FIRST PRIZE – CONTESTANT #3: Jackie Myung
SECOND PRIZE – CONTESTANT #17: Lynn Xiaoling Mo
THIRD PRIZE – CONTESTANT #1: Ng Li Chean
SAAFF 10th anniversary
The Seattle Asian American Film Festival (SAAFF) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The festival—held March 3-13—will have a virtual line-up of 102 films, 12 shorts programs, and two free programs, as well as four drive-in screenings and one special screening at Northwest Film Forum. SAAFF showcases works by Pacific Northwest Asian American filmmakers, […]
APCC’s Lunar New Year Celebration
Asia Pacific Cultural Center (APCC)’s 24th Annual Asia Pacific New Year Celebration was its first in-person event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each year a different country is featured, and this year, it was China. Held at Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood on Feb. 19, the event showcased 47 countries and cultures. […]
Sampaco is Miss Washington USA First Runner-Up
By Monique Le For Northwest Asian Weekly Starla Sampaco, who made the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list in 2021, and is currently a news anchor at KCTS Channel 9, was first runner-up at the recent Miss Washington USA 2022. Sampaco has written for Harvard Business Review and the Northwest Asian Weekly. When […]
Washington state to lift indoor mask mandate March 21
By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington’s statewide indoor mask mandate, one of the few left in the country, will lift in most places on March 21, including at schools and child care facilities, Gov. Jay Inslee said. And starting on March 1, vaccine verification or proof of a negative COVID-19 […]
New CID location for ACRS food bank
SEATTLE — The ACRS Food Bank has moved to a larger, newly leased space in the Tsue Chong Building in the Chinatown-International District, just blocks away from its previous location. At around 5,500 square feet, the new location at 800 South Weller Street is 10 times the space of its longtime home in the trailer […]
King County ending vaccine requirements at bars, restaurants
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington’s most populous county will no longer require COVID vaccination checks to enter restaurants, bars, theaters, and gyms beginning March 1. King County officials made the announcement on Feb. 16. The Seattle Times reports from March 1, businesses will be free to impose their own vaccination requirements if they choose, but there […]
Unvaccinated face greater risk of financial ruin
With the pandemic as one of the top health concerns worldwide, the unvaccinated are more likely to face higher medical bills.
BLOG: To mask or not to mask is the question
In Washington state, the mask mandate will be lifted on Mar. 21, one of the last states to lift the mandate. Is this bad or good news?
Book recommendations: Why be perfect when you can be yourself?
With no boyfriend and no job prospects, Jasmine Tran finds herself back home after college, working at her parents’ donut shop.