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BLOG: Create magic — Gifts from your heart

December 17, 2015 By Assunta Ng

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly I discontinued the tradition of sending out Christmas cards long before e-cards became popular. Why I stopped was because I found it pointless to send a card with someone’s name and my signature; and partly, I was lazy. I reciprocated by sending out a card to someone who just […]

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2015, ACRS, Africa, Audrey Hepburn, Australia, Bonnie Miller, Germany, Heifer International, James Bond, Jerry Lee, John Travolta, Marilyn Monroe, Mother Teresa, Northwest Asian Weekly, Organize Christmas, Publisher's Blog, Rosario Carroll, San Francisco, Uwajimaya, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

UNIQLO arrives in Seattle

November 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

UNIQLO hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 6 to celebrate the opening of their first store in Seattle at Bellevue Square. The store is 16,000 square feet of retail space that will house the brand’s full assortment of men’s, women’s, and children’s collections. Attendees included Brian Surratt, City of Seattle Office of Economic Development Director; […]

Filed Under: Features, Business, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Africa, Bellevue City Councilmember, Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci, Bellevue Square, Brian Surratt, Consul General Masahiro Omura, Kemper Development Company Larry Meyer, Pacific Northwest, Seattle Seahawks Corporate Partnerships Jermaine Kearse, Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Kemper Freeman, UNIQLO, United States, Vol 34 No 47 | November 14 - November 20, japan

A very early start — 15-year-old tech entrepreneur wins 1st place in start-up competition, develops products that make contributions

November 12, 2015 By Nina Huang

By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly Christopher Lee is a Lakeside High sophomore. He has always had a weak stomach and has actually contracted campylobacteriosis, an infection from drinking bad water before. He had been in many situations where he questioned the purity of drinking water, so he decided to do something about it for […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Education, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Africa, Apple App Store, Christopher Lee, Fast Pitch, Greater Puget Sound, Hamomi Children, Kenya, Lakeside High, Nina Huang, Northwest Asian Weekly, Social Venture Partner, Steve Jobs, Vol 34 No 47 | November 14 - November 20, technology

Britain applies to join Chinese-led Asian bank

March 22, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Joe McDonald AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Britain has become the first major Western government to apply for membership in a proposed Chinese-led Asian regional bank that Washington worries will undercut institutions such as the World Bank. The British Treasury said Thursday it will join talks this month on the Asian Infrastructure Investment […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Africa, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Australia, Beijing, Brunei, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Laos, Nepal, South China Sea, Tokyo, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, World Bank, japan

VOICES FROM THE YOUTH: Cake analogies and human rights

September 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Katie Wong SYLP Equal rights can also be referred to as human rights (rights held by everyone without the restriction of the government.) Only nineteen out of the fifty states in the United States recognize same-sex marriage. Several states have tried to bar federal

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: 2009, 2014, Africa, Asia, Canada, DOMA, HB, Kansas House Bill, LGBTQAPI, New York, Questioning Queer, Russia, SYLP, SYLP 2014, Supreme Court, United States, Vol 33 No 37 | September 6 - September 12, adoption

It’s graduation time!

June 19, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jamie Sun Northwest Asian Weekly It’s that Pomp and Circumstance time of year, and in addition to the myriad of graduating APIs around the

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: 2014, Africa, Ambassador Gary Locke, Caley Cook, Dada Wu, Harvard Law School, Howard Koh, Husky Stadium, Kei-sing Yiu, Mindy Kaling, Steve Ballmer, TOSA, TSA, Ting Ting Chu, UW, Vol 33 No 26 | June 21 - June 27, Western Washington University

Asian in Africa

June 12, 2014 By Vivian Nguyen

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly As an Asian American, I did not expect my presence in Ghana to go without attention. This sounds self-centered. And it is.<!–more–> In the winter of 2012, an invitation from a school friend led me to the southern coastal city of Cape Coast, Ghana for vacation. This laid-back beach […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2012, 2014, Africa, Asian American, Cape Coast Castle, China, Ghana, North America, Northwest Asian Weekly, South America, United States, Vietnam, Vivian Nguyen, Vol 33 No 25 | June 14 - June 20, attention

BLOG: Why I reject Asian cultural values

May 23, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng When you read that headline, you probably thought, “Is she crazy? What is she thinking?”

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2013, Africa, Asian American Heritage Month, Asian Americans, Census, Chinese, GED, Gary Matsudaira, Haiti, Ivy League, Japanese Americans, Jay Kwon, Native Americans, Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation, Publisher Ng's blog, Seattle Keiro, Vol 32 No 22 | May 25 - May 31, culture

BLOG: Mistaken identities

March 29, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng McDermott and McDermott Why did Congressman Jim McDermott, 76, of the 7th District, and King County Councilmember Joe McDermott,

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2013, Africa, Annual Potato Fest, Assunta Ng, Cyrus Habib, DNA, George Ng, Habib Habib, Iranian American, Jim McDermott, London, New York Comptroller John Liu, Paris, Publisher Ng's blog, Samantha Futerman, South Korea, United States, Vol 32 No 14 | March 30 - April 5

Rotarians honored for polio work in Africa and South Asia

December 3, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Seattle Rotary Club, the largest Rotary Club in existence, honored former Washington Secretary of State Ralph Munro, as well as six additional members of the Rotary Club International, at a dinner, hosted at the Westin Hotel on Nov. 14. Munro and the team ventured to Africa and South Asia to help eradicate polio. Each […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Afghanistan, Africa, India, Nothern Nigeria, Pakistan, Paul Harris, Ralph Munro, Rotary Club International, Seattle, South Asia, Vol 31 No 49 | December 1 - December 7, Westin Hotel

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