By Yuri Kageyama The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — As a brass band blared “Anchors Aweigh,” Tokyo’s governor led the opening ceremony for the Japanese capital’s new fish market on Sept. 13 and tried to assuage concerns about contamination at the site that delayed the move from the famed Tsukiji market. The new Toyosu market […]
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By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “The Way You Make Me Feel” By Maureen Goo Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 Clara Shin doesn’t take life too seriously. For her, it’s all about pranks and disrupting the status quo. But when one of her pranks goes too far, her dad forces her to spend her summer […]
Do yourself “A Simple Favor” and watch this topsy-turvy romp! — (Caveat: not super duper Asian-y though)
By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly I feel a little guilty reviewing “A Simple Favor” because the Asianiest things in this movie is Henry Golding and the child actor, Ian Ho, who plays his son. The plot “A Simple Favor” is super fun. It’s like “Gone Girl,” if “Gone Girl” were funny. The movie is […]
My grown up, confounding, exasperating, exhilarating blessing of a son is going off to college!
By Wayne Chan Northwest Asian Weekly In about 10 days, our oldest son Tyler is heading off to college. Maybe I need to provide a little background. Tyler is indeed our eldest child, but since he is a triplet, he’s only older by about three minutes because he came out first. Whether he was born […]
Keepsakes reveal clues of life for Japanese in Yakima-area
By Tammy Ayer Yakima Herald-Republic YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Yoshiko Hide Kishi gazed at the small buckskin moccasins in her cupped hands as she recalled her early childhood in rural Toppenish. Her father and mother, Mantaro and Kiyo Hide, were farmers with five children, Yoshiko being their youngest. Her father raised several crops and Kiyo […]
Thai student deaths in Seattle ruled murder-suicide
SEATTLE (AP) — The deaths of two female students from Thailand have been ruled a murder-suicide, according to authorities in Seattle. The women were 25-year-old Kornkamol Leenavarat and her close friend 32-year-old Thiti-orn Chotchuangsap, The Bangkok Post in Thailand reported. The younger woman had flown to the United States recently to attend the University of […]
Decades after deaths of firefighters, arsonist Pang to walk free again — Part 1 of 2
By Becky Chan Northwest Asian Weekly Martin Pang may walk as a free man Sept. 27 after serving 20 years in prison. He is finishing a sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for burning down his parents’ warehouse in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District in 1995, allegedly to collect insurance money. Four firefighters died […]
Three friends start charity to help those affected by Kerala floods through crowdfunding
By Janice Nesamani Northwest Asian Weekly A calling to help those in need motivated three individuals to start Dream Vision Charity. Their first project provides backpacks to children hit by the floods in Kerala. Their next focus: Seattle’s homeless crisis. Today, scenes of waterlogged streets and homes caused by Hurricane Florence in North and South […]
Leana Wen, Chinese-born doctor, is new Planned Parenthood leader
By David Crary The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant who fled her native country when she was 8 was named on Sept. 12 as Planned Parenthood’s new president, the first doctor to hold the post in five decades. Dr. Leana Wen will assume the role on Nov. 12, six days after […]
Rosie Rimando, South Seattle College’s new president, says diversity comes first
By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly Seeing how the school system treated students of color motivated Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap, the new president of South Seattle College (SSC), to start a career in education in order to help more students of color obtain the resources they need to succeed. Born and raised in Charleston, S.C. to Filipino […]
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