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BLOG: What a week for entertainment and politics!

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  Not the usual Chamber’s dinner So what was unusual? Mayor Ed Murray, who declared he’s a sheep, spoke briefly at the Greater Chinese Chamber of Commerce’s Lunar New Year […]

Hold on — Series that keep you reading

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By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Infiltrator By Peter Stone Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2014 Ethan Jones and the remaining members of his ragtag team of foragers are back in […]

BLOG: Harmony — Competition and coincidence between two Asian symphonies…

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  By Assunta Ng When the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (SSO) was planning to perform in China and South Korea in 2016 last year, it didn’t know that a Chinese symphony […]

BLOG: Lunar New Year Confessions — It’s already an interesting year

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By Assunta Ng “What’s going on in the community?” This is a question I often get, and well, it makes me uncomfortable. People assume I know everything being a newspaper […]

BLOG: Year of the Sheep is for weaving dreams — Eight is a lucky number

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The Year of the Sheep is for imagination. Just look at celebrities born in sheep years: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Will Ferrell and others, how they create from nothing to […]

Ghost stories — Books that will make you enjoy being scared

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By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Deadly Love By Wesley Robert Lowe Wesley Lowe Media, 2014 Five years ago, 20-year-old actress Jasmine Huang died in Beijing. She had asked her […]

BLOG: Superstitions and traditions — Examining our strange Lunar New Year customs

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By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Reminiscing about Lunar New Year during my childhood, I could count as many as hundreds of traditions my family followed. Some were fun, while […]

BLOG: What you didn’t know about Taiwan — Bubble tea, canines, rocks, colleges, and cookies

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For those who don’t know anything about Taiwan, here is one of many interesting facts: It is the birthplace of bubble tea. The bubble tea is not what fascinated me […]

BLOG: Being blunt about race…

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By Assunta Ng   My words were blunt and shocking even to myself when I asked community leaders to contribute to the Asian Weekly’s social justice issue.