Adopted Kids Learn Their Culture (Falls Church News-Press)
Last Saturday at the Falls Church Community Center dozens of families gathered to celebrate the biggest holiday on the Vietnamese calendar, Tet Nguyen Dan, the Lunar New Year. With parents looking on, dozens of children and toddlers, dressed in the traditional ao dai, played together, ate a variety of foods, Asian and American, and took part in a dragon dance, meant to bring good luck with the
Asian-Americans seeking love connection that clicks (North Jersey.com)
Marsha doesn't want to be known as the woman who used a dating service. The 29-year-old Jersey City resident felt even more uneasy about the potential pool of guys that she would meet through a dating service.
Increased government spending for rural power: (New Kerala)
[India News]: New Delhi, Feb 17 : India Thursday decided to revamp its rural electrification schemes with more government funding, including a 90 percent capital subsidy for infrastructure projects.
Officers say minority numbers troubling (Boston Globe)
With more than one-third of the officers on the city's police force members of minority groups and with Boston now a predominantly minority city, Sergeant Sheryll Pichon can't understand why the department's leadership does not mirror the city it serves.
First American and Mountain Pacific Mortgage to Increase Homeownership Opportunities in Under-served Phoenix Communities (HispanicBusiness.com)
PHOENIX, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The First American Corporation and Mountain Pacific Mortgage Company today announced the formation of a strategic alliance designed to substantially expand homeownership opportunities for families in the under-served Latino and low- to moderate-income communities of greater Phoenix.
Business Notes: (Daily Times)
LAHORE: Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) will hold a single country exhibition in the Tajik region of Sugd in the last week of April, to promote Pakistani products in the Central Asian region.
Union budget will determine Left's equation with UPA; CPM (Kaumundi Online)
AGARTALA : The CPI (M) said the Union budget will determine the Left's equation with the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance(UPA) government at the centre.
Manmohan offers Rs 200 bn investment to Kerala (Kaumundi Online)
KOCHI : It was during the Global Investors' Meet former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee announced Rs 100 billion investment by Union government in the State and now Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured Kerala of Rs.200 billion investments for various projects, including a container terminal, that have long been in the pipeline.
Afghanistan: Legitimacy of the US occupation :: Part One :: (by Abid Ullah Jan) - Media Monitors Network (MMN) (Media Monitors Network)
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Affordable-housing agency to sell 40 in-city properties (Seattle Times)
The Seattle Housing Authority has begun selling 40 single-family houses that have been rented exclusively to low-income families for at...
