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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 – January 8

Kudos to the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs

January 4, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs and the City of Seattle received three mentions in a White House Task Force on New Americans Progress Report that was released in late December. The report briefly touches on citizenship outreach partnership with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The document also highlights two of the flagship programs focused on immigrant integration: the Ready […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Immigration Services, Refugee Women, Seattle, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Shoreline Community College staff meet Okinawan officials

January 4, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Shoreline Community College President Cheryl Roberts (center) and Nanjo City Education Superintendent Kaoru Yamashiro (right) listen to Hideo Yasumura, interpreter and a Trustee for the Ryukyu American Historical Research Society. President Roberts was presenting a gift to Nanjo Mayor Keishun Koja with Superintendent Yamashiro accepting the gift on behalf of the mayor. The exchange came […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Hideo Yasumura, Nanjo City Education Superintendent Kaoru Yamashiro, President Roberts, Shoreline Community College President Cheryl Roberts, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Shedding skin at the Wing Luke

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Wing Luke Museum hosted the “Khmer American: Naga Sheds Its Skin” opening exhibit Dec. 10. There was a blessing by Prenz Sa-Ngoun from Watt Dhammacakkaram and a short performance by Sameth Mell, a community advisory member from the Rajana Society. Speakers included Aileen Balahadia, Wing Luke Museum; Channdara Sos, Cambodia National Rescue Organization; and […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Rajana Society, Sameth Mell, Social Welfare, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8, Wing Luke Museum

South Korea, Japan settle deal on wartime Korean sex slaves

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Foster Klug Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan on Monday reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, an important breakthrough for the Northeast Asian powers. The deal, which […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2016, Associated Press, China, Foster Klug, Japanese Embassy, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Korean Peninsula, Mari Yamaguchi, North Korea, Northeast Asian, SEOUL, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Chinese mine boss drowns himself after deadly collapse

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — The owner of a Chinese gypsum mine drowned last Sunday after jumping into a well in an apparent suicide amid rescue efforts for 17 workers still trapped two days after the mine collapsed and killed one person, state media said. Quoting a briefing by the rescue command center, state media said Ma […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, China, Chinese, Ma Congbo, Pingyi County, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Myanmar migrants found guilty of killing British backpackers

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yves Dam Van and Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press KOH SAMUI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai court on Dec. 24 sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort island last year, in a case that raised questions about police competence and the judicial system in Thailand. Human […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, 2016, Asia, Associated Press, DNA, Foreign Office, Hannah Witheridge, Human Rights Watch, Jocelyn Gecker, Koh Samui, Koh Tao, Michael Miller, Myanmar, Nakhon Chompuchat, Phil Robertson, Porntip Rojanasunand, Thailand, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8, Wai Phyo, Win Zaw Htun, Zaw Lin

Japanese mountaineer Kei Taniguchi falls to her death from peak

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Mountaineer Kei Taniguchi fell to her death while climbing this week in the snowy Daisetsuzan range in northern Japan’s Hokkaido. She was 43. Taniguchi, who climbed Mount Everest in 2007, became the first woman to win the prestigious Piolet d’Or (Golden Ice Axe) mountaineering award in 2009. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2016, Alpinist Magazine, Associated Press, China, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Kazuya Hiraide, Kei Taniguchi, Mount Everest, Nepal, Pakistan, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8, japan

SF crime defendant says undercover agent forced money on him

January 2, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sudhin Thanawala Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A key defendant in an organized-crime case in San Francisco’s Chinatown will face more questions from prosecutors after testifying that the undercover agent leading the probe tried to drag him into conversations and force money on him. Under cross-examination by prosecutors on Dec. 22 at his […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Associated Press, Chinatown, Chinese, Leland Yee, Prosecutor William Frenzen, Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow, SF, San Francisco, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8, language

Chinese medicinal herbs provide niche market for US farmers

January 2, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mary Esch Associated Press DELMAR, N.Y. (AP) — Expanding interest in traditional Chinese medicine in the United States is fostering a potentially lucrative new niche market for farmers who plant the varieties of herbs, flowers and trees sought by practitioners. While almost all practitioners still rely on imports from China, dwindling wild stands there, […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, 2016, Associated Press, Blue Ridge Center, China, Cleveland Clinic, DELMAR, Hudson Valley, Jamie Starkey, Jean Giblette, New York, Peg Schafer, Tai Chi, Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission, Traditional Chinese, US, United States, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Unfold the invisible — The myth of “model minority”

January 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuxuan Liu Northwest Asian Weekly U.S. Supreme Court justices are in the midst of hearing a case that sprouted from a controversial affirmative action plan of the University of Texas in 2013. New updates from the Court signal a majority opinion shift against the plan’s legality. If this consensus extends to the final ruling, […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2013, 2016, African Americans, Asian Americans, California Governor Jerry Brown, Chinatown, Chinese Americans, Filipino, Laotian Americans, New York, Pacific Islanders, Presidential Election, South Louisiana, Supreme Court, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8, poverty

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