Students in grades 6 to 12 are invited to an open-call dance audition for Interlochen Center for the Arts on Sun., Jan. 22, 2012 at James Sewell Ballet, 528 Hennepin Ave., Suite 205, Minneapolis.

Auditions will include ballet, pointe and modern technique. Participating students will be considered for admission to Interlochen’s world-renowned summer arts program or fine arts boarding high school.

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Tobacco use by teens decreased at a slower rate between 2008 and 2011 and more than 50 percent of high-schoolers are still exposed to secondhand smoke

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St. Paul, Minn. (Sept. 27, 2011) — Admission Possible, a nationally recognized non-profit founded in Minnesota making college admission and success possible for low-income students, has expanded into Bloomington and Brooklyn Park.

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Dolla Yang

Brooklyn Park, Minn. (August 25, 2011) —Brooklyn Park Police are looking for a missing teen that could possibly be the victim of an abduction. At approximately 3:00 p.m. Thursday, police were called to the 7700 block of Abbott Ave N on what witnesses reported as an abduction of 16-year-old Dolla Yang, a female, 5 foot 3, 105 pounds, long hair, wearing a black tank top and blue shorts.

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A Hmong Dance Drama, the Water Bucket Dance from “Longing for Qeej.” (Photos courtesy of the Mionnesota Fringe Festival)

By ANGE HWANG

MINNEAPOLIS — Iny Asian Dance Theater, in collaboration with Asian Media Access, and Pan Asian Arts Alliance, presented Longing for Qeej, a Hmong dance drama, at Minnesota Fringe Festival last week, with huge success, and rave reviews.

Longing for Qeej is the traditional Hmong creation story of the Qeej (pronounced “kang”) instrument.  Qeej is a bamboo and wooden mouth organ found throughout Eastern Asia, and is a traditional music instrument played by the Hmong people. The Qeej has six pipes of different lengths attached to a wooden air chamber, and is played in major holidays and ceremonies.

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By MAYA NISHIKAWA
AAP staff writer

Music is a universal language that brings people, thoughts, and feelings together. That’s the idea behind the a Special Children’s Choir, a Korean-Amercan/Adoptee Children’s/Youth’s Choir in Minnesota.

“Eating and music are cultural language. Through music and food, we can share our culture,” said Joshua Kim, Founder of Culture in Motion, which hosted a benefit for the Special Children’s Choir.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo, front-right, with players from his old high school in tainin, taiwan at dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last week to watch a game and meet the players. (Photo by Jon SooHoo/LA dodgers)

LOS ANGELES — Hong- Chih Kuo and the Dodgers hosted youth players from the same Tainin, Taiwan high school that Dodger pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo attended. He went on to become the fourth Taiwan- born player to make it to Major League Baseball in the United Stated. The team was in Los Angeles to represent Taiwan in the 2011 Palomino League Baseball World Series at the MLB

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr., 16 Japanese youth baseball and softball players, and four coaches participating in the U.S. Department of State’s first international sports exchange with Japan, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 9, 2011. [State Department photo/ Public Domain

WASHINGTON (August 9, 2011) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday met with Japan Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki; Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr., 16 Japanese youth baseball and softball players, and four coaches participating in the U.S. Department of State’s first international sports exchange with Japan.

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Minneapolis (June 15, 2011)  Four DREAM students who walked 1500 miles from Miami to Washington DC to dramatize the barriers facing undocumented immigrants.

Two men – one American and one South Asian – who rescued trafficked workers from virtual bondage. A police chief who was vilified for speaking up against local enforcement of federal immigration laws.

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Kunihiro Shimoji, an international student from Okinawa, Japan studying Political Science at the College of Saint Benedict’s and Saint John’s University, said the March 11th earthquake and tsunami left him in shock and, but that he and others were inspired into a two and a half month relief effort with students, faculty and local community under the slogan “Work as one and make a difference.”

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