Join us for the CABC-EY Seminar: Manoeuvring Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) 2.0 Pillar 2 global minimum tax and its implications for North American multinational corporations operating in Singapore 🌐

🗓️ January 24, 2024
🕘 9:00 am - 10:00 am (SGT)

We are thrilled to introduce our distinguished panel of experts who will guide us through the intricacies of this crucial topic:
🔹 Jillian Lim, Executive Vice President, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
🔹 Jonathan Belec, CFA, Partner, International Tax and Transaction Services — Transfer Pricing, Ernst & Young Solutions LLP
🔹 Ying Quan Teo (Dody), Partner, International Tax and Transaction Services, Ernst & Young Solutions LLP
🔹 Luis Coronado, EY Global Tax Controversy Leader; Partner, International Tax and Transaction Services — Transfer Pricing, Ernst & Young Solutions LLP and Chairman of the Singapore Mexico Chamber of Commerce

🔗 Learn more about our speakers: https://lnkd.in/gQpKJi8B 

Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights from industry leaders. Mark your calendars and register now! Let's navigate the complexities of BEPS 2.0 together.

📍Register now: https://lnkd.in/g3AaVQpE and click “EY” under the last question, “Where did you hear about the webinar”.

#CABCEvents #CABC #CanadaASEAN #BEPS2 #GlobalMinimumTax #DoingBusinessinSingapore #Webinar #CanadaSingapore

EY, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), US-ASEAN Business Council, Singapore Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Nicky L., Danielle Todesco, JC Soh, Chonnipa (Palm) Nakpontong, Rahul Rai, Gerson Garduño

The 19th Annual Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot is on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 23. And we need your help to ensure that the event runs smoothly!

Individual and group volunteer shifts are available on Thanksgiving Day or leading up to the event at the Sports Basement Turkey Trot Expo.

All proceeds from the Turkey Trot benefit local nonprofit organizations, including Second Harvest — this is a great way for students to get service hours or give back to your community this holiday season. Plus, you'll be home in time for Thanksgiving dinner!

Contact [email protected] with any questions and find out more about the race at svturkeytrot.com.

From the Seattle Foundation:

Atsuhiko Tateuchi Memorial Scholarship

• $5,000 scholarship, renewable annually
• This scholarship is offered to the following types of students:
  • Graduating high school seniors planning to attend an accredited vocational school, trade degree, or certification.
  • Students returning to school or currently enrolled in an accredited vocational or trade school.
• Preference will be given to students of Japanese ancestry or other Asian ancestry.
• Students must be a resident of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, or Washington State.
• Must demonstrate financial need.
• Application available on Survey Monkey Apply:
  • Students pursing College or Graduate programs: https://seattlefoundation.smapply.org/prog/tateuchi/
  • Students pursing vocational or trade school degrees: https://seattlefoundation.smapply.org/prog/tateuchi_vocational/
• Applications close March 1, 2023

If you have any questions or concerns, please connect with our scholarships team at [email protected].

FILM FEST VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

SVAP is  looking for volunteers to help with in-person 2022 Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest.

Volunteer duties may include the following:  set-up, ticketing, ushering, crowd control, check in, questionnaire distribution, video and photography, and clean up.  Please choose the day and times that you are available to volunteer.  Information provided will only be used for coordination during the FilmFest. (Minimum age to volunteer is 14 years old).

Location: AMC Dine-In Sunnyvale
Date(s):  Friday, October 28 and Saturday October 29

Sign up here:  VOLUNTEER SIGN UP

Nina S. Russell, M.A., NCC, Doctoral Candidate at Northcentral University, is looking for volunteers to take part in a research study.  The research study is on Asian American women and the lack of representation of Asian American women in Fortune 500 organizations. It consists of an interview with questions focused on the experiences of Asian American women as business leaders. 

 The duration of the interview will be 30-45min. 

Participation in this study is voluntary. Participants can drop out at anytime.  Pseudonyms will be used. 

Eligibility:

(a) identify as an Asian American female.

(b) have a minimum of 5 years of work experience.

(c) currently or formerly in a senior or executive-level leadership positions.

(d) seeking career advancement into higher, senior, or executive leadership positions.

(e) currently employed by a Fortune 500 organization or previously worked for a Fortune 500 organization for at least 5 years.

