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Spotlight on Sri Lanka — 10th Annual Seattle South Asian Film Festival

October 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The 10th Annual Seattle South Asian Film Festival (SSAFF), opening on October 15th, showcases Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), an island country near southeast India. The Tasveer organization, parent organization of the SSAFF, chose Sri Lanka to showcase for several reasons, according to Dr. Alka Kurian, co-director of the Festival.  […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles, At the Movies Tagged With: 2015, Alka Kurian, Andrew Hamlin, Annual Seattle South Asian Film Festival, Hemal Trivedi, Human Rights, India, Mister Comes Tomorrow, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pakistan, Prasanna Vithanage, Rucha Humnabadkar, SSAFF, Shamas Nawab Siddiqui, Sri Lankan, USA, Vol 34 No 42 | October 10 - October 16, technology

Checkmate! – Nakamura wins and Seattle kids learn chess

March 12, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Did you know that one of the best chess players in the world is American? Japanese American Hikaru Nakamura is known as a chess grandmaster at only 27 years of age. Nakamura’s success underscores the success and popularity the game of chess has among Asian Americans. Born in Japan, […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Asian Americans, Bobby Fischer, Checkmate Nakamura, Great Britain, India, Japanese American Hikaru Nakamura, Jason Cruz, Lake Washington, National Master Elliot Neff, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle Tacoma Eastside, Sri Lankan, Stanley Wong, United States Chess Federation, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20

SSAFF 2014 awards announced — Sri Lankan filmmaker receives Tasveer Emerald Award

November 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithana was awarded at the 9th annual Seattle South Asian Film Festival Sunday evening with a screening of his film, “With You, Without You.”

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: AAINA, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Closing Night Reception, Deepti Naval, India, Kanu Behl, Maldives, Pakistan, Prasanna Vithana, SSAFF, Seattle South Asian Film Festival Sunday, South Asian International Documentary Festival, South Asians, Sri Lankan, TITLI, Tasveer Emerald Award

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

Calif. gov. signs bill on accurate info gathering on AAPIs

October 21, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

  Assembly Bill (AB) 1088 requires two key state agencies to include the full spectrum of Asian American (AA) ethnicities, as well as Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) ethnicities, in their data collection, consistent with the groups reported by the U.S. Census.  

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2011, AB, Asian Americans, Assemblymember Eng, Census Bureau, Chinese, Filipino, Governor Brown, Korean, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Sri Lankan, Vol 30 No 43 | October 22 - October 28

Asian foods to be featured at Vegfest

March 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Asian foods are among the 500 different kinds of food featured at this year’s Vegfest, to be held March 26 and March 27 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2011, Chan Hwang, Chao Dao, Dilmah Tea, Lucky Foods, Morinaga Nutritional Foods, Pranee Halvorsen, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Sri Lankan, Tacoma Family Medicine Residency, Thailand, UBC, United States, Vegetarian Pacific Northwest, Vol 30 No 12 | March 19 - March 25

NWAW reviews SIFF films: the good, the bad, and the plain ugly

May 19, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Each year during the Seattle International Film Festival, we send out a team of intrepid film reviewers who are ready and willing to spend hours and hours

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Reviews, At the Movies Tagged With: 2010, Admiral Theater, Everett Performing Arts Center, Harvard Exit, James Tabafunda, Jason Cruz, Kazakhstan Mongolian, Little Zhou, NWAW, Neptune Theater, Neptune Theatre, Pacific Place Cinema, SIFF, Seattle International Film Festival, Sri Lankan, Ulan Bator, Vol 29 No 21 | May 22 - May 28, japan

Do traditional weddings have a place in the 21st century?

July 8, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Weddings: They can be a dream, but they can also turn into a nightmare.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Cultures Tagged With: Anna Dumo Navarro, Bastyr University, Charmi Wijesekera, Chinese, Evangelical Christianity, Filipino, Korean, Lizzie Oberlander, Northwest Asian Weekly, Ryan Pangilinan, Sri Lankan, Though Navarro, Vietnamese, blog, culture, vol 28 no 29 | July 11 - July 17

Sri Lanka military helps 35,000 civilians flee

April 22, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Bharatha Mallawarachi The Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A thick line comprising thousands of Sri Lankan civilians — with only a handful of backpacks for belongings among them — streamed out of the last sliver of land held by rebels on Monday, April 20. Video footage provided by the air force showed […]

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: APTN, COLOMBO, Keheliya Rambukwella, New York, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Robert Wood, Sri Lankan, State Department, Tamil Tigers, Television News, Udaya Nanayakkara, Velupillai Prabhakaran

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