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Blog: A guarded secret, ABC’s scoop

March 10, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The news of Gary Locke being nominated to be the ambassador to China was released Monday afternoon. Locke’s own siblings learned of it minutes before it was

Blog: The happiest in-laws

March 10, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A decade ago, Celia and Larry Lee retired from California and moved to Shanghai. I imagine the Lees would have been the first to applaud the news.

China drops death penalty for some economic crimes

March 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — China dropped the death penalty for more than a dozen nonviolent crimes Friday and banned capital punishment for offenders over the age of 75

Diversity makes a difference — Part 2

March 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Northwest Asian Weekly’s Diversity Makes a Difference scholarship program celebrates young people who are committed to reaching out across cultural lines.

Man creates free online repository of Classical music, but some publishers are crying foul

March 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Feb. 16, 2006, Edward W. Guo, an 18-year-old student at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, started a website called Internet

Blog: Nobel Prize winner says work in Japan too constraining

March 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Across from you is the Nobel Prize winner,” said Jiin Chen, chair of the National Engineers Week Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) Award event at the Columbia Tower

Attention: Are you studying Chinese linguistics? Apply for the Li Fang-Kuei & Hsu Ying Graduate Fellowship

February 24, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Li Fang-Kuei & Hsu Ying Graduate Fellowship Award in Chinese Linguists is awarded annually to second-year or higher level graduate students who are studying Chinese

Japanese women fight to keep surnames

February 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TOKYO (AP) — A group of Japanese citizens filed a lawsuit Monday, Feb. 14 challenging a civil law that effectively stops women from keeping their surnames when they marry.

Japan confirms China surpassed its economy in 2010

February 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TOKYO (AP) — Japan confirmed that China’s economy surpassed its own as the world’s second largest in 2010 and said a late-year downturn was its first quarterly contraction in more than a year.

Editorial: A walk to remember: Community members rightly stand up for Chinese who were kicked out of Seattle

February 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In October, Tacoma remembered the Chinese who were ordered to leave the city in 1885, after they had finished building a portion of the Northern Pacific Railroad line.