Hyphen Lynks: The Second Poker Face Edition
Once again [1], Asian Americans show their poker faces, otherwise known as "inscrutability."
Everything else you can scrut. For example:
- Speaking of terror, five American Muslims, including two Pak Ams, were convicted in Pakistan of plotting terrorist attacks [3] and sentenced to 10 years. They say they were heading into Afghanistan on humanitarian missions.
- Speaking of representation: Nikki Haley wins the primary [5].
- Interview with Mee Moua [6], the first Hmong American legislator.
- Jindal wins a legal victory over Obama [7] on six-month oil-drilling moratorium. Jindal wins, we lose.
- An interesting article on the extra challenges the Gulf's Vietnamese fishermen are facing [9].
- The beating of an Indian American man in New Jersey by teenagers may have been racially motivated [10].
- Ana "The Hurricane" Julaton is fighting for a world championship [11] in Canada this week. You might take note.
- Speaking of fighting, Cung Le redeemed himself against Scott Smith [12] in their recent rematch.
- Porochista Khakpour reflects on Iranians in pop culture [13].
- An Indian American is behind US success in the World Cup [14] this year. (Yeah, it's a success that we got that far!)
- Four local Asian American legal service orgs are banding together to form a national group, the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice [15].