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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 – May 18

Kin On raises $10,000 for Asian seniors at South China Benefit Dinner

May 14, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Kin On raised $10,000 at its South China Benefit Dinner with the help of more than 90 volunteers, including Jerry Lee, president of MulvannyG2 Architecture and member of Kin On’s board of directors, University of Washington students, the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association, the Chinese Baptist Church Boy Scouts Troop 254, and many others. […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association, Chinese Baptist Church Boy Scouts Troop, Jerry Lee, Kin On, MulvannyG2 Architecture, South China Benefit Dinner, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18

Chinese American youth wins grand prize in the Art Institutes’ 2012 Passion for Fashion scholarship competition

May 14, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

The Art Institutes schools announced Mary Lum of Cornelius, Ore. as their grand prize winner of the 2012 Passion for Fashion scholarship competition. Lum’s entry helped her win a half-tuition scholarship to study fashion design and fashion marketing and merchandising and fashion retail management at the Art Institute of Portland. For her entry, Lum submitted […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2012, Art Institutes, Chinese American, DKNY, New York City, Seventeen Magazine, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18

Community members greet the China National Women’s Basketball Team at reception dinner

May 14, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

On May 7, about 120 people, including local community leaders, turned out for a dinner at Ocean City Restaurant in the International District to greet the players of the China National Women’s Basketball Team. Assunta Ng, publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly, organized the dinner. Notable attendees included Sun Fengwu, head coach of the Chinese […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Albert Shen, Assunta Ng, Basketball Team, China National Women, Chinese, Felicity Wang, International District, Karen Bryant, Mei Young Emceed, Northwest Asian Weekly, Ocean City Restaurant, Seattle Storm, Sun Fengwu, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18

Jay Inslee and Organizing for America open office on Rainier Avenue South

May 14, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Jay Inslee and Organizing for America opened their office last week on 901 Rainier Avenue South at the corner of South Charles Street and Rainier Avenue South. The office opening was marked by a visit from Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, and nearly 700 people. The office will serve as […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee, Jay Inslee, President Obama, Rainier Avenue South, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18

Appetites for shark fin wane in Chicago’s Chinatown

May 12, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Sophia Tareen The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) ― Like other herb shops in Chinatown, the glass jars lining shelves at Yin Wall City offer floral teas, shitake mushrooms, and a seafood product that looks strangely like dried corn husks, one that sparks controversy even hundreds of miles from the ocean it was taken from. […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, Annie Wu, Anthony Yu, Chicago Democrat, Chicago River, Chinatown, Chinese President Hu Jintao, David Hoy, East Asian Studies, Education, Illinois House, Morgan Ng, Peter Knights, Sara Feigenholtz, South Side, Theodore Foss, Tony Hu, Triple Crown, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18, Won Kow Restaurant, Yin Wall City

All eyes on Gary Locke during activist crisis

May 12, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) ― As a former U.S. commerce secretary and governor of Washington state, Gary Locke wasn’t considered much of a heavyweight on human rights when he became the first Chinese American ambassador to Beijing last year. Trade and maintaining smooth relations between Washington and its biggest foreign creditor […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Beijing, Bob Fu, Chen Guangcheng, China, Chinese American, Chinese Internet, During Chen, Eagle Scout, Frank Wolf, Mandarin Chinese, Mitt Romney, Obama, Seattle, Tiananmen Square, United States, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18, gary locke

Ex-junta prisoner Suu Kyi takes office in Myanmar

May 12, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman The Associated Press NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) ― Aung San Suu Kyi capped a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to office holder in long-repressed Myanmar as the country’s main opposition party moved its struggle for democratic rule inside government for the first time.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, 2012, 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Maung Zarni, Myanmar, NAYPYITAW, NLD, Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, President Thein Sein, Soe Aung, State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Suu Kyi-led, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18, censorship

COMMENTARY: A long look at Seattle’s sister city Chongqing amidst the Bo Xilai scandal

May 11, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Wendy Liu For Northwest Asian Weekly When Robert Kapp, founding executive director of the Washington State China Relations Council, first lobbied Governor Dixy Lee Ray for a state-to-province relationship between Washington and Sichuan, it was 1980. With the Washington-Sichuan relationship formally established in 1982, Mayor Charles Royer thought it made sense for Seattle to […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2012, Beijing, Bo Xilai, Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan, Chongqing Model, Communist Party, Governor Dixy Lee Ray, Joe Borich, Lin Biao, Mayor Charles Royer, Mayor Charley, Seattle, Sichuan Washington, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18, Washington State China Relations Council, Wendy Liu

Cooking and eating with Mom — Food writers share stories about their mothers and food

May 10, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly 1 Comment

Compiled by Pat Tanumihardja For Northwest Asian Weekly For many, food is the link to cultural roots, the lens through which we view our

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Food Tagged With: 2010, 2012, Alice Currah, Chinese, Christine Ng, Dave Nguyen, Denise Sakaki, Jen Chiu, Mom Food, Mother Day, Mother's Day 2012, Pat Tanumihardja, Shirley Karasawa, Tom Douglas Culinary Summer Camp, Vietnam, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18, blog, culture, turkey

Gamelan Pacifica creates harmony among musicians

May 10, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

By Gabrielle Kazuko Nomura Northwest Asian Weekly From outside Cornish College of the Arts’ Kerry Hall, it may seem like just another

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2012, Cornish College, East Roy St, Gabrielle Kazuko Nomura, Gamelan Pacifica, Indonesia, Jarrad Powell, Jesse Snyder, Jessika Kenney, Ki Midiyanto, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Southeast Asia, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18

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