By RYAN NAKASHIMA Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than a thousand Google employees have signed a letter protesting the company’s secretive plan to build a search engine that would comply with Chinese censorship. The letter calls on executives to review ethics and transparency at the company. The letter’s contents were confirmed by a […]

By ELLEN MCCARTHY The Washington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — Like any good intern, Francisco A. Joaquin took copious notes during a seminar on how to get a job. Build a network. Scrub your social-media presence. Prepare for interview questions. Dress the part. Sitting in a windowless conference room near Union Station, Joaquin dressed the part […]

DETROIT (AP) — A Black Detroit lawmaker has apologized for using racial slurs against an Asian American opponent for state Senate. Rep. Bettie Cook Scott issued an apology on Aug. 16 after accountability group Progress Michigan revealed Scott used racial slurs to refer to state Rep. Stephanie Chang, the Detroit News reported. Progress Michigan also […]

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI is looking for three suspects who kidnapped a Chinese man after a business meeting in the Los Angeles area last month, but authorities haven’t heard from the kidnappers since they demanded a $2 million ransom and the man remains missing, investigators said on Aug. […]

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY RENTON, Wash. — Robert Morrison, who owned Lee’s Martial Arts studio in Renton and Maple Valley, pleaded guilty on Aug. 16 to three counts of child rape and other charges for allegedly having sexual contact with some of his underage female students. The guilty plea came less than a month […]

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Daniel Crowley endured more than three years of slave labor while being held prisoner by Japan during World War II. Last week, the 96-year-old was in Hawaii to participate in a dedication honoring about 400 Allied prisoners killed when a Japanese ship […]

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown announced on Aug. 17 that he pardoned three former prisoners facing the threat of deportation to Cambodia, including one who became a youth pastor after serving six years in the 1990s for murdering a rival gang member. Brown also commuted the sentences […]

By LISA SPECKHARD PASQUE The Capital Times MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After Xao Her’s husband died in 2004, the Kajsiab House was her refuge. She healed in the community support and therapy program at Journey Mental Health Center created specifically for Hmong individuals like her. Her husband’s death wasn’t her first hardship. Her husband and […]