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You are here: Home / Archives for VOL 38 NO 4 | JANUARY 19 – JANUARY 25

Seattle Kung Fu club wins 18 medals

January 21, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Seattle Kung Fu club brought home 18 medals in October 2018, when it participated in China’s Shaolin Kung Fu competition. Over 80,000 people attended the event, and 240 groups entered. Forty people from Seattle Kung Fu club participated, including the club’s founder — grandmaster John Leong, and his son, Robert Leong. Seattle Kung Fu club […]

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Hon. Andrea Chin sworn-in

January 21, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Hon. Andrea Chin was sworn-in on Jan. 14 for her first judicial term on the Seattle Municipal Court bench. A Seattle native who grew up in the Mount Baker neighborhood, Chin is a graduate of Occidental College and Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. After law school, Chin returned to Seattle to serve as an […]

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Judge C. Kimi Kondo retirement

January 21, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

After 28 years of service with the Seattle Municipal Court, Judge C. Kimi Kondo retired on Jan. 11. She was the first Asian American woman appointed to the bench in the State of Washington. Kondo earned dual degrees in political science and journalism from the University of Idaho and her Juris Doctorate degree from the […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 4 | JANUARY 19 - JANUARY 25

Chamber Music Northwest’s new artistic directors

January 21, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Chamber Music Northwest announced that it has selected Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim as its next artistic directors. A husband and wife team, both are internationally-renowned performers—Chien a pianist, Kim a violinist—and experienced music presenters. David Shifrin, Chamber Music Northwest’s artistic director for nearly 40 seasons, is stepping down after the 2020 Summer Festival. Shifrin […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 4 | JANUARY 19 - JANUARY 25

China sentences Canadian to death, raises diplomatic tension

January 20, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By YANAN WANG and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and ROB GILLIES Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death on Jan. 14 in a drug smuggling case as tensions heightened between the two countries over Canada’s arrest last month of a top Chinese technology executive. In a sudden retrial, a Chinese […]

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China says it exchanged data with NASA on far side landing

January 20, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By YANAN WANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China exchanged data with NASA on its recent mission to land a Chinese spacecraft on the far side of the moon, the Chinese space agency said on Jan. 14, in what was reportedly the first such collaboration since an American law banned joint space projects with China […]

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California man held for alleged theft of $10M lottery ticket

January 19, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a California man they say tried to steal his roommate’s $10 million winning lottery ticket. Vacaville police arrested Adul Saosongyang on Jan. 7 at a California Lottery office in Sacramento where he’d been told to go to collect his winnings. Police say the winning Scratchers ticket was bought […]

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Japanese internment take focus in new college course

January 19, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By MATT HOFFMAN The Billings Gazette BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Heart Mountain looms above the Cody, Wyoming-area landscape, visible from miles around. Its namesake World War II-era Japanese internment camp is less apparent. That’s part of why Montana State University-Billings is offering a course dedicated to the Heart Mountain site, an internment camp that held […]

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Some help, more needed for Florida girl with rare blood type

January 19, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

MIAMI (AP) — A New York woman with a rare blood type is donating two units to help save a 2-year-old South Florida girl who is battling cancer. News outlets report the woman had donated her own blood while pregnant in case she needed a transfusion during her delivery. Luckily, she didn’t need it, and […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 4 | JANUARY 19 - JANUARY 25

Adults assemble to play Pokemon Go

January 19, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By TAD VEZNERSt. Paul Pioneer Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — It’s 17 minutes till the battle at the butterfly house. Car after car rolls up at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on a chilly weekend. No events are scheduled. Nothing is going on that anybody can see, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported. “Five minutes,’’ […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2019, Pokemon Go, VOL 38 NO 4 | JANUARY 19 - JANUARY 25

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