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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 – October 2

Largest pro-China parade ever!

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

When a thousand participants commemorated the 60th anniver­sary of the founding of People’s Republic of China by storming through Seattle’s Chinatown last Sunday, serendipities occurred.

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2009, Assunta Ng, Chinatown, Indochina Chinese Elderly Association, Kenneth Tao, King County Council Member, Master John Leong, NWAW, Northwest Asian Weekly, President Ma Ying Jeoh, Ruby Chow, Seattle Kung Fu Club, Sun Ya Restaurant, Taiwan, Uncle Chow, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2

A parade! A parade!

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Sunday, Sept. 20, people crowded the streets of Seattle’s Chinatown/International District to celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The parade demonstrated how tensions have eased between China and Taiwan supporters.

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2009, Seattle Chinatown International District, Taiwan, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2

If FICP builds it, will they come?

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Amid the hustle and bustle of Chinatown sits a quiet, unassum­ing park nestled behind trees on the corner of Seventh Avenue South and South Lane Street. A bronze dragon hovers over a giant yin-yang arrangement made of sand and grass. Rockery symbol­izing the mountainous regions of the Philippines rests alongside a small slide and merry-go-round.

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2009, 2010, Chinatown, Dragon Park, Evangeline Cafe, FICP, Inner-city Leadership Development, International Children, International District, Monica Le, Neighborhood Matching Fund, Philippines, Seventh Avenue South, South Lane Street, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2, WILD, Wing Luke Asian Museum

Homeownership fell in ’08 — Asians get hit the worst

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Asians, many of them liv­ing in foreclosure-ravaged California, suffered the sharpest drop in homeownership last year, eclipsing declines felt by whites, Blacks, and Latinos, accord­ing to new Census data.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, AP, American Community Survey, Asian Americans, Census Bureau, Edward Wolff, Jennifer Nguyen, Mark Mather, Mike Truong, New York University, United States, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2

Chicken feet a bridge in U.S.–China relations?

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

I could never imagine that chick­en feet, despised by many Americans, would be the thing to link China and America in a win-win situation.

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: 2008, 2009, 30th anniversary, Assunta Ng, Chinatown Inter, Chinese, Hong Kong, New York Times, Perhaps Americans, Seattle, United States, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2

Bhutanese refugees get fresh start in Ohio — on a farm

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

CLEVELAND (AP) — The fami­lies from the edge of the Himala­yan Mountains arrived in Cleve­land last winter as other refugees have — poor, cold, and bewildered.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, 2012, Asia, Bhutan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Catholic Charities, Community Supported Agriculture, Eaton Corp, Greater Cleve, Hira Fotedar, Indra Pyakurel, Mark Mackovjak, Nandu Pou, Nepal, Rohit Basnet, Sewa International, Shiva Vishnu Temple, Sree Sreenath, Tom Mrosko, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2

Indian runner stripped of medal after a gender-test, empathizes with Semenya

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

PUDUKKOTTAI, India (AP) — Considering suicide after be­ing stripped of her medal and shunned by the people around her, Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan knows a bit about what Caster Se­menya is going through.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, Asian Games, Caster Se, Chennai Marathon, IAAF, India, PUDUKKOTTAI, Qatar, Santhi Soundarajan, South Af, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2, poverty

Young foreigners hunt for jobs in China amid crisis

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Andrew Carr, China Market Research Group, Chinese, Chris Watkins, Emerson College, European Union, Feng Li, Grant Yu, Hong Kong, Mikala Reasbeck, Shaun Rein, South Korea, United States, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2, Wall Street, language

Dry run: Beijing shuts down early for its 60th anniversary parade practice

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — Police cleared the streets and office buildings in parts of China’s capital on Friday for a full dress rehearsal of cel­ebrations for 60 years of commu­nist rule. There was a mixture of excitement and resentment among ordinary Chinese who were told to stay away.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Beijing Olympic, China, Chinese, Communist Party, Great Hall, ID, Liu Shanying, Qi Zhiyong, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2, Yang Weiying, Yang Xiao, Zhang Lianfa, Zhang Zhu

Civil rights organizations oppose Arizona’s mandatory E-Verify law

September 24, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), along with other leading civil rights and labor organizations, recently filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court to challenge the state of Arizona’s mandatory E-Verify law.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2009, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Homeland Security, La Raza Centro Legal, Legal Arizona Workers Act, Southern California, United States Supreme Court, Vol 28 No 40 | September 26 - October 2

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