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BLOG: “Eat, play, give,” should not only be for December

December 31, 2015 By Assunta Ng

By Assunta Ng If you whine about being lonely during the holidays, or if you don’t have many party invitations, or if your friends and family have been deserting you from Christmas to New Year’s day, you need to read this blog. If you are an out-of-state transplant, working for Amazon or Google, and have […]

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2016, Bellevue Botanical Garden, Bill Gates, Chinatown International District, Google, Kaci Aitchison, Korean, New Year, Northern Chinese, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Publisher's Blog, Salvation Army, Star Wars, Vietnamese, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8, blog, language, turkey

Seattle on the list for President Xi Jinping?

September 3, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff Seattle will be one of the destinations for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States in September, according to a Taiwanese news website. Rumors have been flying for the past six months that Seattle will be on Xi’s itinerary. However, no one has officially confirmed it, including Gov. Jay Inslee’s office. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Asian Weekly, Bill Gates, Cheng Li, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao, Jay Inslee, Mayor Ed Murray, New York, Premier Deng Xiao Peng, President Obama, Seattle, United Daily News, United Nations, United States, Vol 34 No 37 | September 5 - September 11, White House

Conquering cancer — Winnie Che contributes to fighting the battle

March 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Minal Singh Northwest Asian Weekly Winnie Che has long been an active member of the International District community. If you go to the Greenland, Inc. offices located on Weller Street in the Eng Suey Family Plaza, you will see their health tonic Naturin 2 stacked in bright green boxes and you will see photos […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2015, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, CEO, Chinatown, Chris Dawn, Fiona Dawn, Greenland, Henry Kissinger, Indiana University, International District, Little Saigon, Minal Singh, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle Community, Vol 34 No 14 | March 28 - April 3, Weller Street, Winnie Che, Women's Health Issue 2015

BLOG: Satya Nadella speaks, but doesn’t reveal

October 2, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng Satya Nadella gave an interview to the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce on Sept. 15 at the Westin Hotel. I was thrilled to see the first Asian American being the keynote speaker for the Chamber.

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2014, Asian American, Bill Gates, India, New York Times, Satya Nadella, Steve Balmer, Vol 33 No 41 | October 4 - October 10, Westin Hotel

VOICES FROM THE YOUTH: Embracing the arts instead of expectations

September 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Michael Wong SYLP Growing up as an Asian American teenager, the expectations of society are always shadowing me. There are always four major pillars which society expects us Asian American adolescents to follow and pursue rigorously, as if it were a religion. One, get good grades. Two, don’t get in trouble. Three, respect and […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: 2014, Asian American, Bill Gates, SYLP, SYLP 2014, Sir Isaac Newton, Steve Jobs, Vol 33 No 37 | September 6 - September 12, culture

Satya Nadella named CEO of Microsoft

February 6, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Microsoft announced on Feb. 4 that Satya Nadella is the company’s new CEO. Nadella, who was born in Hyderabad, India, has been with Microsoft for 22 years. He previously held the position of executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Business, Community News, Technology Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Bill Gates, CEO, Debadutta Dash, Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer, United States, Vol 33 No 7 | February 8 - February 14, Washington State India Trade Relations Action Committee, letter, technology

Seattle nonprofit, Gates Foundation, and Chinese manufacturer promote life-saving vaccine

November 8, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave a stamp of approval for a Chinese-made vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), a disease that plagues mostly children in poor rural communities in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Seattle’s PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) had been searching for ways to develop a low-cost vaccine […]

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2013, Bill Gates, CDIBP, Cambodia, China, Chinese, Gates Foundation, India, JE, Nepal, North Korea, PATH, SA, Seattle, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Vol 32 No 46 | November 9 - November 15, WHO, Western Pacific

BLOG: The Washington Post, my muse

August 8, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng The news of Amazon’s founder buying The Washington Post made me realize how much I owe its late publisher Katherine Graham and her paper.

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2013, Assunta Ng, Bill Gates, Georgia, Jeff Bezos, Katherine Graham, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle Chinese Post, Unity Convention, Vol 32 No 33 | August 10 - August 16, Washington Post, Wedgwood Public Library

EDITORIAL: To graduates: work for love

June 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

According to the New York Times, more than 70 percent of Americans today enroll in a four-year college, but only 75 percent of students who start college finish it. The United States is the seventh highest rated among the 23 Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development countries in enrollment, but is the second to last […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2013, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerburg, Michael Dell, New York Times, Steve Jobs, Vol 32 No 27 | June 29 - July 5

EDITORIAL: Empowering women and the work left to be done

March 14, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Women have made huge strides in just one generation. Now, the average college campus has more women attending than men. More women are also getting into business, now virtually matching the amount of men that do.

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2010, 2013, Bill Gates, Saudi Arabia, United States, Vol 32 No 12 | March 16 - March 22, attention, technology

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