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Reader’s Corner: The top 10 lessons on life and politics that I learned from my brother, Wing Luke

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Editor’s note: For Seattle Rotary, Bettie Luke from the Organization of Chinese Americans gave a short presentation on the top 10 lessons on life and politics she learned from her brother, Wing Luke.

Reader’s Corner: More Sweet than Bitter: Author Jamie Ford’s reading at the Panama Hotel changes one life

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The decision to attend the reading of “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” was an easy one. Sometime after reading the book, I read an interview published in a local API paper.

Dustin Nguyen a ‘Fool for Love,’ but also soulful and deliberate

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Actor Dustin Nguyen wanted a role that was “light and sort of fun” after playing a mentally challenged martial artist in the 2009 film “The Legend is Alive.”

Gender-bending APIs spotlight overlooked segment of Asian population through pageant

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That’s what the night called for at Purr, a local bar on Capitol Hill. Purr was one of the many bars that teamed up to help David Luc Nguyen

A new season of Asians: A-pop is a monthly column of all things Asian in popular culture

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Fall is shaping up to be a season of new beginnings for Asian American celebrities, and personally, I am very excited for them.

Semi-Pro: Korean American keeps football dream alive

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Rich Lee-Kim first played football in the fourth grade. However, he was told that he needed to play with the sixth and seventh graders because he was bigger than all of his classmates.

Threats for family moving into Ore. home

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HAPPY VALLEY, Ore. (AP) _ Clackamas County sheriff’s officers are investigating a racial harassment case involving an Asian American family moving into a home in the southeast Portland suburb of Happy Valley.

NAPCA announces release of “Pacific Islander Voices” publication

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The National Asian Pacific Center on Aging has issued a second publication focusing on the stories of AAPI elders served through the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP).