By RALPH JENNINGS and JOHNSON LAI Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — People who knew the 18-year-old Taiwanese exchange student charged in the U.S. with threatening to shoot up his school say he liked guns and flamethrowers and had dreams of a police career. An Tso Sun, who has been jailed in the state of […]
China space lab mostly burns up on re-entry in south Pacific
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING (AP) — China’s defunct Tiangong 1 space station mostly burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere over the central South Pacific on April 2, Chinese space authorities said. The experimental space laboratory re-entered around 8:15 a.m. Beijing time, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said. Scientists monitoring the […]
Nobel Prize winner Malala visits her Pakistan hometown
By SHERIN ZADA and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to her hometown on March 31, for the first time since receiving a gunshot wound to the head there in 2012 for her work as an advocate for young women’s education. Yousafzai and her family […]
Chinese insurer founder tried for alleged fundraising crimes
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The founder of the Chinese insurer that owns New York City’s Waldorf Hotel went on trial on March 30, on charges of improperly raising billions of dollars from investors and abusing his position to benefit himself. Wu Xiaohui, chairman of Anbang Insurance Group, was detained last […]
California governor pardons 5 men facing deportation
By PAUL ELIAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown on March 30 pardoned five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two whose families fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia four decades ago. The pardons don’t automatically stop deportation proceedings, but eliminate the state convictions federal authorities based their deportation decisions on. […]
Asian American monument gets county approval
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Commissioners in New Mexico’s most populous county have approved a purchase agreement for a public art sculpture that will recognize a landmark Chinese American civil rights case that predates statehood. Bernalillo County commissioners voted unanimously last week in support of a motion authorizing the county manager to approve the purchase agreement. […]
Mom mistook labor for bad Chinese food
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman awoke to what she believed were the consequences of a bad dish of General Tso’s chicken, but instead had an unexpected baby in arms three hours later. The Pensacola News Journal reports 29-year-old Crystal Gail Amerson thought food poisoning was responsible for the stomach pains that woke her […]
American Samoa-Citizenship
By SOPHIA YAN Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Meet John Fitisemanu, who works for a lab company in Utah, and has paid U.S. taxes and been subject to American laws his whole life. But the 53-year-old father and husband isn’t considered a U.S. citizen by the federal government, because he was born in American Samoa, […]
New Asian American, Brazilian apostles make Mormon history
By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church made history and injected a bit of diversity into a previously all-white top leadership panel on March 31 by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry. The selections of Ulisses Soares of Brazil and Gerrit W. Gong, […]
Bothell boy wins at Augusta National
Taighan Chea of Bothell was named champion of the 7-9 boys age group at the Drive, Chip and Putt finals at Augusta National on April 1. Chea, 7, was one of four junior golfers from Washington who earned an invitation to the annual event. Kasey Maralack of Snoqualmie tied for second in the 12-13 girls. […]