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COMMENTARY: How I made unaffordable college affordable

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By The Anh Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly What does the word “college” mean to a former refugee? Maybe you were that kid who got nothing for Christmas and nothing for […]

COMMENTARY: No Justice For Jeff Chen

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By Doug Chin Special to the Northwest Asian Weekly The decision by federal Judge Thomas Zilly to overturn the unanimous verdict of an eight-person jury that the City of Medina […]

COMMENTARY: Tiphares vs Elysium — Welcome to the Age of Appropriation

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By Andrew Lam New America Media Many years ago, before the age of cyperspace, I found a Japanese manga series at a specialty bookstore in San Francisco. Created by Yukito […]

COMMENTARY: Big Mac won’t satisfy Vietnamese desire for human rights

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By Andrew Lam New America Media Vietnam specializes in irony. Its president, Truong Tan Sang, is due to visited the White House recently, where he was expected to request a […]

COMMENTARY: Senate hog wild over Chinese bid for Smithfield Pork

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By George Koo New America Media When Shuanghui, China’s largest pork producer, made an offer to buy Smithfield, it should have been a straightforward business transaction. Smithfield is America’s largest […]

COMMENTARY: Low interest at home, kung fu master opens secrets to the West

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By Andrew Lam New America Media Lam Chun-fai, a master of Southern Chinese kung fu style, Hung Kuen, is the first of the kung fu

COMMENTARY: Fire the Medina City Manager

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By Doug Chin SPECIAL TO THE NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY In March, an eight-person federal jury found the City of Medina and City Manager Donna Hanson guilty of firing former Police […]

COMMENTARY: On gun rights and the Second Amendment

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By Frederick Su For the Northwest Asian Weekly Following the Sandy Hook shootings, gun control is back on the books, with Obama and like-minded people pushing for an “assault weapons” […]