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No consensus about legality of Trump’s idea of Muslim ban

December 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so. Legal experts are divided over how the high court would react to Republican […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, 2015, Associated Press, Donald Trump, Eric Posner, First Amendment, Kathleen Hennessey, Pearl Harbor, Peter Spiro, San Bernardino, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Suzanna Sherry, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, Temple University, United States, Vanderbilt University, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

A-pop! Slants — Is the name offensive?

May 8, 2015 By Vivian Nguyen

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly With May underway, spring has officially sprung! And so has news for all of our Asian friends in the media. From controversial band names to casting news, see what’s happened during the last month with pop culture. “The Slants” lose their appeal to register band name Simon Tam, founder […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2015, Actress Olivia Munn, Asian Americans, Brokeback Mountain, Cary Fukunaga, Chinese, Eddie Huang, First Amendment, HBO, Northwest Asian Weekly, Oregon Live, Simon Tam, The Slants, Trademark Office, Vivian Nguyen, Vol 34 No 20 | May 9 - May 15, WNPA2016, culture

EDITORIAL: Overturn ‘Korematsu’ for good

April 10, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The United States Supreme Court has an opportunity to settle once and for all the illegality of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It has the opportunity to help ensure that it never happens again.

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2011, 2014, Al Qaeda, Although Fred Korematsu, Chris Hedges, First Amendment, Japanese Americans, Lyle Denniston, NDAA, Obama Administration, Solicitor General, Supreme Court Justice Anontin Scalia, United States, Vol 33 No 16 | April 12 - April 18, letter

Vietnamese American actress ‘disappointed’ by IMDb verdict

April 19, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Evangeline Cafe Northwest Asian Weekly The curtain has closed on Huong Hoang’s real-life legal drama with the Internet Movie Database, or IMDb — at least for now. The actress, who uses the stage name “Junie Hoang,” sued the company after it published her birth date on her IMDb profile. Hoang had initially posted a […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2008, 2011, 2013, Actress Nadine Nagamatsu, Brian Rowe, Evangeline Cafe, First Amendment, Gingerdead Man, Hoodrat Warriors, Huong Hoang, Junie Hoang, New York, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Vietnamese American, Vol 32 No 17 | April 20 - April 26, social media

NY Times pays damages to Singapore leaders, Times public editor responds

April 8, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SINGAPORE — Last month, The New York Times Co. apologized and agreed to pay Singapore’s prime minister and his two predecessors approximately 160,000 Singapore dollars ($114,000) for a story that described the city-state’s leaders as an Asian political dynasty.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Asia, Bill Keller, China, Davinder Singh, Dow Jones Co, First Amendment, Goh Chok Tong, Google, International Herald Tribune, Lee Kuan Yew, Philip Bowring, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, SG, Singapore, Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt, United States, Vol 29 No 15 | April 10 - April 16, censorship

Blog: Then and now: Reflecting on changing perspectives of the WNPA

October 8, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“No” was the answer I received when I requested membership for the Seattle Chinese Post in the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA) in the 1980s. The white executive director denied us when I asked for membership stating that it would be discriminatory because the Chinese-language paper could only be read by a certain group of people.

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: Asian Weekly, Assunta Ng, Bainbridge Island Review, Diana Kramer, First Amendment, Greater Seattle, Light Award, Mercer Island Reporter, Publisher Ng's blog, Seattle Chinese Post, WNPA, Woodward Freedom

Not a communist: Vietnamese man wins defamation case

April 22, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

OLYMPIA, Washington (AP) — A former South Vietnamese army lieutenant who fled after the Communist takeover has been awarded $225,000 for defamation after being called a Communist sympathizer, according to The Olympian newspaper. Turning aside defense warnings of damage to freedom of expression, a Thurston County Superior Court jury on April 16 sided in favor […]

Filed Under: News, Features, Community News Tagged With: Asian American Studies, Dat Ho, Duc Hua, Duc Tan, First Amendment, Linda Trinh Vo, Nhan Tran, Norman Le, Phiet Nguyen, Thurston County Superior Court, VCTC, Vietnam War, Vietnamese Americans, culture, language

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