• About
  • Events
  • Community Calendar
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Seattle Chinese Post

Northwest Asian Weekly

ad_wong.jpg (468×60)

  • Community
    • Names in the News
    • Local
    • Business
    • Pictorials
    • Obituaries
  • Nation
  • World
  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Columns
    • On the Shelf
    • At the Movies
    • A-POP!
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • The Layup Drill
    • Travel
    • Wayne’s Worlds
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Commentary
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Astrology
  • Classifieds
  • Community Calendar
You are here: Home / Archives for Blind Chinese

Blind Chinese dissident to leave NYU by August

June 22, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jake Pearson The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, whose escape from house arrest to the U.S. embassy in Beijing sparked a diplomatic crisis last year, will be leaving his position at New York University at the end of this month, the university confirmed.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Albert Einstein, Asia Law Institute, Beijing, Blind Chinese, Bob Howe, Chen Guangcheng, China, Christian Bale, Fordham Law School, Human Rights First, John Beckman, Leitner Center, NYU, New York University, New York-based Fordham University, Professor Jerome Cohen, State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vol 32 No 26 | June 22 - June 28

Indonesian forest savior among Magsaysay winners

August 4, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jim Gomez The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An Indonesian mountaineer, who faced death threats while battling illegal loggers, and a Bangladeshi lawyer, who fought to keep old, rusty ships from being dumped in her homeland, were named recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards on Thursday. This year’s six honorees battled great odds […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2012, Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto, Bangladesh, Blind Chinese, Cambodia, Chen Guangcheng, Chen Shu-chu, Filipino, Integrated Village Development Project, Lawyer Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Nobel Prize, President Carmencita Abella, Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Romulo Davide, Vol 31 No 32 | August 4 - August 10, Yang Saing Koma, Yuan Weijing, poverty

Subscribe to our e-news

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
© 2022 NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
412 MAYNARD AVE. S., SEATTLE, WA 98104
206-223-5559 | INFO@NWASIANWEEKLY.COM