Hundreds of Chinese Americans throughout the San Francisco Bay Area gathered at San Francisco City Hall Tuesday to urge Mayor Newsom and the Board of Supervisors to take a stand against the recent violent attacks against Asians by African-American teenagers.

A coalition of religious groups today commenced the legal battle against Arizona’s new controversial immigrant law, filing suit in the U.S. District Court to stop its implementation.

Spanish-language daily La Opinión endorsed John McCain in the last Republican primary, citing a seemingly level-headed approach on matters of immigration. But in light of recent statements by McCain in support of SB 1070, Arizona's controversial immigration law, editors have been compelled to reconsider their opinion of the Arizona senator.

Congressional leaders see the public outcry against SB 1070 in Arizona as a rallying cry for comprehensive immigration reform. Democratic leadership in the Senate plans to release their own proposal today.

Dolls to - and from - Japan became tokens of diplomacy between the US and Japan. They're part of an exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Curator Melissa Rinne and writer Alan Pate tell the story.

The killing in Oakland of Tian Sheng Yu, 59, by two 18-year-old African-American men two weeks ago has inflamed tensions between the Bay Area's black and Chinese communities. But while tensions between the two communities may be running high, a NAM investigation shows such incidents are exceedingly rare.

To a greater extent than anywhere else in the country, Arizona's leadership]has become fixated on the idea that enforcement alone can solve the state's problems with illegal immigration. Yet Arizona itself has been a victim of that approach.

This week, one of the teens who opened fire on a Sunday church service in Richmond Ca. appeared in court for the first time. In the shootings aftermath, young people are flocking to New Gesthsemane Church of God and Christ.

Environmental prize Goldman Prize winner Cuban scientist Humberto Rios brought his fellow scientists out of the lab and into the field. The union has helped Cuba turn it's agriculture from a mono culture to much needed biodiversity.

The Vietnam war ended April 30, 1975 and since then much has changed in Vietnam. The poor-rich gap has widened and corruption is rampant. Many who won the war feel equally betrayed as those who were defeated 35 years ago.

The 2004 California Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Act promised to reform sex education in California's high schools. But a recent survey of young Latinas

Amnesty International announced that it was "appalled" over SB 1070, Arizona's new law that makes it a crime to be undocumented, saying the legislation "will surely increase racial profiling, arbitrary arrests and detentions in the state."

The Mexican government issued a travel warning to its citizens who plan to visit, live or study in Arizona, after the state adopted a law that makes it a crime to be undocumented, El Universal reports.

The chair of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, and the Ibero-American Secretary General Enrique Iglesias, condemned Arizona's new immigration law.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón condemned the new Arizona law on Monday, saying it “opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination, and abuse in law enforcement,” El Universal reports.