Q ian Wu didn't have to die. Her murderer, Huang Chen, lived just two doors from her, and he had a history of violence. He was an illegal immigrant who had been put into detention twice by the U.S. government but had been released based on precedent set by a Supreme Court case, Zadvydas v. Davis (2001). In that case, the Supreme Court held that those who had not been lawfully admitted into the United States and had been ordered removed could not be detained for more than six months if there was no reasonable likelihood of their being removed. Unfortunately for Wu, that was the case for Chen. Chen had a documented and sordid past. In 2006, he spent 30 days in jail for choking Wu and punching her in the face. He also had received at least five orders of protection against him. After six m...
During the just-concluded trial of one of the three teens charged with the 2004 killing of Huang Chen, 18, a Chinese food deliveryman, it was revealed that the beating death was part of a "botched gang initiation." At the trial of William Capehart, Nayquan Miller, a convicted co-defendant, told a jury in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens last week that "Charles Bryant wanted to be down with Gun Squad," a part of the Bloods gang. Miller said that Capehart told him that in order to prove himself, "You got to do the Chinese man." Capehart was convicted last week and faces the same 51 1/3 years to life sentence that Bryant got; Miller is looking at a 20 years to life term. Speaking to the "globalization of gangs," in his book "Street Wars," activist and politician Tom Hayden claims that ov...
The Press Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles presents a photo exhibition, "Taiwan Sublime," through March 7 at the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library, 318 S. Ramona Ave. It features several series of photographs taken by famous Taiwanese photographers Chi Po-lin, Liu Chen-hsiang, Huang Ting- sheng and Chen Chih-hsiung, who have criss-crossed Taiwan and its sister islands for years to document numerous features on the country's natural and human wonders.
Inland Valley residents rushed past Diamond Bar High School Leo Club students, anxious to get around the corner and see what they were hearing. Teen greeters Gary Li, Jonathan Ko, Ayesha Motiwalla, Jessica Chen, Brandon Chan, Roger Huang and Katherine Liu didn't need to direct anyone to the campus theater where the Diamond Bar Breakfast Lions Club hosted its Drumming For Kids charitable concert Feb. 22.
THE WORLD -- *** 1/2 -- Zhao Tao, Chen Taishen, Huang Yiqun; in Mandarin, with English subtitles; not rated, probable PG-13 (profanity). China's awakening from the long sleep of Maoism was bound to have profound social impact. And it was just as inevitable that serious filmmakers would set their penetrating gaze on the human dimension of all those changes.
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