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Google celebrates Lunar New Year

February 26, 2015 By Jason Cruz

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Google employees, their family and friends celebrated Lunar New Year on Wednesday, February 18th at its Kirkland campus. Employees took time from their busy days to join in celebrating the Year of the Sheep.  There were lots of young children dressed in customary Chinese dress, most in red signifying […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Cultures Tagged With: 2009, 2015, Chinese, Google, Governor Inslee, Governor Jay Inslee, Happy New Year, Jason Cruz, Jing Wang, Ken Lin, Lunar New Year Celebration, Mountain View, Northwest Asian Weekly, Qi Ke, Seattle, Vol 34 No 10 | February 28 - March 6, culture

BLOG: Year of the Sheep is for weaving dreams — Eight is a lucky number

February 19, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Year of the Sheep is for imagination. Just look at celebrities born in sheep years: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Will Ferrell and others, how they create from nothing to something amazing. It’s time for you to make your Lunar New Year dream list. The sheep celebrities have certainly inspired me to build my wish […]

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2016, ABC, Asian Americans, Asian Weekly, Brian Williams, Chinese American, Happy New Year, Iraq War, Lester Don Holt, Lester Holt, Luchang Wang, Provost Ana Mari Cauce, Provost Phyllis Wise, Publisher's Blog, Sheep Year, Steve Jobs, UW

A-pop! A scrappy end to 2013 — Out with the old, in with the new, and more wins!

January 17, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Happy New Year, dear readers! 2014 is here, and while I’m all for ushering in the New Year, I want to take a moment to wrap up entertainment news from 2013. Let’s look back into the vestiges of last year before we tackle this year, shall we? Questlove thinks […]

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Bruno Mars Photo, Catch Mars, Chinese, Dawn Englehart, Golden Globes Foreign Language Film, Happy New Year, Hayao Miyazaki, Musician Questlove, Northwest Asian Weekly, Padma Lakshmi, Sour Tlain, Tessanne Chin, Though Miyazaki, Vol 33 No 4 | January 18 - January 24, japan

Happy New Year (in April)! — A spotlight on Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Cambodia’s new year celebrations

April 21, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Unlike the Gregorian calendars that start the year on Jan. 1, most South Asian countries use lunisolar calendars that start the year at the beginning of spring.

Filed Under: Cultures Tagged With: 2011, Aluth Avurudu, Bangladesh, Bisket Jatra, Cambodia, Chaul Chnam Thmey, Happy New Year, Khmer New Year, Moha Sangkran, Mughal Emperor Akbar, Nepal, Pohela Boishakh, Sakyamuni Satya, Sinhala New Year, South Asian, Sri Lankans, Thailand, Vol 30 No 17 | April 23 - April 29, West Bengal

A year of possibilities? – A-pop! is a monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture

January 6, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Happy New Year to my fellow pop-culture junkies! December was a fairly slow month. Two films, “The Social Network” and “Rabbit Hole,”

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2011, Andrew Garfield, Asian Americans, Bruno Mars, David Fincher, Eve Who, Far East Movement, Golden Globes, Happy New Year, Hollywood Film Festival, Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole, Reiko Aylesworth, Sandra Oh, Scarlet Chan, Seattle, Tyrese Gibson, Vol 30 No 2 | January 8 - January 14, culture

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