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 […]
Pediatric resident meets nurse who cared for him as newborn
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY PALO ALTO, Calif. — Pediatric resident Brandon Seminatore was doing a month-long rotation at the same neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where he was cared for as a newborn, when he came across someone from his past. Vilma Wong, 54, has worked in the NICU at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital […]
Julie Chen absent from ‘The Talk’
By ANDREW DALTON LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julie Chen, wife of Les Moonves, was absent on Sept. 10 but a central topic on “The Talk,” her talk show on the network, a day after a new round of sexual misconduct allegations brought the departure of the CBS chief executive. In what was supposed to be […]
Osaka wins US Open final
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams was penalized a game for calling the chair umpire a thief during an extended argument as the U.S. Open women’s final descended into chaos, with fans booing and play delayed before Naomi Osaka wrapped up a 6-2, 6-4 victory for her first Grand […]
Trump administration backs Asian Americans in Harvard case
By MARIA DANILOVA, COLLIN BINKLEY and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department sided with Asian American students suing Harvard University over the Ivy League school’s consideration of race in its admissions policy, the latest step in the Trump administration’s effort to encourage race-neutral admissions practices. The Justice Department said in a […]
Nevada candidates step up courting of Asian American voters
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dozens of Republicans and Democrats in east Las Vegas pitched themselves to members of the state’s growing Asian American and Pacific Islander community last week, with the hope that those voters will swing tight races in the battleground state. The bipartisan meet-the-candidates event, which took […]
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ No. 1 for third week
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The glitzy romance “Crazy Rich Asians” topped the North American box office over Labor Day weekend, its third consecutive weekend in the No. 1 spot. The Warner Bros. film added $28.6 million over the four-day weekend, bringing its domestic grosses to $117.3 million. “Crazy Rich Asians” has now passed […]
Judge: Japanese American group can’t block WWII camp land sale
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY A California federal judge has denied a bid from a nonprofit group, representing descendants of Japanese Americans interned in camps during World War II, to temporarily bar the sale of a parcel of land. The Tule Lake Committee wants to stop the city of Tulelake, Calif. from selling 358 acres […]
American Airlines and Hawaiian cutting flights to China
By The Associated Press American Airlines is dropping money-losing flights between Chicago and Shanghai, and Hawaiian Airlines will suspend its only route to China because of low demand. The airlines announced those and other route changes last week. The decisions reflect growing competition from Chinese carriers and rising fuel prices that have made once-marginal routes […]
2nd human trafficking lawsuit filed against Oklahoma couple
By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A second federal lawsuit accusing a pair of Oklahoma business owners of luring immigrants to the U.S. on work visas then paying substandard wages highlights what some attorneys say is a prevalent human trafficking issue in the United States that seldom calls violators to task. While […]
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