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 […]
Uber hires Nelson Chai as CFO
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Uber has named Nelson Chai as its chief financial officer — a move that could steer the ride-hailing company toward going public. The CFO role at Uber has been vacant since 2015, when Brent Callinicos left. Chai’s hire comes just over a year after the turmoil that resulted in founder […]
Race-based school criteria roils Asian-Americans – again
By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Time and again, Chinese American students consistently delivered top academic scores, only to be denied admission to their dream school. Parents bemoaned what they saw as an unfair racial advantage given to black and Latino children while their own children were overlooked. “Every year hundreds of […]
Karate school gives back to community
By ANDREW SCOTT Pocono Record EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Students at Pocono Self Defense School in Smithfield Township train like their lives depend on it. Because, in a very real sense, their lives do depend on how well they learn the values of discipline, focus, self-control, respect, humility, determination and hard work taught at […]
Feds seize fake luxury goods shipped from China
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal homeland security agents seized a large haul of counterfeit luxury handbags, wallets and belts smuggled through ports in the New York-city area and Los Angeles, officials said on Aug. 16. U.S. Homeland Security Investigations announced charges in New York City against 33 people in a scheme involving fake goods it […]
Lawyers: Discharged Army specialist granted U.S. citizenship
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A South Korean-born U.S. Army specialist who sued after the military moved to discharge her has been granted citizenship, her attorneys said. Yea Ji Sea, 29, had filed a lawsuit last month demanding a response to her citizenship application. She came to the country as a […]
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