Coming Out Twice
New America Media / Salon.com, First Person, Posted: Dec 30, 2011
A young Cambodian from Long Beach finds solace in his father, who accepts him as gay.
Categories: Asian, Collaborative Reporting, Gender & Sexuality, Original NAM Content, Profiles, South Asian, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Davan Maharaj Appointed Editor of LA Times
India-West, News Report, Posted: Dec 28, 2011
Forty-nine-year-old Davan Maharaj has been appointed editor of the Los Angeles Times, the 15th editor in the newspaper's 129-year history.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Media, South Asian
Tags: award-winning, Davan Maharaj, editor, los angeles times, Trinidad native
Turbaned U.S. Army Doctor Awarded Bronze Star
India-West, News Report, Posted: Dec 16, 2011
Dr. Kamaljit Singh Kalsi, currently serving in the U.S. Army, received a Bronze Star for his meritorious service as an emergency medicine physician while deployed in Afghanistan.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, South Asian
Tags: deployed in Afghanistan, er, Kamaljit Singh Kalsi Bronze Star
Four Reasons Why Time Magazine Dissed Anna Hazare
Firstpost.com, Commentary, Posted: Dec 15, 2011
Just because India's Anna Hazare, the man who's been leading the country's anti-corruption movement, isn't young, hip and doesn't text, doesn't mean Time magazine should give him and his supporters barely a nod in their cover story on protestor of the year.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, International Affairs, Media, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: Anna Hazare, dissed, ousting dictators, protests, social networking, Time magazine
Sikhs Shocked by Unprovoked Fresno Attack
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Dec 09, 2011
A bloody attack on a 56-year-old Sikh preacher in the city of Fresno last week has rattled the local Sikh community.
Categories: Front Page, Original NAM Content, Religion, South Asian
Tags: california, fresno, hatecrime, racism, sikh