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China island building now totals 2,000 acres

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By Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP)  — China’s rapidly expanding campaign to construct artificial islands, potentially for military use or airstrips, now totals about 2,000 acres (800 hectares) […]

Portraying family through film

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Kelly Huang, American and of Laotian heritage, recently finished her short film “A Refugee Story:  Khamsay Huang,” a portrait of her elderly uncle, Khamsay, […]

The streetcar gets a test run

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  Mayor Ed Murray tested out the first of the new First Hill streetcars Friday, March 27.  The baby-blue street car was tested on the Jackson route in the International […]

Britain applies to join Chinese-led Asian bank

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By Joe McDonald AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Britain has become the first major Western government to apply for membership in a proposed Chinese-led Asian regional bank that Washington […]

Survivor testifies about 2 friends stabbed, bound, drowned

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man who survived being beaten, bound, stabbed in the neck and kicked into the Schuylkill River took the stand in a hearing Tuesday and described the […]

Glamorous! — Last flight out from Vietnam to first-class designer for Urban Outfitters

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By Peggy Chapman Northwest Asian Weekly Actually, Quoc Nguyen doesn’t think his job is that glamorous, even though his designs are popular and featured throughout the Urban Outfitters line.  (You […]

A good reason to celebrate – The Year of the Wood Goat

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First day of the Lunar New Year is February 19 By Sun Lee Chang Northwest Asian Weekly For many of us in the West, things are starting to settle down […]