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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 – January 22

Asian American banks set to rebound from financial crisis?

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Asian Americans started Washington state’s first bank in the 1960s. There are currently close to 10 Asian banks including local, national, and international offices. The Black community still does not have its own bank, and the Latino community founded its Plaza Bank in 2006.

Filed Under: Profiles, Business, Community News Tagged With: 2010, Asian Americans, Assunta Ng, CEO, Chuck Foisie, Douglas Kemper, FDIC, HSBC, Jesse Tam, Las Vegas, Plaza Bank, Rainier Bank, Regal Financial Bank, SBA, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, Washington First International Bank, William Glassford

Skateboard kid becomes a techie, helps design trucks

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Lakota Middle School student, of Filipino and Nigerian ancestry, has been skateboarding for eight years. As he became more skilled, he noticed that most skateboards don’t offer the proper resistance in performing intense feats that he and his friends are capable of.

Filed Under: Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2010, Although Veliz, CEO, Carlos Veliz, ESPN, EXPN, Eleonor Oshitoye, Emmanuel Christian Oshitoye, Filipino, Irfan Shariff, Northwest Asian Weekly, PCSI, Philippines, Seattle Pacific University, United States, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, culture

High-powered businesswomen to speak on climbing the corporate ladder — their way

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

However, on Jan. 29 at China Harbor Restaurant in Seattle, men and women of all ages and ethnicities will get a chance to peek into the conference room as powerful women of various backgrounds, who own their own successful businesses or belong to corporations, convene to talk shop — so to speak.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2010, Business Administration, Carolyn Kelly, City University, Clear Channel Outdoor, Greater Seattle Chapter, Hoh Indian Tribe, King County Executive Randy Revelle, Leslie Jones, Luly Yang, Luly Yang Couture, Mary Pugh, PRR, Paula Boggs, Puget Sound Energy, QFC, Rita Brogan, Seattle Foundation, Snoqualmie Casino, Sound Transit, State Farm, Viola Riebe, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, YWCA

Lights, camera, ka-ching!

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Less than a year after two of India’s favorite actors decamped for Miami to film a romantic comedy, Bollywood mega-star Shahrukh Khan is preparing to make the same trip to shoot one of his country’s first big budget superhero movies.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, Amanda Sodhi, Bollywood Effect, Bollywood West, Brad Pitt, China, Graham Winick, Greater Miami Convention Visitors Bureau, Hollywood East, India, Itty Abraham, Miami Beach, Mumbai, Prashant Shah, Rolando Aedo, South Florida, United States, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, attention, language

Chinese student disputes police stun gun account

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A non-English speaking Chinese college student disputes a Eugene police officer’s account of events that led the officer to shoot the student with a Taser stun gun, the student’s lawyer says.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, Asian Americans, Associated Students, Chinese, City Council, City Police Auditor Mark Gissiner, EUGENE, Lawyer Koleszar, Officer Judd Warden, Police Chief Pete Kerns, Timothy Breen, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22

The U.S. dismisses North Korea’s call for peace treaty

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — On Jan. 11, North Korea proposed signing a peace treaty this year to formally end the Korean War, a suggestion that Washington quickly dismissed.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Baek Seung-joo, China, Foreign Ministry, Korean Central News Agency, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, North Koreans, Obama, Peter Beck, Rival South Korea, SEOUL, Stanford University, State Department, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, Yang Moo-jin, japan

Kids to scavenge in the ID?

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For about a dozen years, Chinatown International District Business Improvement Area (CIDBIA) staff members have organized the International District’s annual Lunar New Year Celebration.

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Cultures Tagged With: 2010, Asian Gallery, CIDBIA, Chinese, International District, Jim Russell, Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year Celebration, Northwest Asian Weekly, Samantha Pak, Vivian Chan, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, Wing Luke Asian Museum, hing hay park

2009, a year of dragon’s magic and new opportunities

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In a year of recession gloom, business closures, and newspapers dying in droves — why are we, a small paper, still here? Why didn’t we fear that Northwest Asian Weekly would be next? Why didn’t we blame the competition that caused us so much grief, such as Craigslist and other Internet advertising? Why do we feel lucky, energized, and strengthened by the economic turmoil?

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: 2008, 2009, 2010, Assunta Ng, China Harbor Restaurant, Chinatown International District, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Howard Chung, King County Assessor Lloyd Hara, Laura Worth, Mary Ann Goto, Mill Creek, Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation, Publisher Ng, Roger Nyhus, Scott Real Estate Co, Seattle Chinese Post, Seattle School Board, State Department, Taiwan, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22

Asian American civil rights groups seek disclosure on ‘special interest countries’

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Dec. 14, two Asian American civil rights organizations, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and the Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDEF), asked the federal government to reveal how Customs and Border Protection agents single out individuals at the border based solely on their national origin.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2010, AALDEF, ALC, Asian American, Border Protection, CBP, FOIA, Sameer Ahmed, San Francisco, Skadden Fellow, Veena Dubal, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22

Editorial: Those massacred for gold get a memorial, 122 years later

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In 1887, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. They wanted the gold dust that the Chinese had painstakingly accumulated. Historians and scholars debate the exact number of miners. Only 11 names are known. The gold was never recovered.

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2010, Chinese, Gregory Nokes, Hells Canyon, North America, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, Without Nokes

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