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NONPERMANENT RESIDENTS (Part 3) — Local Cambodian men facing deportation for crimes committed when young

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Rithy Yin, 33, pointed toward his church, Victory Outreach Church, from the kitchen of his sister and brother-in-law’s townhouse, where he lives with his […]

Chinese law student seeks to help others

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By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Emilia Liu has found her calling. “I’m really focused on social justice,” said the student of Seattle University School of Law. Her 2014 summer […]

$2.9 million will go to Japanese American confinement sites

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Last week, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced 21 grants totaling more than $2.9 million to help preserve and interpret the World War II confinement sites of Japanese […]

Krishna Das: Traditional singing to the ‘Soul of All’

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly One of the best-known singers in the Indian kirtan tradition — a Hindi devotional tradition involving call-and-response between the singer and the audience — […]

Daughter recalls father’s stories of war

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Roy Matsumoto, a Japanese American Nisei originally from California, went from the internment camps during WWII to honor on the battlefield, with the famous […]

Franchisees sue Seattle over $15 wage

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By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Western Washington earlier this month challenges the recent passage of an ordinance in the City […]

Filipino mayor: Typhoon was ‘something we never imagined’

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By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly Typhoons are a normal, generally accepted part of life in the Philippines, except for one. Alfred Romualdez, the mayor of Tacloban, of Leyte province […]

It’s graduation time!

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By Jamie Sun Northwest Asian Weekly It’s that Pomp and Circumstance time of year, and in addition to the myriad of graduating APIs around the country, several successful Asian Americans […]