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China seizes 620 turtles and tortoises smuggled from Vietnam

September 10, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese border patrol officials seized 620 wild turtles and tortoises — 510 of them considered endangered — that were found alive in a shipment of frozen seafood […]

Helping historically hidden communities — State of undocumented APIs three years after DACA

September 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Marissa Vichayapai Special to Northwest Asian Weekly Three years after the start of Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA), a federal program which provides certain undocumented immigrants protection from […]

Former US foreign service officer sentenced in visa fraud

August 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. visa chief in Vietnam has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for accepting more than $3 million in bribes in exchange […]

Guam Food Tours: Open for business

August 15, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jojo Santo Tomas Pacific Daily News HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — After her seemingly innocuous questions eight months ago, I knew that Leslie Travis was up to something. I never […]

EDITORIAL: Is it possible to love and hate? — The strange case of Jennifer Pan

August 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

It is most likely unfathomable to absorb the idea of attempting to kill your parents. However Jennifer Pan, 28, from Toronto acted on the idea. She was tried on attempted […]

From a boat to running a million-dollar business —Lam’s new owner’s journey

July 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Peggy Chapman Northwest Asian Weekly George Nguyen never imagined he would be running grocery stores and food distribution businesses along the west and north coast in the U.S. Nguyen […]

Friends mourn teen’s drowning in Lake Washington

June 12, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last month, May 25, a group of friends mourned the loss of 17-year-old Cuong Uong. Uong was swimming in Lake Washington this past weekend and his friends were not able […]

Hong Kong investors to purchase Seattle’s Columbia Center — High-rise and high price: $725 million

June 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle has the Space Needle and the Smith Tower, the city’s guaranteed architectural treasures. But the building that is hard to overlook? That would be […]

Toyota scholarships

June 8, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In partnership with the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing college scholarships to APIAs, Toyota granted 22 scholarships at its fourth annual […]

Pentagon chief criticizes Beijing’s South China Sea moves

June 7, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Pennington Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — China’s land reclamation in the South China Sea is out of step with international rules, and turning underwater […]