There's a good article down at AsianWeek, which gives some interesting statistics about Asian-American writers in Hollywood - among them:
Between 2000-2005, the biggest increase in WGA membership has been with Asian Americans (81.7 percent).From 1999 to 2005, there was a 158.3 percent increase for Asian American TV writers; film writers increased 91.7 percent.
But it's not all it's cracked up to be - read it in full here and why they say the writers strike matters to the Asian American community.