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VP Fred Hutch visit

March 24, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE — Vice President Joe Biden met with researchers at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center during his visit to Seattle on March 21. The center describes the vice president’s visit as part of a listening tour to promote cancer research. Cancer is the leading cause of death among Asian […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Health Tagged With: 2016, American Cancer Society, Asian Americans, Associated Press, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Joshua Veatch, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, President Barack Obama, Ruth Bayang, Seattle, Vol 35 No 13 | March 26 - April 1

Japan protests alleged rape case by U.S. sailor on Okinawa

March 21, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An American sailor’s arrest in an alleged rape on Okinawa was “extremely regrettable,” Japan’s top government spokesman said March 14 about a case that renewed ill feelings on the southern island that sees the U.S. military presence there as a heavy and unfair burden. Chief Cabinet Secretary […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Associated Press, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, Justin Castellanos, Kyodo News, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa Gov, Takeshi Onaga, Vol 35 No 12 | March 19 - March 25, japan

Fake story reflects real divide between rural, urban Chinese

March 21, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A woman from a big Chinese city visits her boyfriend’s rural hometown and is so appalled by the squalor she sees that she dumps him. The story was fake, but it swept through Chinese media because it highlighted a deep societal gap that the ruling Communist Party has vowed to close.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Associated Press, Beijing-based Renmin University, China, Chinese New Year, Communist Party, National People, Premier Li Keqiang, Rural Chinese, Tang Yinghong, Tsinghua University, Wu Qiang, Xinhua News Agency, Zheng Fengtian, Zhu Liangyu

Educators and activists lobby for ethnic studies

March 18, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Donna Bryson Associated Press DENVER (AP) — When a Colorado teacher got her English language students talking and writing about the police shooting of a black teen in Ferguson, Mo., she was able to draw parallels to events close to home. Cara Luchies, who works in a high school that is 50 percent [Latino], […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, 2014, 2016, Associated Press, Boulder County Latino History Project, Cara Luchies, Curtis Acosta, Hispanic Americans, John Kavanagh, Joseph Salazar, Luna Cervantes, Mexican Americans, San Francisco, Skyline High School, Tucson Mexican American, United States, Vol 35 No 12 | March 19 - March 25, language

Nod to India’s female lawmakers highlights how few there are

March 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ashok Sharma Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — What was meant as a gesture of respect toward women ended up reminding India that it needed to improve female representation in politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for only female lawmakers to address the Indian parliament on International Women’s Day included silence — because there […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Afghanistan, Associated Press, India, International Women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reservation Bill, Shatabdi Roy, Shiv Sena, Sonia Gandhi, Sreemathi Teacher, Trinamool Congress, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, West Bengal

Japan study: 1/3 of working women were sexually harassed

March 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese government study has found nearly a third of working women who responded to a survey reported being sexually harassed on the job, such as being subjected to unwanted physical contact or degrading comments. The study, released March 1 and the first of its kind, examined […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Associated Press, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, World Economic Forum, japan

Gov. Christie nominates Japanese American judge for state Supreme Court

March 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Michael Catalini Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie nominated his pick to fill a longstanding vacancy on the state Supreme Court on Feb. 28, tapping a jurist he nominated four years ago who never received a confirmation hearing. Christie announced Superior Court Judge David Bauman’s nomination at a statehouse news conference. […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, 2016, Asian American, Associated Press, Chris Christie, David Duke, Japanese American, Judge Mary Catherine Cuff, Judiciary Committee, Ku Klux Klan, Lee Solomon, Monmouth County, Nicholas Scutari, President Barack Obama, Senate President Steve Sweeney, Superior Court Judge David Bauman, Supreme Court, TRENTON, Tom Kean, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18

Sister says don’t make missing Flight 370 pilot the fall guy

March 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eileen Ng Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Time has not eased the pain for the family of Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the senior pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Nearly two years after the plane disappeared, they must cope not only with his loss but with the theory that he was to […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Anwar Ibrahim, Associated Press, Beijing, Dark Ages, Fariq Abdul Hamid, France, Indian Ocean, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines Boeing, Malaysia Airlines Flight, Mozambique, Philippines, Reunion Island, Sakinab Shah, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, Zaharie Ahmad Shah

NEW FACE OF SCOTUS? — Potential court nominee Jacqueline Nguyen inspired by her family

March 11, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jacqueline Nguyen knows adversity.

She, her siblings, and their parents fled Vietnam, and the 10-year-old Nguyen spent her first days in the United States in 1975 in a refugee tent city at Camp Pendleton in California.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, 2016, Arizona Supreme Court, Arthur Hellman, Asian American, Associated Press, Camp Pendleton, Circuit Court, Jacqueline Nguyen, Judge Carlos Bea, Justice Antonin Scalia, Los Angeles, President Barack Obama, United States, Vietnam, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18

Chamber sues over Seattle law letting Uber drivers unionize

March 11, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on March 3, sued the city of Seattle over a new law that allows drivers of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize over pay and working conditions.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Amanda Eversole, Associated Press, National Labor Relations Act, San Francisco-based Lyft, Seattle, Seattle City Attorney, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18

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