By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY SEATTLE — A record-breaking 2018 midterm election in Washington mostly ended the night of Nov. 6 with some major races called. Here are some of the highlights. Joe Nguyen won the 34th District State Senate race – 58 percent to Shannon Braddock’s 41 percent. Nguyen will become the state’s first […]
Community reaction to Martin Pang’s name change petition
By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY PROSSER, Wash. — A convicted arsonist who was recently released from prison after causing the death of four Seattle firefighters is trying to change his legal name. The Tri-City Herald reports that a petition for Martin Shaw Pang to change his name to Mark Sun Lee will be heard […]
Trailblazing surgeon — Dr. Khanh Pham is the only surgeon on the Eastside who performs robotic surgeries to remove bladders
By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly Born in 1982 in Oklahoma City to Vietnamese immigrants who escaped after the war, Dr. Khanh Pham wasn’t completely sold on becoming a doctor in college. After graduating from the University of California, Riverside, Pham went onto the Medical College of Wisconsin to train in becoming a urologist. Pham […]
Massage parlors busted as alleged prostitution fronts named
By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY On Nov. 6, Kent Police released the names and addresses of the 18 massage parlors that the city shut down last week for violating city and state licensing requirements and allegedly serving as fronts for prostitution. A police media release said that during a months-long investigation, it was discovered […]
COMMENTARY: The case against Trump’s proposed changes to the public charge definition
By Dr. Asqual Getaneh ICHS Medical Director The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s proposed expansion of the public charge rule unfairly targets legal immigrants seeking permanent status who use federally-funded services for which they are eligible, including Medicaid, housing support, food stamps, and Medicare prescription subsidies. The view is that immigrants rely on these benefits […]
One of Taiwan’s fastest trains derails, killing at least 18
By RALPH JENNINGS DONGSHAN TOWNSHIP, Taiwan (AP) — One of Taiwan’s fastest passenger trains derailed on Oct. 21, on a curve along a popular weekend route, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 170 others, authorities said. The Puyuma express was carrying more than 360 passengers from a suburb of Taipei in the […]
Harvard: Race can only help, never harm, applicants’ chances
By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University intentionally uses a vague “personal rating’’ to reject Asian American applicants in favor of students from other racial backgrounds, according to lawyers on one side of a trial that began on Oct. 15 and carries weighty implications for dozens of other U.S. colleges. Harvard’s legal […]
Orange County, California’s diversity emboldens Democrats
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — Pushy midday shoppers nose their carts through the Korean market, stocking up on bottled kimchi and seaweed spring rolls. A few doors away, customers grab pho to go at a Vietnamese takeout counter. Across the street, lunchtime diners line up for tacos “al pastor’’ — […]
PICTORIAL: 6th annual API Candidate Forum
A coalition of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community organizations hosted the 6th annual API Candidates and Issues Forum at ACRS on Oct. 11. Established in 2012, the API Candidates and Issues Forum’s goal is to “provide an educational, nonpartisan forum for API civic engagement where electoral candidates and initiatives are treated fairly and provided […]
Peacock in the Desert brings the beauty of India to Seattle
By Jessica Kai Curry Northwest Asian Weekly An exhibition of Indian art, on a scale previously unseen in the United States, is now on display at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and in partnership with the Mehrangarh Museum Trust of Jodhpur, India, Peacock in the Desert […]
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