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The Village Report — Vietnam: Coming to rest and search

April 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly “Where are you from?” he wants to know. The tour guide. It’s 7:45AM and I’m rubbing my eyes in the morning in Dalat. “Asia,” I say, mindlessly. It’s a lifelong question, this sense of fromness. Identity, the search for “who am I?” all that existential angst that only recently […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2015, Cambodia, Dalat Vietnam, Dipika Kohli, India, Ireland, Nha Trang, North Carolina, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh, South Asia, Thailand, Vol 34 No 17 | April 18 - April 24

The Village Report — Observations and sketches from Kampot

March 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Three guys who talked like Eastenders asked me what I wanted. Pasta. Did they have that? Kind of. In a set. “Ok. I’ll have that. The special. But can I substitute the beer, please? Do you have milk? Yes. Yes, thanks.” I was not in the mood for beer […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2015, Art Book Fair, Aske Pederson, Cambodia, Dipika Kohli, Himachal Pradesh, India, Ireland, New Generation, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh, Singapore, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20

WISE WORDS – Washington state treasures Seattle and Northwest gems: What are Washington’s top treasures?

February 5, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park — Home to the only temperate<!–more–> rain forests in the continental U.S., old growth forest, rugged un-spoiled beaches, mountains, abundant wildlife and our state’s rich Native American heritage, the Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park. Pike Place Market — Seattle’s Pike Place Market:  It will always be known as […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2015, Art Deco, Big Wheel View, Bill Gates Sr, CEO, Chinatown, Chinese Gate, Fremont Brewing, Hsiao-lin Wang, Jennifer Tam, Jim Ellis, Mayflower Park Hotel, Olympic National Park, Olympic Peninsula, Pike Place Market Seattle, Richard Ma, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Senator Dan Evans, Ted Fick, Tom Norwalk, Vol 34 No 7 | February 7 - February 13

BLOG: What you didn’t know about Taiwan — Bubble tea, canines, rocks, colleges, and cookies

February 5, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For those who don’t know anything about Taiwan, here is one of many interesting facts: It is the birthplace of bubble tea. The bubble tea is not what fascinated me most about Taiwan, but it is more the many other things you would not normally expect from a tiny island in the Pacific. I was […]

Filed Under: Travel, Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2015, Although Japan, Asian Weekly, China, Democrat Progressive Party, HK, Mainland Chinese, NTU, Pacific Ocean, President Chen Shui Bien, President Chiang Kai Shek, Sacred Heart, TWIN, Taiwan, Taiwan Bubble, Tofu Street, Virgin Mary, Vol 34 No 7 | February 7 - February 13, attention, reunion

Discovering Seattle’s hidden treasures — Gems to discover without leaving the city

January 29, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jean Godden Special to Northwest Asian Weekly There is no need to take a plane to discover something new. Here’s what you can explore, without a suitcase or a high price tag. First, there is the Seattle Room, that wonderful depository of history at Seattle’s Central Library.  Among the finds in the Seattle Room […]

Filed Under: Features, Travel Tagged With: 2015, Artic Club, Avenue East, Bead Shop, Bruce Lee Brandon Lee, Chief Sealth, Chief Seattle, Chinese Room, David Doc Maynard, Discovering Seattle, Dome Room, Edward Curtis, Erastus Brainerd, First Avenue North, Frye Art Museum, Klondike Gold Rush National Park, Kubota Gardens, Lake View Cemetery, Magic Shop, Memorial Statue, Pottery Northwest, Princess Angeline, Renton Avenue, Seattle, Seattle Councilmember Jeanette Williams, Seattle Fishermen, Seattle Room, Smith Tower, South Main Street, Terry Avenue, Vol 34 No 6 | January 31 - February 6

My Taiwan trip: Food, more food, (and bring bigger luggage) — Delicious, delicious, serendipitous

January 29, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Whenever I relive my recent trip to Taiwan, my mouth starts to salivate, I blush to recall <!–more–>my previous silly assumptions, and then I cherish the joyful moments and appreciate all the incredible work of my high school classmates who planned our reunion. I graduated from Sacred Heart Canossian […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2015, Assunta Ng, Australia, Big Mountain, China, Edge Water Inn, Europe, Food, HK, Malaysia, River Forest, Sacred Heart Canossian College, Seattle Chinese Post, Taiwan, Vol 34 No 6 | January 31 - February 6, culture, reunion

From Bellevue to Bangkok: UW alumni around the world

January 29, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ana Mari Cauce Special to Northwest Asian Weekly Before my recent trip to Southeast Asia, I knew that the University of Washington (UW) <!–more–>was a global university. We are rated 15th among the world’s universities in Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s much publicized rankings, and 14th in the world in the US News and World […]

Filed Under: Features, Education, Travel, Community News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Azita Emami, Best Global Universities, Chulalongkorn University, Direk Lavansiri, Early Buddhist Manuscript Project, El Salvador, Hello Kitty, Human Rights Center, Mahidol University, Rose Bowl, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Siam Cement Group, Somboon Chayavichitsilp, Southeast Asia, Thailand, UW, Vol 34 No 6 | January 31 - February 6, japan

Viewing through plastic and glass in Cambodia

December 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Yellow sun cooks the layers of dust off the edges of the curbs. So many curbs, so few sidewalks. Bits of brick and paper and cane juice plastic cups (biked over, ripped) compete for attention. They poke up from the dirt, insist themselves into the light.

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2014, 2015, Asia Foundation, Cambodia, Dipika Kohli, NGO, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh, Vol 33 No 51 | December 13 - December 19, attention

This is Street 63 — Sounds and images of Phnom Penh now

November 14, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly The dogs are yapping, the breeze is crusted over with exhaust, the bicycles and” tuk tuks” and whistles from the

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2014, Dipika Kohli, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh, Vol 33 No 47 | November 15 - November 21

The Village Report — Returning to Cambodia

October 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Today is the second day back in Cambodia, after six weeks in California. I go to a small side street just off Khan

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2014, Bay Area, Cambodia, Chiang Mai, Dense Phnom Penh, Dipika Kohli, France, India, Khan Chamkarmon, Korea, Northwest Asian Weekly, Poland, San Francisco Giants, UK, Vietnam, Vol 33 No 41 | October 4 - October 10

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