Asia-Pacific Politics

California Vietnamese, Tibetans Protest Communist China Leader's Arrival For Summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting a warm welcome from U.S. President Barack Obama this afternoon in Rancho Mirage for their summit and not just because the California desert temperature topped 110 degrees. In his five years in the White House, Obama has treated the Chinese leadership with guar ... More >>

Margaret Cho

Irvine Improv

Dish Network Wins $6.4M Judgment Against Little Saigon Satellite Pirate

A federal judge in Orange County has granted summary judgment to Dish Network and imposed a massive fine on a Little Saigon man who operated a satellite piracy business.U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna ruled this week that Tan Nguyen, the owner of several websites including ftafoall.net and ... More >>

More American Than Jay Chen?

Ignoring racist emails is all in a day's work for the Democratic congressional candidate

Death By China Screening and Special Panel Discussion Set For Anaheim on Sept. 28

Some critics have declared that Death By China is fueled by warmongering, anti-Chinese sentiment and others call the film/book another important wake up call to a looming disaster.You can make up your own mind Friday night in Anaheim when there will be a special showing of the controversial, 79-minu ... More >>

Death By China Screening and Special Panel Discussion

Cinema City Stadium Theatres

Huntington Beach Businessman Nailed For Exporting Thermal Imaging Cameras To China

A 52-year-old Huntington Beach businessman got sentenced this week for exporting seven thermal imaging cameras to China in violation of U.S. national security controls.Jason Jian Liang, a 1985 immigrant from China and president of Sanwave International Corp., admitted that he did not seek export lic ... More >>

Ed Royce Calls on USA to Stop Pampering North Korea's Plump New Dictator

Ed Royce won praise this week from a national business publication that favors the Orange County congressman's tough North Korean policy stance over the Obama administration's carrot-style diplomacy.Believing that U.S. officials are being "duped by evil" to continue to supply food to the totalitaria ... More >>

Rep. Rohrabacher Seeks Citizenship, Medal for Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Nab bin Laden

​The medical doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden--only to be left hung out to dry in Pakistan--is getting an assist from an unlikely source: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. The Costa Mesa Republican--who blames most societal ills on illegal immigration and vomits a little in his own m ... More >>

Shen Yun

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Dana Rohrabacher Takes Hypocritical Stance on Space Technology Transfers To China

OC Congressman: Please pay no attention to my hypocrisy​This week, newspapers reported that Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher was outraged because President Barack Obama's administration is allegedly jeopardizing national security by sharing sensitive satellite technology with China.Of co ... More >>

Silenced, Which Sparked Outrage in South Korea, Opens in Surf City Tonight

​A new film opening in Huntington Beach tonight has prompted outraged viewers to demand tougher penalties for sex crimes and stronger laws to protect children and the disabled from sexual abuse.No, it's not Puss in Boots.It's Silenced or Dogani (The Crucible), and perhaps the title confusion wil ... More >>

[UPDATED: Recall Effort Dropped] Residents Petition to Recall Hacienda School Board Members for Supporting a Language Program Funded by the Chinese Government

Flickr user cleverCl@i®ê ​UPDATE, JUNE 7, 1:46 P.M.: Opponents of the Confucius Classroom, a Chinese culture and language school program, have stopped their efforts to recall the four members of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School Board who voted to implement it. A small group of resident ... More >>

Seated? Dana Rohrabacher Gets One Right!

Dana finally finds an issue he can't botch​Okay, sure. Perennially goofy Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher occasionally makes a good point.This week in Washington, Rohrabacher and other Republican politicians questioned planned U.S. aid to China.What does the Obama administration want to ... More >>

Residents Petition to Recall Hacienda School Board Members for Supporting a Language Program Funded by the Chinese Government

Flickr user cleverCl@i®ê ​Four members of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School Board have been targeted in a recall effort.  The basis for the recall? They support a middle-school Chinese-language-and-culture program funded by the Chinese government.

Loretta Sanchez Goes to the Net for the Vietnamese

​Here in the goldarn US of A, we argue about Net neutrality, but over in Vietnam, there are citizens struggling just to get access to the Internet. It's like a mass of people who would looooooove dial-up AOL.Help for them is coming from this side of the world--in Washington, D.C., to be precise--w ... More >>

Rep. Loretta Sanchez Blasts North Korea and Backs Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act

​Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) has issued a statement condemning North Korea for firing dozens of artillery shells at South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, killing two South Korean soldiers and wounding 15.The freshly reelected congresswoman, who is the ranking female member on the House Armed ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Are the Red Chinese Polluting Young Minds in a Quiet Irvine Shopping Center?

