Interlake High School students Veenadhari Kollipara and Eshika Saxena received engraved bronze medallions on June 15, for being Distinguished Finalists for Washington in the 2018 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. Veenadhari, a senior, has spent the past three summers developing a multipurpose drone that can help farmers make smarter crop decisions by providing precise, accurate […]
ECCC event
The Ethnic Chamber of Commerce Coalition and the Port of Seattle held an evening of sharing, learning, and networking on June 6. Steve Metruck, executive director of the Port of Seattle, was the keynote speaker. Attendees learned about shared interests and heard from Port of Seattle representatives on small business contracting, airport dining, and retail […]
Seattle International District Rotary Club dinner
The Seattle International District Rotary Club held its annual dinner on June 10, at the Northwest African American Museum. The event, “Engage and Change the World,” was keynoted by KING 5’s Lori Matsukawa and raised $30,000.
2018 Edwin M. Lee Community Leadership Award
Michelle Ma, Nghi Quan, and Callie Chinn each received awards of $1,000 at the Franklin High School Senior Awards Night on June 13. This was the inaugural presentation of the Edwin M. Lee Community Leadership Award by The Lee Family. Ed Lee, the first Asian American mayor of San Francisco, passed away last December. A […]
All 5 first ladies speak out on family separations at border — Laura Bush likened it to the Japanese internment
By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — All four former first ladies have joined the current one, Melania Trump, in an unusual united political front expressing horror at children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. As Michelle Obama put it on Twitter, in support of Laura Bush: “Sometimes truth transcends party.’’ […]
Chinese immigrant with American family fears deportation
NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant with a young American family in New York fears deportation after being arrested when he showed up for a green card interview. Xiu Qing You, a 39-year-old Queens resident, was being held on June 16 in a New Jersey facility run by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
Officials: Vietnamese man dies in ICE custody in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say a Vietnamese man has died in custody in Arizona while awaiting deportation. ICE said that 47-year-old Huy Chi Tran died on June 12 at Banner Casa Grande Medical Center, where he was hospitalized for a week after being found unresponsive at the Eloy Detention Center. […]
School to be named after Asian immigrant activist
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — At a divisive time for U.S. immigration policies, a California school board has decided to name a new elementary school after an award-winning journalist who disclosed in 2011 that he had been living in the U.S. illegally. The Mountain View Whisman School District board voted on June 14 to name […]
Ex-coal baron takes swipe at “China people” in political ad
By JOHN RABY and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-coal executive who’s running for U.S. Senate after serving a one-year prison sentence has escalated his barrage on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, taking swipes at “China people’’ and calling McConnell “Cocaine Mitch’’ in a new ad. Former Massey Energy CEO Don […]
23-foot-long python swallows Indonesian woman
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A 23-foot-long python has swallowed a woman in central Indonesia, a village official. The victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village on Muna island in Southeast Sulawesi province on the evening of June 14, according to the village chief, Faris. The following day, her […]