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Editorial: Clearing up the misconceptions regarding 98118

June 10, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In preparing for this 98118 issue, we asked one of our writers to go down there and get the lay of the land — see the sites, talk to the business owners.

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2010, Africa, Asia, Columbia City, Editorial Clearing, Middle East, Puget Sound, Rainier Valley, Vol 29 No 24 | June 12 - June 18

Commentary: A recipe for the world’s ethnic salad

June 10, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Have you ever walked down a street and counted how many different languages you hear? Well, if you haven’t, you should because

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2010, Africa, Brazil, Chinese, Indonesia, Latin American, Malaysia, Piper Lowe, South America, South Asia, United States, Vol 29 No 24 | June 12 - June 18, Washington Middle School, Western Europe, language

Japanese fish dealers welcome tuna ban rejection

March 22, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

apanese fish dealers on Friday welcomed the rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna — a prized ingredient of sushi — while urging that existing quotas be more strictly enforced to protect the species from overfishing …

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Africa, CITES, ICCAT, Japan Fisheries Agency, Jay Alabaster, Junichi Hakuta, Kazuhiro Takayama, Latin America, Masanori Miyahara, Qatar, Tokyo, Wakao Hanaoka, Yukio Unagizawa, attention, culture, japan

Japanese princess bullied at elementary school

March 10, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Princess Aiko, granddaughter of the emperor, has missed several days of classes because of bullying by boys at her elementary school, a spokesman for the royal family said on March 5.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Africa, Crown Prince Naruhito, Emperor Hirohito, Imperial Household Agency, Motomasa Higashisono, Prince Akishino, Princess Aiko, Princess Kiko, Princess Masako, Tokyo, Vol 29 No 11 | March 13 - March 19

Local businesswomen and corporate heads dish on life, career, fashion, and basketball

February 5, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last year, with the bad shape of the economy, 14 businesswomen of color not only stood out, but outdid their competition …

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: Africa, American Indian, CEO, China Harbor Restaurant, Delena Sunday, Indonesia, Kelly Mason, Lewis Carroll, Pugh Capital, QFC, Seattle Storm, Seattle Times, Shaodan Chen, South America, State Farm, Women of Color Empowered

For some, parenthood is not derived from genetics

January 7, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Saturday, on the Far North Side, a group of parents who did just that held a reunion. While the little girls they waited three years to adopt from China snacked and fidgeted, four families who spent two weeks together in Chinese hotels during the adoption process in June gathered at Mimi’s Cafe on Polaris Parkway. Like all proud parents, they compared notes, took pictures, and shared stories.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, 2010, Africa, Asia, Associated Press, China, Chinese Children Adoption International, Dix Firestone, Far North Side, Greene County, Joshua Zhong, Laura Chappell Miyazaki, Mary Beth Firestone, Paul St, Russia, South Korea, Toni St, United States, Vol 29 No 2 | January 9 - January 15, reunion

Letter: Dogmatic letter misleads

December 17, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

First of all, his letter holds forth from the vantage point of two illusions: If whites had never colonized invaded, raped, enslaved, and abused Africa, it would be paradise — and the idea that if Blacks were given jobs, fair schools, if the [government] kept crack out of the neighborhoods, American cities would be paradises.

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: 2009, Africa, Asia, Chinese, Human Rights, Letter Dogmatic, Mac Crary, New Guinea, Port Orchard, Rwanda, Seattle, Vol 28 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

Indian boy plight mirrors that of millions of kids

November 25, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Each year, 4 million babies die before they are a month old, 150 million children are engaged in child labor, more than 500 million have been affected by violence, and 51 million have fallen so far through the cracks that they have not even had their births registered, according to the United Nations.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Africa, Anjani Tiwari, Himachal Pradesh, India, Jennifer Grant, London, Mayra Avellar, New Delhi, New York, President Barack Obama, Rozanne Chorlton, Somalia, United Nations, United States, Vol 28 No 49 | November 28 - December 4, poverty

Sparkly vampires where?

August 12, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Thirst” is a new film directed by controversial South Korean director Chan-wook Park. The film begins with a fat man wheezing in his hospital bed. Between wheezes, he explains how he once held the world’s greatest sponge cake. He longed for nothing more than a private place to devour this cake. However, he came across two hungry sisters and gave the cake to them instead.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, At the Movies Tagged With: 2009, Actor Song, Africa, Andrew Hamlin, Chan-wook Park, Director Park, Joon-ho Bong, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, South Korean, United States, Varsity Theatre, attention, vol 28 no 34 | August 15 - August 21

Return of the plague?

August 6, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — China locked down a remote farming town after three people died and 10 more were sickened with pneumonic plague, a lung infection that can kill a human in 24 hours if untreated.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: 2008, Africa, Asia, Black Death, China, Chinese, Crystal Alley Market, Disease Control, Eastern Europe, Health Ministry, Middle Ages, Mongolia, Vivian Tran, WHO, vol 28 no 33 | August 8 - August 14

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