Annual Magnum Holiday Lunch

 Each year we like to gather an eclectic group of friends and business associates for a holiday lunch. Media, non-profits, politicians, business and, of course, lots of our ethnic cultural friends were all represented.

The food and atmosphere at Emperor's Palace in Old Chinatown is always terrific and they opened up just for our 70 or so guests.

See lots of photos of attendees

Who do you recognize?

Margaret Wong

Dawn Kendrick and Ingrida Bublys

Dick Pogue and Alex Machaskee

Doing Business with and in Asia

The Ohio Asian American Economic Summit took place November 14, 2017 at Ariel International Center in Cleveland. Ariel International and Margaret Wong & Associates LLC were the event sponsors. ClevelandPeople.com was honored to be a supporting organization.

Ariel CEO Radhika Reddy had worked toward this event for years and with the support of Margaret Wong was able to fill the room with people interested in doing business in and with Asia and a stellar group of speakers and panelists including the Consul General of India who flew in from New York and the Consul General of Japan who came in from Detroit.

Honorable Sandeep Chakravorty, 

Consul General of India

Radhika Reddy and Consul General of Japan in Detroit Mitsuhiro Wada

I recorded the entire day -all the info panels, the keynotes and the dignitaries.  Take a look at our Ohio Asian American Economic Summit  page.

Asian community has unique culture and health issues

Li Li, MD, PhD has over 25 years of experience as a primary care doctor and family practitioner.  Dr. Li is also a Mary Ann Swetland Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. 

He spoke at an event hosted by Immigration Attorney Margaret Wong about the health issues of the Asian population. 

In this video, Judy Wong introduces Dr. Li and he begins by saying much of the media focuses on Caucasian, African-American and Hispanic cultures but the Asian community has its own unique culture and health issues. 

Asians in Cleveland

Chinese Cooking – Healthy because of stir fry and ingredients

Rose Wong is the founder of Pearl of the Orient restaurant which was the first restaurant in Cleveland Ohio to offer Northern and Szechuan Chinese cuisine when it opened in 1978.

She gave a cooking demonstration about Healthy Asian Cooking at an event at her sister Margaret Wong’s law offices.

This first clip tells how Chinese cooking is often healthy because of the stir frying and healthy ingredients such as tofu, ginger root, garlic, onions and even thousand year old eggs.

Cleveland Chinese

Cleveland Cooks

Margaret Wong welcome to Asian health event

Immigration Attorney Margaret Wong hosted an educational reception at her law offices in Cleveland to show healthy Asian cooking examples and to learn about the health issues of the Asian population.

This video is her brief welcome first in English and then in Chinese.

See more of the Chinese community of Cleveland

Margaret Wong receives 1st Notre Dame College Award

Congratulations to Margaret Wong who received the inaugural Notre Dame College Corporate Citizen Award today.  It is truly a well-deserved honor for this amazing woman.

My sister Debbie Hanson and I were honored to serve as MCs for the event at the Silver Grille in the Ritz Carlton.

Dan Hanson and Margaret Wong

Debbie Hanson and Margaret Wong

Margaret Wong with Notre Dame College President Thomas G. Kruczek

 and Board Chairman Rich Garcia

Margaret W. Wong immigration seminar

Margaret W. Wong is a world-renown immigration attorney as well as an author, advocate and speaker. She hosted an immigration seminar in her Cleveland office and spoke about the existing changes to immigration law since President Obama's Executive Action of November 20, 2014 and the expected immigration reforms in the future. Margaret Wong Margaret W. Wong immigration seminar

Cleveland International Hall of Fame - 2014 Class

The 2014 Class of the Cleveland International Hall of Fame will be inducted at a dinner ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott at Key Center on the evening of Monday May 12, 2014

The induction ceremony for the 2014 class of the Cleveland International Hall of Fame on May 12, 2014 is Sold Out!

We are working with the Marriott to add a few tables so if you want to attend, you need to contact Debbie ASAP at deb@ClevelandPeople.Com or 216-381-8310. You can also publish (for a little while yet) congratulatory messages in the collector's edition program book.

The early Sell Out is a testament to the outstanding inductees.

The 2014 Class consists of (alphabetical order):

• Monte Ahuja
  inducted by Thomas Zenty



• Eugene Bak
  inducted by Ben Stefanski



• Margaret Callander
  inducted by Kona Gant



• Jim Foster
  inducted by Dick Pogue



• Donna Hom
  inducted by Margaret Wong



• Joseph P Meissner
  inducted by Jeremy Lin



• Ernie Mihaly
  inducted by Richard Fleischman



• Thomas J. Scanlon
  inducted by Sam Miller