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Hmong American poet wins prize for best debut

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A Hmong American poet is this year’s winner of the Walt Whitman Award, given for an outstanding debut book. The Academy of American Poets told The Associated Press March 23 that 34-year-old Mai Der Vang will receive a $5,000 cash prize and a six-week residency in Umbria, Italy. Her collection “Afterland,” inspired by the flight […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Graywolf Press, Hmong American, Laos, Mai Der Vang, Vietnam War, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8, Walt Whitman Award

Taylor Hoang awarded Courage Award

November 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Crosscut.com Taylor Hoang is the recipient of Crosscut’s 2015 Courage Award for business. This year’s winners were honored at the annual Courage Awards Breakfast on Oct. 29 at Benaroya Hall. In the heat of last year’s debate over raising Seattle’s minimum wage, it became clear to Hoang that minority and immigrant business owners were largely […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Benaroya Hall, Ethnic Business Coalition, Ethnic Seattle, Huong Binh, Little Saigon, Niv Cousins, Pho Cyclo Caf, Rainier Valley, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, Taylor Hoang, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 46 | November 7 - November 13, West Seattle, attention, social media

Missions, mysteries, mathematics

November 6, 2015 By Samantha Pak

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Sun Gods By Jay Rubin Chin Music Press, 2015 It’s the late 1950s and Bill Morton is about to graduate from college. He’s with a young woman he loves and is considering marrying, and the two of them have plans to do missionary work abroad after they graduate. […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2014, 2015, Although Decoded, Bill Morton, Chin Music Press, Las Vegas, Norton Company, Purple Code, Rong Abacus Lillie, Rong Jinzhen, Samantha Pak, Seattle Japanese, United States, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, Vol 34 No 46 | November 7 - November 13

SE Asian intrigue — Selections to cover those extra summer hours

July 3, 2015 By Samantha Pak

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Singapore Noir Edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Akashic Books, 2014 For many people, when they think of Singapore, a few words and phrases may come to mind: caning, chewing gum, no littering, fines, and new-money wealth. But as clean as people think the streets may be, there is more […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2014, 2015, Akashic Books, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Down Syndrome, Lao Communist Party, Laos, Los Angeles, North Vietnamese, Northwest Asian Weekly, Siri Paiboun, Soho Press, South Vietnamese, United States, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 28 | July 4 - July 10

‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns — with iPhone, Instagram

June 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ted Anthony Associated Press TRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) — He stands in the northbound lane of Vietnam’s Highway 1, traffic swirling around him, horns honking. He is pointing. Right there, he says — that’s where it happened. That’s where the screaming children appeared. That’s where I made the picture that the world couldn’t forget. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, David Campbell, England, Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Van Bon, Huynh Cong Nick Ut, Kim Phuc, South Vietnamese, Sushi World, Ted Anthony, Trang Bang, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 25 | June 13 - June 19, attention, technology

McCain: Allow sale of defensive weapons to Vietnam

June 7, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — America needs to provide Vietnam with more defensive weapons, U.S. Sen. John McCain said Saturday as tensions in the Asia Pacific region heightened over China’s expanding land reclamation projects in the South China Sea. But U.S. efforts so far are focused on delivering some of the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Amnesty International, Asia Pacific, Associated Press, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Foreign Ministry, Hua Chunying, Obama, Russia, South China Sea, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12

1,000 survivors of violence, hunger at sea land in SE Asia

May 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Fakhrurradzie Gade and Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press LANGSA, Indonesia (AP) — More than 1,000 people fleeing persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh landed in several places in Southeast Asia, describing killings, extortion, and near-starvation after a harrowing journey at sea. An increasingly alarmed United Nations warned against “floating coffins” and urged regional leaders […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Ban Ki-moon, Farhan Haq, Indonesia, Langsa General Hospital, Malaysia, Manu Abudul Salam, Myanmar, North Sumatra, Phang Nga, Prayoon Rattanasenee, Saidul Islam, Southeast Asia, Surin Islands, Thailand, United Nations, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 22 | May 23 - May 29, Ye Htut

Fundraiser for Nepal

May 22, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NAAAP-Seattle had a unique celebration of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month and helped raise funds for the earthquake victims of Nepal on May 15. The event started off with a mixer at Eastern Café. Afterwards, Dr. Connie So, Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington’s American Ethnic Studies department, presented on stereotypes of API Americans in […]

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2015, American Ethnic Studies, Connie So, Nepal, US, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, Vol 34 No 22 | May 23 - May 29

500 Rohingya from Myanmar land in Indonesia

May 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Margie Mason and Robin McDowell Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)  — Boats carrying more than 500 members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed ashore in western Indonesia on Sunday, with some people in need of medical attention, officials and a nonprofit organization said. They warned that thousands more are believed to be stranded […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Ali Kotarumalos, Arakan Project, Associated Press, Chris Lewa, Indonesia, JAKARTA, Malacca Straits, Malaysia, Muhammad Juned, Myanmar, North Korea, Rashid Ahmed, Risky Hidayat, Steve Hamilton, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 21 | May 16 - May 22, attention

A-pop! Notes on the Oscars… — And more TV shows featuring Asian Americans

March 9, 2015 By Vivian Nguyen

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Happy February! Between the Academy Awards to the launch of America’s first all-Asian starring cast on TV since the 90s, this month has been full of news and events. Read on to find out the latest in Hollywood. The 87th Academy Awards This year’s Oscars host, actor Neil Patrick […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2015, ABC, Academy Awards, Best Animated Film Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Live Action Short Film, Big Hero, Butter Lamp La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak, Disney Junior, Episode Premiere, Hiro Hamada, Hu Wei, Randall Park, Ryan Potter, Sucker Punch, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 10 | February 28 - March 6, Yoshiaki Nishimura, technology

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