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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

BLOG: The many faces of Cambodia (Part 3)

January 7, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Dispelling safety myths
“Is Cambodia safe?” Many readers asked me this after reading my first two blogs about my recent trip with my husband last November.
It is surprising that many have this misconception. While some may have concerns traveling to Cambodia, its tourism has actually increased 17 percent in 2013 and 7 percent last year. Just in Angkor, there are more than one million visitors every year.

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2013, 2016, Assunta Ng, Besides Killing Fields, Cambodia, Cambodia Part, Cambodian Chinese, Hong Kong, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields Museum, National Museum, Phnom Penh Restaurant, Publisher's Blog, Royal Palace, Siem Reap, Southeast Asia, Tuol Sleng Prison, USD, Vietnam, Vol 35 No 2 | January 9 - January 15, poverty

It’s cold outside in Sweden — (But also beautiful)

December 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Four minutes is all I can take. It’s not jetlag. Or culture shock. It’s just hot. I’m in a sauna. In Malmoe, in Sweden. Guidebooks and everything, they talk about this. You go to Scandinavia, and you go to the sauna. For the coziness. For warmth and safety, inside, […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2016, Denmark, Dipika Kohli, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh, Scandinavia, Seattle, Southeast Asia, Sweden, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8, culture

The Village Report – Six weeks in Scandinavia

December 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Six weeks, all together, if I can manage to hold through December, here in Scandinavia. I think the gut knows when it’s time to shake things up, and this time, I found myself at Kastrup with an immigration officer flicking through my passport—stamps from around Southeast Asia these last […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2015, Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen Central Station, Denmark, Dipika Kohli, Europe, Neils Bohr, Northwest Asian Weekly, Scandinavia, Southeast Asia, Vol 34 No 50 | December 5 - December 11

The Village Report — Bugged in Phnom Penh

October 3, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly “That was what I was most worried about when we got here,” Bicycle (yes, that is his name) confessed tonight, up on the terrace. “Every time you go to an insectarium, you know, there are those huge ones, those really, really giant bugs—and then you look to see where […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2015, FOUR, Indonesia, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh, Seattle, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vol 34 No 41 | October 3 - October 9

Who are Uighurs? — A look at group from restive China region

September 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — Arrests made and details revealed about the Aug. 17 Bangkok bombing that killed 20 people have raised the question of whether members of an ethnic and religious minority from China’s far west were involved. A primer on the Uighurs, the repression they face in China and their presence abroad: ——— WHO ARE […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2014, Beijing, China, Chinese, Europe, Ilham Tohti, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Turkic-speaking Muslim, United Nations, United States, Vietnam, Vol 34 No 39 | September 19 - September 25, turkey

Yum! Classic Korean pancakes go easily from street food to dinner

August 7, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sara Moulton Associated Press Mung beans have been a staple of the cuisines of India, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia for thousands of years. And with good reason. They are a delicious and healthy source of protein and fiber. In the U.S., we tend to know them mostly in their sprouted state, and by […]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, China, Everyday Family Dinners, Food Network, India, Sara Moulton, Southeast Asia, Vol 34 No 33 | August 8 - August 14, Weeknight Meals, Yum Classic Korean

Columbia Pacific invests in Shanghai hospital

June 27, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Seattle-based Columbia Pacific Management – one of the largest healthcare providers in Asia, with 28 hospitals in India and Southeast Asia and three senior care facilities in China – announced it is officially entering the China hospital market with an investment in a 200-bed orthopedic hospital in Shanghai. The Seattle-based firm last fall announced it […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: 2015, Beijing, Cascade Healthcare, Changning District, Chinese, Columbia Asia, Columbia China, Huangpu District, India, Malaysia, Pudong District, Puxi District, Seattle-based Columbia Pacific Management, Southeast Asia, Vol 34 No 27 | June 27 - July 3

Holiday in socialist fairyland? North Korea woos tourists

June 7, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Talmadge Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — If you’re still looking for somewhere exotic to go this summer and don’t mind a vacation that comes with a heavy dose of socialist propaganda and leader worship, North Korea says it’s just the place for you. Fresh off a drastic, half-year ban that closed […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2015, Associated Press, China, Kim Jong-un, Kim Sang Hak, Kim Yong Il, North Koreans, PYONGYANG, Russia, South Koreans, Southeast Asia, State Department, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12

Karen students act out their lives’ journeys

June 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Maja Beckstrom St. Paul Pioneer Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — When it was time to choose roles in the play, Mu Pa chose the part of a Burmese soldier. “I know how to do it,” said the young Karen woman, who was a toddler when Burmese soldiers burned her village and killed her […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, Burma, Collin Cooper, Dangerous Productions, Harding High School, Hsar Kpaw, James Bond-style, Jane Sevald, Mu Knay Lay, Mu Pa, Myanmar, Nar Loe, Paul Pioneer Press, Paul Schools, Ryan Borcherding, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Tyler Olsen, United States, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12

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