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Scholastic pulls picture book due to rosy depiction of slavery

January 23, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NEW YORK (AP) — Scholastic is pulling a new picture book about George Washington and his slaves amid objections it sentimentalizes a brutal part of American history.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, 2016, AP, African American, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Associated Press, Coretta Scott King, Emily Jenkins, George Washington, Kirkus Reviews, Kyle Good, Ramin Ganeshram, Random House, Scholastic Corp, School Library Journal, Schwartz Wade, Several Barnes Noble, Sophie Blackall, Vol 35 No 4 | January 23 - January 29

China’s counterfeiters aided by Western firms’ weak response

December 27, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Erika Kinetz Associated Press WENZHOU, China (AP) — Alex Theil lost his innocence the day an envelope landed on his desk. It was filled with money from a counterfeiter of Toyota auto parts he’d busted, mistakenly delivered to him by a lawyer hired to help with the raid. Theil was running the office of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, ABB, AP, Associated Press, Beat Weibel, Beijing, Border Protection, Chinese, Fu Ting, GM, General Motors, Harvest Moon, Liushi China Electronic City, New Jersey, New York Newark, Stephen Long, Vol 34 No 53 | December 26 - January 1, WENZHOU

Leading Thai seafood boss: Shrimp probe ‘wake-up call’

December 27, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Robin McDowell and Martha Mendoza Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The president of one of the world’s biggest seafood exporters expressed frustration and promised change Tuesday after saying an Associated Press investigation that linked slave-peeled shrimp to his company should be a “wake-up call” to the industry. Thiraphong Chansiri said Thai Union will spend […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, AP, Associated Press, Bangkok Post, Best Aquaculture Practices, Big Australian, Buddy Galetti, Chris York, Gavin Gibbons, Global Aquaculture Alliance, Leading Thai, National Fisheries Institute, New York Kristen Gelineau, Olive Garden, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, Red Lobster, Samut Sakhon, Southwind Foods, Susan Coppedge, Thai Union, Thailand, Vol 34 No 53 | December 26 - January 1

Lucky Peach cooks up easy side of Asian food

October 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Michele Kayal Associated Press Disney princesses reimagined as hot dogs and drunken rants by name-brand chefs are de rigueur for quarterly food magazine Lucky Peach. But a new cookbook from the journal’s editors leaves most of that on the table, favoring instead a just-campy-enough approach to Asian home cooking. Launched in 2011 by New […]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: 2011, 2015, AP, Associated Press, Chinatown, Chinese, Clarkson Potter, David Chang, Easy Asian Recipes, Los Angeles, Lucky Peach, New York, Peter Meehan It, Roy Choi, Sichuan Pork Ragu, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30, culture

Secret project wins Chinese scientist a Nobel

October 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Didi Tang Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The time could not have been more hostile for Chinese scientists. Research came to a virtual halt and intellectuals were routinely persecuted. But Tu Youyou, then a 39-year-old researcher, was summoned to join a secretive military project during the Cultural Revolution to find a cure for malaria […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Associated Press, China, Chinese, Cultural Revolution, Ge Hong, New York, Nobel Prize, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Tu Youyou, United States, Vol 34 No 43 | October 17 - October 23

As habitats vanish, migratory birds flock to N. Korea shores

July 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Talmadge Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — To the untrained eye, it’s just a lot of birds on an otherwise deserted stretch of muddy, flat coastline. But for ornithologists, North Korea’s west coast is a little piece of paradise each spring — and both the birds and a dedicated group of birdwatchers travel a […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Associated Press, Australia, Calidris Tenuirostris, China, David Melville, Keith Woodley, Mount Paektu, Nature Conservation Union, New Zealand, North Korean, Pak Ung, South Asia, South Korea, Vol 34 No 30 | July 18 - July 24

‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns — with iPhone, Instagram

June 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ted Anthony Associated Press TRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) — He stands in the northbound lane of Vietnam’s Highway 1, traffic swirling around him, horns honking. He is pointing. Right there, he says — that’s where it happened. That’s where the screaming children appeared. That’s where I made the picture that the world couldn’t forget. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, David Campbell, England, Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Van Bon, Huynh Cong Nick Ut, Kim Phuc, South Vietnamese, Sushi World, Ted Anthony, Trang Bang, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 25 | June 13 - June 19, attention, technology

Video purports to show kidnapped Chinese tourist in Pakistan

May 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ishtiaq Mahsud Associated Press DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A militant video released Sunday purported to show a Chinese tourist kidnapped by Taliban-allied fighters in Pakistan a year ago asking for his government to help him be released. A militant known to belong to a Taliban splinter group called Jaish al-Hadeed, or the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Abdullah Bahar, Associated Press, Chinese, Chinese Embassy, Dera Ismail Khan, Following Hong, Hong Xudong, India, Islamabad, Pakistan, Shehryar Mehsud, Vol 34 No 23 | May 30 - June 5

Thai police dig up 26 bodies at suspected trafficking camp

May 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sumeth Parnpetch Associated Press PADANG BESAR, Thailand (AP) — Thai police trekked into the mountains and dug up 26 bodies from dozens of shallow graves at an abandoned jungle camp that’s been linked to human trafficking networks, which activists say are “out of control” in the Southeast Asian country. A lone survivor, now hospitalized […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Arakan Project, Associated Press, Brad Adams, Chris Lewa, Human Rights Watch, Jarumporn Suramanee, Laos, Last June, Myanmar, Padang Besar, Police Gen, Rohingya Muslims, Sansern Kaewkamnerd, Thailand, United States, Vol 34 No 20 | May 9 - May 15, Weerasant Tharnpiem

China activist more determined after lockup

April 25, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Didi Tang and Jack Chang Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The most prominent of five recently released Chinese feminists feels her dedication to activism has grown only stronger after spending 37 days in detention with interrogators who blew smoke onto her face and insulted her sexual orientation, her girlfriend, and her, her lawyer said. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Associated Press, Beijing, China, Chinese, Communist Party, Eve Ensler, Feminists Li Tingting, Foreign Ministry, HIV, Hillary Clinton, International Women, Vagina Monologues, Vol 34 No 18 | April 25 - May 1, Wang Yu, Wei Tingting, attention, social media

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