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Secretary Gary Locke visits the Seattle Chinese Garden and raises funds

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U.S. Commerce Secretary and former Washington state Gov. Gary Locke came home last week. Amid a schedule that included

Google defends shrinking China market share

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BEIJING (AP) — Google is hiring dozens of marketing and technical employees in China to defend a shrinking market share against local rivals after closing its Chinese

China mass measles vaccination plan sparks outcry from public

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BEIJING (AP) — China’s plan to vaccinate 100 million children and come a step closer to eradicating measles has set off an outcry that highlights widening public

Community clinic providing interpretation for API community named Pioneer in Healthcare

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For new immigrants, coming to America without knowing the language may sometimes make the experience unpleasant. What can make the situation really worrisome is not being able

Aug. 26: China awards Central Washington University $624,000 education contract

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Central Washington University received a grant of nearly $624,000 from the People’s Republic of China. The grant will allow 25 Chinese students to begin work on graduate degrees

Put ‘A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop’ together, and it’s confusing

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“A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop,” the new film from Chinese director Yimou Zhang, is his first film adapted from a Western source.

Asian, Jewish communities unite to stop use of ethnic slur

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To many U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry, the use of the term “Jap” is considered a racial slur with a hate-filled history going all the way back to World War II.

Silk’s dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons

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KOKAND, Uzbekistan (AP) — For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing it since she was 8.