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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 – March 27

McNally appointed CID-BIA Policy and Program Manager

March 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Wren McNally will be working with the Chinatown-ID community and advancing the mission of the neighborhood. She brings over 6 years of community development and project management experience to her role as Policy and Program Manager. As a recent Master in Urban Planning from the UW College of Built Environments, she is interested in the […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Asian Studies, MA, Program Manager, Urban Planning, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, Whitman College

Louisa Building demolition

March 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

  The demolition of the Wah Mee Club and Liem’s Pet Shop of the historic Louisa Building located at 669 South King Street in Chinatown has been determined to be in late March. A Christmas Eve 2013 fire burned the western half of the building. The fire compromised the structure, leaving the roof and floor […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Chinatown, Louisa Building, Pet Shop, South King Street, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, Wah Mee Club

Wayne Lau appointed to MarketShare Board of Directors

March 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Lau has been recently appointed to the Board of Directors of MarketShare, a non-profit program which empowers immigrants and refugees to become small business owners of their own mobile food operation. Wayne has been a resident in Seattle since 1956 and is a graduate of Rainier Beach High School. He has a 35 year plus […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Executive Director, Rainier Beach High School, Rainier Valley Community Development Fund, Seattle Goodwill Industries, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, Wayne Lau

Chen publishes book on yoga

March 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

  Christine Chen, recently published a new book, “Happy-Go-Yoga.” Chen is a two-time Emmy Award winning American journalist, a  certified Yoga instructor, and founder of Christine Chen Yoga. She has been an anchor and reporter for several U.S. television news networks. She is the managing partner of Chen Communications, a marketing communications consulting group founded […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Chen Communications, Christine Chen, Christine Chen Yoga, New York City, Seattle, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27

Convicted rapist faces life in federal prison for child porn

March 22, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service LOS ANGELES (AP) — A convicted child rapist faces up to life in prison after being convicted Tuesday in Los Angeles of producing child pornography in the Philippines. Stanley Dan Reczko III, 50, of Los Angeles, was convicted by a federal judge of producing child porn while registered as a sex offender. […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, Filipino, International Justice Mission, Los Angeles, New York, Philippines, Thom Mrozek, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27

Britain applies to join Chinese-led Asian bank

March 22, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

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 worries will undercut institutions such as the World Bank. The British Treasury said Thursday it will join talks this month on the Asian Infrastructure Investment […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Africa, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Australia, Beijing, Brunei, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Laos, Nepal, South China Sea, Tokyo, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, World Bank, japan

Vanuatu president: Storm-wrecked country must ‘start anew’

March 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press SENDAI, Japan (AP) — The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has lost years of development progress and must “start anew” following a powerful cyclone that destroyed or damaged 90 percent of the buildings in the capital of Port Vila, the country’s president said Monday. Baldwin Lonsdale, visibly weary and red […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Australia, Baldwin Lonsdale, France, Hannington Alatoa, New Zealand, Port Vila, SENDAI, Sydney, United Nations, Vanuatu Red Cross Society, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, communication, japan

Ex-top China military official, facing bribery probe, dies

March 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service BEIJING (AP)  — The Chinese military’s former second-highest ranking officer, Xu Caihou, who had been under investigation for alleged bribe-taking and brokering of promotions, has died in a hospital of cancer, the state Xinhua News Agency reported early Monday. He was 71. A former deputy chairman of the ruling Communist Party’s Central […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, Beijing, CMC, Central Committee, Central Military Commission, Communist Party, Ex-top China, Gu Junshan, Hong Kong-based, Hu Jintao, Liberation Army, Phoenix Weekly, President Xi Jinping, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, Xinhua News Agency, Xu Caihou

Official: 4 Filipino nurses kidnapped from Sirte, Libya

March 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Esam Mohamed Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State affiliate in Libya kidnapped four nurses from the Philippines in broad daylight from a hospital in the city of Sirte, while several others were evacuated on Monday, a militia official said. The official who belongs to the 166 Battalion, a militia […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, Associated Press, Egyptian Christians, Filipino, Ibn Sina, Islamic State, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, Philippines, TRIPOLI, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27

Thailand’s 87-year-old king makes rare trip outside hospital

March 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s 87-year-old king on Monday made a rare visit outside the hospital to observe development projects at his palace in Bangkok. King Bhumibol Adulyadej took a one-hour trip from the riverside hospital where he has spent most of his time in recent years to see a rice mill and a solar energy […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2012, 2015, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Queen Sirikit, Siriraj Hospital, Thailand, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27

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