If you are interested in participating in this study, please contact Nina at [email protected] or call her at 714.272.6462 for further details

INVITATION: Year in Review with Vice President Kamala Harris & AA and NHPI Stakeholders

On behalf of the White House Office of Public Engagement, the Office of the Vice President, and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI), we would like to invite you to listen to remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris and other White House leaders to mark the Biden-Harris Administration’s one-year anniversary. The program will take place virtually TOMORROW, January 20^th at 2:45 PM ET.

 During this special call for AA and NHPI leaders across the country, you will hear about what we have accomplished together thus far and the work that remains ahead. Featured speakers will also include the Director of the Office of Public Engagement Cedric Richmond, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior AA and NHPI Liaison Erika Moritsugu, WHIAANHPI Executive Director Krystal Ka‘ai, and Special Assistant to the President at the White House Presidential Personnel Office, Linda Shim.

This event will be closed press and participants will need to pre-register at the below link. If time permits, the Vice President will answer a question or two from the audience. If you are interested in submitting a question, please send your question to Howard Ou at [email protected] by 9:00PM ET TODAY, January 19^th.

Year in Review with Vice President Kamala Harris & AA and NHPI Stakeholders

Tomorrow, January 20, 2022

2:45PM ET-3:15PM ET

Register here: https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_7Ny63h9PTmqQUqPrwUiamA

The APIA Scholars 2021-2022 Scholarship Read Application is now open! 

In an age of unprecedented Asian hate, we could use your help to provide Asian and Pacific Islander American students a chance at financing their educational endeavors. Scholarship readers help fulfill our mission in making a difference in the lives of APIA students.

• Readers are required to either possess an undergraduate degree and/or at least 7 years of work experience.
• Readers are also required to commit to a minimum of 20 applications and will be able to commit to more in increments of twenty applications and a maximum of 200 per reader.
• Potential readers can complete a Reader sign-up form at https://apply.mykaleidoscope.com/scholarships/apiareaders
• The read period for the APIA scholarship is from February 4th to March 11^th, 2022 (this has been recently updated).

APIA Scholars is the nation’s largest non-profit organization devoted to providing greater access for APIA students to higher education. Readers will have access to a secure website to review scholarship applications at a time that is most convenient for you during the read period. If you know others who might be interested in volunteering, we encourage you to share this email with them. Any questions about the Read process or about APIA Scholars can be sent to the Scholarships Team at [email protected].

DAY OF HEALING

As a community we are still in pain. Day after day we hear about atrocities inflicted upon our fellow Asians Americans facing verbal assaults, physical attacks, and threats to their lives. Our most vulnerable people are being targeted: elders in precarious living situations, workers in low-wage jobs and women. And those are only the incidents that have been reported. How many more of our Asian American community suffered alone in silence?

Honor the victims of anti-Asian violence and push back against racism, sexism, and anti-Asian violence.

DAY OF ACTION

Show your support through today’s Virtual Day of Action: pledge to support the Asian American community to #StandWithAsians and #StopAsianHate. Last week’s killings in Georgia were a wake-up call for so many to the reality that Asian Americans have been facing for the past year. White supremacy ends lives and we must all fight to end it. On this Virtual Day of Action, uplift the Asian American community by sharing your commitment to #StopAsianHate. Folks are being targeted for the language they speak, their accent, where they work, their culture — let’s end the violence together. So what can you do?

• Take the first step by signing up for a Bystander Intervention Training today: https://www.ihollaback.org/event/bystander-intervention-stop-anti-asian-american-harassment-xenophobia/ 
   
• There are many ways we can #StopAsianHate together. Do your part to uplift the Asian American community: talk about the intersections of racism, sexism, and exploitation of immigrant workers. Support mutual aid networks, donate to https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate. Together we will thrive!
   
• To #StopAsianHate requires efforts both big and small. Doing your part means offering financial support and other help, holding yourself and your community accountable for demeaning language and racist “jokes.” Help monitor incidents of racism by going to StandAgainstHatred.org.    
   
