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U.S. starts landmark Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam

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The United States began a landmark project last week to clean up a dangerous chemical left from the defoliant Agent Orange — 50 years after American planes fi rst sprayed it on Vietnam’s jungles to destroy enemy cover …

Census seeks changes in how it measures race

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To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat “Hispanic” as a distinct category regardless of race, end use of the term “Negro,” and offer new ways to identify Middle Easterners …

Chinese slaughterhouse fights hard to stay open

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By The Associated Press Staff ROSEMEAD, Calif. (AP) — A slaughterhouse in a small Los Angeles suburb is raising a big stink as the owners fight an order to shut […]

Word on the street: Local APIs react to Pew survey on Asian Americans

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By Evangeline Cafe Northwest Asian Weekly A recent Pew Research Center survey found that Asian Americans are the highest-earning and

Project documenting history of Southeast Seattle complete

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Seattle’s Historic Preservation program completed a three-year project documenting the history of Southeast Seattle. The finished product is a series of posters, essays, and reports which focus on the era […]

Helping Link opens new computer lab with courses for Vietnamese adults

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Helping Link, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the Vietnamese community, created a Computer Lab Marketing Initiative to offer new computer courses designed for Vietnamese adults who have little […]