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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 – February 19

Hip hop and you don’t stop … breaking down Asian stereotypes

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For most high school students, typical after-school activities may include competing in a high school sport, performing in a music group, or planning the layout for the school yearbook.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2010, Although Fung, Andrew Fung, Asian Americans, Asian Student Association, Canary Sing, Cham Ba, Gil Gido, Know Choice, National Association of Asian American Professionals, Sonny Bonoho, Steven Cong, Ulysses Social Media Marketing Company, Vietnamese Student Association, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, Zulu Nation, culture

Asian athletes to represent the U.S. in the 2010 Olympics 

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The 2010 Winter Olympics are hitting close to home, what with them being just over the border in Vancouver, British Columbia. But their location is not the only thing close to home. Hometown short track skaters Apolo Ohno and J.R. Celski are also making a splash in the games.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2010, Apolo Ohno, British Columbia, Delibes Coppelia, Graham Watanabe, Jimmy Jang, Julie Chu, Lake Placid, Mark Ladwig, Michael Weiss, Mirai Nagasu, Pat Wentland, Salt Lake City Olympics, Simon Cho, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, Wilma Boomstra, Winter Olympics, World Cup

Famous tigers to have roaring success in 2010?

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Happy Lunar New Year! This year marks the year of the tiger, the big boys of the safari. Like the animals, those born in the year of the tiger are known for their courage, intelligence, and strength. They are also honest (almost to a fault), resilient, competitive, and vain.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2008, 2009, 2010, Billboard Hot, Black Eyed Peas, Crouching Tiger, Famous Asian, Half Filipino American, Heidi Montag, Hidden Dragon, Kelli Carpenter, Kofi Annan, Masi Oka, Rafael Nadal, Secretary General, Sheryl Crow, Thakoon Panichgul, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, japan

Lunar New Year with modern twists

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For many people who grew up in an Asian American household, the Lunar New Year was always celebrated, whether by going out to a restaurant or watching the annual parade. Despite many cultural differences, the collective wishes and hopes for a community bubbles up during this time of the year.

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Cultures, Food Tagged With: 2010, Asian American, Chinese New Year, Filipino, Food, International District, Lunar New Year, Northwest Asian Weekly, Ryan Pangilinan, Seattle Center, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19

Years later, photographer revisits the Nepalese boy who inspired a gallery

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Sometimes, the smallest moment and a chance encounter can change the course of your life and lead to an adventure beyond the imagination. For Cora Edmonds, director of the ArtXchange Gallery in Seattle, that moment came in a mountain village in a remote region of Nepal.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2008, 2010, First Avenue South, Gyeni Bohara, Hong Kong, Namaste Boy, Namaste Children, Namaste Reunited, Nepal, New Year Fresh Eyes, Phil Crean, Seattle, Shelley Seale, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, Young Gyeni, culture, poverty, technology

Census chief tries to ease immigrants’ fears in Texas

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Police cars and large white vans rumbled down the unpaved road toward the ramshackle houses, where illegal immigrants are among hundreds living in a slapdash Texas neighborhood, or colonia, called San Carlos.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves, Colonias Spanish, Henry Cuellar, LAREDO, Maria Aguirre, San Carlos, South Dakota, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, poverty

U.S. wants out of suit over Chinese detainee’s death

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The alleged neglect and death of a terminally ill Chinese immigrant detained in a Rhode Island jail two years ago triggered scathing reports and investigations. There has been a wide-ranging federal lawsuit and hand-wringing over who was responsible.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, American Civil Liberties Union, Bill Fischer, Brian Hale, Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation, Chinese, District Judge William Smith, Fidelma Fitzpatrick, Hiu Lui Jason Ng, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Marshals Service, New York, PROVIDENCE, Penn State, Rhode Island, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Steven Brown, United States, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19

Alaska student building a Tonga library

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

She has books piled in a bin outside her cubicle at work. She has books stacked in boxes under her desk. She has heaps of books in her apartment and bundles of books in her car. She has boxes and boxes and more boxes of books stacked in a corner of a friend’s office. Children’s books, history books, computer books, science books, memoirs, biographies, fiction, non-fiction. From math to romance.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, Anchorage Public Libraries, Clare Stockert, Clark Middle School, Fiji, Latiume Kaufusi, Martin Luther King Day, New Zealand, South Pacific, Tonga, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, poverty

India successfully tests nuclear-capable missile

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NEW DELHI (AP) — India again successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile on Sunday, Feb. 7, that can hit targets across much of Asia and the Middle East, a defense ministry press release said.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Asia, China, India, Middle Eastern, Mumbai, Pakistan, Russia, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, Wheeler Island

Toyota loses some of its luster in same-name hometown over recalls

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Rising out of the barren winter rice fields of central Japan, this city of 400,000 people is probably the most Toyota-friendly place on the planet. Renamed after the company 51 years ago, it hosts the corporate headquarters as well as enormous factories. It is beholden to the automaker for tens of thousands of jobs and the bulk of its tax income.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Active Safety, Akari Mizunaga, Akio Toyoda, Europe, GM, Hideki Nagata, Intelligent Safety, Jun Morikawa, Kazuhide Ueyama, Maybe Toyota, Passive Safety, Switzerland, Tokyo, Toyota Town, United States, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, japan

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