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NYPD adding undercover patrols to combat anti-Asian attacks

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

No Oscars or sensitive art spark Hong Kong censorship fears

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By Zen Soo The Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Decisions in Hong Kong not to display a politically sensitive photograph in a museum exhibition and not broadcast the annual Academy Awards for the first time in decades have prompted concerns that Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in the city is extending to arts and entertainment. […]

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

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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’’ […]

CID gets $30k from Clean City Initiative

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Clean City funds have enabled business associations and business districts to increase their efforts to clean up trash, address graffiti, and clean streets and sidewalks since February. The Clean City Initiative provided additional funding for Chinatown-International District Business Improvement Area (CIDBIA) and other BIA’s in the city. Through Clean City, CIDBIA got a boost of […]

Haiku contest ongoing

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Mukai Farm & Garden on Vashon Island is sponsoring its second annual Haiku Festival through April 24. This juried competition is open to people of all ages. Each person may submit up to three haiku poems at mukaifarmandgarden.org/events to compete in the following categories: Heritage Award: Most eloquent portrayal of the history or some other […]

Community Project Funding requests

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The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is helping to advocate for Community Project Funding requests—also known as appropriations or “earmarks”—that benefit communities, small businesses, and workers. Reach out to the Congress member who represents the district where the community project is located. Prepare to provide the following information: Will the project have a direct impact […]

Yo-Yo Ma serenades newly-vaccinated at inoculation clinic

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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 […]

Chinese director of ‘Nomadland’ faces controversy at home

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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 […]