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Cricket in March Madness — A sport that is not as niche as you might think

March 19, 2015 By Jason Cruz

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly While the NCAA college basketball tournament has many hoop fans filling out their brackets to see who will make it to the Final Four and win the NCAA Championship, another tournament is taking place on the other side of the world with just as much fandom and probably as […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2015, Australia, Bangladesh, British Empire, Final Four, ICC, India, Ireland, Magnuson Park, Marymoor Park, NCAA, New Zealand, Scotland, Seattle, South Asian, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, West Indies, Zimbabwe

As Vietnam’s women go abroad, dads tend the home

July 26, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mike Ives The Associated Press VU HOI, Vietnam (AP) — When his wife moved to Taiwan nine years ago to work as a maid — earning far more than she could in the rice paddies of this northern Vietnamese hamlet — Pham Duc Viet took over the household chores and raised their two children […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2014, Indonesia, Lan Anh Hoang, Malaysia, Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, Pham Duc Viet, Pham Ngoc Thuy, Pham Thi Lien, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tran Xuan Cuong, Vietnamese, Vol 33 No 31 | July 26 - August 1, Vu Duc Hang, Vu Hoi, Vu Tien, lebanon

Students come from South Asia to study journalism in Seattle

July 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Twenty journalism students from Bangladesh, Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka arrived in Seattle on June 22. The students are here for five weeks and will be staying at the University of Washington for most of the period. They will be studying topics related to journalism and the media, along with working on community service projects, […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2014, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Seattle, South Asia, Space Needle, Sri Lanka, Vol 33 No 28 | July 5 - July 11

VFA honors 2 people, 1 church

March 31, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Two people and a church were awarded in the March 20 Vietnamese Friendship Association’s 2014 benefit dinner at the UW HUB Ballroom.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2014, Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, Puget Sound Blood Center, Rifka Bahaman, South Seattle College, Sri Lanka, Thanksgiving, Trang Tu, United States, University Unitarian Church, VFA, Vietnamese Friendship Association, Vol 33 No 14 | March 29 - April 4

No release for three of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

March 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ashok Sharma Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) – India’s top court on Thursday stopped the Tamil Nadu state government from releasing three of the seven prisoners serving life sentences for the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a lawyer said.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Congress Party, India, Indira Gandhi, Jayaram Jayalalitha, Mohan Parasaran, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Rakesh Dwivedi, Sonia Gandhi, Sri Lanka, Supreme Court, Tamil Nadu, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7

Indians mark their biggest festival with fireworks

November 9, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ashok Sharma Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) – Millions of Indians were setting off deafening fireworks displays Sunday (Nov. 3) to light up the sky for Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, which celebrates the triumph of good over evil.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, Associated Press, Indian Hindu, Mahesh Chand Sagar, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Delhi, Sri Lanka, Sunday Nov, Vol 32 No 46 | November 9 - November 15

Seattle nonprofit, Gates Foundation, and Chinese manufacturer promote life-saving vaccine

November 8, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave a stamp of approval for a Chinese-made vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), a disease that plagues mostly children in poor rural communities in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Seattle’s PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) had been searching for ways to develop a low-cost vaccine […]

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2013, Bill Gates, CDIBP, Cambodia, China, Chinese, Gates Foundation, India, JE, Nepal, North Korea, PATH, SA, Seattle, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Vol 32 No 46 | November 9 - November 15, WHO, Western Pacific

Blasts at East Indian Buddhist sites injure 2

July 13, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Indrajit Singh The Associated Press PATNA, India (AP) — A series of blasts hit three Buddhist sites in eastern India July 7, injuring at least two people and drawing condemnation from the prime minister.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Great Awakening Temple, India July, Mahabodhi Temple, Myanmar, PATNA, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibetan Buddhist, UNESCO, Vol 32 No 29 | July 13 - July 19

Seattle dancers become cultural diplomats during month-long trip to South Asia

June 7, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eunbi Cho UW News Lab Dance is a language that can pass cultural barriers and unite people despite differences. At least, that was the theory behind sending Seattle-based dance troupe Spectrum Dance Theater to South Asia in February and March to serve as cultural ambassadors.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2013, Bangladesh, Donald Byrd, Emerald City Trapeze Arts Building, Eunbi Cho, India, Nepal, SDT, Seattle, Shadou Mintrone, South Asian, Spectrum Dance Theater, Sri Lanka, Vol 32 No 24 | June 8 - June 14, language, social media

WWU prof sheds light on drastic climate change in Alaska, Sri Lanka, and Mongolia

January 5, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jeffrey Osborn Northwest Asian Weekly The human race has been considered a race of hunter–gatherers. Groups that lived inland hunted wild animals and when the opportunity presented itself, they fished in lakes and rivers. Alternatively, groups that lived by a coast relied far more heavily on fish from the ocean, naturally leading to the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Blue Sky Project, Edward Schuur, Inter Press Service, Jeffrey Osborn, Kwigillingok School, Lower Kuskokwim School District, Lower Kuskokwin, Mongolia, Northwest Asian Weekly, Nunivak Island, Professor Mohan Munasinghe, Sri Lanka, Vol 31 No 2 | January 7 - January 13, WWU, Walter Betz, Western Washington University, culture

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