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Russians attempt to topple Google in Vietnam

May 25, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Chris Brummitt The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S. web companies. That’s not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit that believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market and also […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, 2013, China, Coc Coc, Europe, Google, HANOI, Hong Kong, Moscow, Nguyen Duc Ngoc, Russia, South Korea, Tech Asia, Vietnamese, Vol 32 No 22 | May 25 - May 31, censorship, language

A diplomatic star is born in China’s first lady

March 30, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING, China (AP) — Glamorous new first lady Peng Liyuan has emerged as Chinese diplomacy’s latest star, charming audiences and cutting a very different profile from her all-but invisible predecessors on her debut official visit abroad to Russia. A celebrated performer on state television, Peng featured prominently in Chinese […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Beijing News, Chen Li, China Policy Institute, Chinese, Communist Party, International Relations, Jiang Qing, Lin Zhibo, Moscow, PLA, Peng Liyuan, Premier Wen Jiabao, Steve Tsang, Tanzania, Vol 32 No 14 | March 30 - April 5, Wang Fan, Zhang Peili

Youthful voice: “A look into this year’s Olympics”

August 27, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Summer Olympic Games have been around since the 1896 Games in Athens, Greece. Since then, the United States have won a total of 929 gold medals, while China has only won a total of 163 gold medals. Though China received the most gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics, the total amount is still far from the amount of medals received by the United States …

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greece, IOC, Karena Tien, London, Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, Moscow, New York City, North Greenwich Arena, Olympic Games, Olympics, Paris, Ricoh Arena, SYLP, Summer Olympics, Though China, United States, Youth issue

BLOG: Comparing women’s basketball in U.S. and China

May 18, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng Rarely do I sit through a basketball game from the beginning to the end, especially when I already know the outcome. So what made me stay when the U.S. Women’s National basketball team played against the China’s Women’s National team last Saturday when the scores weren’t even close?

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2012, Basketball Team, Beijing Olympics, China National Women, Chinese Americans, Chinese National Team, Diana Taurasi, Moscow, Northwest Asian Weekly, Ocean City Restaurant, One Chinese, Publisher Ng's blog, Seattle Storm, Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, Tamika Catchings, Vol 31 No 21 | May 19 - May 25, Yao Ming

UN SG Ban Ki-moon announces he is seeking a second term

June 11, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Monday that he will seek a second term as head of the United Nations

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Asian Group, Caribbean, China, Eastern Europe, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, Ivory Coast, Libya, Mark Toner, Middle East, Moscow, North Africa, Russia, Security Council, South Korean, United States, Vol 30 No 24 | June 11 - June 17

Vietnam matriarch reflects on lifetime of devotion to piano

March 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Time was running out, and it wasn’t safe to stay. Sixty upright pianos had to be moved from Hanoi’s music conservatory to a village in the countryside

Filed Under: Profiles Tagged With: 2011, American B-52s, Bac Giang, Canada, Dang Thai Son, Dien Bien Phu, HANOI, Madame Lien, Moscow, National Academy, North Vietnamese, Pablo Picasso, Prague Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Thai Thi Lien, Tran Thanh Binh, Tran Thu Ha, Vietnam War, Vol 30 No 10 | March 5 - March 11

The top 5 stories you’ve heard way too much about and 5 stories that went under the radar

December 30, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Fame, fortune, and scandal were the driving forces behind the endless news coverage of Jackson. Readership of Jackson news shot up when a Los Angeles coroner ruled the singer’s death a homicide after lethal levels of the anesthetic propofol, combined with two other sedatives, were found in his system.

Filed Under: Features, Features, Food, Health Tagged With: 2009, 2010, Billie Jean, Cargill Meat Solutions, China, Chinese President Hu Jintao, GAO, GOP, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Los Angeles, Michael Jackson, Michael Moss, Moscow, Nobel Peace Prize, Norman Borlaug, Pakistan, Stephanie Smith, Tiger Woods, Vol 29 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Historians track Chinese history in Idaho

July 23, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A black ponytail in a 1920s mason jar, empty graves in an Idaho forest cemetery, a massacre in an isolated river canyon — they’re all links in the little-told story of the Chinese in Idaho, who came by the thousands but then drastically left at the turn of the century.

Filed Under: News, National News Tagged With: Allen Pinkham, Chinatown, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese Remembering, Clearwater River, Garry Bush, Geographic Names, Hells Canyon, Idaho Territorial Legislature, LEWISTON, Luna House, Moscow, Nez Perce War, Shoshone County, Six Oregon, Terry Abraham, Vol 28 No 31 | July 25 - July 31, Wallowa County, William Goulder

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