As a new school year begins this month, students in the Tri-Valley region of northern California will be participating in a popular team sport enjoyed by millions of people - but it's not one of the traditional American pastimes such as baseball, football, or basketball....
When it comes to hiring foreign national workers, many companies in the United States are still intimidated by what they perceive as a lengthy and complex hiring process. There simply are not enough qualified U.S. workers to fill all of the highly skilled positions modern...
When tech giant Google announced earlier this month that it would be creating its own parent company named Alphabet Inc., reactions around the world were instantaneous. While the surprise declaration of the corporation's restructuring was lauded by some industry insiders as bold and innovative, others...
When ASHA for Women was founded in 1989, there was a dearth of resources in the D.C. metro region for South Asian women enduring domestic violence. Language and cultural barriers too often became roadblocks for such women in the region, many of whom were immigrants...
Washington D.C. was treated to a sumptuous visual feast earlier this month when dance company Furia Flamenca performed a thrilling concert - and two Murthy Law Firm employees were among the performers! Paralegal Amy Weishampel and receptionist Morgan Heyer are principal members of the company...
For over 150 years, San Francisco's Chinatown has been a haven for Chinese immigrants coming to the United States to seek a better life, as well as their American-born descendants who strive to stay connected to their Asian heritage. Founded in 1848, San Francisco's Chinatown...
India's Hindi language film industry, commonly known as "Bollywood," has been producing lavish, romantically themed movies for almost a century. Within the last few decades, however, it has become a multi-billion dollar juggernaut, spilling far beyond India's borders. It stands to reason, then, that Bollywood's...
While zombies and the immigrant experience don't immediately mesh in most people's minds, a popular network TV show is about to combine the two in an exciting new way. Fear the Walking Dead, prequel to the popular AMC series The Walking Dead, is scheduled to...
When President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961, he hoped that the government-run volunteer program would "promote world peace and friendship" by sending young Americans abroad to provide service in other nations. Fifty-four years later, more than 220 thousand Peace...
Technological advances continue to be among the defining factors of the modern era. The technology around us grows faster, more intuitive, and more capable of performing tasks that would have seemed impossible a generation ago. Technology is such an integral part of our world economy...
