By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly After serving the community of Fresno, Calif. for over 93 years, Louie Kee Market has announced that it will close its doors on Oct. 31. […]
Late-night fire rips through Las Vegas Asian Culture Center
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A community center catering to Las Vegas’ Asian community that opened only two months ago has been gutted by a fire. Las Vegas fire officials say […]
NBC drops plans for mail-order bride sitcom amid protests
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBC says it has dropped plans for a sitcom about a widower who orders a mail-order bride from the Philippines. Protests had greeted the network’s decision […]
George Takei gives personal collection to Los Angeles museum
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor and activist George Takei is donating a trove of art and artifacts from his life and career to the Japanese American National Museum in Los […]
Feds accuse Silicon Valley firm of bias against Asians
By Brandon Bailey AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit accusing a fast-growing Silicon Valley software company of systematically discriminating against Asian […]
Study: Latino population growth slips behind Asian Americans
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The growth of the U.S. Latino population — once the nation’s fastest growing — slowed considerably over the past seven years […]
Disney pulls boy’s costume critics lambasted as ‘Polyface’
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Disney said it would no longer sell a boy’s costume for a Polynesian character that some Pacific Islanders have compared to blackface. […]
Trump adds names, including South Asian, to Supreme Court wish list
By Jill Colvin Associated Press JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump has added 10 names to the list he says he’d use to fill Supreme Court vacancies if he […]
Influential San Francisco activist Rose Pak dies at 68
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An influential community activist who turned San Francisco’s Asian-American population into a political power in the city has died. A friend of Rose Pak said she […]
Alexander Wang partners with Adidas on new unisex collection
By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Designer Alexander Wang is, by his own description, a total sneakerhead. He once even designed a whole clothing collection around them, […]
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