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Obama signs expanded Violence Against Women Act

March 16, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama signed expanded protections for domestic violence victims into law Thursday, March 7, renewing a measure credited with curbing […]

Obama hosts Japan PM amid tensions in Asia

March 2, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama welcomed Japan’s new prime minister to the White House on Friday, Feb. 22, pledging continued close economic […]

BLOG: Rhea Suh, a product of the American Dream

February 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng It’s always wonderful to see Obama’s Asian appointees in Seattle. Last Sunday, Rhea Suh accompanied Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to the signing ceremony for the […]

EDITORIAL: Bill O’Reilly reveals where the right is wrong

January 10, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Asian and Pacific Americans have traditionally been the most right-leaning minority, but in 2012, Obama won over 70 percent of the Asian and Pacific American vote nationally, and Jay Inslee […]

LETTER: Inslee forgets Asian Americans

November 22, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Dear Editor, I’m extremely disappointed that an Asian American was not chosen to be one of Inslee’s co-chairs, especially when Asian Americans supported him in large numbers, as they did […]

Obama first to become first president to visit Myanmar

November 17, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jim Kuhnhenn The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit the once pariah nation of Myanmar, drawing attention to the […]

EDITORIAL: Time for real change in the Republican Party

November 8, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

When Barack Obama first won the presidency in 2008 in an electoral landslide, there was much talk about how the Republican Party needed to do some “soul searching.” People spoke […]

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, […]

School district flooded with thousands of records requests

September 22, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of illegal immigrants have inundated the nation’s second-largest school district with requests for copies of records that might qualify them […]

BLOG: API delegates flooded DNC

September 7, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng Recently, I received a list of Washington State Delegation delegates for the Democratic National Convention (DNC). More than 150 delegates are represented, 10 percent of which are […]