By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Chinese Canadian DJ Kid Koala speaks with his hands. That’s an old expression meaning that a DJ makes his art with the hands, spinning […]
Book recommendations — Life’s unexpected turns
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly How to American By Jimmy O. Yang Da Capo Press, 2018 When Jimmy O. Yang graduated from college at the University of California, San […]
Pandas 3D: The closest you will get to a real panda in Seattle
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY It’s a documentary on pandas! I get excited just writing that. This movie wastes no time flooding the screen with panda cuteness with images […]
LETTER: Protect victimized, vulnerable, voiceless immigrant wives
By Yoichiro Yamada Consul General of Japan in Seattle (This was first published in The Seattle Times on April 19, 2018). The #MeToo movement has shown us the great injustice […]
PM Abe dined at Salty’s
Yoichiro Yamada, the Consul General of Japan in Seattle, confirmed to the Northwest Asian Weekly that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Seattle last week. The Prime Minister dined […]
Lam praised for non-violent arrest
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY TORONTO — The Toronto police officer hailed as a hero after refusing to shoot the suspect in a van attack on April 23, has been […]
Masseur charged with sexual assault
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Xiaodong Yang, 49, has been charged with two counts of indecent liberties — after a woman reported that he sexually assaulted her at a massage […]
BLOG: Memoirs of a soupie
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY In the history of the Western world, many credit the French and Germans for inventing soup a few centuries ago, whereas the Chinese have […]
EDITORIAL: Hooray for judicial oversight
On April 24, a federal judge ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in Washington, […]
Asylum seeker wins marathon fight for US citizenship
By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly Becoming a U.S. citizen can remain just a dream or be too difficult for many who are born outside of the country. Not so […]