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The story of how an employee was banned from work for two weeks after their employer spotted signs they were suffering burnout has gone viral on LinkedIn. ....
“We’re trying to build Asian Black solidarity and right here we talk about the big issues, what are we doing in our own neighborhood,” said Rev. Norman Fong. The event was held outside Ping Yuen Public Housing. It was organized by Chinatown Community Development Center, Community Youth Center and community groups. San Francisco London Breed was one of the speakers of the event. “This is what unity looks like when we come together as a community to protect one another,” she said. Organizers offered for food, music and a message “Last year is there was a major uptick in AAPI hate and violence incidence. A lot of time there is a lot of anti-blackness sentiment that has been very divisive in the community,” said Sarah Wan, Community Youth Center. ....
Asian women attacked in Oakland Chinatown, feet away from Thursday s attack Two women were attacked in Oakland s Chinatown, not far from where a two people were pistol-whipped. OAKLAND, Calif. - Muggers attacked and robbed Asian victims in Oakland Chinatown for the second time in two days on Friday. Surveillance video shows two women, one of them is elderly, walking on Ninth Street near Harrison Street, when two men got out of a car, grabbed their purses, knocked them to the pavement, and drove off with a third person behind the wheel. The younger woman suffered a cut on her finger in the attack. ....
Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined leaders of the San Francisco Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community for a press event to highlight the enactment of S. 937, the bipartisan COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. ....
Direction of travel: how Klook has been making the most of stay-at-home tourism ith nominations for this year s Future 50 currently open, we profile last year s inductees. Sarah Wan, the south east Asia marketing director at travel platform Klook, has helped pull off a tour de force in what was a disastrous year for the travel and hospitality industry. Covid-19 has decimated the travel industry. Tourism from, and within, Asia was expected to have a banner year in 2020, with Chinese tourists alone expected to make 160m trips abroad – 27% more than they did in 2015. And although air corridors and localized booms for the stay-at-home sector have put smiles on the faces of some, the opportunity costs and financial losses have been enormous. The World Travel and Tourism Council, an organization that represents major global travel companies, projects a global loss of 75m jobs and $2.1tn in revenue. ....