The City of Seattle and King County proclaimed Feb. 26, 2017 to be Dr. Ming Xiao Day. Xiao, the president of the Cantonese Association of Washington, was honored the same evening at the organization’s banquet at China Harbor Restaurant. Xiao was honored for her contributions to the Chinese community, and for serving as an […]
Checks to Sugiyamas
The Northwest Asian Weekly (NWAW) presented a $3,000 check on Jan. 27 to the daughters of the late Al Sugiyama, to help with his recent memorial service. The community leader died on Jan. 2 after a battle with cancer. The money came from ads that NWAW donated from Asian Counseling and Referral Service, Chinese […]
Radical Walking Tours return
BAYAN-USA Pacific Northwest, an alliance of progressive Filipino groups, held a walking tour on Feb. 5 through the streets of Seattle. Host Joaquin Uy showed participants significant points in the history of Filipinos in Seattle, focusing on labor history and cultural work. Participants learned about the dangerous and courageous organizing of multiple generations of […]
Chamber of Commerce dinner
More than 400 people attended the Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce’s annual Lunar New Year dinner at China Harbor Restaurant on Feb. 9. VIP guests at the Year of the Rooster celebration included King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim. Founded in 1963, the Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of […]
Chinese Basketball Association elects Yao Ming as president
BEIJING (AP) — Yao Ming has moved into management in a bid to hasten China’s basketball development. The Chinese Basketball Association voted unanimously to appoint former Houston Rockets star as its president on Feb. 23, in a step toward reform for an organization which has in past been led by government bureaucrats. The CBA’s social […]
Malaysia: Poisoning of Kim caused paralysis, quick death
By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s health minister said that the dose of nerve agent given to North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un’s exiled half brother was so high that it killed him within 20 minutes and caused “very serious paralysis.” Kim Jong Nam died Feb. 13 at Kuala Lumpur’s […]
Fans in Japan rush to get Murakami book with esoteric title
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Fans of Haruki Murakami rushed to Japanese bookstores on Feb. 24 to get his latest work with an esoteric title. “Kishidancho Goroshi,’’ or “Killing Commendatore,’’ is a two-part story about a 36-year-old portrait painter and what happens after his wife divorces him and he moves into an […]
Lee to review Trump’s Chinese trademark
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Sen. Mike Lee says he will look into whether President Donald Trump has violated the U.S. Constitution by being awarded valuable trademark rights to his own name by the Chinese government. The Republican’s statement on Feb. 21 came in response to a question posed by Utah Democratic […]
911 call: Bar shooting suspect said he’d killed ‘Iranians’
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian. A recording from Henry County, Missouri, 911 reveals that the bartender warned […]
Judge refuses to toss out bias claims over salon inspections
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On Feb. 21, a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses Louisiana state regulators of racially discriminating against a group of Vietnamese-American nail salon owners. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson’s ruling clears the way for a jury trial next month in Baton Rouge […]