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An escape to the Big Island

March 31, 2016 By Assunta Ng

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Most people visit Hawaii’s Big Island to see its volcano. But I wasn’t interested in trekking over lava and mud, as this was my third visit to the Island. What took me there recently was my desire to recuperate after a stressful month in February. All I wanted was […]

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: Assunta Ng, Big Island, Fairmont Hotel, Food, Four Seasons Hotel, Happy Valley Chinese Restaurant, Hawaiian Airlines, Kohala Coast, Northern-style Chinese, Northwest Asian Weekly, Palm Springs

The power of tea

December 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ivy Ashe Hawaii Tribune-Herald HILO, Hawaii (AP) — On the second-story porch of his Papaikou home, Mike Longo poured steaming tea from a small glass pitcher into a set of cylindrical porcelain cups painted pale yellow. “You don’t want to waste a good oolong,” Longo said, passing the cups — called aroma cups — […]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: 2009, 2015, Big Island, Earl Grey, Francis Zee, HILO, India, Mike Longo, OK, Onomea Bay, Onomea Tea Company, Rob Nunally, Taiwan, United States, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25, japan, technology

Celebrating 40 years of teaching hula

July 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Melissa Tanji AP Wire Service WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — In a single-car garage on Vineyard Street in Wailuku, a young Iola Caldito learned the hula. Taught by the late Elizabeth Lum Ho, the 6-year-old found a passion and never let go. “I loved hula from the very start,” said Iola Caldito Balubar, now 68, […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, Aunty Iola, Becky Kaopuiki, Big Island, Canada, Elizabeth Lum Ho, Guiller Evangelista, Iola Balubar Polynesian Dance Studio, Iola Caldito Balubar, Las Vegas, Maui County Council, Maui News, Philippines, Richard Balubar, Tahitian Terrace Restaurant, Tihati Productions, Tinker Bell, Val Fernandez, Vineyard Street, Vol 34 No 29 | July 11 - July 17, WAILUKU, Westin Maui

Hawaii Democrats seek unity after dramatic races

August 14, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Cathy Bussewitz and Juliet Williams Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii’s Democratic Unity Breakfast the morning after the primary election is traditionally a time for candidates to set aside their differences and coalesce against the Republican candidates they will face in November.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, 2014, Abercrombie Sunday, Associated Press, Big Island, Brian Schatz, Colleen Hanabusa, David Ige, Democratic Party, Democratic Unity Breakfast, Hawaii Democrats, Honolulu City Council, John Waihee, Neil Abercrombie, Peter Boylan, President Barack Obama, Stephanie Ohigashi, Tropical Storm Iselle, Vol 33 No 34 | August 16 - August 22

Memoirs and life stories

April 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Kapoho, Memoir of a Modern Pompeii By Frances H. Kakugawa Watermark Publishing, 2011 Frances Kakugawa was only 5 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Despite still being quite young, she quickly learned what that meant for her and her Japanese American family living in the […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Big Island, DMV, Eddie Huang, Frances Kakugawa, Japanese American, Korean, Los Angeles, New York, Northwest Asian Weekly, Roy Choi, Samantha Pak, Spiegel Grau Trade Paperbacks, Throughout Choi, Vol 33 No 15 | April 5 - April 11, Watermark Publishing

Native Hawaiians discontented with tourism

February 18, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s tourism industry has long touted the islands’ native culture as a selling point to prospective visitors — such as leis, luaus, and the “aloha spirit.”

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, Big Island, Clayton Hee, HTA, Hawaii Tourism Authority, Momi Akimseu, Native Hawaiians, Peter Apo, Puukohola Heiau, Tiny Bubbles Don Ho, Vol 29 No 8 | February 20 - February 26, culture

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