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Burmese advocate Bo Kyi calls on the world to help political prisoners in Burma

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By Nan Nan Liu Northwest Asian Weekly During the seven and a half years that Bo Kyi was in prison, he was beaten, tortured,

The Top 10 influential women who have contributed to Asian communities worldwide

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By Abby Sun Northwest Asian Weekly In honor of International Women’s Day, celebrated earlier this month, we introduce our list of 10 women who have contributed immensely to Asian communities […]

Montana restaurateur recalls harrowing escape from Vietnam

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By Tristan Scott The Missoulian COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Tien Pham Windauer epitomizes the American dream, and somehow, he even manages to make it look easy.

Vietnam-born woman to reunite with aid worker who saved her

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By Jackie Hutchins Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — Tobi Snyder has had a special wish for much of her life. And just before Christmas 2010, she sent off […]

Reader’s Corner: Forced to flee: voices and visions from the Thai-Burma border, put on paper

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By Erika Berg For Northwest Asian Weekly In September 2007, the world’s attention was riveted by video footage of never-ending columns of saffron-robed monks streaming through the streets of Burma. […]

Thanksgiving … Asian-fied! (a round-up of blog posts and newspaper stories)

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Creating content around Thanksgiving for an Pan-Asian newspaper is unexpectedly difficult.  After all, there’s only so many times we can run the same old, […]

‘Red Earth, Gold Gate, Shadow Sky’ performances this Fri. and Sat.

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“Red Earth, Gold Gate, Shadow Sky” is inspired by interviews with young Cambodian American men deported to Cambodia. These “returnees” survived a long journey between two cultures, only to lose […]