The Center for American Progress, in conjunction with AAPI Data, released a report in May on language diversity and English proficiency among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. This release is […]
Audition for ‘The United States of China’
Nickolas Vassili, a mental health counselor in Fremont, has written a play and is calling for auditions. “The United States of China,” depicts a bankrupt America in the year 2018, […]
Meet up with fellow artists
Artists Up will be hosting a networking and resource night for AAPI artists on Monday, June 9, at Asian Counseling and Referral Service, located at 3639 Martin Luther King Jr. […]
Nonpermanent residents — Part 1 of a three-part series on Cambodian men who are facing deportation for crimes committed when young
By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly “I burglarized a gas station. I was young, naïve. I just — wasn’t thinking,” said Ram Son, a Cambodian man who lives in South […]
Indian American boys tie in national spelling bee
By Ben Nuckols Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — For the first time in 52 years, two spellers were declared co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on May […]
New bill would ‘properly recognize’ Bainbridge memorial
On May 28, Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-06) introduced a bill to officially recognize a new name for the Bainbridge Island memorial to Japanese Americans forced from their homes during World […]
BLOG: Arlington to Oso, witnessing the reopening of 530
By Assunta Ng It might not be the best time to visit Oso after the mudslide. But I went anyway on May 31 — the opening day for Highway 530 […]
EDITORIAL: Why are Indians the best spellers?
Thirteen of the last 17 Scripps National Spelling Bee winners, including eight in the last seven years, have been Indian Americans. This raises many predictable questions and reactions, the first […]
BLOG: Steve Ballmer and the Clippers
By Assunta Ng When I asked Steve Ballmer a question in public in 2011, it quickly created a storm. It was at a Seattle Rotary meeting and Ballmer was the […]