• On this day, pledge to #StopAsianHate. Anti-Asian violence shows up as racist slurs and “jokes,” physical violence, tearing apart immigrant families, and exploiting workers. If you see incidents of racism or bias, do your part to be an ally and offer support: stopaapihate.org
   
• For any Asian or Asian American that has experienced racism, they may find themselves lost and without support to #StopAsianHate. Connect your community with resources like OCA National’s Anti-AAPI Hate Incident Reporting form: https://www.ocanational.org/aapi-hate-incident-form/ 
   
• Asian Americans have faced a double pandemic of COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism. Whether it’s in public transit, on the street, or even at their workplace, many Asian Americans have experienced violence this year. Be an ally and get involved at bit.ly/AALeadersResources #StopAsianHate

In honor of the 90th birthday of Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, during his birthday month of November the documentary about life and achievements is available for free viewing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/424965737

Secretary Norman Y. Mineta is well known for his work in transportation – including aviation, surface transportation, and infrastructure – and national security. He is recognized for his accomplishments in economic development, science and technology policy, foreign and domestic trade, budgetary issues and civil rights, as well as his perspective from having served in Congress for over 20 years and in the Cabinets of both Republican and Democratic presidents.

For almost 30 years, Secretary Mineta represented San Jose, California – the heart of Silicon Valley – first on the City Council, then as Mayor, and then from 1975-1995 as a Member of Congress. Throughout that time, Secretary Mineta was an advocate of the burgeoning technology industry. He worked to encourage new industries and spur job growth, and he supported infrastructure development to accommodate the industry and its tremendous growth. 

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NAAAP San Jose (https://sanjose.naaap.org) cultivates and empowers Silicon Valley’s Asian and Pacific Islander (API) leaders through professional development, community service, and networking events featuring thoughtfully curated programming that reflects the Silicon Valley’s unique business and cultural needs.

NAAAP is a non-profit organization that provides APIs with resources that will advance their careers and help them become great leaders and valuable employees. Currently, there are NAAAP chapters in major cities across the United States, Canada, and China.

Please contact us at [email protected] today to learn how you can develop new business skills and make new contacts. We Build Leaders!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: [email protected], [email protected]

March 18, 2021

Lawrenceville, GA —The National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) issued the following statement in the wake of the Atlanta shootings and the long history of racism against Asians.  

StopAsianHate – together.

Last Tuesday, a white gunman walked into three Atlanta small businesses and shot and killed eight people. Six of them were Asian women.

Murdering Asians because of their race is a hate crime. Murdering women because of their gender is a hate crime. These shootings were motivated by hate. And they weren’t the first.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of hate crimes against Asians and Asian Americans have increased by 150%. And women are more than twice as likely as men to be the victims of those crimes. (Source: StopAAPIHate and AP3CON)  These statistics are more than numbers; they are a daily reality for every Asian American in the U.S. Our elders are afraid to walk home alone, during the day or at night. Our business owners arrive at work every day hoping their stores haven’t been vandalized. Our loved ones are harassed on the street with the same slurs we’ve heard on endless loops from media pundits and elected leaders.

We are grieving. We are angry.

And we are calling for change.

On the night following these tragic incidents, NAAAP Atlanta leaders and our national Wellness Program Director held a listening session for our members to heal, mourn, and mobilize. And in the coming days, NAAAP will provide resources for bystander intervention training, workplace resources for inclusive leadership and allyship, and community organizing.

But we cannot do this work alone.

Words can’t bring back the lives we’ve lost. Nor will they end the culture of white supremacy that claimed those lives. Americans of all colors must stand together to eradicate the centuries-old racial violence that has plagued this country since its founding.

StopAsianHate Resources

National registry – Report a hate incident in English or Asian language to StopAAPIHate

About NAAAP

The National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) is the premier leadership organization for Asian professionals in North America, with 25 active chapters, several thousand active members, and a reach of more than 20,000 professionals.  Since 1982, NAAAP has operated as a nonprofit to inspire, develop, and connect leaders in all major industries and many communities through professional development and community service.  For more information, please visit www.naaap.org.

Anti-Asian Hate

Like so many in our community, we are speechless. We are experiencing so many emotions that need to be recognized but we also can't let them overwhelm us. During this time of turmoil, hold your loved ones close, check in on friends, and don't forget to take care of yourself. Please consider attending the free workshop below.

