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Disabled API adults thrive under care with cultural competence

January 9, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Patricia Wen The Boston Globe BOSTON (AP) — The aroma of Asian stir-fried vegetables and pork wafted through a West Roxbury home before dinnertime on a recent Saturday. And around the table, Joseph Wong, Donald Lee, Francis Chan, Wei-Li Sun, and Wayne Wang were waiting, knowing this particular dish — written on the week’s menu posted […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Agnes Wong, Chinese, Donald Lee, Francis Chan, Godswill Nwaeze, Grace Sun, Jeff Keilson, Joseph Wong, Red Sox, Sophia Zhu, TILL, Terrible Terrible, United States, Victor Hernandez, Vol 35 No 2 | January 9 - January 15, Wayne Wang, West Roxbury, communication, culture, language

NWAW’s January must-reads — Mysterious murders, a petite pachyderm, and not-so-hardboiled detectives

January 8, 2016 By Samantha Pak

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly One of my favorite things to do when the weather is cold is curl up under a blanket with a good mystery. The following are my January must-read picks: “Grave on Grand Avenue” By Naomi Hirahara Berkley, 2015 LAPD bicycle cop Ellie Rush is back and on the case […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2014, 2015, 2016, Amazon Digital Services, Chinese, Ellie Rush, Inspector Ashwin Chopra, Inspector Shig Sato, Jun Fujimori, LAPD, Mumbai, NWAW, Nay Pram, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pontiac Skylark, Samantha Pak, Ses Fujimori, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 2 | January 9 - January 15

Chinese mine boss drowns himself after deadly collapse

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — The owner of a Chinese gypsum mine drowned last Sunday after jumping into a well in an apparent suicide amid rescue efforts for 17 workers still trapped two days after the mine collapsed and killed one person, state media said. Quoting a briefing by the rescue command center, state media said Ma […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, China, Chinese, Ma Congbo, Pingyi County, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

SF crime defendant says undercover agent forced money on him

January 2, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sudhin Thanawala Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A key defendant in an organized-crime case in San Francisco’s Chinatown will face more questions from prosecutors after testifying that the undercover agent leading the probe tried to drag him into conversations and force money on him. Under cross-examination by prosecutors on Dec. 22 at his […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Associated Press, Chinatown, Chinese, Leland Yee, Prosecutor William Frenzen, Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow, SF, San Francisco, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8, language

EDITORIAL: Good job, Abe

December 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

It took a lot of bravado for Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to acknowledge and apologize for Japan’s war-time role in South Korean “comfort women” crimes. Why is this acknowledgement such a big deal? First, some history from the (somewhat) reliable source Wikipedia: “Comfort women were women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2016, China, Chinese, Ikuhiko Hata, Imperial Japanese Army, Philippines, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

George Leing new rep for RNC

December 28, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

George Leing is Colorado’s new representative to the Republican National Committee. Leing lost his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Jared Polis in 2014. Leing will fill the remainder of Mike Kopp’s term, which expires after this year’s convention. Leing, a lawyer who works in finance and energy, is the former chairman of the Boulder County […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2014, 2015, 2016, Boulder County Republicans, Chinese, GOP, George Leing, Georgetown University, Jared Polis, Mike Kopp, New York City, New York University, RNC, Republican National Committee, United States, Vol 34 No 53 | December 26 - January 1, Yale University

China’s counterfeiters aided by Western firms’ weak response

December 27, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Erika Kinetz Associated Press WENZHOU, China (AP) — Alex Theil lost his innocence the day an envelope landed on his desk. It was filled with money from a counterfeiter of Toyota auto parts he’d busted, mistakenly delivered to him by a lawyer hired to help with the raid. Theil was running the office of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, ABB, AP, Associated Press, Beat Weibel, Beijing, Border Protection, Chinese, Fu Ting, GM, General Motors, Harvest Moon, Liushi China Electronic City, New Jersey, New York Newark, Stephen Long, Vol 34 No 53 | December 26 - January 1, WENZHOU

IN MEMORY OF …: Kenneth Koe, 1925-2015 — Co-inventor of Zoloft

December 25, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kenneth So University of Washington Columns Magazine Kenneth Koe, co-inventor of the antidepressant Zoloft, died on Oct. 7 in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was 90. The son of Chinese immigrants, Koe was born in Astoria, Ore. and grew up in Portland, where his family ran a laundry and lived in the back of the store. […]

Filed Under: Obituaries Tagged With: 2015, 2016, Chinese, Columns Magazine, Kenneth Koe, OCD, Pfizer Inc, Reed College, UW, Vol 34 No 53 | December 26 - January 1, William Welch

Samsung aid for sick workers comes with conditions, secrecy

December 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Youkyung Lee AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony over whether its computer-chip factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: Some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional offer of financial assistance. As recently as the middle of last year, it […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2012, 2015, Asia, Baik Sooha, Chinese, Europe, Hwang Sang-gi, LCD, Lee Jae-yong, SEOUL, Samsung Electronics, Son Sung-bae, South Korean, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

Alibaba buys Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post

December 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kelvin Chan AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced that it’s buying Hong Kong’s leading English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, as part of a plan to create a global platform for news about China. Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., founded by billionaire Jack Ma, said it signed […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai, Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd, Bangkok Post, Beijing, Chinese, HK, Hong Kong, Jack Ma, Kerry Group, Robert Kuok, Rupert Murdoch, SCMP, South China Morning Post, Tiananmen Square, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25, editorial, technology

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