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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 – December 9

Glitter gala raises $220,000 for Seattle Goodwill

December 5, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Nov. 9, Seattle Goodwill held its annual Glitter Gala at the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle. The event raised $220,000, which will benefit Goodwill’s job training and education programs.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2011, Bender Cunningham, Glitter Gala, KISS, Ken Colling, Seattle Goodwill, Sheraton Hotel, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, Wayne Lau

Robert Chinn Foundation presents 2011 Asian Hall of Fame awards

December 5, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

  Known as the “Robbies,” since 2004, the Asian Hall of Fame awards, given by the Robert Chinn Foundation, serve to honor people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent who have greatly contributed to the American experience. The awards event took place on Nov. 19 at the Asian Resource Center.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2011, Asian Resource Center, Charlotte Bobcats General Manager Richard Cho, Eleanor Concepcion Mariano, George Tsutakawa, Pacific Islander, Robert Chinn Foundation, Teddy Zee, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, White House

Lao Heritage Foundation holds Fifth Annual Benefit Dinner

December 5, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Nov. 12, the Lao Heritage Foundation’s Northwest chapter held its Fifth Annual Benefit Dinner at New Hong Kong Seafood Restaurant in the International District.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2011, International District, Lao Heritage Foundation, Pom Outama Khampradith, Seattle, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9

Seattle Parks and Recreation presents Denny Awards to volunteers

December 5, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Nov. 29, Seattle Parks and Recreation presented six awards to individuals and entities that have volunteered time and energy to improving Seattle’s parks and programs.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2011, Best New Resource Award, Board Chair Nancy Chang, Community Stewardship Award, Corporate Partner Award, Denny Awards, Seattle Parks, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9

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

Glory days for soccer in tiny American Samoa

December 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

APIA, Samoa (AP) — Two days after winning for the first time in its soccer history, American Samoa stretched its unbeaten run to two games.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2011, American Samoan, Australia, Cook Islands, England, FIFA, Johnny Saelua, MLS, Paavo Mustonen, San Marino, Shalom Luani, South Pacific, Tala Luvu, Thomas Rongen, Tonga, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, World Cup

Vietnam vet shares his dark history, one peck at a time

December 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Donald Bradley The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — At the very worst of times, John W. Nash came clean. “If I tell you what I did over there, you won’t love me anymore,” he told his wife.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, Air Force, Bronze Star, Cass County, Da Nang, Germany, Jenny King, John Nash, Kansas City, Marine Corps, PTSD, San Diego, So John, Union Station, Viet Cong, Vietnamese, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9

China’s school bus donation to Macedonia derided and criticized

December 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Louise Watt Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s donation of school buses to tiny Macedonia has touched off derision online, where Chinese have called the gift ill-considered given their country’s poor safety record and a recent crash that killed 19 preschoolers.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Associated Press, China Daily, Chinese Embassy, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Foreign Affairs, Renmin University, Sina Corp, Sina Weibo, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, Zhang Ming, Zheng Yuanjie

Obama, Clinton gamble on Myanmar

December 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Lee The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is taking a foreign policy gamble by sending Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on a historic trip to the isolated Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar this week. The administration is betting that the first visit to the country, also known as Burma, […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, China, Chinese, Foreign Ministry, Hillary Clinton, Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar, National League, Nobel Peace, President Barack Obama, South Korea, Southeast Asian, State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vice President Xi Jinping, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9

Reader’s Corner: Forced to flee: voices and visions from the Thai-Burma border, put on paper

December 2, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Erika Berg For Northwest Asian Weekly In September 2007, the world’s attention was riveted by video footage of never-ending columns of saffron-robed monks streaming through the streets of Burma. Overnight, the government had removed all fuel subsidies, spiking food prices. Moved by the people’s despair, tens of thousands of Buddhist monks took to the […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi, Erika Berg, Human Rights, Mae Sot, Metta Sutta, Reader Corner Forced, Seattle, Thai Burma, Thailand, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, attention

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