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Tacoma family keeps up search for downed Korean War pilot

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Adam Ashton The News Tribune TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – As a boy, Albert Paffenroth Jr. walked to the edge of a fence around the runway at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan to watch his dad and other pilots lift into the sky in their B-26 bombers. Almost 70 years later, Paffenroth is trying […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2016, Albert Paffenroth Jr, Albert Paffenroth Sr, Central Pacific, DNA, Gig Harbor, Johnson Air Force Base, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, North Korean, Philippines, TACOMA, United States, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8, japan, technology

Former refugee thanks governor who welcomed him in 1975

December 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Melissa Santos The News Tribune TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Vuong Nguyen has spent the past 40 years feeling indebted to former Washington Gov. Dan Evans. This year, the former Vietnamese refugee finally found a way to express his thanks: by giving the former Republican governor a bonsai tree landscape. Nguyen was one of the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, California Gov, Camp Pendleton, China, Dan Evans, Jay Inslee, Jerry Brown, Native Americans, Pacific Bonsai Museum, TACOMA, Vietnamese, Vol 34 No 53 | December 26 - January 1, Vuong Nguyen, Washington Gov

South Korea astronaut has landed in W. Washington

August 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kari Plog The News Tribune TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Puyallup isn’t out of this world, but Soyeon Yi will take it. Sitting in a cafe off East Main Avenue, Yi looks like an average 36-year-old resident. But she doesn’t have an average career. She is an international icon after becoming the first South Korean […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2008, American Idol, East Main Avenue, International Space Station, Ko San, Russia, Seattle, South Korean, Soyeon Yi, TACOMA, TV, attention, technology

Killer convicted at age 14 can now ask for parole

June 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Adam Lynn/The News Tribune Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – Barry Massey was 14 when he became the youngest person in the United States ever sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Massey was convicted of killing Steilacoom marina owner Paul Wang in 1987. On June 6, Superior Court Judge Thomas […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Barry Massey, David Zuckerman, Indeterminate Sentence Review Board, Paul Wang, Pierce County, Superior Court Judge Thomas Larkin, Supreme Court, TACOMA, United States, Vol 33 No 25 | June 14 - June 20

Four deportation detainees remain on hunger strike

March 14, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – A hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center entered a fifth day on March 10, with four detainees still protesting their treatment and calling for an end to deportations. The strike began March 7 when about 750 detainees refused to eat.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Andrew Munoz, Hong Kong, ICE, Northwest Detention Center, Sue Misao, TACOMA, Tony Ng, United States, Vol 33 No 12 | March 15 - March 21, Wah Mee Massacre, attention

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