By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A team of attorneys is seeking nearly $400,000 in fees and costs after successfully challenging a Louisiana law that blocked foreign-born U.S. citizens from getting married if they couldn’t produce a birth certificate. In a court filing on Sept. 26, the attorneys asked a federal […]
3-year-old girl becomes Nepal’s new living goddess
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A 3-year-old girl became Nepal’s new living goddess on Sept. 28, revered by both Hindus and Buddhists in the Himalayan nation. Trishna Shakya was carried in a religious ceremony to a temple palace in the heart of the Nepalese capital where she is to live until […]
Vietnam resumes controversial water buffalo fighting
By HAU DINH Associated Press DO SON, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s annual water buffalo fighting festival resumed on Sept. 28 despite calls for an end to the traditional event because of its violence. The tournament was halted temporarily three months ago after a buffalo killed its owner on the fighting field. It was the first […]
“The Dalai Lama”
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Filmmaker Mickey Lemle first started filming the Dalai Lama in 1991, for a documentary he called “Compassion In Exile.” He’s back now with a new film studying the changes in the world, the changes in the Dalai Lama, and the leader’s pondering of his own end, and beyond. Unfortunately, […]
Lego Ninja … go home! You’re drunk.
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Just like my headline, the jokes in Ninjago try to be witty, but they just aren’t. What the heck is Ninjago and how do I pronounce it? That was my first question as I looked up Ninjago. Turns out it can go either way. It’s pronounced Nin-jaw-go when referring […]
LETTER: The sanitization process of our names
My community coordinator called me into his office, and he said, “You will need to tell the patron not to write his name in Chinese characters, on our sign-in sheet!” I felt confused and upset. Inside, I was steaming, and thought, “Aren’t you Chinese, can’t you read the characters? Go tell that to the customer […]
DACA enrollees eligible for application fee assistance
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has announced that Washington state residents currently enrolled in a federal program for young immigrants will soon be able to apply for financial assistance to pay the application fee for an extension of their status. Inslee said last week that those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]
2nd lawsuit says big detention center must pay minimum wage
SEATTLE (AP) — A second lawsuit is challenging the failure of one of the nation’s largest private immigration jails to pay detainees minimum wage for the work they perform. Former detainee Chao Chen filed the class-action federal lawsuit on Sept. 26 against The GEO Group, the for-profit company that operates the Northwest Detention Center in […]
Hyeok Kim leaving City Hall Oct. 13
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess expressed his appreciation and gratitude for Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim on Oct 2., after she announced her planned departure from City government on Oct. 13th to prepare for the expansion of her family. In a statement, Burgess said, “Over these last four years, Hyeok’s passion and […]
Race to decide if West Coast keeps its only GOP-led chamber
By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Senate is the only Republican-led legislative chamber on the West Coast, and a special election in Seattle’s wealthy eastern suburbs has drawn millions of dollars and national attention to two political newcomers vying for the seat in November. Democrat Manka Dhingra and […]