By JANIE HAR Associated Press Members of the country’s fastest growing minority group are running for federal office, dozens of them as Democratic candidates deliberately playing up their Asian roots against a president they say demonizes the immigrants that make America great. The candidates include former refugees from Vietnam and children of immigrants from South […]
WSU football coach and some lawmakers visit Cambodia
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington State football coach Mike Leach and three state legislators are visiting Cambodia, where they met with the prime minister and other government officials earlier this month. A university spokesman says Leach is paying his own way for the trip, which is not connected to any Washington State University business. Photos […]
Soldier reunites with Japanese birth mother after 57 years
By KATHRYN TOLBERT The Washington Post It began with a heart attack in the Pentagon parking lot in pre-dawn darkness. Air Force Col. Bruce Hollywood was on his way to work and found himself on the ground, thinking: “This is where it ends.’’ Later, as he lay in the ambulance racing to Walter Reed Army […]
Nielsen: Asian Americans outpace all other ethnic groups in growth, spending power
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Nielsen’s 2018 Asian American Consumer Report, Asian Americans: Digital Lives and Growing Influence, released on May 8 revealed that Asian American consumers are growing faster than the general population and maintaining income and education rates higher than any other racial or ethnic group. As the fastest growing ethnic group, Asian […]
Ken Jeong uses medical training to help audience member
PHOENIX (AP) — Ken Jeong’s medical degree is nothing to laugh at. The comedian’s training came in handy on May 5 when an audience member began having a seizure while Jeong was performing at a comedy club in Phoenix. The actor’s representative, Michelle Margolis, confirmed reports that the 48-year-old Jeong and an emergency medical technician […]
Jhoon Rhee, ‘father of American Taekwondo,’ dies at age 86
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee, the man known as the “father of American Taekwondo,’’ died on April 30 after a long illness. He was 86. His son, Chun Rhee, said his father died in hospice care in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of the nation’s capital. Jhoon Rhee was a 10th-degree black belt credited […]
California tech company fined for H1-B visa violations
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California company that federal officials say violated salary requirements of the country’s foreign-worker visa program will pay a total of $173,044 to 12 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said on May 1. The Labor Department said information technology provider Cloudwick Technologies Inc. underpaid the employees hired from India […]
Ex-coal baron takes swipe at “China people” in political ad
By JOHN RABY and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-coal executive who’s running for U.S. Senate after serving a one-year prison sentence has escalated his barrage on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, taking swipes at “China people’’ and calling McConnell “Cocaine Mitch’’ in a new ad. Former Massey Energy CEO Don […]
Elizabeth Warren challenger sues over ‘fake Indian’ sign
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A U.S. Senate candidate is suing the city of Cambridge, saying officials violated his First Amendment rights by demanding he remove a sign from a campaign bus that read: “Only a REAL INDIAN Can Defeat the Fake Indian.’’ Shiva Ayyadurai, who was born in India, is running as an independent against […]
Trump’s travel ban likely to be upheld, justices indicate
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed poised to uphold President Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the U.S. by visitors from several Muslim-majority countries, a move that would hand the president a major victory on a controversial signature policy. In the court’s first full-blown consideration of a Trump order, […]