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 on July 21 where community members were invited to bring their ballots. Volunteers handed out voter education materials and offered translation services in Vietnamese, Cantonese, […]
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 passionate about growing a community of entrepreneurs. Prior to that, Quang spent seven years as a Senior Economic Development Specialist at Seattle Chinatown International District […]
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 the diversity of the ID. The parade featured lion and dragon dances along with a 100 foot dragon, marching bands, clowns, and floats. Many local […]
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 to use their non-dominant hand to pick up the dumplings to make the competition more exciting. Chang won two season passes to Stevens Pass valued […]
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 garden and enjoyed the 124-pound pig that was served. Also, speakers talked about how the community garden strengthens the area and they promoted the importance […]
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 Chinese state-run newspaper said. A tiger pounced on one of the women after she got out of a private car in which she was touring […]
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 where he had been fired, officials said, killing 19 people months after he gave a letter to Parliament outlining the bloody plan and saying all […]
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 lost the war shortly afterward. South Vietnamese Army officer Quynh Dang left his home country on a boat to Thailand in 1979. He never returned, […]
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 Currier’s board of trustees announced July 25. Alan Chong currently is director of the Asian Civilisations Museum and the Peranakan Museum in Singapore. He heads […]
“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 team up once again for “Ip Man 3.” The series is loosely based on Yip Man (played by Donnie Yen), grandmaster of the martial art […]