What is going on? Why so many links this week?

• Pakistani Canadian suspect [1] in a plan to assassinate the Danish "Mohammed" cartoonist is engaging in a battle of public images [2].
• A nifty profile [3] of Bay-Area-based Fil Am women's bantam weight boxing world champ Ana Julaton. (Video of her above.)
• Campbell, CA elects a 26-year-old gay man as mayor [4]. Evan Low is the nation's youngest As Am mayor and youngest Chi Am elected official. 
• Artist Won Park's dollar bill origami [5]. More images [6].
• Hawaii's tiny Ohana Pacific Bank, catering to Korean Americans, is in trouble [7].
• Senate confirms Judge Jacqueline Nguyen to federal district court [8]. She is the first Viet Am to serve in such a capacity.
• Portland now has a Korean taco truck [9].
• Sacramento JA plastic surgeon sentenced to nearly four years [10] in prison for touching and photographing his female patients' genitals.
• Thanks to Bernice Yeung [11], we now know that Friendster is set to relaunch [12] targeting only blind and deaf Asians with no interest in connecting to the rest of the world.
• A new book claims that Indian American wedding rituals are Bollywood influenced. [13]
• A defunct cafe in Salinas, CA, where As Ams came together, is being turned into an Asian American cultural center [14] with the help of federal funding and HUD.
• Tennis champs Michael Chang and Cecil Mamiit raised nearly $10k for typhoon victims [15] in an exhibition game in Orange County.
• Cupertino, CA becomes the third city in the US with an As Am city council majority [16].
• An interesting editorial from Detroit claims that immigrants, especially Desis, power the US's scientific progress [17].
• US Gov sponsors formation of the American Pakistan Foundation [18], to be co-chaired by Former US secretary of state Colin Powell and ex-prime minister of Pakistan Moeen Qureshi. It's Sec'y Clinton's brainchild.
• An Iranian American Dem is running for governor of Florida [19]. I really want to make a hanging chads joke, but can't think of one.
• NIAC head Trita Parsi wins Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order," [20] and $200k.
• The Fox Valley, WI Hmong American Partnership is losing its federal funding due to success [21]. Time to do that fundraising thing.
• This post [22]is eyeing two Asian American potential candidates for the 2011 San Francisco mayoral race -- assuming Gavin Newsom will be governor by then.
• 67 years late, UC San Francisco gives interned JA students their degrees [23].
• A Milwaukee Hmong American woman is prosecuting her husband [24] for allegedly raping and buying her from her parents when she was 12 [25].
• A Long Island Pakistani Am convenience store owner spares a robber's life and gives him $40 to feed his family. Later, the robber sends him a thank you letter with $50 inside. The link also has a video of the robbery [26].
• 30 Asian students were targeted for physical violence [27] at South Philadelphia High School Thursday, part of ongoing racial tensions [28] between African and Asian American students.
• Japan considers addressing Japanese/American parental abduction issue [29].
• KoreAm FBI agent BJ Kang is behind big Wall Street arrests [30].
• Christian publishers make racist jokes, too [31]. Fortunately, they're quicker to correct themselves.

And finally, on Ahmedinanigans Watch:

• Iran is now harrassing members of the diaspora who are criticizing the current regime [32]on the internet, especially on social networking sites. Their families in Iran are being threatened.