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APIs not using new immigrant program

November 7, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Although a government program gives undocumented immigrants the opportunity to gain status and prevent the possibility of deportation, few Asian Pacific Islanders are utilizing the program.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2012, 2013, Asian Pacific Americans, Asian Pacific Islanders, DACA, INS, Immigration Services, Jae Jun Brian Lee, Jesica Gonzalez, Korea, Latin American, Lending Circle, Santa Monica Community College, Seattle Joe Crump Hall, UCLA, United States, Vol 32 No 46 | November 9 - November 15

Andrea Akita joins InterIm CDA as director of community and housing services

September 23, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

InterIm Community Development Authority (InterIm CDA) added Andrea Akita as director of community and housing services, effective Sept. 10. She will have oversight of InterIm CDA’s direct housing and homelessness prevention services, the Danny Woo Community Garden program, the Wilderness Inner-City Leadership Development (WILD) program, and sustainable neighborhood planning activities.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2013, Andrea Akita, Danny Woo Community Garden, Human Services Department, Impact Capital, Seattle, Southern California, UCLA, Vol 32 No 39 | September 21 - September 27

EDITORIAL: APAs make advances in education, but where’s the women?

June 20, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Over the past few years, Asian and Pacific Americans have been making great gains in education administration. Two years ago, former Seattle University Dean Wallace Loh became the president of the University or Maryland, College Park and has since guided the university through multiple challenges. North Seattle Community College President Mark Mitsui is headed to […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2013, APA, College Park, Education, Edwina Uehara, Kelly Aramaki, North Seattle Community College President Mark Mitsui, Phyllis Wise, Pima Community College, Seattle Public Schools, Seattle University Dean Wallace Loh, Shoreline Community College President Lee Lambert, UCLA, UW, United States, Vol 32 No 26 | June 22 - June 28, Washington State University

Supreme Court looks at race in college admissions again

October 13, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mark Sherman The Associated Press Washington, D.C. (AP) — Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of a presidential election campaign.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, 2012, Abigail Fisher, African American, Asian American, Century Foundation, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Samuel Alito, Los Angeles, Richard Kahlenburg, Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor, Sugar Land, Supreme Court, Thomas Goldstein, UCLA, UT, Vol 31 No 42 | October 13 - October 19

Janet Liang dies 6 days after receiving bone marrow transplant

September 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Charles Lam Northwest Asian Weekly Janet Liang, the young woman whose battle with cancer went viral online earlier this year, died Tuesday, Sept. 11, at MD

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, 2010, 2012, Asian American, Charles Lam, Far East Movement, Helping Janet Facebook, Janet Liang, Northwest Asian Weekly, Perfect Match, Ryan Higa, UCLA, Vol 31 No 39 | September 22 - September 28, Wong Fu Productions, attention

Immigrants have hard time keeping their kids enrolled in their health insurance

March 22, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Viji Sundaram New America Media When the breadwinner of a Hmong family in Merced, Calif., lost his employer-sponsored health insurance coverage when he got laid off from his job last year, he didn’t think to find a public insurance program for his 5-year-old son. So when his son got sick a few months later […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2012, 2014, African American, California Coverage Health Initiatives, California Health Interview Survey, Gray Davis, Greenlining Institute, Health Benefit Exchanges, Health Outreach Partners, Healthy Families, Jessica Rothaar, Mike Odeh, Odella Recio, Oscar Gomez, Palee Moua, Suzie Shupe, UCLA, Urban Institute, Vol 31 No 13 | March 24 - March 30

A-pop!’s API hall of fame/shame! — The 5 winners and 5 losers of 2011

December 29, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly This year’s list of the top five winners in pop culture sees an emergence not only of new faces that lit up the entertainment industry this past year, but also of a few older faces that returned after being out of the spotlight for some time.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2011, 2012, API, Alexandra Wallace, Asian American, Aung San Suu Kyi, Chinese American, Christian Dior, Hailee Steinfeld, Jo Koy, John Galliano, Ken Jeong, Michelle Yeoh, Project Runway, UCLA, Vol 31 No 1 | December 31 - January 6, japan

Japan basketball team hires first female head coach

December 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — A Japanese American woman became the first female head coach in the history of Japan’s professional men’s basketball league last Thursday, Nov. 24. Natalie Nakase, who has experience as a head coach of a women’s team in Germany, was hired by the Saitama Broncos. She replaces American coach Dean Murray, who […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2011, Basketball League, Bob Hill, Dean Murray, Germany, Los Angeles, NBA, Natalie Nakase, Saitama Broncos, Tokyo Apache, UCLA, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, japan

Hit singer Jimmy Wong on Alexandra Wallace and why angry responses are unproductive

April 7, 2011 By Stacy Nguyen

Last month, former UCLA student Alexandra Wallace posted an ill-conceived YouTube video complaining about Asian students who talked

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2011, Alexandra Wallace, Chinese, David Wong, Des Moines, Don Coscarelli, Fred Chu, Help Japan, Japan Red Cross, Jimmy Wong, Los Angeles, Normandy Park, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Though Asian Americans, UCLA, Vol 30 No 15 | April 9 - April 15

“The X Factor” singing competition looking for API competitors

March 30, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The “X Factor,” a reality show and singing competition by Simon Cowell debuting this fall on FOX, will hold auditions in Seattle on Wednesday, April 20 at The Key Arena….

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment Tagged With: API, Asian Americans, FOX, Seattle, Simon Cowell, UCLA

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