• 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 Beijing Olympics

LeBron James begins tour of China

July 26, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — LeBron James began his tour of China on Monday by exchanging gifts with another former child prodigy.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2014, Beijing Olympics, China, Hong Kong, Lang Lang, Miami Heat, NBA, Vol 33 No 31 | July 26 - August 1

Indian Boxing Fed. still suspended by IABA

December 6, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By C. Rajshekhar Rao AP Sports Writer NEW DELHI (AP) – The Indian Boxing Federation’s suspension will not be lifted after it failed to call fresh elections needed for it to return to the international fold.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2013, AIBA, Beijing Olympics, Commonwealth Games, IBF, IOA, IOC, India, International Olympic Committee, London Olympics, Mary Kom, New Delhi, President Abhay Singh Chautala, Rajshekhar Rao, Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, Switzerland, Vijender Singh, Vol 32 No 50 | December 7 - December 13

The Layup Drill — Lin switching teams, golf, poker tweeting, the Olympics, and more

July 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Welcome to another edition of The Layup Drill.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2008, 2012, Asian Americans, Beijing Olympics, China, Chinese Americans, Golfer Tiger Woods, Houston Rocket, Jeremy Lin, LPGA, London, New York Knicks, Open Golf, San Francisco, Summer Olympics, United States, Vol 31 No 30 | July 21 - July 27, World Series

BLOG: Comparing women’s basketball in U.S. and China

May 18, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng Rarely do I sit through a basketball game from the beginning to the end, especially when I already know the outcome. So what made me stay when the U.S. Women’s National basketball team played against the China’s Women’s National team last Saturday when the scores weren’t even close?

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2012, Basketball Team, Beijing Olympics, China National Women, Chinese Americans, Chinese National Team, Diana Taurasi, Moscow, Northwest Asian Weekly, Ocean City Restaurant, One Chinese, Publisher Ng's blog, Seattle Storm, Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, Tamika Catchings, Vol 31 No 21 | May 19 - May 25, Yao Ming

Japan’s oldest Olympian, at 70, will compete again

March 10, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nesha Starcvic The Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — When Hiroshi Hoketsu first went to the Olympics in 1964, he was 23 and the games were in his native Tokyo. Now nearly 71, Hoketsu will be going to the Olympics again this summer — to compete, not to watch.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2012, Beijing Games, Beijing Olympics, Belgium, FRANKFURT, France, Germany, Japanese Olympic, Johnson Johnson, Kikuko Inoue, London, Oscar Swahn, Tokyo, Vol 31 No 11 | March 10 - March 16

Commentary: Ring in the rabbit: tiger can rest, parenting or governing

February 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

I have been very reluctant to get in on the Tiger mom craze, as parenting is not really a topic I am interested in.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2011, American Chronicle, Beijing Olympics, China, Chinese American, Cold War, Commentary Ring, Financial Times, Francis Fukuyama, Great Leap Forward, Michael Phelps, President Obama, Steve Jobs, Vol 30 No 8 | February 19 - February 25, Wendy Liu, White House, attention

Vanessa Hudgens exposed … again!

September 17, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Welcome back to another month of entertainment and pop culture news! The end of the summer included an awkward incident between U.S. airport officials and a Bollywood superstar, Michelle Kwan’s retirement, and oh yeah, Vanessa Hudgens naked … again.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2009, Anna Sui, Beijing Olympics, Chinese, Ed Hartwell, Indian Muslim, Lisa Hu Hartwell, Michelle Kwan, Real Housewife, Shah Rukh Khan, Sony Pictures Classics, Sun Honglei, Tufts University, United States, Vanessa Hudgens, Vol 28 No 39 | September 19 - September 25, Xiao Shenyang, Yan Ni, Zhang Yimou, culture

China denies singling out Mexicans for quarantine

May 9, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — By quarantining them as a safeguard against swine flu, Beijing denied that it had discriminated against Mexicans on May 4; meanwhile, Mexico said it was sending a plane to China to bring back its citizens.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: Audra Ang, Beijing Olympics, Canada, China, Chinese, Eduardo Castillo, Hans Troeddson, Health Ministry, Hong Kong, Jorge Guajardo, Ma Zhaoxu, Mexican Embassy, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mexico City, SARS, WHO, Xinhua News Agency, vol 28 no 20 | May 9 - May 15

Aug. 10: Hooters gives Chinese sports fans a thrill

December 24, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

During the Olympics, I met up with friends at a symbol of American indulgence — yes, we went to the Hooters in Beijing.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2009, American Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Caution Blondes Thinking, China, Chinese, Jason Liu, Michael Phelps, Northwest Asian Weekly, Vol 28 No 1 | December 27 - January 2, Yao Ming

All about the money — Economy, not rights, rules the new China–US world

November 30, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — As a dangerous confrontation flared between China and Taiwan in 1996, Bill Clinton deployed the Seventh Fleet to deter the two rivals from going to war. Five years later, when a U.S. spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter, George W. Bush faced a prolonged international crisis. Meanwhile, human rights and democracy in China were a perennial hot-button issue.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: 2008, Barack Obama, Beijing Olympics, Bill Clinton, Cheng Xiaohe, China, Chinese, Iran, Jin Canrong, New York, North Korea, President George Bush, Renmin University, Seventh Fleet, Taiwan Strait, Wei Jingsheng, vol 27 no 49 | November 29 - December 5

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube


Find us on Issuu!

Subscribe to our e-news

© 2022 NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
412 MAYNARD AVE. S., SEATTLE, WA 98104
206-223-5559 | INFO@NWASIANWEEKLY.COM