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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

Defending champion Japan, Iraq open with Asian Cup wins

January 16, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By John Pye AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa helped engineer

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2015, Abdallatif Albahdari, Abdul Zahra, Ahmad Alhasan, Anas Bani Yaseen, Asian Cups, BRISBANE, Dhurgham Ismail, Iraq, Jalal Hassan, Javier Aguirre, Jordan, Maldives, Maya Yoshida, Palestine, Ramzi Saleh, Ray Wilkins, Saad Abdulameer, Shinji Kagawa, Shinji Okazaki, Vol 34 No 4 | January 17 - January 23, Yaser Kasim, Yasuhito Endo, Younis Mahmoud, japan

SSAFF 2014 awards announced — Sri Lankan filmmaker receives Tasveer Emerald Award

November 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithana was awarded at the 9th annual Seattle South Asian Film Festival Sunday evening with a screening of his film, “With You, Without You.”

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: AAINA, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Closing Night Reception, Deepti Naval, India, Kanu Behl, Maldives, Pakistan, Prasanna Vithana, SSAFF, Seattle South Asian Film Festival Sunday, South Asian International Documentary Festival, South Asians, Sri Lankan, TITLI, Tasveer Emerald Award

New India PM meets with rival leader of Pakistan

May 31, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Muneeza Naqvi Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) – New Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the leader of rival Pakistan on May 27 and asked that his country “abide by its commitment” to prevent its territory from being used in terrorism against India and speed up investigations into the 2008 attack in Mumbai.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2014, Abdullah Ghaznavi, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Arun Jaitley, Associated Press, BJP, Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh, Jen Psaki, Maldives, Mumbai, Pakistan, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, State Department, Sushma Swaraj, United States, Vol 33 No 23 | May 31 - June 6

Tomo Nakayama: From Grand Hallway to Seattle’s Great Hall

April 24, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Signe Predmore Northwest Asian Weekly These days, you might catch snatches of guitar and piano melodies in odd corners of Town Hall at all hours, not only during their music programming.  

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2012, 2014, Capitol Hill Cider, George Saunders, Grand Hallway, Grand Jury, Great Hall, Kurt Cobain, Maldives, North Cascades, Rainier Scholars, Scratch Night, Seattle, Stesha Brandon, Tomo Nakayama, Touchy Feely, Town Hall, Vol 33 No 18 | April 26 - May 2, blog

Turkey becomes global power in construction

July 22, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An army of Turkish cranes and bulldozers is at work across the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, building dams, stadiums,

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, ANKARA, Africa, Algeria, Angola, ENR, European Union, Ilnur Cevik, International Monetary Fund World Economy Outlook, Iraq, Libya, Maldives, Middle East, Russia, Soviet Union, Turkish Airlines, Turkmenistan, United States, Vol 29 No 30 | July 24 - July 30, turkey

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