
Asian Profile Series: Singaporean Community
Singapore is a multi-lingual, multi-cultural, and multi-ethnic country, and home to many people of different national, religious, and ethnic origins. The ethnic groups for Singapore are Chinese 74.2%, Malay 13.7%, Indian 8.9%, and other 3.2% (2021).

Pacific Islander Profile Series: Native Hawaiian Community
Native Hawaiians have experienced US occupation of their homeland, political and social disenfranchisement, and compulsory assimilation policies that have adversely affected their health.

Pacific Islander Profile Series: Tongan Community
The Kingdom of Tonga, also called the Friendly Islands, is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Of the approximate 170 islands that make up Tonga, only about 36 are inhabited.

Asian Profile Series: Malaysian Community
Malaysia has a multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multilingual society. The original culture of the area stemmed from indigenous tribes that inhabited it, along with the Malays who later moved there.

Asian Profile Series: Rohingya Community
The Rohingya people are an ethnic Muslim minority group who have historically lived in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The Rohingya have been persecuted since the 18th century and it continues to this day. Currently an estimated 800,000 Rohingya who live in Myanmar are not acknowledged as citizens or an indigenous Burmese people.

Asian Profile Series: Vietnamese Community
Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán, is the Spring Festival, Lunar New Year, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year in Vietnamese culture. Based on the lunisolar calendar, Tết is celebrated annually through the preparation of cooking special holiday food – such as bánh tét and bánh chưng - and doing house and family shrine cleaning.

Asian Profile Series: Hmong Community
The Hmong New Year which will take place this year Dec 31-Jan 2 is a celebration of the end of harvest and the beginning of a new year. It centers the practice of giving thanks so that new life may begin.

Asian Profile Series: Filipino Community
People all over the Phillippines celebrate Simbang Gabi by hanging lights and parols on every window and families attend mass.

Asian Profile Series: Lao Community
Boun Khao Phansa and Boun Awk Phansa mark the first and lastdays of Buddhist Lent in Laos. Starting on July 24th and ending on October 21st this year.

Asian Profile Series: Korean Community
Cheusok, also known as "Korean Thanksgiving", is celebrated this year from September 20thto September 22nd.

Asian Profile Series: Japanese Community
Obon (お盆) is an annual Buddhist event for commemorating one's ancestors.

Asian Profile Series: Cambodian Community
Chaul Chnam Thmey, a.k.a. Khmer New Year Festival, takes place this year from April 14th-16th…

Asian Profile Series: Pakistani Community
Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid al-Fitr to mark theend of Ramadan, which is a month-long, dawn-to-sunset fast.

Asian Profile Series: Mongolian Community
The traditional practice of throat-singing originated among theindigenous Turko-Mongol tribes of the Altai and Sayan mountains ofsouthern Siberia and western Mongolia.















