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Are you lucky or are you unlucky? (Think again!)

September 8, 2017 By Admin

By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY A woman recently won $758 million, the biggest grand prize of a single lottery ticket in U.S. history. Some lottery losers wonder if they […]

BLOG: Discovering Hamburg

September 4, 2017 By Admin

By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY My recent trip to Hamburg, Germany unexpectedly tied in with the trouble in Charlottesville, when white supremacists holding Nazi flags protested a decision to […]

Asians and Harry Potter, chasing the Oxford dream

August 28, 2017 By Admin

By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Malala Yousafzai, the girl who was shot in the head and survived, and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, is going to England’s Oxford University! […]

The complicated lives of API females

August 18, 2017 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Heroine Worship By Sarah Kuhn DAW Books Inc., 2017 Aveda Jupiter (also known as Annie Chang) had been the one to protect San Francisco […]

BLOG: Want to visit Buckingham Palace? It’s easy.

August 17, 2017 By Admin

By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Imagine yourself walking through the Ambassadors’ Entrance, the main entrance of Buckingham Palace, standing in line for the red-carpeted Grand Staircase and admiring Queen […]

BLOG: What strangers think about Seattle

August 10, 2017 By Admin

By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Whenever I travel overseas, I found that foreigners and even some Americans don’t seem to think much about Seattle. I could be biased, but […]

BLOG: Can you not take yourself too seriously?

August 3, 2017 By Admin

By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY How many times do you laugh a day? Studies have found that children laugh at least a few hundred times a day, and adults […]

BLOG: Even after 22 years, lots of lessons to learn from NWAW’s Summer Youth Leadership Program

July 27, 2017 By Admin

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Since 1995, the Northwest Asian Weekly has been organizing its Summer Youth Leadership Program (SYLP), aimed at empowering Asian American high school students. The […]

NWAW’s July book recs — Books on deeper truths that you should read

July 21, 2017 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Starry River of the Sky” By Grace Lin Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012 The moon has gone missing, but the only person […]

BLOG: 2017 is a year of awakening for Asian Americans

July 20, 2017 By Admin

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Six months ago, I said, “Seattle’s 2017 election sucks!” How wrong I was! What seemed to be a dull and highly predictable election has […]