Author: Alexis Cruz

ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL is a student-driven publication of Loyola Marymount University’s Asia Media Center, part of LMU’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, along with the university's Dept. of Political Science and the Pacific Century Institute in Los Angeles.

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Senay Emmanuel

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Trisha Curry
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Talin Derohanessian
Michelle Dor
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Immanuel Portus
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