President Joe Biden announced on July 2 that he is appointing Chantale Yokmin Wong to be the ambassador-level position of U.S. Director of the Asian Development Bank, a financial institution that works on the government level with over 60 member countries to provide fiscal services. If confirmed, Wong will become the first lesbian woman and […]

Abhimanyu Mishra, 12 years and 4 months old, has become the youngest chess grandmaster ever, breaking a record that Sergey Karjakin held for 19 years by three months. Karjakin was 12 years and 7 months old when he became grandmaster in 2002. “Finally checkmated the biggest opponent (ongoing pandemic) which stopped me for 14 months,” […]

Arnée Flores of Seattle released her first ever book, “The Firebird Song,” last month. The story is a fantasy set in the kingdom of Lyrica, featuring Prewitt and the lost Princess Calliope. Flores, who identifies as Vietnamese American, spent a few nomadic years exploring and working odd jobs before she realized that all she really […]

President Joe Biden nominated Indian American circuit court chief judge Shalina D. Kumar as a federal judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, the White House announced on June 30. Shalina has served on the Oakland County Sixth Circuit Court since 2007. She was appointed Chief Judge of the Circuit Court by the Michigan Supreme […]

The Seattle Public Library (SPL)’s International District / Chinatown branch will reopen on July 11 but they will have limited hours. SPL said it will be open on Sundays between noon and 6 p.m., and Mondays from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Masks are still required in libraries.

Volunteers with Chinatown-International District (CID) Community Watch walked every night this week in response to adverse weather—distributing over 350 bottles of water and numerous meals and snacks to our seniors and unhoused last weekend. On a page for a crowdfunding campaign, an organizer wrote, “Most of our elders do not have air conditioning and will […]

Monica Ly is the new Chinatown-International District Planning and Development Specialist with the Seattle Police Department (SPD)’s Collaborative Policing Bureau. Her role is better known as the C-ID Public Safety Liaison—in which she assists in the implementation of the C-ID Public Safety Action Plan and facilitates communication between SPD and the community. Ly has spent […]

Leslie Holland was recently announced as branch manager for Chase Bank, International District Uwajimaya. She was born in the Philippines and started working in the financial industry over 25 years ago. Holland has worked for JP Morgan Chase for the last 13 years. She received her bachelor’s degree from University of Phoenix in Business Management […]

The Story of Seattle Chinatown International District Murals, produced by the Northwest Asian Weekly, will air on the Seattle Channel on July 5 at 1 p.m. Seattle Channel is on cable television channel 21 on Comcast (321 HD) and Wave (721 HD) to cable subscribers in Seattle. The Story of Seattle Chinatown International District Murals […]

Refugee Artisan Initiative won the Audience Favorite award for the NW Circular Innovation Challenge Pitch Competition on “Zero Waste Pet Accessories.” Seattle Good Business Network collaborated with the City of Seattle’s Office of Economic Development for this first ever challenge. It was a virtual pitch competition where five finalists pitched their product ideas for the […]