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Tsunamis Kill 125,000 And Still Counting ||
Capitol Debate || Under 30 || AAHOA Legislative Summit ||
Medical Malpractice Insurance || This Week || Obituary ||





MISCELLANEOUS

  • India bought arms worth $12.6 billion in 2003: U.S. report
  • Asian-American hoteliers grow in numbers and clout
  • Hoteliers of the future are already there
  • Concern over aspects of franchising voiced again
  • Women speak on being backbones of immigrant families
  • Song and dance for hoteliers even while they work
  • Asians fastest growing racial group in U.S.
  • Census underlines multiracial identities
  • Census shows Asians have come of age in a diverse America
  • Number of people over 80 in the U.S. higher than in India
  • SOME FACTOIDS FROM CENSUS 2000
  • 28.4 million foreign-born residents in U.S.
  • ‘Indian physicians are key to U.S. medical system’
  • Charting course with older peers
  • Plea to treat domestic violence as social health issue
  • ‘India’s Kashmir position better understood now’
  • U.S. policy toward New Delhi seen as needing clarity
  • ‘Time for us to adapt to norms of this country’
  • Outgoing president says tenure was ‘fondest’
  • Annual event stresses on moving forward with times
  • 1982-2002: A success story over 2 decades
  • Honorees
  • Some foreign visitors to be fingerprinted
  • Moving memorial for 658 Cantor employees
  • ‘My America’ benefit concert is held in N.Y.
  • Need seen for clear, strong message on terrorism
  • American visas are difficult for Pakistani Muslim men, 16-45
  • Several U.S. missions placed on high alert
  • Response to impact of 9/11 on children in N.Y. is assessed
  • Coping with backlash was focus of AALDEF meeting
  • BRIEFS
  • S. Asian leaders at Battery Park event
  • Day of mourning ends with lighting ‘Eternal Flame’
  • ‘Building Bridges... Taking Action’
  • ‘Building Bridges... Taking Action’
          India Caucus co-chair, Clinton’s political consultant, sports legend laud group
  • ‘Building Bridges... Taking Action’
          30 percent of 6,000 are independent hoteliers with different set of issues
  • ‘Building Bridges... Taking Action’
          Hoteliers look at variety of trade issues and growth strategies
  • Institutionalizing women’s role in vibrant, growing industry
  • AAHOA Annual Convention and Trade Show
  • Outgoing, incoming chairmen speak of strategic plan to help 6,000 members
  • ‘101,000 Room Nights for America’
  • A 3rd-generation hotelier from Calif. says, “We positioned ourselves to be industry leaders”
  • 3,700 hoteliers meet at glitzy, 4-day event in sunny California
  • Youngest AAHOA board member, Nash Patel, looks at world of hospitality as ‘another country
          to conquer’
  • Panels on ‘Age Defiance’ and ‘How to Look Glamorous’ by women physicians
  • ‘We really thought there was a need for greater women’s presence’
  • Women stress need to ‘take risks,’ ‘set goals’ and remember parents
  • Next generation of doctors to strengthen parent organization
  • Among various panels, the most popular was discussion on ‘India-U.S. Relations Post 9/11’
  • Annual Networking
  • ‘I don’t think we have realized our potential,’ Dr. Lakhanpal
  • N.J. Governor’s Inaugural South Asians watch McGreevey take oath
  • Academic Viewpoint :AAHOA said to be getting its legislative priorities right
  • Gujarat, New Jersey sign MOU on energy
  • Mulrow running for N.Y. comptroller, looks for support
  • Did community activism defeat McKinney?
  • Washington fund-raiser for Delhi NGO
  • Indian American Republican Council formed
  • A new political action committee formed
  • Pennsylvania’s doctors are planning ‘virtual strike’
  • Many changes in key committees of 108th Congress
  • Crowley, Wilson elected co-chairs of Caucus
  • Asian population registers second highest growth of 3.7 percent
  • Policy institute set up by a bipartisan group
  • Natwar Gandhi sounds warning on D.C.’s finances
  • Compliments for AAPI for bolstering Indo-U.S. ties
  • Three selected to receive Ellis Medal of Honor
  • 9 of Indian origin honored by U.S. science, engineering academies
  • Honors
          Singh family honored with proclamation for ‘record of activism’
  • Fighting HIV/AIDS
          India second highest in HIV/AIDS cases, say experts
  • Justice Department faults treatment of immigration violators after 9/11
  • Haass to head Council on Foreign Relations
  • Supreme Court
          Justices back affirmative action by 5-4
  • Affirmative action proponents get the nod in a split decision
  • Life for Indian Americans after 9/11
          Gains, losses, disappointments and aspirations after 9/11 are discussed
  • MIT Media Lab Web site to track lawmakers, officials
  • Flier by Massachusetts state senator angers Muslims
  • Ashcroft defends the Patriot Act; plans national speaking tour
  • University of Michigan introduces new affirmative action policy
  • Sept. 11: Two Years After
          Experiences, concerns in post 9/11 America discussed at Town Hall meeting
  • Ambassador Lalit Mansingh speaks on ‘Indo-US relations – India at the crossroads’
  • Median income of Asians, Pacific Islanders high but has steepest fall
  • Median income of Asians, Pacific Islanders high but has steepest fall
  • Gautam Adhikari joins American Enterprise Institute
  • Jay Chaudhuri is among eighteen American Marshall Memorial Fellows
  • Asian Americans, including South Asians, at D.C. town hall meeting
  • On health, immigration and employment needs of underserved South Asians
  • 2,000 doctors in Maryland protested over rising cost of medical malpractice insurance


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