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EDITORIAL: Barack Obama’s legacy

May 26, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

As President Barack Obama gets closer to the end of his second term in office, more Americans appreciate the job he has done. A Gallup poll earlier this month shows his favorability is on the rise and he is now the most popular American politician. In fact, Obama is more popular than President Ronald Reagan […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2009, Barack Obama, Black Americans, Cold War, London, President Obama, President Ronald Reagan, Sadiq Khan, Soviet Union, United States, VOL 35 NO 21 | MAY 21 – MAY 27, White House, World War

Retracing war past, ex-N. Korean POWs return to South Korea

August 16, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press YANGPYEONG, South Korea (AP) — Back in the country where they were detained as prisoners of war in the 1950s, two former North Korean soldiers now find little apparent objection or hostility, at least superficially — they were even welcomed by veterans who had fought for the South. But it’s […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Brazil, Cho Kyeong-duk, Cold War, Korean War, Lee Kyu-hwan, Maria Valerio Kang, Mato Grosso, North Korean People, North Koreans, POW, Return Home, San Francisco, South Koreans, United States, Vol 34 No 34 | August 15 - August 21, YANGPYEONG

Norwegian defeats Indian in world chess championship

December 1, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) –The world of chess has a new king, and it’s a 22-year-old who is as much at home posing for fashion shoots as he is pushing pawns.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2013, Anatoly Karpov, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Cold War, Garry Kasparov, India, Justin Bieber, Liv Tyler, Magnus Carlsen, Norway, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, TV, Viswanathan Anand, Vol 32 No 49 | November 30 - December 6

Obama, Xi signal new start

June 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Julie Pace AP White House Correspondent PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — It may not have been Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Cold War walk by a frozen lake in Switzerland.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Ben Rhodes, China, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Cold War, Dwight Eisenhower, Former American, Lake Geneva, Mojave Desert, North Korea, Obama, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Switzerland, Tom Donilon, Vol 32 No 25 | June 15 - June 21, White House

SE Asia asks China to start Island talks

November 22, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jim Gomez The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders decided Sunday, Nov. 18 to ask China to start formal talks “as soon as possible” on crafting a legally binding accord aimed at preventing an outbreak of violence in disputed South China Sea territories, a top diplomat said.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, AEC, ASEAN, Asia, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cold War, Grant Peck, Philippines, Phnom Penh, South China Sea, Taiwan, Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul, United States, Vietnamese, Vol 31 No 48 | November 24 - November 30, Wen Jiabao

Asia’s major military powers double defense spending

October 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Asia’s top powers have doubled defense spending in the past decade, spurred by the explosion in military expenditure by China, new research shows.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2012, Asia Pacific, China, Cold War, David Berteau, India, International Studies, Obama, South Korea, Southeast Asian, Taiwan Strait, United States, Vol 31 No 43 | October 20 - October 26, WASHINGTON, attention, japan

Kim Jong Il’s grandson enrolls in Bosnia school

October 8, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sabina Niksic The Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s grandson will be enrolling at a private high school in Bosnia made up of international students, a school official indicated on Friday, Sept. 30. Kim Han Sol, 16, will be the first student from North Korea to attend the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Cold War, David Sutcliffe, Iraq, Israel, Kim Han Sol, Kim Jong-il, Meri Musa, North Korea, SARAJEVO, UWC, United World Colleges, Vol 30 No 41 | October 8 – October 14

Commentary: Ring in the rabbit: tiger can rest, parenting or governing

February 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

I have been very reluctant to get in on the Tiger mom craze, as parenting is not really a topic I am interested in.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2011, American Chronicle, Beijing Olympics, China, Chinese American, Cold War, Commentary Ring, Financial Times, Francis Fukuyama, Great Leap Forward, Michael Phelps, President Obama, Steve Jobs, Vol 30 No 8 | February 19 - February 25, Wendy Liu, White House, attention

BLOG: Cluster bombs banned

August 3, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Xin Huang Northwest Asian Weekly Geneva Cluster munitions have finally been banned. The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) took effect on Aug. 1, when it became binding international law in countries around the world. To date, 107 states have joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and 37 nations have ratified it. Unfortunately, the big […]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: CCM, China, Cluster Munitions Coalition, Cold War, Geneva Convention, Laos, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pacific Lutheran University, Peter Herby, Russia, States Parties, Thomas Nash, United Nations, United States, lebanon

Foreign companies eye India with cautious optimism

June 18, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“We think we can be partners with India in its growth going forward, but that depends on India’s policies and its continued reform process,” said Karan Bhatia, GE’s vice president for international law and policy and former deputy U.S. trade representative for Asia.

Filed Under: News, Business, World News Tagged With: Asia, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bharti Enterprises, Charlotte Lindgren, Cold War, Devesh Garg, Economist Saumitra Chaudhuri, GE, India, Karan Bhatia, Mumbai, New Delhi, Rajesh Relan, Ronald Smith, Soviet Union, Trinamool Congress, technology

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