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“A world without refugees” — Remembering Luke T. Lee, father, and a fighter for human rights

June 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sharon Lee Special for Northwest Asian Weekly This is the first time I will not be calling my dad and sending him a card on Father’s Day. It is hard to express this sad and empty feeling from losing a parent.  Luke T. Lee passed away suddenly in January at age 91 from Parkinson’s […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Assistant Secretary, China, Chinese, Columbia University, Executive Director, International Law Association, LIHI, Northwest Asian Weekly, Patsy Mink, President Jimmy Carter, Sharon Lee, State Department, UNICEF, Vol 34 No 26 | June 20 - June 26, japan

China planning for an extra 2 million babies per year

June 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press BEIJING (AP) – China is preparing for 2 million extra babies each year as a result of a loosening of its “one child per family” birth limits that will allow more couples to have two children, Chinese health officials said on May 29.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Beijing, China, Chinese, Communist Party, UNICEF, Vol 33 No 24 | June 7 - June 13, Wang Guoqing, Zhang Shikun

Children become latest victims of Thai violence

March 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Thanyarat Doksone Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) – The father grimaced and wept, as he struggled to contain his grief at the death of his two children in a grenade attack during a weekend trip to a mall in downtown Bangkok — the latest casualties in Thailand’s months of political crisis.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Democrat Party, KFC, Kamthorn Auicharoen, Prayuth Chan-ocha, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Tayakorn Yos-ubon, Thailand, UNICEF, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7

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

Youthful voice: “How to help combat global poverty”

August 26, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Global poverty is on the rise because food prices are increasing. It is estimated that more than 100 million people may fall into poverty because of the food price increase. More than 3 billion people in the world live on less than $2.50 each day. And more than 22,000 children die every day due to not having enough money to buy food, and more than 200 million children are undernourished. Poverty affects more than 1 billion children in the world …

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Jessica Singh, Northwest Asian Weekly, Red Cross, SYLP, Summer Youth Leadership Program, UNICEF, United States, Youth issue, poverty

Health officials say India is close to wiping out polio

October 29, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nirmala George The Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has not had a case of polio in nine months, raising hopes the country is on the verge of defeating the disease, health officials said Monday, Oct. 24.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Afghanistan, Asia, Australia, Europe, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, India, Nata Menabde, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rod Curtis, UNICEF, Uttar Pradesh, Vol 30 No 44 | October 29 - November 4, WHO, West Bengal, World Health Organization, World Polio Day

BLOG: Child protection in Darfur

July 29, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Xin Huang Northwest Asian Weekly July 21th, 2010 Today, on July 21st, the United Nations signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) regarding child protection in Darfur. It is recognized as a landmark deal in humanitarian issues in the Darfur area. On July 10–11, 2008, the Geneva centered dialogue based […]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: 2008, Ahmed Hussain Adam, Humanitarian Adviser, JEM, Nils Kastberg, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pacific Lutheran University, Sudan, Sulieman Mohammed Jamous, Switzerland, UNICEF, United Nations Children, Xin Huang

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