. Police said both men were involved in drug deals and were members...
...miles southeast, in the city of Lahore, anyone with a craving for greasy food and a desire to meet America’s real ambassador can just waltz right into one of his six restaurants. Cast in larger-than-life statutes, Ronald sits in the lotus position atop four of Lahore’s six McDonald’s. With his bushy hair and red combat boots, the enormous clown confidently greets all those below...