About Asian-Richmond Features

Asian-Richmond Features is this website’s online magazine. With original articles and photo essays about anything and everything Asian in the region, this column will keep you "in-the-know" about all the latest news and put you in tune with the community. Learn about movers and shakers, new and old businesses, organizations, events, and more!




Culture: Just What the Doctor Ordered
by John Kang
Energetic, ebullient and compassionate, Dr. Maria Cielo Eugenio embodies all the qualities that make an exceptional physician. It is no wonder that she worked in occupational medicine for several years in the Philippines before moving to the United States in 1994. What might come as a surprise is that she gave up her work as a corporate medical executive to pursue her passion of preserving and promoting Filipino language and culture in the Richmond area, where she has lived since 1997.... MORE...




Richmond Feng Shui
by Carol Louie
The most striking thing about Richmond's placement in the land is the meandering path of the James River. It is unfortunate that the founders of Richmond did not know of and practice Feng Shui. If they had, the three cemeteries -- the Hollywood, Riverview and the Mt. Calvary Cemeteries -- would not have been placed where they are... MORE...




A Richmond Original: Roy Ligh
by John Kang
As a Richmond-born Chinese whose parents had settled in Central Virginia in the 1950s, I had always assumed that we were among the first Chinese families here. That was until meeting 48-year old Roy Ligh, whose maternal grandfather immigrated to Richmond in 1932 from Guangdong Province in China... MORE...
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