This winter, and after months of construction and years of planning, Friends of Little Saigon opened its Little Saigon Creative space with a virtual grand opening and 3D tour. The creative space also serves as the new headquarters of Friends of Little Saigon and is located in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborhood at 1227 S. Weller […]

Terry’s Kitchen, owned by Terry Takeuchi, is a neighborhood and community gathering spot and has been serving up comfort food for the past three-and-a-half years. Like many other small family-run businesses, Terry’s Kitchen has suffered greatly since the beginning of the pandemic. A GoFundMe for Terry’s Kitchen was created by Patti Shimomura, Jan and Glenn […]

On Dec. 15, International Community Health Services (ICHS) launched the first free high-volume test site in the Eastside in an expanding effort to control the spread of COVID-19 in east King County and along the I-90 corridor, as local cases continue to spike. Nearly 600 people registered for a test on its first day. About […]

Ethiopian supporters of the Tigray region marched down South Jackson Street on Dec. 18 to bring attention to the war initiated by Ethiopia Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed. On Nov. 4, Ahmed ordered the start of a military offensive against Tigray, the northernmost part of Ethiopia, citing that he wanted to unify the country by increasing […]

Teresita Batayola was reappointed by Gov. Jay Inslee to serve a second term on the Seattle Colleges Board of Trustees. Trustees are responsible for overall policy and leadership of the colleges and must be confirmed by the state Senate. Batayola is president and CEO of International Community Health Services. Her reappointment was effective Oct. 8. […]

Jocelyn Yow was officially sworn in last week as the mayor of Eastvale, the youngest woman of color to ever serve as mayor of a California city. Yow, 25, was elected to the Eastvale City Council in 2018 and served as mayor pro tem before becoming mayor this year. She is the daughter of a […]

Judge Truc T. Do was nominated by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Dec. 8 to serve as an Associate Justice of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One. If confirmed, Do will be the first Asian American woman justice in the court’s history and the first Asian American to serve in division one of […]

Tony Pham, the acting director of the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), will step down at the end of the year after assuming the post in August. Pham thanked the Trump administration for appointing him as acting ICE director, calling it “the single highest honor” of his career. “I have gotten to meet with many […]

CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang is working on a memoir about her experiences as a Chinese American. One Signal Publishers, a Simon & Schuster imprint, announced on Dec. 10 that Jiang’s “Other’” would come out in Spring 2022. “In rural West Virginia where I grew up, most residents had never laid eyes on […]