IDEA Space will be a drop-off location for the Aug. 2 election. The Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority’s (SCIDpda’s) design and resource center held a ballot party […]
Quang Nguyen farewell party
Community members gathered to celebrate Quang Nguyen’s retirement from Hing Hay Coworks on July 15. Since January 2015, Quang was a project initiator and manager at Hing Hay. He was […]
Chinatown Seafair Parade
The International District (ID) got into the Seafair spirit with the Chinatown Seafair Parade on July 24. The Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce organized this annual event to highlight […]
Dumpling eating champ at Dragonfest
Eric Chang won the inaugural Dragonfest Dumpling Eating Contest, beating four other competitors on July 16. The rule was simple. Whoever ate all 15 dumplings first, won. However, they had […]
Annual pig roast
The 41st Annual Danny Woo Community Garden Celebration and Ceremonial Pig Roast took place on July 15 and 16. Nearly 200 people, including more than 30 volunteers, gathered at the […]
Tiger mauls woman to death in Chinese wildlife park
BEIJING (AP) — Siberian tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing mauled a woman to death and wounded another when they stepped out of their car in an enclosure, a […]
Letter foretold Japan rampage that killed 19 disabled people
By Mari Yamaguchi and Yuri Kageyama Associated Press SAGAMIHARA, Japan (AP) — A young Japanese man went on a stabbing rampage July 26 at a facility for the mentally disabled […]
South Vietnamese officers reunite to ‘relive’ their youth
By Hayat Norimine The Daily News LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — In 1975, American troops pulled out of Vietnam after 60,000 troops were killed and 300,000 injured. The South Vietnamese Army […]
Curator Chong to lead New Hampshire museum
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A former curator of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston will be the next director of the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, N.H., the […]
“Ip Man 3” — Ip Man 3 packs a punch, but lacks cohesion
By Eric Card Northwest Asian Weekly In the third and quite possibly the final installment of the Ip Man series, actor and martial artist Donnie Yen and director Wilson Yip […]