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EDITORIAL: Oscars proves it’s #sowhite with child labor joke

March 4, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The 88th Academy Awards took place last Sunday and, as usual, a bunch of really rich white people dressed up nicely and gave each other statues made of gold. It’s been obvious that the Academy has a diversity problem. Yet, even when Oscar nominations were announced on Jan. 14, we were struck by certain glaring […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2016, Academy Awards, Asian Americans, Chris Rock, East Asian, Jeremy Lin, Phil Angry Asian Man Yu, Sharon Tomiko Santos, Southeast Asia, Straight Outta Compton, United States, Vol 30 No 10 | March 5 - March 11, editorial, poverty

EDITORIAL: Facing East sets bad example for Asians

February 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In the last week, news broke that the attorney general’s office is going after Facing East, a very popular Taiwanese restaurant in Bellevue, and its owner Yu-Ling Wong for alleged sales tax evasion. (Read our story on this on page 4 of this issue.) Wong is accused of pocketing nearly $400,000 in sales tax from […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2013, 2016, Canada, Chinese, East Asian, Facing East, International District, Pius Chan, United States, Vol 35 No 7 | February 13 - February 19

Zero tolerance? — Star soccer player’s racist slurs prompt fine, training

December 3, 2015 By Jason Cruz

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly These were the words of Jamie Vardy, an English Premier League soccer player, to an Asian man at a casino in England: “Yo. Jap. Walk on.” Vardy, a player for the Thai-owned Leicester City of the Premiership, was not severely punished for this racist tirade despite a decree of […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2015, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, Asian Football Investments, East Asian, England Yo, English Premier League, James Pearson, Jamie Vardy, Jason Cruz, Jason Vardy, King Power Duty Free, Leicester City, Northwest Asian Weekly, Shino Okazaki, Thailand, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Vol 34 No 50 | December 5 - December 11

COMMENTARY: Mike Huckabee tweets racist anti-Asian joke

November 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jenn Fang For Northwest Asian Weekly Several of the candidates for the GOP nomination took the opportunity of the Democratic Party’s first presidential primary debate of the season to live-tweet. And, by live-tweet, I mean troll. In stark contrast to the nuanced policy debate taking place on stage in Las Vegas where candidates were […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2015, Although Trump, Chinese, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, East Asian, GOP, Las Vegas, North Korean, Vol 34 No 47 | November 14 - November 20, culture

Asian art on display at the Frye

March 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Frye Art Museum in Seattle is currently exhibiting “Isamu Noguchi and Qu Baishi: Beijing 1930” and “Mark Tobey and Teng Baiye: Seattle/Shanghai.”The show by Noguchi and Baishi is an exploration of artistic and intellectual exchanges between American sculptor, landscape architect, and furniture designer Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) and Qi Baishi (1864–1957), now considered one of […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2014, China, Chinese, East Asian, Fine Arts, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Tobey, Merrill Rueppel, Peking Drawings, Qi Baishi, Seattle Shanghai, Sotokichi Katsuizumi, Teng Baiye, United States, Vol 33 No 13 | March 22 - March 28, Whether Tobey, William Seitz, japan

Daphne Kwok joins AARP as Vice President

July 22, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AARP has appointed Daphne Kwok as the new Vice President, Multicultural Markets and Engagement effective July 8. Daphne will lead AARP’s outreach efforts toward Asian Americans. “Daphne brings with her an extensive history of community activism and leadership in the Asian American and Pacific Islander American communities,” said Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez, AARP’s Executive Vice President, Multicultural […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2013, AARP, APIDC, Advisory Commission, Angel Island Immigration Station, Asian Americans, Daphne Kwok, East Asian, Executive Vice President, Lorraine Cort, President Barack Obama, President Obama, San Francisco, Vol 32 No 30 | July 20 - July 26, Wesleyan University

Nominee: US opposes China bullying in China sea

June 29, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The nominee to become the top U.S. diplomat in East Asia delivered pointed comments about China in his confirmation hearing June 20, saying there’s no place for “coercion and bullying” in the region’s seas.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Beijing, Brunei, Chinese, Danny Russel, East Asian, Kurt Campbell, North Korea, Philippines, President Barack Obama, South China Sea, Southeast Asia, State John Kerry, Vol 32 No 27 | June 29 - July 5, WASHINGTON, White House, japan

Our top 10 burning questions with Steven Gonzalez

December 1, 2011 By Stacy Nguyen

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Justice Steven Gonzalez was recently appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court, the state’s highest court. He is the second Latino ever to be in such a prominent position. For the past 10 years, Gonzalez served on the bench as Superior Court Judge, appointed by former Gov. Gary Locke. […]

Filed Under: Profiles Tagged With: 2011, Asian Community, Brenda Hale, Dean Lum, East Asian, England, Hillis Clark Martin Peterson, Judge Mary Yu, Justice Steven Gonzalez, La Bamba, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Stacy Nguyen, Steven Gonzalez, Superior Court Judge, Top Contributors 2011, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, Washington State Supreme Court, gary locke

Does preference for Asian boys exist in the U.S.?

September 22, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jean Wong Northwest Asian Weekly “My father (Chinese-born in the Philippines) says he never had a preference on what gender his kids would be, but I heard my mother, [who passed away when I was a year old], really wanted to have a son,” said Johanna Martinez, a Filipino-Chinese American student of International Studies […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: 2011, China, Diane Vinh, East Asian, India, International Studies, Jean Wong, Johanna Martinez, Northwest Asian Weekly, OK, Philippines, Seattle, Shoreline Community College, Vietnamese American Mukilteo, Vol 30 No 39 | September 24 - September 30, technology

Defining Asian Americans

September 1, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Vicki Tang SYLP student The words “Dude, stop being so Asian” have become typical words in a young Asian American’s vocabulary. However, most people don’t think about what the expression really means. Of those who do, almost no one thinks about its implications. Being Asian literally means belonging to or having ancestry from the […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: Asian Americans, China, Chinese Americans, Chinese Exclusion Act, East Asian, East Asians, Gold Mountain, India, Japanese Americans, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pakistan, SYLP, SYLP 2011, South America, South Korea, United States, Yellow Terror

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