Anti-Racism & Mental Wellness Workshop:

Turning off the Gaslights and Illuminating Brave Spaces

Registration link for this free event is available at: http://bit.ly/STOPPINGHATE

The experience of race and ethnicity in the U.S. are often invalidated and gaslighted. To understand the landscape of intersectionality, and especially race and “othering”, is to understand the dynamics of antagonism, including manipulation, deceit, callousness, hostility and attention seeking, and most pointedly, gaslighting.  Gaslighting is the denial of the reality of another individual, but it can and does occur at an institutional and societal level. The denial of the experience of entire groups, which contributes to a sense of destabilization, confusion, and frustration in those most marginalized, also maintains the status quo and inhibits discourse and change. 

Understanding the architecture of gaslighting is an important first step to having more meaningful conversations about race and subsequent institutional and societal change. This means an understanding of cognitive dissonance and how we reflexively justify these uncomfortable truths about race and racism. In this workshop, we will explore techniques including non-defensively bearing witness, fostering brave spaces, getting comfortable with discomfort,  and accountability. We will take on the possibility that viewing our challenges in understanding diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as difficult discourses about race, ethnicity and intersectionality through a lens of narcissism, may provide a useful context to conceptualize the resistance to these conversations and innovative ways to foster them, and reflect on ourselves and our relationships.

Dr. Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, CA and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, and the Founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training & Consulting, a company that offers a range of programs focused on  educating survivors, clinicians, coaches and businesses on the impacts of narcissism on health, wellness and functioning.  Her work has been featured at SxSW, TEDx, the Red Table Talk, the Today Show, Oxygen, Investigation Discovery, and she is a featured expert on the digital media mental health platform MedCircle. Dr. Durvasula is an honest, authentic, and brutally honest voice on the struggles raised by narcissism in the US and globally.

Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH) in partnership with Penn Global and South Asia Society (SAS) is providing this workshop for the community. The program is affiliated with the Stopping the Hate and Starting to Heal: Living With and Through the COVID-19 Pandemic Series that was setup by the Penn Task Force on Supporting Asian and Asian American Students and Scholars at Penn (TAASS). 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: [email protected]

February 11, 2021

Atlanta, GA —The National Association of Asian American Professionals unequivocally condemns the recent unprovoked attacks on elderly Asian Americans, bullying of youth in K-12 and higher education, and the escalating anti-Asian discrimination since the start of the pandemic. We want to express our sympathy to all who have suffered racist and xenophobic acts, and the fear, frustration, or injustice that surround them.

In just the past few weeks, the Asian American community has learned of the death of Vicha Ratanapakdee, a 84-year old Thai-American in San Francisco who was violently shoved to the ground, a public assault of a 61-year old Filipino-American man, Noel Quintana, during his commute to work on the New York City subway, and several  other examples of  attacks which have happened since the beginning of the pandemic.

These incidents are tragic and heartbreaking, but they are not new. They are the result of the hostile, xenophobic climate created by scapegoating Asian communities for the pandemic and the product of decades of systematic neglect and structural racism. Our elders are vulnerable and isolated by poverty, gentrification, housing instability, and the lack of in-language, culturally-sensitive resources. Perpetrators of all ages and races are cowards for targeting elders and need to be brought to justice.

NAAAP leaders will not be silent bystanders to hate crimes.  While NAAAP’s primary mission centers around leadership and professional excellence, those tenets of our mission implies speaking out for the safety and well being of our members,  families, friends and loved ones, and standing up for visibility, inclusion, and justice.

NAAAP encourages the Federal, state and local authorities, the media, and all organizations, and especially members of our own community to be proactive and vocal with Asian experiences, stories, and conversations. The longer our community chooses to remain silent and invisible, the longer these acts of racism and violence will continue to be normalized, which is unacceptable.

We also recognize that the pain and loss that Asian Americans are experiencing is not isolated from the suffering of other communities of color. We must proactively work together towards finding justice for members of all communities, while coming together to act as a unified, humane people.

RESOURCES:

• Report a hate crime with the Asian Americans Advancing Justice: https://www.standagainsthatred.org/
• Report an anti-Asian hate crime in English or Asian language: https://stopaapihate.org/
• Legal resources for victims of hate crime by National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Organize in your community OCA’s Hate Crime Community Resource Guide
• Bystander Intervention Training (free)