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As habitats vanish, migratory birds flock to N. Korea shores

July 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Talmadge Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — To the untrained eye, it’s just a lot of birds on an otherwise deserted stretch of muddy, flat coastline. But for ornithologists, North Korea’s west coast is a little piece of paradise each spring — and both the birds and a dedicated group of birdwatchers travel a […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Associated Press, Australia, Calidris Tenuirostris, China, David Melville, Keith Woodley, Mount Paektu, Nature Conservation Union, New Zealand, North Korean, Pak Ung, South Asia, South Korea, Vol 34 No 30 | July 18 - July 24

Casting a spell — ESPN makes the National Spelling Bee a high-stakes sport

June 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly “Nunatak.” Any guess as to what the word means? More importantly, how do you spell it? For 14-year-old Gokul Venkatachalam of Chesterfield, Missouri it meant either sharing the glory of being the champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee with 13-year -old Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas or the […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Education, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, ESPN, Indian Americans, Jason Cruz, NBA, NHL, Northwest Asian Weekly, Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion, South Asia, Vanya Shivashankar, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12

The Village Report — Vietnam: Coming to rest and search

April 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly “Where are you from?” he wants to know. The tour guide. It’s 7:45AM and I’m rubbing my eyes in the morning in Dalat. “Asia,” I say, mindlessly. It’s a lifelong question, this sense of fromness. Identity, the search for “who am I?” all that existential angst that only recently […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2015, Cambodia, Dalat Vietnam, Dipika Kohli, India, Ireland, Nha Trang, North Carolina, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh, South Asia, Thailand, Vol 34 No 17 | April 18 - April 24

Nobel: two rival nations, one message of peace

October 19, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Katy Daigle Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — One is Muslim, the other Hindu. One a Pakistani, the other Indian. One a school girl just starting out in life, the other a man with decades of experience.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Alfred Nobel, Ashis Nandy, Associated Press, East Timor, Independent Pakistani, India, Islamabad, Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Committee, Nobel Peace Prize, Oeivind Stenersen, Oslo-based Nobel, Salil Tripathi, South Asia, Thorbjoern Jagland, Vol 33 No 43 | October 18 - October 24, Yitzhak Rabin, poverty

Students come from South Asia to study journalism in Seattle

July 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Twenty journalism students from Bangladesh, Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka arrived in Seattle on June 22. The students are here for five weeks and will be staying at the University of Washington for most of the period. They will be studying topics related to journalism and the media, along with working on community service projects, […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2014, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Seattle, South Asia, Space Needle, Sri Lanka, Vol 33 No 28 | July 5 - July 11

Seattle couple brings medicine, self defense to sex abuse victims in Vietnam

January 9, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly On Dec. 15, Seattle natives Thuy Do and her husband, Jesse Robbins, met Linh Doan, director of One Body Village (OBV) in Cambodia. They had a long day ahead. They would visit two villages, where Do, a doctor, would be examining 30 patients. The villages stand in stark contrast […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, 2014, Father Martino Nguyen Ba Thong, Jesse Robbins, John Nguyen, Krav Maga Renton, Laos, Linh Doan, Malaysia, Mount St, OBV, One Body Village Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Saigon Ho Chi Minh City, South Asia, Stacy Nguyen, UNICEF, United States, Vietnamese, Vol 33 No 3 | January 11 - January 17, poverty

Condition of raped 5-year-old Indian girl improves

April 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nirmala George The Associated Press NEW DELHI, India (AP) — The condition of a 5-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped, raped, and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India’s capital for two days has improved, a doctor said Sunday, April 21 as protests continued over the authorities’ […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress Party, India Gate, Meenakshi Ganguly, New Delhi, New York-based Human Rights Watch, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, South Asia, Vol 32 No 18 | April 27 - May 3

Indian gang rapists charged with murder

January 5, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press NEW DELHI, India — Indian police charged six men with murder on Saturday, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus nearly two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Human Rights Watch, India Indian, Indian Embassy, Jantar Mantar, Kevin Loh, Mamta Sharma, Meenakshi Ganguly, Mount Elizabeth, New Delhi, PTI, Paramjit Singh Gill, Sheila Dikshit, Singapore, Sonia Gandhi, South Asia, Vol 32 No 2 | January 5 - January 11

Rotarians honored for polio work in Africa and South Asia

December 3, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Seattle Rotary Club, the largest Rotary Club in existence, honored former Washington Secretary of State Ralph Munro, as well as six additional members of the Rotary Club International, at a dinner, hosted at the Westin Hotel on Nov. 14. Munro and the team ventured to Africa and South Asia to help eradicate polio. Each […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Afghanistan, Africa, India, Nothern Nigeria, Pakistan, Paul Harris, Ralph Munro, Rotary Club International, Seattle, South Asia, Vol 31 No 49 | December 1 - December 7, Westin Hotel

Obama first to become first president to visit Myanmar

November 17, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jim Kuhnhenn The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit the once pariah nation of Myanmar, drawing attention to the country’s shift to democracy and highlighting what his administration regards as a marquee foreign policy achievement.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Burma, Cambodia, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, East Asia Summit, Hillary Rodham Clinton, International Studies, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Lyndon Johnson, Matthew Goodman, Myanmar, Obama, Richard Nixon, South Asia, Thailand, Vol 31 No 47 | November 17 - November 23, Zaw Htay

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