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		<title>Gordon Hirabayashi leaves lasting legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 6, 2012) — Gordon Hirabayashi died on Jan. 2, 2012. He was 93 years old and living in Edmonton, Alberta. Asian Americans remember the contribution to civil rights from a young Japanese American man who made an unpopular decision at the time — even among many in his own community — in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota Indian community loses Daniel Kunjummen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AAP staff report A pillar of the India Minnesotan community will be laid to rest this Sat., Dec. 17, in Burnsville, Minn. Daniel Arayil Kunjummen passed away Dec. 10 from a lengthy illness at the age of 84. Kunjummen’s life of fearless journeys began at Kerala, India, where he was born a citizen of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneering Iowa leader dies at 60</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry K. Thongvanh (1950 – 2011) AAP staff report Pastor Barry K. Thongvanh, 60, of Storm Lake, Iowa, died June 7, 2011 in Storm Lake. He was a founding member of the Central Asian Pacific Islander Commission and Iowa Commission on Asian Pacific Affairs. Born on July 7, 1950 in Son La, North Vietnam, Thongvanh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Etsu Mineta Masaoka passes away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington D.C. (June 3, 2011) – Jim Park, the chair of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies and Gloria Chan, the president and CEO, issued the following statements today on the passing of Etsu Mineta Masaoka: &#8220;On behalf of the APAICS Board of Directors and staff, I send our heartfelt condolences to Norm Mineta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edwin Kwoh dies at 95</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (May 31, 2011) – Edwin Kwoh, a self-made businessman with a long history of involvement and service to the community of Los Angeles, passed away on Monday, May 30. He was 95. Edwin Kwoh was married to actress Beulah Kwoh (stage name Beulah Quo) who passed away in 2002. He is survived by son Stewart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Hep B Free mourns loss of founder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (U.S. ASIAN WIRE – April 11, 2011) – San Francisco&#8217;s Asian and Pacific Islander community is saddened by the passing of Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruch Blumberg who discovered the hepatitis B virus &#8211; the biggest health discrepancy facing the API community. Blumberg received the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hmong community loses iconic hero, leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By TOM LAVENTURE AAP staff writer ST. PAUL (January 12, 2010) – General Vang Pao passed away in a Clovis, California hospital on January 6, 2011. He was 81 years old and was reportedly battling pneumonia. The news has shocked a nation of Hmong, the former veterans who served with him in the War in Southeast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nisei community leader Sam Honda lost to cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Honda, vice president (left), with Edwin (Bud) Nakasone, president, representing the Japanese American Veterans of Minnesota at the Military Intelligence Service recognition program held at Normandale Japanese Garden in Bloomington on Sept. 12, 2004. (JACL contributed photo) Contributed article The Japanese American community lost a revered leader, organizer, and champion of human and civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Wu loses father</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, D.C. (November 29, 2010) – Oregon U.S. Congressman David Wu (D-1st) lost his father, Keh Chang Wu, on Saturday, November 27, 2010 after he passed away from natural causes. He was 87 years old. Keh Chang Wu leaves his wife, Hwei Lan Wu, and three children: Karen, Alice, and David. His oldest daughter, Ing Chou, passed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fred Feng Hsiao passes away at age 91</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(June 24, 2010) – Hsiao, Feng (Fred Shaw), a community icon and co-founder of Shaw-Lundquist Associates, and one of the eldest Chinese Americans in Minnesota, passed away at his Richfield home the morning of June 21, 2010. He was 91. Hsiao is survived by his wife Jennie, three sons, Howell and Nina Shaw; Hoyt and Zhen Zhen [...]]]></description>
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