All posts tagged "California"

  • California Heat
    California scorched and drenched by heat, storms

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California had record-breaking heat on Wednesday as triple-digit heat struck inland areas even as lightning closed beaches and mountains and deserts were drenched by fierce, fast-moving storms. The sweltering but erratic weather was...

    • Posted September 9, 2015
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  • comfort2a
    Fullerton Museum to open comfort women art exhibit

    Fullerton Museum will open an exhibition Saturday depicting the plight of the comfort women. The exhibition, “Forgotten Faces: The Comfort Women of World War II,” includes digital art, video, photography and paintings of women pulled into sexual...

    • Posted September 4, 2015
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  • Los Angeles' jobber market located in the downtown fashion district (Korea Times file)
    [LA Times] The fight to keep Korean businesses in L.A.

      When Daejae Kim arrived in Los Angeles three decades ago, he took his first step into the apparel business in downtown’s fashion district, where a budding Korean entrepreneurial community was beginning to take...

    • Posted September 2, 2015
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  • In this May 1, 2014 photo, irrigation water runs along the dried-up ditch between the rice farms to provide water for the rice fields in Richvale, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    Report: Groundwater pumping in California has land sinking

    FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Vast areas of California’s Central Valley are sinking faster than in the past as massive amounts of groundwater are pumped during the historic drought, state officials said Wednesday, citing new research by NASA...

    • Posted August 19, 2015
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  • Los Angeles city councilman of the fourth district David Ryu
    Month after elections, LA Councilman David Ryu gets straight to work

    By Brian Han By now certain parts of Los Angeles Councilman David Ryu’s story are out in the open. He’s the first Korean American to be elected to the city’s council — it was official on June...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place at the opening of the Korean American Community Organization of Monterey County building Saturday.
    Monterey Korean American community hub opens doors

    By The Korea Times San Francisco staff For Korean Americans in Monterey County, Calif., Saturday, history was made as it opened its first community hub since the local organization’s founding 41 years ago. Local leaders and the...

    • Posted July 20, 2015
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  • Glendale's comfort woman statue (Yonhap)
    Second anniversary of Glendale comfort women statue prompts celebration

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Celebration of the second anniversary of the installation of one of Glendale, Calif.’s most controversial statues — a memorial for comfort women in the form of a young girl seated...

    • Posted July 17, 2015
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