By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Starry River of the Sky” By Grace Lin Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012 The moon has gone missing, but the only person in the remote Village of Clear Sky who has seemed to notice is its newest resident, a young boy named Rendi. A runaway who now […]
With Navigation Center, City of Seattle not doing enough to engage community
To the Editor, The City has finally opened its Navigation Center in the Little Saigon area of the International District (ID) — on its own terms and without having sought sincere input and engagement with the community [in regards to] where it will be situated. This experiment in unsheltered services will affect all of us, […]
LETTER: Terminology matters, we need to eliminate use of word ‘foreign’ when referring to non-English languages
To the editor: “Tagalog is WA’s most commonly spoken foreign language after Spanish,” [an article that appeared in the July 15 issue of Northwest Asian Weekly,] is well-developed and written. My educator hat is reeling, however, with the combination of “foreign” and “language” in the headline and throughout the article. At least 30 years ago, […]
PICTORIAL: Trashion Fashion 2017
Check out the event on our YouTube at ► https://youtu.be/u3bPeaCyf7s TITLE SPONSOR: COMMUNITY SPONSOR: CO-CHAIR: Gei Chan PLANNING COMMITTEE: Belinda Louie, Matt Chan, Andrea Chow, Max Chan, Stacy Nguyen, John Liu, and Assunta Ng EMCEES: Gary Tang and Thu Ngo VIDEOGRAPHER: Matt Chan PHOTOGRAPHERS: George Liu and John Liu
BLOG: 2017 is a year of awakening for Asian Americans
By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Six months ago, I said, “Seattle’s 2017 election sucks!” How wrong I was! What seemed to be a dull and highly predictable election has now transformed to be a colorful and uncertain one, not only for the city, but also other parts of King County. The number of Asian […]
Why YOU need to fill out that ballot and send it in by Aug. 1
Twelve-year-old Katherine Kang is a middle schooler who is not yet old enough to vote, but she is still devoting time to go through her mom Julie’s voters pamphlet. Katherine is getting a jumpstart on some good habits — she says she can’t wait until she’s 18. “If you don’t go out and vote, you […]
API candidates on the ballot
Compiled by Staff Northwest Asian Weekly This year, election day for the primary election is on Aug. 1. Voters have until 8 p.m. that day to return their ballots or have them postmarked. A primary election is an election that narrows down the field of candidates before the general election in November. The following are […]
World-class hotel funded in part by immigrants
By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY A dream nearly two decades in the making is now a reality. July 10 was the grand opening of the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington hotel in Renton — the only waterfront hotel within 10 miles of SeaTac Airport, and the Hyatt Regency brand’s third Seattle-area hotel. Located on the […]
Amid new sex abuse findings, González calls on Murray to step down, Murray says no, Harrell cautions against judgement
By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly On Sunday, July 16, the Seattle Times reported that the Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) finally released unearthed old records — records previously thought to have been destroyed — in the name of public interest. The child welfare investigation records indicate that Oregon’s DHS found that Seattle Mayor Ed […]