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API MUST-READS! — Memoirs of funny APIs from pop culture

February 26, 2016 By Samantha Pak

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Why Not Me?” By Mindy Kaling Crown Archetype, 2015 If Mindy Kaling’s first book was about how she got her start in comedy, her latest book, “Why Not Me?” is about what she’s been up to since. In this collection of essays chronicling her adventures in show business and […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2015, 2016, Atria Books, Black Inc, CBS, China, Chinese Australian, Crown Archetype, Indian American, Kunal Nayyar, New Delhi, Northwest Asian Weekly, Raj Koothrappali, Samantha Pak, Vol 35 No 9 | February 27 - March 4, culture

Temple town in south India cleaning up due to plastic ban

January 24, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Anna Mathews Associated Press PATHANAMTHITTA, India (AP) — Millions of Hindu men trudge the steep, three-hour climb to a hilltop temple to worship a celibate god every year. They bathe away their sins in the Pamba River. And these days, they leave less of a trace thanks to new rules aimed at getting rid […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Associated Press, India, Lord Ayyappan, New Delhi, PATHANAMTHITTA, Pamba River, Vol 35 No 4 | January 23 - January 29

India, cows and politics — With Hindu party leading India, beef grows more political

October 25, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tim Sullivan Associated Press NEW DELHI — The legislator was full of outrage when he arrived in the northern Indian village days after the killing of a Muslim farmer who was rumored to have slaughtered cows. A Hindu mob had smashed through the heavy wooden door to the man’s home, then beat him to […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, BJP, India, Mark Zuckerberg, Maybe Vijay, Meanwhile Som, Mohammad Akhlaq, New Delhi, Nirmala George, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ram Mandal Das, Ram Mangal Das, Sangeet Som, Tarun Vijay, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30

India clamping down on critics of Modi, activist groups

October 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Muneeza Naqvi Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — It takes courage to accuse a powerful politician — a man who would go on to become India’s prime minister — of encouraging riots against a minority. Police officer Sanjiv Bhatt did just that. And he says he is paying the price for it. Bhatt was […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, Associated Press, Bharatiya Janata Party, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Ford Foundation, GDP, Greenpeace India, Home Ministry, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Mukul Kesavan, Nalin Kohli, Narendra Modi, New Delhi, RIOTS, Sanjiv Bhatt, Supreme Court, Teesta Setalvad, Vol 34 No 41 | October 3 - October 9

Nestle India decides to remove popular noodles from stores

June 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NEW DELHI (AP) — Nestle India said Friday it had decided to take its popular brand of instant noodles off the shelves in the country after several Indian states banned it for allegedly containing unsafe levels of lead. The company said in a statement that the trust of its consumers and the safety of products […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, MSG, Nestle India, New Delhi, Several Indian, Vol 34 No 26 | June 20 - June 26

Aspirations of small town India push regional newspaper boom

March 28, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nirmala George Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Rewatiraman Shukla, a young office worker living in a slum on New Delhi’s outskirts, can’t remember a time when his family did not have a newspaper delivered to their home. Even when home was a single room in a congested tenement without indoor plumbing. Even when […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, Associated Press, Daily Sun, Democratic India, New Delhi, Though Internet, Ved Prakash Shukla, Vol 34 No 14 | March 28 - April 3, language

Aspirations of small town India push regional newspaper boom

March 27, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nirmala George Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Rewatiraman Shukla, a young office worker living in a slum on New Delhi’s outskirts, can’t remember a time when his family did not have a newspaper delivered to their home. Even when home was a single room in a congested tenement without indoor plumbing. Even when […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, Associated Press, Daily Sun, Democratic India, New Delhi, Though Internet, Ved Prakash Shukla, Vol 34 No 14 | March 28 - April 3, language

China bans private drivers on ride-hailing apps

January 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Joe McDonald AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China has banned drivers of private cars from offering services through ride-hailing apps, throwing up a new hurdle to Uber Technologies Ltd.’s global expansion.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Alibaba Group, Baidu Inc, China, Chinese Internet, Didi Dache, Europe, India, Kuaidi Dache, New Delhi, South Korea, Uber Technologies Ltd, United States, Vol 34 No 4 | January 17 - January 23, language

A film festival evolves from tragedy — Seattle South Asian Film Festival features a theme of “daring”

October 31, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The new Seattle South Asian Film Festival, put on by the Tasveer organization, will be running from Oct. 31 to Nov. 9. Festival director Rita Meher took some questions over e-mail. NWAW:  Please describe your childhood adolescence in Odissa, India.  What were your favorite memories of growing up?  How […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, India, Meher It, Meher Soon, Mumbai, NWAW, New Delhi, Prasanna Withanage, SSAFF, Seattle South Asian Film Festival, South Asians, Sri Lankan, Student Academy Awards, Tasveer Emerald Award, Toronto International Film Festival, Vol 33 No 45 | November 1 - November 7, Yoni Ki Baat, japan

Asbestos pushed in Asia as product for the poor

August 17, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Katy Daigle AP Environment Writer VAISHALI, India (AP) — The executives mingled over tea and sugar cookies, and the chatter was upbeat. Their industry, they said at a conference in the Indian capital, saves lives and brings roofs, walls and pipes to some of the world’s poorest people.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2014, Abhaya Shankar, Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers Association, Asia, Assistant Surgeon General Dr, India, John Nicodemus, Madan Prasad Gupta, New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Quebec-based Chrysotile Institute, Richard Lemen, Russia, Supreme Court, Toxicologist David Bernstein, Umesh Kumar, VAISHALI, Vol 33 No 34 | August 16 - August 22, WHO

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