Frank Shyong is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times writing about diversity and diaspora in Los Angeles. He grew up south of Nashville, Tenn., and moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to study economics at UCLA. He joined The Times in 2012 and previously reported on the San Gabriel Valley, Chinese immigration to the Southland and the Asian American community.
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Tres de los cuatro brotes más letales en residencias de ancianos de California se produjeron en instalaciones que se ofrecieron a recibir pacientes con COVID-19 procedentes de hospitales sobrecargados. El Kei-Ai de Los Ángeles lideró todos ellos.
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Three of the four most lethal outbreaks at nursing homes in California were at facilities that volunteered to receive COVID-19 patients from overtaxed hospitals. Kei-Ai Los Angeles led them all.
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The other day, I saw two headlines right next to each other on the L.A.
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Long Beach, home of the nation’s largest Cambodian community, has elected its first Cambodian American council member.
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After a lengthy email exchange turned to an hours-long phone call, columnist Frank Shyong finds common ground with a reader who met him in the middle.
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Healing our divided society is not as simple as listening to our opponents, columnist Frank Shyong writes, because Americans now have our own versions of reality.
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The Dodgers’ first World Series victory since 1988 brings life and joy to a weary city in a year with few other reasons to cheer.
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Weeks before Californians vote on Proposition 22, I decided to pay a visit to the asphalt lowlands of LAX, where the conflict unfolds in miniature at two separate parking lots where ride-hail and taxi drivers compete for arriving travelers.
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SB 1257 will give domestic workers workplace safety protections during the COVID pandemic and beyond.
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Life during the COVID-19 pandemic means smaller parties, shrinking piñatas and struggles at party supply stores.