By Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) – With pigtails and plenty of giggles, Lucy Li just wants to have fun like any 11-year-old girl.
NONPERMANENT RESIDENTS (Part 3) — Local Cambodian men facing deportation for crimes committed when young
By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Part 1 Part 2 Rithy Yin, 33, pointed toward his church, Victory Outreach Church, from the kitchen of his sister and brother-in-law’s townhouse, where […]
Chinese law student seeks to help others
By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Emilia Liu has found her calling. “I’m really focused on social justice,” said the student of Seattle University School of Law. Her 2014 summer […]
$2.9 million will go to Japanese American confinement sites
Last week, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced 21 grants totaling more than $2.9 million to help preserve and interpret the World War II confinement sites of Japanese […]
A-pop! A closer look at ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ — Finding the nuance in the taboo
By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly This month, I want to discuss the use of racial slurs in the media.<!–more–> In my last column, I highlighted how ABC picked up […]
Nonstop to Hong Kong
Delta Airlines celebrated the launch of its new nonstop service from Seattle to Hong Kong on June 16, with a ribbon-cutting, water cannon salute, and traditional dragon dance at its […]
Krishna Das: Traditional singing to the ‘Soul of All’
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly One of the best-known singers in the Indian kirtan tradition — a Hindi devotional tradition involving call-and-response between the singer and the audience — […]
Daughter recalls father’s stories of war
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Roy Matsumoto, a Japanese American Nisei originally from California, went from the internment camps
Franchisees sue Seattle over $15 wage
By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Western Washington earlier this month challenges the recent
Filipino mayor: Typhoon was ‘something we never imagined’
By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly Typhoons are a normal, generally accepted part of life in the Philippines, except for one.