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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 – January 22

mamnoon owners bring Middle Eastern flavors to Amazon

January 18, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

This month, employees and visitors to Amazon’s new Doppler campus will be able to savor juice and vegetarian dishes at anar, a restaurant by Racha and Wassef Haroun. Influenced by Middle Eastern flavors found at sibling restaurant, mamnoon on Capitol Hill, anar (pomegranate in Farsi) offer juices, teas, Turkish iced coffee, non-alcoholic cocktails, as well […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Capitol Hill, Middle Eastern, Racha Haroun, Seattle, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, Wassef Haroun

RVC’s Vu Le named an under 40 leader by national paper

January 18, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

DC-based newspaper on nonprofit issues, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, released its annual “40 Under 40: Young Leaders Who Are Solving the Problems of Today — and Tomorrow,” a list of leaders across the nation that The Chronicle​ selected as people under age 40 to watch as they craft innovative new approaches to entrenched problems. Among […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Henry Timms, Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Tedesco, RVC, Rainier Valley Corps, Seattleite Vu Le, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, blog

Renton’s Lita Cruz releases new dance and pop album

January 18, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Lita Cruz’s new album, “Starless Starr: Sing and Dance With Me,” was release the first week of January by independent record label Tate Music Group. Cruz is a teacher and a musician who grew up in the Philippines and immigrated to America in 1991. Also a Dallas resident, Cruz was awarded the Jet Setter and […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Lita Cruz, Philippines, Tate Music Group, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22

Frieda Takamura appointed to Renton Tech’s board

January 18, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Frieda Takamura to Renton Technical College’s board of trustees, a term she will serve through Sept. 30, 2020. Takamura was president of the Renton Education Association from 1988–91 and taught junior high and high schools in Renton, Walla Walla, and Crawfordsville, Ind. She previously was the human and civil rights program […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Frieda Takamura, Jay Inslee, Renton Education Association, Renton Technical College, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, Walla Walla, Washington Education Association, Whitman College

KAC–WA November reception features Ross Andrew Winery

January 18, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Nov. 18, 2015, the Washington state chapter of the Korean American Coalition (KAC–WA) held a networking reception at 10 degrees in Capitol Hill that featured Ross Andrew from Ross Andrew Winery as keynote speaker. Fifty KAC–WA members and special guests, such as representatives from OneAmerica, attended the event. Guests chose the Celilo pinot gris […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, Capitol Hill, Ross Andrew Winery Photo, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22

Thai cosmetics company pulls ad depicting blackface

January 17, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK (AP) — “You just need to be white to win.”

A skin-whitening ad in Thailand featuring that slogan alongside a famous actress in blackface makeup sparked such outrage that the company pulled it Friday, Jan. 8, just a day after releasing it. The retraction did little, however, to stem a debate the ad ignited about the regularity of racist advertisements in the Southeast Asian country.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, 2016, Associated Press, Black Man, CEO, Cris Horwang, Dunkin Donuts, Miss Thailand World, Nattasuda Anusonadisai, Nonthawan Thongleng, Seoul Secret, Southeast Asian, TV, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, attention, social media

Seoul delivers barrage of K-pop music across border to North Korea

January 17, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea tries to get under the skin of its archrival with border broadcasts that feature not only criticism of North Korea’s nuclear program, troubled economy and human rights abuses, but also a unique homegrown weapon: K-pop.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Associated Press, Big Bang, IU, Kakao Talk, Lee Ae-ran, Manuel Noriega, North Koreans, Panama, SEOUL, South Korean, TV, USB, Vatican Embassy, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, attention, culture

Jury convicts gangster in SF Chinatown crimes

January 16, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A one-time gang tough nicknamed “Shrimp Boy” who insisted he had changed his ways through meditation and become a role model for wayward youth has been convicted of racketeering, murder and scores of other crimes in a major organized crime investigation in San Francisco’s Chinatown that also brought down a state senator.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Allen Leung, Associated Press, Chinatown, Curtis Briggs, FBI, Kristin Bender, Leland Yee, Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow, Rory Little, San Francisco, Senior District Judge Charles Breyer, Susan Badger, Tony Serra, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, attention

Hawaii plantation to stop growing sugar

January 16, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s last sugar plantation is getting out of the sugar-growing business, signaling the end of an industry that once powered the local economy and lured thousands of immigrants to the islands.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Alexander Baldwin Inc, Associated Press, Brian Schatz, CEO, China, Christopher Benjamin, Hawaiian Commercial Sugar, Hawaiian Kingdom, Korea, Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa, Philippines, Portugal, United States, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, West Coast

Clinton woos Asian Americans, slams ‘hateful’ GOP rhetoric

January 16, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. (AP) — On Jan. 7, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton courted Asian American voters, telling members of the nation’s fastest growing racial minority that she disagrees with the “hateful rhetoric” of her Republican challengers.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, 2012, 2016, Alma Harrison, Asian Americans, Filipino, GOP, James Sobredo, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Ninio Fetalvo, Pacific Islanders, Philippines, Republican National Committee, Sacramento State University, San Francisco, San Gabriel Valley, Southern California, Suzette Lopez, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22

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