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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 – October 30

EDITORIAL: Time to vote! — Northwest Asian Weekly’s endorsements

October 28, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Initiative 1366 — NO   Initiative 1401 — YES Advisory Vote No. 10 — Maintained Advisory Vote No. 11 — Maintained Advisory Vote No. 12 — Maintained Advisory Vote No. 13 — Maintained King County Charter Amendment No. 1 — NO Proposition No. 1 — APPROVED Assessor: Lloyd Hara Director of Elections: Julie Wise or […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2015, APPROVED, Bruce Harrell, Claudia Balducci, Courtney Gregoire, David Lee, Fred Felleman, King County, Larry Gossett, Marion Yoshino, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pamela Banks, Port of Seattle, Sally Bagshaw, Tim Burgess, Vandana Slatter, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30, YES, Zach Hudgins

Maj. Gen. Nagata steps down

October 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata is stepping down as commander of American Special Operations forces in the Middle East. He was responsible for a program that trained approximately a few dozen fighters assigned to train and equip Syrian rebels. Nagata served in Special Operations for more than two years. According to The New York Times, […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, American Special Operations, Middle East, National Counterterrorism Center, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30

SAFF festival announces new appointees

October 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The South Asian American Film Festival (SAFF) announced that the new Artist Liaison will be Adrian Alarilla. A filmmaker from Quezon City, Philippines, Adrian immigrated to Chicago in 2007 before moving to Seattle in 2010.  His films have been shown at a number of festivals in the Philippines and the U.S. including SAAFF, and he […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2010, 2015, Adrian Alarilla, One Reel, Philippines, Quezon City, SAAFF, SAFF, Seattle, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30

Edmonds CC students selected to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center

October 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Edmonds Community College students Ben Nguyen and Rebekah Waligorski have been selected to travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center Oct. 25-28 to participate in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars project (NCAS). Nguyen and Waligorski were selected as two of 160 community college students from across the U.S. to be part of NCAS. Nguyen is […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Ben Nguyen, Edmonds Community College, Education Program, General Engineering, Johnson Space Center Oct, NASA, NCAS, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30, Washington State University

Philanthropists Jerry and Charlene Lee honored

October 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Jerry and Charlene Lee were honored as generous supporters of research to cure breast cancer and as 2015 Outstanding Philanthropists by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Advancement, Northwest Washington. Lee, chairman of MulvannyG2 Architecture, lost his first wife, Patricia, to breast cancer. Charlene is a breast cancer survivor. The couple’s philosophy is simple: Treat everyone […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Charlene Lee, Jerry Lee, MulvannyG2 Architecture, Northwest Washington, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30

Banking official Tran Meyers appointed VP of Team Read

October 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Tran Meyers, Relationship Manager for Wells Fargo’s Seattle Regional Commercial Banking Office, recently became Vice President on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Team Read. The organization pairs struggling readers with trained teen reading coaches for one-on-one tutoring after school and during the summer. Team Read partners with elementary schools where more than 50 […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Seattle Regional Commercial Banking Office, Seattle School District, Team Read, Tran Meyers, VP, Vice President, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30, Wells Fargo

India, cows and politics — With Hindu party leading India, beef grows more political

October 25, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tim Sullivan Associated Press NEW DELHI — The legislator was full of outrage when he arrived in the northern Indian village days after the killing of a Muslim farmer who was rumored to have slaughtered cows. A Hindu mob had smashed through the heavy wooden door to the man’s home, then beat him to […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, BJP, India, Mark Zuckerberg, Maybe Vijay, Meanwhile Som, Mohammad Akhlaq, New Delhi, Nirmala George, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ram Mandal Das, Ram Mangal Das, Sangeet Som, Tarun Vijay, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30

Bonsai! A growing movement in U.S.

October 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Randy Essex Post Independent GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — This is a story of how two Glenwood Springs High School grads and Mr. Miyagi (yes, from “The Karate Kid”) have changed bonsai in the United States from a hobby to a rising art and industry. The Artisans Cup, the first U.S. bonsai exhibition of […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, Artisans Cup, Bonsai Club International, Bonsai Mirai, California Polytechnic State University, England, Germany, Glenwood High, Glenwood Springs High School, Glenwood Springs Strawberry Days, Masahiko Kimura, North American, Portland Art Museum, Post Independent, United States, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30, japan

“Stop this band, stop this show, Viet Cong has got to go.”

October 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nodyia Fedrick Northwest Asian Weekly These words chanted by dozens, filled the air Friday night during the protest against Canadian-punk band Viet Cong who performed at Neumos in Seattle. “This is a band named after a communist regime that raped and tortured people,” said Tony Vo, one of the protest’s organizers who wanted the […]

Filed Under: Briefs, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Nodyia Fedrick, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Tony Vo, Viet Cong, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30

Watch out — App cofounder speaks of women’s safety

October 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Daria Kroupoderova Northwest Asian Weekly Do women feel safe in public spaces? Kalpana Viswanath, cofounder of Safetipin, addressed the safety of women in her presentation “Building Gender Inclusive Cities” on Mon, Oct. 12 at University of Washington to an all-female audience. Viswanath, a researcher of women’s safety in cities for over 20 years, began […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Ashish Basu, Colombia, Daria Kroupoderova, India, Kalpana Viswanath, Kenya, Naynay Chohan, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Sutapa Basu, UW, Vol 34 No 44 | October 24 - October 30

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