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You are here: Home / Archives for Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 – April 8

Donnie Chin’s family on park renaming

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Dear community members, We would like to thank you all for your tremendous support over the past months since Donnie’s passing. We appreciate the many efforts that have gone into remembering our brother and his lifetime of work for the community. We are writing to formally state our family’s position on the renaming of the […]

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: 2016, Donnie Chin International Children, International District Emergency Center, Jamie Lee, Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell, Seattle Parks, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Kitamura moves into healthcare

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Elaine Kitamura has accepted a new position as Regional Director for Multicultural Initiatives for the American Heart Association. Starting April 4, the work that she will be involved in, will help to meet the organization’s impact goal to improve cardiovascular health of all Americans and decrease deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, American Heart Association, Elaine Kitamura, Starting April, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

API presidential caucus training

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The API presidential caucus training took place on March 17 in Seattle. The planning committee – Rick Polintan, Toshiko Grace Hasegawa, Celia Jackson, Binah Palmer, Crystal Anguay-Reed, and Max Brown – said this was an inter-generational, inter-community grassroots organizing effort to educate the AAPI community about the presidential electoral process. Hasegawa said, “It’s about making […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, AAPI, Binah Palmer, Celia Jackson, Max Brown, Rick Polintan, Seattle, Toshiko Grace Hasegawa, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Japanese American Leadership Delegation return

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The 2016 delegates of the Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD) program have now returned to the United States. In its 16th year, JALD provides the opportunity for a select group of Japanese American leaders to travel to Japan to engage with Japanese leaders. This year’s delegation, which included Seattle City Council president Bruce Harrell, visited […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Bruce Harrell, Hyogo Prefecture, JALD, Japanese American Leadership Delegation, Japanese American Leadership Symposium Provided, Prime Minister Shinz Abe, Seattle City Council, United States, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Bambu celebrates grand opening in ID

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Bambu, a smoothie and juice bar, had its grand opening March 19. Located at 516 7th Avenue South in Chinatown, this is the smoothie and juice bar’s second location in western Washington. The first location is at the Great Wall Mall in Kent, and a third location is set to open in the fall in […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Amy Nguyen, Avenue South, Chinatown, Dyane Ng, Great Wall Mall, ID, Seattle, University District, Vi Kathie Nguyen, Vivian Nguyen, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

WE Day Seattle announces lineup

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

World-renowned speakers and performers will be inspiring 15,000 youth and educators at WE Day Seattle on April 20 at KeyArena at the Seattle Center. George Takei, actor, director, author, and activist, and Lilly Singh – an Indo-Canadian comedian, better known by her YouTube username Superwoman, are part of the lineup. WE Day is a celebration […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, George Takei, Lilly Singh, Seattle Center, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Hmong American poet wins prize for best debut

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A Hmong American poet is this year’s winner of the Walt Whitman Award, given for an outstanding debut book. The Academy of American Poets told The Associated Press March 23 that 34-year-old Mai Der Vang will receive a $5,000 cash prize and a six-week residency in Umbria, Italy. Her collection “Afterland,” inspired by the flight […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Graywolf Press, Hmong American, Laos, Mai Der Vang, Vietnam War, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8, Walt Whitman Award

Ex-NYC cop apologizes in stairwell shooting death

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – A former New York City police officer convicted of accidentally shooting an unarmed man in the stairwell of a public housing building apologized on March 25 to the man’s domestic partner. Peter Liang met with Kimberly Ballinger at a mutually agreed upon conference room at the […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Associated Press, Brooklyn District Attorney, District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, Kimberly Ballinger, Louis Pink Houses, New York City, Paul Shechtman, Peter Liang, Scott Rynecki, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Diners scatter when man drops giant python in restaurant

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles police say diners scattered when a man dropped a 13-foot yellow python on the floor of a sushi restaurant. Officer Drake Madison says Hiroshi Motohashi, 46, had argued with an employee and stormed out of Iroha Sushi of Tokyo in Studio City on March 20. Madison says a short […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Ruth Bayang, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Chinese businessman Su Bin pleads guilty in United States hacking case

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Amanda Lee Myers Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) – A Chinese businessman has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack into the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors, including Boeing, to steal data on military projects, according to court records released March 23. Su Bin, 50, admitted to conspiring with two unnamed hackers in China […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, 2014, 2016, Associated Press, Attorney Eileen Decker, British Columbia, CCP, Canada, China, Chinese Communist Party, Robert Anello, Su Bin, United States, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8, technology

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