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Queen says Chinese officials are rude; has she forgotten something?

May 24, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Queen Elizabeth II ranted about Chinese officials being “very rude,” before President Xi Jinping’s visit in London last year, in a private conversation with a police commander on May 10. A pool cameraman recorded the conversation on the Buckingham Palace lawn. Lucy D’Orsi, the Gold Commander, was in charge […]

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: Assunta Ng, Barbara Woodward, Boxer Rebellion, Buckingham Palace, China, Chinese, England, France, Germany, Gold Commander, Hong Kong, London, New York Times, President Xi Jinping, United States, VOL 35 NO 21 | MAY 21 – MAY 27

Young girl’s old suitcase teaches world children about Holocaust

January 29, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Fumiko Ishioka watched and chatted as George Brady played travel Scrabble with his adult daughter, Lara Brady, in between press interviews at the Hyatt House Hotel on Jan. 22. Ishioka is a Japanese national and George Brady has lived in Toronto, Canada, since 1951.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2016, Alain Lewkowicz, Canada, Canadian Jewish, Emil Sher, England, French Jewish, Fumiko Ishioka, George Brady, Germany, Hana Brady, Karen Levine, Lara Brady, Nuremberg Laws, Seattle Children, Stacy Nguyen, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Vol 35 No 5 | January 30 - February 5, WNPA2016, japan

BLOG: Create magic — Gifts from your heart

December 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

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

Bonsai! A growing movement in U.S.

October 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Randy Essex Post Independent GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — This is a story of how two Glenwood Springs High School grads and Mr. Miyagi (yes, from “The Karate Kid”) have changed bonsai in the United States from a hobby to a rising art and industry. The Artisans Cup, the first U.S. bonsai exhibition of […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, Artisans Cup, Bonsai Club International, Bonsai Mirai, California Polytechnic State University, England, Germany, Glenwood High, Glenwood Springs High School, Glenwood Springs Strawberry Days, Masahiko Kimura, North American, Portland Art Museum, Post Independent, United States, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30, japan

Fatal fire on Japan’s airtight bullet train

July 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A fatal fire on Japan’s bullet train, started by a man who self-immolated this week, has revealed blind spots in a system renowned for its speed, punctuality and safety record. Riding the Shinkansen feels like being in an airplane: at 300 kilometers (186 miles) per hour, it […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Central Japan Railway Co, China, France, Germany, Haruo Hayashizaki, Paris, Satoru Sone, Seiji Abe, South Korea, Taiwan, Tokyo Olympics, Tomoyuki Sano, Vol 34 No 29 | July 11 - July 17

South Korean team wins $2M in disaster-response robot test

June 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

POMONA, Calif. (AP) — The robots drove, walked trough rubble, climbed stairs, turned valves and sometimes fell, amid cheers and groans from a crowd of thousands at the Fairplex in Pomona, California. After three years of research, development and an obstacle course of competition, a South Korean team on June 6 won the three-year and […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, CHIMP, Carnegie Mellon University, DARPA, DRC, Germany, Gill Pratt, Hong Kong, National Robotics Engineering Center, Running Man, South Korean, United States, Vol 34 No 25 | June 13 - June 19

Teaching in Panjin — A view of the world through Chinese students’ eyes

March 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Lynne Curry Northwest Asian Weekly I was part of a select team of sixteen teachers chosen to give a taste of an American-style classroom to Chinese students in a two-week winter camp just prior to Chinese New Year. Some of us were in Panjin, China, a coastal city about 350 miles north of Beijing. […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: 2015, Beijing, China, Chinese New Year, Emma Watson, Germany, Harry Potter, Lynne Curry, MUN, Maldives, Mexico, Northwest Asian Weekly, Panjin High School, US, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, technology

Abe ‘speechless’ after video claims IS hostage dead

January 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister said Sunday he was “speechless’’ after an online video purported to show one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed and promised to save the other.   Shinzo Abe said on NHK TV that the video was likely authentic and offered condolences to the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Germany, Haruna Yukawa, Iraq, Islamic State-affiliated, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Kenji Goto, Kyodo News, NHK, Nobuo Kimoto, Patrick Ventrell, President Barack Obama, Shinzo Abe, Syria, Tokyo, Vol 34 No 6 | January 31 - February 6, White House National Security Council

LETTER: RE: ‘Delano Manongs’ elevates Filipino Americans as civil rights heroes

December 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

I was with a group of Filipino teenagers, who worked in a farm picking grapes in Delano in the summer of 1965.

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: 2014, Abraham Pagtama, Air Force, Filipino Americans, Filipino Community Center, Germany, Leoncio Agustin, Leopoldo Roy Barrit, Mariano Tolentino, Rene Soriano, Santa Monica City College, Tony Alagao, Vietnam, Vol 33 No 51 | December 13 - December 19

5 women named to Japan’s Cabinet, tying past high

September 13, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister picked five women for his Cabinet on Wednesday, matching the past record and sending the strongest message yet about his determination to change deep-seated views on gender and revive the economy by getting women on board as workers and leaders.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Abe Cabinet, Eriko Yamatani, Fumio Kishida, Germany, Global Gender Gap Report, Haruko Arimura, Iceland, Kazuko Watanabe, Midori Matsushima, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Sanae Takaichi, Satomi Moroda, Taro Aso, Tokyo, United States, Vol 33 No 38 | September 13 - September 19, Yuko Obuchi, japan

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