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China-savvy tea partyer takes helm of US House panel on Asia

January 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new leader of the House panel overseeing U.S. policy to the Asia-Pacific is a rarity in Congress: a deeply conservative Republican who shuns isolationism, favors closer ties with Asia and stands poised to praise as well as criticize China — and even do it in Mandarin.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, Beijing, California State University, Central America, China, Chinese, East Asia, House Foreign Affairs, Jim Leach, Matt Salmon, Middle East, President Barack Obama, Republican Rep, TPP, Vol 34 No 5 | January 24 - January 30, World Trade Organization, Yongyi Song

Deco-dense

August 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Xiaojin Wu, curator at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, shows me a Japanese piece that’s been first lacquered, then carved. The artist, she explains, put several layers of lacquer on first, then slowly, steadily, and taking great care for symmetry, carved the Art Deco designs into the lacquer. Many […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, Art Deco, California State University, Europe, Kanto Earthquake, Kirin Ornaments Kirin, Long Beach, Machine Age, Noguchi Tsurukichi, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Tokyo, Vol 33 No 32 | August 2 - August 8, West Coast, Xiaojin Wu, attention, japan

Florence Chang promoted to executive VP of MultiCare

October 15, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Florence Chang, one of our 2010 Asian American Pioneers in Healthcare, has been promoted to executive vice president of the not-for-profit MultiCare Health System, based in Tacoma.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Asian American Pioneers, California State University, Dearborn Advisors, Dominguez Hills, Florence Chang, Information Services, Senior Vice President, VP, Vol 31 No 42 | October 13 - October 19, technology

Kenyon S. Chan to step down as UW Bothell chancellor

October 11, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Charles Lam The Northwest Asian Weekly Chancellor Chan announced that he will complete his tenure as the University of Washington Bothell’s second

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Education, Community News Tagged With: 2012, California State University, Chancellor Chan, Chancellor Kenyon Chan, Charles Lam, Kenyon Chan, Northwest Asian Weekly, Vice President, Vol 31 No 42 | October 13 - October 19, culture

Vietnamese re-education camp prisoner kept promise

September 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Margie Mason The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Every day, as the guards marched Thanh Dac Nguyen into the jungle for another shift of backbreaking labor, he tossed a pebble on the lump of red earth, where his closest friend was buried. It was the only way he knew to mark the site, […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, California State University, DNA, Foreign Ministry, Lang Da, Last July, Le Xuan Deo, Luong Van Hoa, Mekong Delta, Nguyen Phuong Nga, North Texas, South Vietnamese, Stephen Maxner, Thanh Dac Nguyen, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 30 No 38 | September 17 - September 23

Salinas to reopen historic cafe as Asian museum

December 3, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The renovation got a boost last week with a three-year, $600,000 Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to California State University, Monterey Bay. The planned Asian Cultural Center and Museum is the centerpiece of the Chinatown Renewal Project, led by the city and university.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2009, Asian American, California State University, Chinatown Renewal Project, Chinese New Year, Filipino, Monterey Bay, Vol 28 No 50 | December 5 - December 11, Wally Ahtye

U.S. student’s lawyer challenges murder charge in China

July 30, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

HONG KONG (AP) — A drunken American university student challenged a murder charge Monday, July 27, after being accused of causing the crash of a Hong Kong taxi and the death of its driver before commandeering the vehicle and slamming it into another cab.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: Acting Principal Magistrate Bina Chainrai, California State University, Chinese, Former British, Hong Kong, Ian Polson, Kelsey Michael Mudd, San Francisco, South China Morning Post, vol 28 no 32 | August 1 - August 7

Mixed-race patients struggle to find marrow donors

June 4, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Juliana Barbassa The Associated Press HAYWARD, California (AP) — If Nick Glasgow were white, he would have a nearly 90 percent chance of finding a matching bone marrow donor who could cure his leukemia.

Filed Under: News, National News Tagged With: 2008, Abe Rindal, California State University, Carole Wiegand, DNA, Geary Moya, HAYWARD, Japanese American, Michelle Setterholm, Norwegian American, South Carolina, Supreme Court, United States, vol 28 no 24 | June 6 - June 12

Racial lines tested in Calif. House race

May 16, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) — Racial lines are being tested in a Southern California congressional race in which an Asian candidate is a leading contender in a district that has been a Hispanic stronghold for years.

Filed Under: News, National News Tagged With: California Legislature, California State University, Congressional District, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Democratic Los Angeles, Filipino American, Gil Cedillo, Hilda Solis, Joe Baca, Judy Chu, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Maria Elena Durazo, Mexico, President Barack Obama, Raphael Sonenshein, Southern California

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