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You are here: Home / Archives for Pulitzer Prize

Journalists charged by Thai navy

July 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Thanyarat Doksone Associated Press PHUKET, Thailand (AP) — Testimony began July 14 in a criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Thailand’s navy against a small news website over a report it posted saying naval forces accepted money to assist or turn a blind eye to the trafficking of refugees from Myanmar by sea. The navy […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Alan Morison, Associated Press, Australia, Chutima Sidasathien, Computer Crime Act, Grant Peck, Human Rights Watch, London-based Media Legal Defense Initiative, Myanmar, PHUKET, Pallop Komalodaka, Phil Robertson, Pulitzer Prize, State Department, Thailand, Vol 34 No 31 | July 25 - July 31

Alex Tizon: One Asian man in search of self

June 26, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Daria Kroupoderova Northwest Asian Weekly In the dimly lit basement of Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company on the evening of June 18, Alex Tizon, author of “Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self,” told his audience to turn to one another and say “You’re fat!” with a genuine smile.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2014, Alex Tizon One Asian, Big Little Man, Chinese, Daria Kroupoderova, Everything Tizon, Ferdinand Magellan, Filipino, Los Angeles Times, Northwest Asian Weekly, Philippines, Pulitzer Prize, Seattle Elliott Bay Book Company, Spain, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 33 No 27 | June 28 - July 4

Tacoma native receives Walt Whitman Award for poetry

April 19, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NEW YORK (AP) – A young Korean American poet has received a $5,000 award for first-time writers that also ensures the publication and thousands of sales of her debut collection. Hannah Sanghee Park has won the Walt Whitman Award, the Academy of American Poets announced Wednesday. Park’s book, “The Same-Different,” will be released next year […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, BA, Hannah Sanghee Park, Iowa Writers Workshop, Korean American, Los Angeles, Louisiana State University, MFA, Pulitzer Prize, Rae Armantrout, Vol 33 No 17 | April 19 - April 25, Walt Whitman Award

“Documented” by Vargas gets to heart of immigration debate

April 18, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Evangeline Cafe Northwest Asian Weekly Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas spurred conversations about what it means to be American when he outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in an essay published in the New York Times Magazine in June 2011. Vargas is now shedding more light on his story of heartbreak and […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2011, 2014, Eric Liu, Evangeline Cafe, Jose Antonio Vargas, Mitt Romney, New York Times Magazine, Northwest Asian Weekly, Philippines, President Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize, Seattle, Senate Judiciary Committee, Social Security, United States, Vol 33 No 17 | April 19 - April 25, Washington Post

New immigration policy excludes Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

June 28, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

News that the Obama administration will offer immunity to illegal immigrants under the age of 30 came as a relief to many, including Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who came out last year as an undocumented immigrant. Though the change will affect an estimated 800,000 immigrants, it excludes Vargas, who, at the age […]

Filed Under: Briefs, Community News Tagged With: 2012, Jose Antonio Vargas, Obama, Pulitzer Prize, United States, Vol 31 No 27 | June 30 - July 6, WAKE

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheryl WuDunn raises awareness of gender inequity in Seattle

March 29, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By James Tabafunda NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The title of Sheryl WuDunn’s 2009 New York Times bestseller “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” comes from a Chinese proverb that says “Women hold up half the sky.” Last May, her appearance at the University of Oregon expanded on women’s importance in the world […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2012, Africa, Chinese American, Economic Development, James Tabafunda, New York Times, Oscar-winner Helen Hunt, PBS, Pakistan, Pulitzer Prize, State Department, Tiananmen Square, Vol 31 No 14 | March 31 - April 6, Washington State Convention Center, Women Empowered Campaign, YWCA, Yale University

10 API events that are shaping our lives TODAY

May 12, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

During Asian Pacific Islander (API) Heritage Month, we typically focus on the past — on what has happened and the events that have shaped who we are.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2011, API 2011, American Civil War, Asian Americans, China Defense Minister Liang Guanglie, Chinese Americans, Fukushima Katsunobu Sakurai, Indian American, Japanese Americans, Madame White Snake, Pulitzer Prize, Santa Clara, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sun Microsystems Inc, Sweet Sour, TODAY, United States, Vol 30 No 20 | May 14 - May 20, Zhou Long

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