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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban wins Pritzker Prize

March 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has combined a talent for innovative design and experimental use of everyday materials with extensive humanitarian efforts around the globe, has won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2014, Associated Press, Chinese, Cooper Union, Metal Shutter House, New York, Paper Church, Paris, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Rwanda, Shigeru Ban, Taiwan, Tokyo, United States, Vol 33 No 14 | March 29 - April 4, japan

Social entrepreneurs awarded

March 24, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The annual UW Foster School of Business Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) is an international competition in which students from around the world present business solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges — including poverty, health, and development. This year’s competition featured 19 semi-finalist teams from Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Uganda, […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2014, Bangladesh, Global Health, Hong Kong, Manila University, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Tanmay Telang, UW, Uganda, United States, Vietnam, Vol 33 No 13 | March 22 - March 28, poverty, technology

Korean Americans create the Vangrace Project to help school for orphans in Uganda

June 7, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly It was a thunderstorm they had never seen before. Eric Choi, David Chung, and Jay Hahn had landed in Entebbe International Airport in central Uganda. <!–more–> On top of visa and currency issues, they learned that five of their six bags were lost in what they called “the black […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: 2012, AIDS, Africa, David Chung, Donor Effect, Entebbe International Airport, Eric Choi, Ivan Ssewankambo, Jay Hahn, Rwanda, Seattle, Sir David, Vangrace Compassion Uganda, Vangrace Project, Vol 31 No 24 | June 9 - June 15, poverty, technology

Letter: Dogmatic letter misleads

December 17, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

First of all, his letter holds forth from the vantage point of two illusions: If whites had never colonized invaded, raped, enslaved, and abused Africa, it would be paradise — and the idea that if Blacks were given jobs, fair schools, if the [government] kept crack out of the neighborhoods, American cities would be paradises.

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: 2009, Africa, Asia, Chinese, Human Rights, Letter Dogmatic, Mac Crary, New Guinea, Port Orchard, Rwanda, Seattle, Vol 28 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

Kayah Refugees from Myanmar arrive in Maine

September 10, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The latest newcomers to begin settling in Maine’s largest city are Kayah refugees from a mountainous state in Myanmar.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, Afghanistan, Catholic Charities Maine, Congo, Iraq, Myanmar, PORTLAND, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Thailand, Vol 28 No 38 | September 12 - September 18

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