By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Daylight savings is officially underway which means shorter days and more reasons to stay inside. Fortunately, there are some great movies and television shows out to help you survive the next few months. Read on to see what’s playing and streaming near you. Asian Americans take on action films […]
Can one non-offensive word cause an uproar? — Apparently, it can
The word “deferring” got John Streamas, an Associate Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University involved in controversy early in the semester Aug. 27. What was the situation? It was a statement from a syllabus for a 200-level Introduction to Multicultural Literature class. The statement in the syllabus included the […]
Kim pleads guilty of leaking to Fox News
Former senior adviser Stephen Kim agreed to a 13-month sentence in the case stemming from a report on North Korea’s military that he leaked to Fox News. By Frederic J. Frommera By Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. State Department expert on North Korea pleaded guilty Feb. 7 to passing classified information to a journalist. […]
COMMENTARY: Obama and Romney need to get real on jobs policy
By Douglas E. Schoen For Northwest Asian Weekly It’s a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten when the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department’s July jobs figures showed that employers added 163,000 new workers last month. That exceeds what most forecasters were predicting. But it’s only […]