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Video shows vicious attack of Filipino woman in NYC

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

A vicious attack on a Filipino woman near New York City’s Times Square is drawing widespread condemnation and raising alarms about the failure of bystanders to intervene amid a rash of anti-Asian violence across the U.S.

Filed Under: National News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

NYPD adding undercover patrols to combat anti-Asian attacks

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By MICHAEL R. SISAK The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department will increase outreach and patrols in Asian communities, including the use of undercover officers, amid a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes, officials said on March 25. The department is sending undercover officers to the city’s Chinatowns and other areas […]

Filed Under: National News, This week's issue Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

Two in Seattle, San Francisco face anti-Asian hate charges

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By DAISY NGUYEN The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors in Seattle and San Francisco have charged men with hate crimes in separate incidents that authorities say targeted people of Asian descent amid a wave of high-profile and sometimes deadly violence against Asian Americans since the pandemic began. Hundreds of protesters took to the […]

Filed Under: National News, This week's issue Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

‘Captain Underpants’ spin-off pulled for ‘passive racism’

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A graphic novel for children that was a spin-off of the wildly popular “Captain Underpants’’ series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive racism.’’ The book under scrutiny is 2010’s “The Adventures of Ook and Gluk’’ […]

Filed Under: National News, This week's issue Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

Donations for Asian American groups surge after killings

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Donations and contribution pledges to Asian American and Pacific Islander groups have spiked since the March 16 shooting in Atlanta that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, and brought renewed attention to violence against Asian Americans. About $25.8 million has been pledged for such groups or […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

Filipino American Rob Bonta appointed as CA’s new attorney general

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated a progressive Filipino American state assemblyman as California’s next attorney general on March 24, ensuring a push from the top for criminal justice reform and other liberal priorities in the nation’s most populous state. Assemblyman Rob […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

Asian woman fights off attacker on San Francisco street

March 25, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 76-year-old woman from China who fought back against a man who punched her on a downtown San Francisco street corner said the unprovoked attack left her scared and traumatized. Her alleged assailant was arrested on March 18. Xiao Zhen Zie told KPIX-TV in a tearful interview she […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 13 | MARCH 27 - APRIL 2

Yo-Yo Ma serenades newly-vaccinated at inoculation clinic

March 18, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Newly vaccinated Massachusetts residents were treated to a mini concert when famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma brought out his instrument after getting his second coronavirus shot. A masked-up Ma took a seat along the wall of the observation area on March 13 at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield and played for about […]

Filed Under: National News, This week's issue Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 12 | MARCH 20 - MARCH 26

Chinese director of ‘Nomadland’ faces controversy at home

March 18, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chloe Zhao’s success—she’s the first Asian woman and the second woman ever to win a Golden Globe for best director for her film “Nomadland’’—has not been met with universal applause in her country of birth. The Beijing-born filmmaker, now an Oscar nominee, instead finds the news […]

Filed Under: National News, This week's issue Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 12 | MARCH 20 - MARCH 26

Report: Police chief violated bias policy by mocking Asians

March 18, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — The police chief on the Hawaiian island of Kauai mocked people of Asian descent and in one case “squinted his eyes’’ and bowed his head while mimicking someone with a Japanese accent, a discrimination investigation found. In another incident, Kauai police Chief Todd Raybuck relayed a story of meeting someone of […]

Filed Under: National News, This week's issue Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 12 | MARCH 20 - MARCH 26

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