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PICTORIAL: Obama bounces around Asia

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President Obama launched his trip to Asia from Oso, Wash., where he visited the March 22 landslide victims’ families, friends, and rescue workers. From there, he began a week-long trip […]

The Village Report — Breakfast in Cambodia

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By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Little fish, a pooling of about 30, butt about in their prism while my son looks on, mesmerized, chewing a bit of salty fish […]

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban wins Pritzker Prize

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By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has combined a talent for innovative design and experimental use of everyday materials with extensive […]

McDonalds franchise head will be speaker at student diversity dinner

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By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly The Northwest Asian Weekly’s Diversity Makes a Difference scholarship program celebrates high school students from Western Washington — nominated by teachers, counselors, principals, and community […]

Japan’s last WWII straggler dies at 91

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By Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press TOKYO (AP) – Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in a jungle in the Philippines and surrender, 29 years after […]

Crisis and Calm: Ruth Ozeki and the Art of Being a Novelist

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By Signe Predmore Northwest Asian Weekly It wasn’t until disaster struck that Japanese American author Ruth Ozeki’s latest, critically acclaimed novel, “A Tale for the Time Being,” truly came to […]

Life’s a game — Leap of faith turns comic strip into successful gaming company

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“Working with Robert Khoo is almost entirely painless.”  — Jerry ‘Tycho’ Holkins By Sue Misao Northwest Asian Weekly

South Korean baritone steps into Seattle Opera’s “Rigoletto”

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By Imana Gunawan Northwest Asian Weekly When baritone Hyung Yun first got into opera, “Rigoletto,” by Giuseppe Verdi, became an opera he dreamt of performing. Now, Yun’s dreams will be […]

China: Abe not welcome after war shrine visit

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By Gillian Wong Associated Press BEIJING (AP) – China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday accused Japan’s prime minister of hypocrisy and said he would not be welcome in China after he […]

Tiananmen protester is denied return to China

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HONG KONG (AP) – The second most-wanted student leader from the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests was turned back from Hong Kong on Monday in his latest attempt to surrender […]