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Oregon aviation firm tackling its first project in India

February 28, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Greg Stiles Mail Tribune MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Erickson, an American aircraft manufacturing and operating company based in Oregon, is gearing up for its first project in India, where they’ve signed a deal to install nearly 160 power transmission towers. In typical Erickson fashion, the project is in a remote region fraught with challenges […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Andy Mills, Beas River, China, India, Jhelum River, MEDFORD, Mail Tribune, Middle Himalayas, Pakistan, Pir Panjal, S64 Aircrane, Silk Road, Sterlite Grid Ltd, Sterlite Technologies, Three Erickson, Vol 35 No 9 | February 27 - March 4, Zaskar Range

Chief Court Musician, Hiroaki Tohgi on goodwill visit to Seattle

April 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Japan Arts Connection Lab (JACLab) will be bringing Noh + Opera as well as Jiuta (“Music of Kyoto’s pleasure quarters”) performances to Seattle audiences. This year, there will be a goodwill visit to Seattle by the Chief Court Musician of Japan’s Imperial Household Agency, Hiroaki Tohgi. He will be presenting through the week of May […]

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2015, Allen Library Auditorium, Brechemin Auditorium, DEMONSTRATION, Heian-era Japan, Hiroaki Tohgi, Imperial Household Agency, Japan Arts Connection Lab, LECTURE, New York, Puget Sound, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Silk Road, UW, Vol 34 No 17 | April 18 - April 24, culture

When two worlds become one

February 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya By Nagaru Tanigawa Little, Brown and Company, 2013 As in the previous book, the latest installment in the Haruhi Suzumiya series features two different versions of the same story and continues where the last one ended. The first version begins with Kyon, Haruhi, time-traveler […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Central Asia, China, Chinese, Europe, Hanne Schubert, Haruhi Suzumiya, Iran, Japanese Noh, Noodle Road, Riverhead Books, San Francisco, Silk Road, Vol 33 No 7 | February 8 - February 14, Yuki Nagato, culture

Silk’s dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons

September 2, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

KOKAND, Uzbekistan (AP) — For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing it since she was 8.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2010, Agriculture Ministry, Although Soviet-era, China, Dilorom Nishanova, Ganikhon Mamatkhonov, Hisham Greiss, India, KOKAND, Kakhhor Yavkashtiyev, Rustam Zakhidov, Silk Road, Silver Silk, South Korea, Uzbek Ipagi, Vol 29 No 36 | September 4 - September 10, Western Europe, attention, japan, uzbekistan

Maggie Q: Good Hollywood roles rare for Asians

October 25, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

HONG KONG (AP) — Despite landing roles alongside Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis, Maggie Q says Asian actors still have a hard time getting good roles in Hollywood movies.

Filed Under: News, Arts & Entertainment, Profiles, World News Tagged With: 2008, Asia, Bruce Willis, China, Chinese, Die Hard, Hong Kong, Maggie Quigley, Silk Road, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Tom Cruise, Vietnamese, vol 27 no 44 | October 25 - October 31

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