​UPDATE: In an email to the Weekly, the owner of A Little Dynasty denies there is any basis for the criticism of his new Chinese school in Irvine (see end of post) . . .  Could the Quail Hill Village Center in Irvine become the next hotspot for anti-communist crusaders fighting the spread of ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Finds New Reason For Fear

Uncle Slammed: Be very afraid​Orange County's self-proclaimed surfin' congressman who doesn't surf but plops his substantial stomach on a boogie board to ride non-threatening waves has found a new boogeyman for America.Yes, Dana Rohrabacher, the man who once assertively lobbied on behalf of the Ta ... More >>

Anti-Commie Activist Kai Chen Claims Victory in Confucius Classroom Spat

​Kai Chen may not have got the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda to remove its life-size statue Mao Tse-Tung, but the Los Angeles-based, Chinese-American activist and others are claiming victory in their spat with the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.District ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Slaps Vietnam's Boss, Again

Viet Cong finally met their match?​Poor Nguyen Minh Triet. Sure, he survived as a communist soldier fighting better armed American troops during the Vietnam War and he's fought his way to the top to become president of Vietnam. But President Nguyen can't get a break from Orange County Co ... More >>

Ed Royce: Hillary Clinton Failed in Vietnam

Clinton​News services are reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressured Vietnam's leaders to improve its human rights practices during her trip to the Southeast Asian nation, but two Orange County members of Congress view her actions with opposing conclusions.Loretta Sanchez (D-Anahe ... More >>

Ed Royce Worries Hillary Clinton is Soft on Vietnam Human Rights Abuses

Royce to Clinton: Don't be a wimp in Hanoi​Demonstrating his concern over ongoing human rights abuses by Vietnam's rulers, Congressman Ed Royce has sent a letter to Hillary Clinton asking the secretary of state to pressure the communist nation on the topic during an upcoming trip to Hanoi. "W ... More >>

Has Loretta Sanchez Created a "Big Bugaboo" in Vietnam?

Protected worker?​A highly successful American businessman who lives in Hanoi says that Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin have "overblown" the need for worker rights in Communist-run Vietnam, according to a July 13 Voice of American (VOA) article."From my ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez to Obama: Slap Vietnam Now!

Sanchez is playing hardball with Vietnam​OC Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has a personal message today for President Barack Obama: Confront the Vietnamese prime minister over human rights violations in Vietnam.

Rep. Loretta Sanchez Condemns Vietnam Cyberattacks, Assorted Douchebaggery

​Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) is "outraged" that Vietnam used malware to illicitly monitor the Internet activity of human rights and democracy activists.

Chuck Devore to China: Set Your Prisoners Free!

In September 2001, Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) self-published a book called "China Attacks" which envisioned a Chinese sneak attack against Taiwan that precipitates a third world war. Call it a case of bad timing: as the events of 9/11 suggested, China might not be America's worst enemy after all. In 20 ... More >>

Royce, Sanchez Blast North Korea's Harsh Sentencing of Journos

Two Orange County representatives in the U.S. Congress came out strongly today against North Korea's harsh sentencing of 12 years hard labor for two U.S. journalists charged with "hostile acts." The other four Members of Congress were silent.Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) emailed the Weekly t ... More >>

Royce, Sanchez Blast North Korea's Harsh Sentencing of Journos

Two Orange County representatives in the U.S. Congress came out strongly today against North Korea's harsh sentencing of 12 years hard labor for two U.S. journalists charged with "hostile acts." The other four Members of Congress were silent.Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) emailed the Weekly t ... More >>

Pacific Rim Family Festival

Bowers Museum

Peace Conference

Golden West College

Waiting With Red-baited Breath

Little Saigon’s latest wave of anti-communist fervor spreads beyond Viet Weekly

Red Scare in Little Saigon

Le Vu's Viet Weekly newspaper endures OC's latest anti-communist witch-hunt

OC congressman: Japan must apologize for WWII sex

KNBC is reporting today that Orange County Republican Congressman Ed Royce thinks the Japanese government hasn't adequately apologized for converting 200,000 Asian women into sex slaves — or "comfort women" — for its soldiers during World War II. Though Japan's prime minister has already apolog ... More >>

Letters

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Protesters Don't Rattle Vietnam's President

In OC, an affable Nguyen Minh Triet seeks to heal ‘old wounds’

Sixteen Hours With Vietnam’s President

Dozens of media outlets filed reports this weekend about the historic Orange County visit of Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet, but only one American reporter gained exclusive access. Read R. Scott Moxley’s story in Thursday’s edition of the OC Weekly.

Friday's Headlines

Anger in the air:Vietnamese-Americans are expected to gather in Dana Point tonight to protest the presence of Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet - who many have human rights and religious freedom questions for. Desegregation entry "festive" after all: Earlier in the week, we noted that a Huntin ... More >>

Register Gone Red?

The Orange County Register's parent company, Blackstone Group, said Red money is good money May 22 as they accepted $3 billion from its newest partner, the Chinese government, according to reports from several news agencies. Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that owns 28 daily newspapers and ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Special Rip-Off Edicion

Twisted Sister City

Irvine shanghais Taiwan

Put Up That Wall, Mr. Bush!

There are people on the Right who still believe George W. Bush is the greatest thing since sliced Reagan. (People on the Left do, too, but in a totally different way.) So leave it to those qwaaaazy Minutemen Projectors to compare the Dubs to Reagan's archest enemy-turned-steam-room buddy: Mikhail Go ... More >>

Mmmm . . . Freedom Naan

India Houses buffet as a meal metaphor for the worlds largest democracy

We Respond to Register Letters

Restaurant or Drug?

The dangerous goodness of Cha Thai

Just Declare Victory

Little Saigon embraces Vietnam trade

Peace Meal

The borderless delights of Pakistani and Indian food

The Phantom Menace

Are American POWs still being held in Southeast Asia?

Ho Chi Minute Rice

Congress debates trade with Vietnam, Little Saigon goes shopping

Guerrilla in the Midst

The man behind the human-rights rhetoric