News 12 Staff
Updated on:May 10, 2021, 7:23am EDT
News 12 is highlighting the contributions of Asian Americans in our community throughout the month of May for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
This week, News 12’s Blaise Gomez sat down with Hyun Chin Kim who is breaking barriers in more ways than one.
Kim made history last Novemberas the first Asian American, and first woman, to be elected as Orange County court judge. When I was running, I didn t see anybody who was Asian American running for office…I think my election is a sentiment to this community that they look beyond race. They look beyond all this superficiality.
Posted by Sanuj Bhatia on May 07, 2021 in Facebook, News
Facebook has added a slew of new features to its Messenger and Instagram apps to make chats on both platforms more interactive. The new features include Star Wars-themed chats, visual replies, ‘Seen’ states, and more to Instagram DMs.
Instagram Grabs New Seen State and Visual Replies Feature
One of the interesting features Facebook has added to Instagram is the “visual replies” feature. Now, simply tapping on the camera icon in your Instagram chat will bring up your, well, camera and then you can respond to a chat with a photo or video. The feature is currently available on iPhone and will roll out to Android soon.
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment!
Asian American women leaders former Rep. Patsy Mink, Tina Tchen, Katherine Tai and former Oakland mayor Jean Quan painted by Melanie Humble.
It’s Asian Pacific American Heritage month in the United States which is a great opportunity to celebrate women leaders Patsy Mink, Tina Tchen, Katherine Tai, Jean Quan among many others. I am so grateful to be serving on the ReflectUS board with Madalene Mielke, CEO of APAICS, which is preparing a generation of new young Asian American leaders to run for office.
Android Community
May 7, 2021
Facebook’s latest update to two of its platforms, Messenger and Instagram Direct Message, may not be a major one but it does come with a few useful tools. Messenger gets new themes including a celebration of May the 4th, a better way to manager your inbox particularly old messages, and camera stickers to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Instagram’s Direct Messaging meanwhile gets visual replies, although for now it’s for iOS users only but it[‘s coming soon to Android.
In case you didn’t know it yet, you could actually change the Themes on your Messenger conversations. There are not that many to choose from but at least you now have two more options. One is a Star Wars theme to celebrate Star Wars Day last May 4th and the other is to celebrate the second season of the Netflix show Selena: The Series. Just go to the settings of the conversation you want to theme and choose which one you want.
Asia Society welcomes Ambassador Myung-soo Ahn, the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Houston, alongside a panel of experts to discuss current and future U.S.–South Korea relations.