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Raised in Falls Church, VA, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar at the age of 12 and began performing in a pop country duo in high school. She’s now a critically acclaimed artist who tours the country and the world with such artists as Andrew Bird, Mirah, Laura Viers and producer Tucker Martine. She even toured the U.S. with …

Compiled by Mary Tablante News Updates Low-Key U.S. Reaction to S. Korean Election Washington, DC—Reaction from the Korean-American community to the election of 60-year-old Park Geun-hye as the first female president of South Korea has been quiet. The daughter of the late military dictator Park Chung-hee, she leads the conservative New Frontier Party. The Asia Society extolled her 30 years …

In the last edition of Asian Fortune we mentioned the worldwide search to find a matching bone marrow donor for two year old Jeremy Kong of San Francisco, who has been suffering with a rare form of leukemia. The problem is that ethnicity plays a role in finding suitable matches, and Asian Americans, and Asians worldwide, have been slower than …