The mayor and Seattle City Council recently announced the initial 13 appointees selected to serve on the City of Seattle’s new Community Involvement Commission (CIC). One of the appointees is Julie Pham, co-owner of Nguoi Viet Tay Bac – Northwest Vietnamese News, the founder of Sea Beez, a capacity-building program for Seattle’s ethnic media, and […]
2017 A&S Graduate Medalists
Shuxuan Zhou and Jane Wong received the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) Graduate Medals in Social Sciences and Humanities, respectively. The medal is awarded to exceptional graduate students, based on faculty recommendations. Zhou grew up in Fujian, China, and she wrote her dissertation on gender, women, and sexuality studies that presented […]
MiMi Globe Goods wins award
MiMi Globe Goods took home the Baylor Social Innovation Award on May 23, at the 2017 Seattle University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (IEC)’s 19th Annual Harriet Stephenson Business Plan Competition. MiMi Globe Goods, created by Ming-Ming Tung-Edelman, is a nonprofit that helps stay-at-home immigrants by empowering them with skills and equipment to design, create, and […]
Vanita Gupta is new Leadership Conference president
Vanita Gupta began her tenure on June 1 as president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She served previously as Acting Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Appointed by President Barack Obama as the chief civil rights prosecutor […]
Frances Walton Competition winners
On June 3, 15 aspiring classical artists, ages 20-35, from all over the world participated in the annual Ladies Musical Club (LMC)’s day-long Frances Walton Competition, at Magnolia Lutheran Church in Seattle. The winners were Xiao Chen, piano; Bokyung Byun, guitar; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; and Xenia Deviatkina-Loh, violin. The four winners performed a free public […]
3 giant pandas return to China from Japan under agreement
BEIJING (AP) — Three giant pandas born and raised in Japan have returned to China under a standard agreement to improve the breeding success of the rare animals. The 6-year-old twins and their 4-year-old sister had been living at Wakayama Adventure World in southern Japan. The three arrived on June 5 in the city of […]
Giant panda born in Tokyo zoo, survival uncertain
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A giant panda cub was born in a Tokyo zoo on June 12, but its gender, weight and even whether it will survive are uncertain. The mother, ShinShin, whose previous cub survived only six days, was holding her newborn in her paw but whether the cub was […]
Doctor pleads no contest to killing Yale physician
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A doctor charged with killing a Yale University physician over a workplace dispute pleaded no contest on June 9 to lesser charges and agreed to serve 32 years in prison. Lishan Wang, a Chinese citizen from Beijing, was charged with murder for the 2010 killing of […]
Red Sox announcer Remy says Tanaka shouldn’t get translator
By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Boston Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy says pitchers such as Yankees right-hander Masahiro Tanaka shouldn’t be allowed translators on the mound and should instead “learn baseball language.” Remy’s comments on June 6 during the NESN telecast of the Boston-New York game quickly drew harsh criticism […]
Another US appeals court keeps Trump’s travel ban blocked
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Another U.S. appeals court upheld a decision blocking President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban on June 12, dealing the administration another legal defeat as the Supreme Court considers a separate case on the issue. The ruling from a unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court […]