Aegis Gardens won the prestigious 2017 Senior Housing News Architecture and Design Award for its purposeful design aimed at improving the lives of residents. Located near Lake Boren in Newcastle, […]
Contest winner
The fourth and final winner of a recent contest where our readers picked the top five biggest stories of 2017 affecting the local API community, has claimed her prize. Zer […]
National Parks leader
Kaiwen Lee, Wilderness Inner-City Leadership Development (WILD) program manager at InterIm CDA, was recently named one of the National Parks and Conservation Association’s “10 under 40” leaders. Lee, 30, has […]
InterIm’s deputy director
Tom Im has been serving as InterIm’s deputy director since his appointment to that role in August 2017. Im has been with the agency since 1997. He is a graduate […]
80 years young
More than 100 people attended the 80th birthday celebration for businessman George Hira on Jan. 7. Guests enjoyed Indian food and entertainment at the Pabla Punjabi Palace in SeaTac. Hira […]
Neon sign at Tai Tung
There’s something familiar back in the Chinatown-International District skyline. The neon sign that reportedly cost $15,000 at Tai Tung is a replica of the historic sign taken down in a […]
Chinese university sacks professor over sexual misconduct
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese university has sacked a prestigious scholar following accusations of sexual misconduct against him by multiple women, the result of a […]
YouTube punishes star blogger over apparent suicide post
TOKYO (AP) — YouTube said it has punished well-known blogger Logan Paul over a video that appeared to show a body hanging in a Japanese forest that is said to […]
China rebukes Zara, Delta for calling Taiwan ‘country’
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese regulators rebuked fashion brand Zara, Delta Air Lines and medical device maker Medtronic on Jan. 12 for calling Taiwan a […]
Woman dies in Nepal village because of menstrual exile
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A woman has died in a remote village in Nepal because of a tradition in which women are exiled from their homes and forced to live […]