May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a celebration of the history, contributions, and culture of Americans from Asia and the Pacific Islands. As we reported earlier, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up 5.6% of the American population – 17.3 million – and grew by 46% in the last ten years, faster [...]
Authors: Damien Tomkins and Aaron Siirila More than 46,000 students from Southeast Asia came to the United States for the academic year 2010-2011, comprising 6 percent of all foreign students in the United States, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE). However, growth has been slow, with only a 10 percent increase over the [...]
People of Asian descent grew faster than any race group in the United States, with Filipinos and Vietnamese in the top four ethnic groups, according to a new report released by the US Census Bureau. A total of 17.3 million people identified themselves as either Asian alone (14.7 million) or Asian-in-combination (2.6 million) in the [...]
Last November, Boeing announced its largest ever commercial sale when it signed a deal with Indonesia’s Lion Air for 230 aircraft valued at $21.7 billion. The importance of the commercial aviation industry to the U.S. overall economy cannot be overstated. Slate reported that Boeing’s exports in 2009 made up 1.8 percent of total U.S. exports, [...]
Southeast Asia is situated in an area that is prone to natural disasters and, last year, the region was hit by many natural disasters and suffered substantial losses. Tropical Storm Washi (Sendong) brought the Philippines heavy rain on December 16, 2011, causing more than 1,200 deaths, and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. A few months [...]
US has lost over one quarter of high-tech manufacturing jobs in past decade For the first time in history, the Asian region in 2009 spent as much on research and development in science and technology (S&T) fields as the United States, the traditional leader in high technology investment. The spending has cost American jobs because [...]
Last week marked the start of the year of the dragon throughout much of East Asia, but thousands of young people celebrated the Lunar New Year half a world away on college campuses across the United States. Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, and Tet celebrations have become increasingly common as the population of international students [...]
American volunteerism is expanding in Southeast Asia. The Peace Corps, a volunteer organization affiliated with the US government that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is growing beyond its traditional posts in the Philippines and Thailand to include active presence in Cambodia and Indonesia. Soon, American volunteers—not affiliated with the Corps—will also be active [...]
According to recently released figures from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Southeast Asian foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States is making a recovery from the effects of the Global Financial Crisis. While Southeast Asia’s FDI stock in the United States declined by 18 percent, or $4.9 billion, from $26.6 billion in [...]
Southeast Asia, when taken as a whole, imported $70.4 billion of US merchandise in 2010, a 61-percent increase from the 2001 figure of $43.8 billion. This signals a return to the upward trend in US merchandise exports to the region following the disruption of the Global Financial Crisis, when such exports fell from a high [...]
