AsianWeek
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| Type | National weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Pan Asia Venture Capital Corporation |
| President | James Fang |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | January 2, 2009 (print) |
| Headquarters | 809 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California United States |
| Circulation | 58,099 |
| ISSN | 0195-2056 |
| Website | asianweek |
AsianWeek is an online publication of Asian American news, across all Asian ethnic groups, providing coverage of Asian-American issues such as the killing of Vincent Chin, Asian American college admissions, and quotas on Chinese students in competitive San Francisco examination schools.
AsianWeek headquarters are located in San Francisco's Chinatown. It stopped publishing a print edition in 2009 and continues as an online newspaper.
AsianWeek is the largest and longest and established English language newsweekly for Asian Pacific Americans. In 1965, after the Hart-Celler Immigration Act ended over 80 years of race-based exclusion of immigrants from Asia, America for the first time experienced an influx of Asian immigration. As Asian Americans became the fastest growing minority in the United States and as they became more settled, they began forming organizations and associations to serve their communities.
Realizing the need to provide a voice for Asian Pacific America, John Fang, founded AsianWeek newspaper in 1979 in San Francisco. Currently, it has a circulation of over 58,000. AsianWeek continues to be the longest and largest running weekly published from a shared Asian American perspective using the English language to connect and outreach to not only Asians and Asian Americans but to all interested in learning and reading about the Asian American experience.
In 1995, AsianWeek changed its format to full-color and converted itself from an exclusively paid circulation newspaper to a publication consisting of both free distribution and paid subscribers.
AsianWeek newspaper is also involved in a wide array of community activities. Committed to promoting and participating in events that celebrate the diversity the Asian-American community, the publication plays an active role in sponsoring and hosting community events, spreading health awareness on Hepatitis B, and promoting cross-cultural and interracial cooperation with major outdoor events in San Francisco, including the Castro Street Fair, Chinatown Autumn Moon Festival Street Fair, Haight-Ashbury Street Fair and Nihonmachi Street Fair. AsianWeek is also on the planning committee for the Asian Heritage Street Celebration, Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, and Pistahan Filipino Parade and Festival.
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