• About
  • Events
  • Community Calendar
  • Advertise
  • Subscriptions
  • Foundation
  • Contact
  • Seattle Chinese Post

Northwest Asian Weekly

  • Community
    • Names in the News
    • Local
    • Business
    • Pictorials
    • Obituaries
  • Nation
  • World
  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Columns
    • On the Shelf
    • At the Movies
    • A-POP!
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • The Layup Drill
    • Travel
    • Wayne’s Worlds
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Commentary
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Astrology
  • Classifieds
  • Community Calendar
You are here: Home / Archives for 2013

Call him Lord Prime Minister

May 26, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For years, some Cambodian media have referred to the country’s longtime leader simply as Prime Minister Hun Sen. Authorities warned May 12 that has to stop.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Cambodia, Celebrated Senior Scholar Bun Rany Hun Sen, Information Ministry, King Norodom Sihamoni, Ouk Kimseng, Prime Minister Hun Sen, Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Samdech Kittipritbandit Bun Rany Hun Sen, TV, VOL 35 NO 21 | MAY 21 – MAY 27

Maid in Japan — Japanese rock group BAND-MAID to debut overseas at Sakura-Con

March 11, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

During an hour-long break, five tired-looking Japanese girls logged onto Skype because they had a press interview with Northwest Asian Weekly. …

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2013, 2016, Akane Hirose, Drummer Hirose, Guitarist Touno, Kanami Touno Photo, MISA, Miku Kobato, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pacific Northwest, SNS, Saiki Atsumi, Seattle, Taylor Allred, Thomas Fotheringham, Tokyo, United States, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, japan

Scholarship available for Japanese and American students studying abroad

March 4, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The U.S.–Japan Council (USJC) introduced the U.S.–Japan Council Toshizo Watanabe Endowed Scholarship on Feb. 18. The scholarship is for undergraduate American and Japanese students in a term or a year-long study abroad program in the United States or Japan. During the inaugural program year (2016–2017), the scholarship will be used to assist Japanese students studying […]

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2008, 2013, 2016, Japan Council Toshizo Watanabe, Tokyo, Toshizo Watanabe Foundation, USJC, United States, Vol 35 No 10 | March 5 - March 11

Tuan joins Alliance for Education board

February 29, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Jan. 27, The Alliance for Education Board of Directors added five community to its board, including Mia Tuan. Tuan is dean of the University of Washington (UW) College of Education. Prior to her arrival at the UW, Tuan was a professor of sociology and education studies at the University of Oregon (UO), where she […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2013, 2016, Andrea Foster, Bridget Perry, Education, Jaime Drozd Allen, Mia Tuan, Steven Gottlieb, UO, UW, Vol 35 No 9 | February 27 - March 4, adoption

Local districts make gains in graduation rates, new report shows

February 26, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Road Map Project’s “2015 Results Report,” an annual report card with data on indicators of student success, shows progress being made on education milestones in the South Seattle and South King County region, but also illustrates that more work must be done to help all students succeed. The Road Map Project is a region-wide […]

Filed Under: Briefs, Community News Tagged With: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, Advanced Placement, Black African American, ELL, International Baccalaureate, Results Report, Road Map Project, Seattle, South King County, South Seattle, Vol 35 No 9 | February 27 - March 4

Life and love with the Chinese zodiac

February 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Rat: 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008 Ox: 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009 Tiger: 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 Rabbit: 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011 Dragon: 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012 Snake: 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 Horse: […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, Chinese, Vol 35 No 7 | February 13 - February 19

EDITORIAL: Facing East sets bad example for Asians

February 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In the last week, news broke that the attorney general’s office is going after Facing East, a very popular Taiwanese restaurant in Bellevue, and its owner Yu-Ling Wong for alleged sales tax evasion. (Read our story on this on page 4 of this issue.) Wong is accused of pocketing nearly $400,000 in sales tax from […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2013, 2016, Canada, Chinese, East Asian, Facing East, International District, Pius Chan, United States, Vol 35 No 7 | February 13 - February 19

Facing East owner charged with avoiding tax payment of almost $400K

February 11, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Emiri Aoki and Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Yu-Ling Wong, the majority owner of Taiwanese restaurant Facing East, was charged with first-degree theft and tax fraud by Bob Ferguson, Washington state’s attorney general on Feb. 5. She was charged for avoiding the payment of $394,835 in state sales tax through the use of an […]

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, Bob Ferguson, Canada, Emiri Aoki, Facing East, Greater Seattle, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pius Chan, RCW, Seattle Weekly News, Stacy Nguyen, Taiwan, USB, Vol 35 No 7 | February 13 - February 19

Coconut trees are no longer considered trees in Indian state, now are palms

January 30, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

PANAJI, India (AP) — Coconut trees are no longer considered trees in the tropical Indian state of Goa, where authorities have reclassified them as palms to allow farmers to cut them down more easily.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2016, Associated Press, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, Claude Alvares, PANAJI, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rajendra Arlekar, Vijai Sardesai, Vol 35 No 5 | January 30 - February 5

Bye post office, hello double-sized Hing Hay Park

January 29, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Demolition has started at the site of the former International District branch of a United States Postal Services (USPS) post office on Sixth Avenue and King Street. (The post office has not moved far. It’s now at 409 Maynard Ave. S.) USPS’s lease expired in 2013. Seattle Parks and Recreation Department had purchased the site […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2013, 2016, Beijing, International District, King Street, Maynard Ave, Seattle Parks, Sixth Avenue, USPS, United States Post Office, Vol 35 No 5 | January 30 - February 5, hing hay park

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 116
  • Next Page »
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Find us on Issuu!

Subscribe to our e-news

© 2020 NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
412 MAYNARD AVE. S., SEATTLE, WA 98104
206-223-5559 | INFO@NWASIANWEEKLY.COM