Secret Asian Man by Tak Toyoshima
14 May 2012
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Kin On raises $10,000 for Asian seniors at South China Benefit Dinner
14 May 2012
Kin On raised $10,000 at its South China Benefit Dinner with the help of more than 90 volunteers, including Jerry Lee, president of MulvannyG2 Architecture and member of Kin On’s board of directors, University of Washington students, the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association, the Chinese Baptist Church Boy Scouts Troop 254, and many others. [...]
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Chinese American youth wins grand prize in the Art Institutes’ 2012 Passion for Fashion scholarship competition
14 May 2012
The Art Institutes schools announced Mary Lum of Cornelius, Ore. as their grand prize winner of the 2012 Passion for Fashion scholarship competition. Lum’s entry helped her win a half-tuition scholarship to study fashion design and fashion marketing and merchandising and fashion retail management at the Art Institute of Portland. For her entry, Lum submitted [...]
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Community members greet the China National Women’s Basketball Team at reception dinner
14 May 2012
On May 7, about 120 people, including local community leaders, turned out for a dinner at Ocean City Restaurant in the International District to greet the players of the China National Women’s Basketball Team. Assunta Ng, publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly, organized the dinner. Notable attendees included Sun Fengwu, head coach of the Chinese [...]
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Jay Inslee and Organizing for America open office on Rainier Avenue South
14 May 2012
Jay Inslee and Organizing for America opened their office last week on 901 Rainier Avenue South at the corner of South Charles Street and Rainier Avenue South. The office opening was marked by a visit from Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, and nearly 700 people. The office will serve as [...]
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Appetites for shark fin wane in Chicago’s Chinatown
12 May 2012
By Sophia Tareen The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) ― Like other herb shops in Chinatown, the glass jars lining shelves at Yin Wall City offer floral teas, shitake mushrooms, and a seafood product that looks strangely like dried corn husks, one that sparks controversy even hundreds of miles from the ocean it was taken from. [...]
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ASTROLOGY: For the week of May 12 – May 18, 2012
12 May 2012
By Sun Lee Chang Northwest Asian Weekly RAT — An eye for adventure can lead you down many paths, but once committed, you generally do not deviate from the route you have chosen. OX — Feigning enthusiasm could be a fast ticket to volunteering yourself for a project you only have lukewarm feelings about. TIGER — Comparing [...]
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All eyes on Gary Locke during activist crisis
12 May 2012
By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) ― As a former U.S. commerce secretary and governor of Washington state, Gary Locke wasn’t considered much of a heavyweight on human rights when he became the first Chinese American ambassador to Beijing last year. Trade and maintaining smooth relations between Washington and its biggest foreign creditor [...]
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Ex-junta prisoner Suu Kyi takes office in Myanmar
12 May 2012
By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman The Associated Press NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) ― Aung San Suu Kyi capped a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to office holder in long-repressed Myanmar as the country’s main opposition party moved its struggle for democratic rule inside government for the first time.
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COMMENTARY: A long look at Seattle’s sister city Chongqing amidst the Bo Xilai scandal
11 May 2012
By Wendy Liu For Northwest Asian Weekly When Robert Kapp, founding executive director of the Washington State China Relations Council, first lobbied Governor Dixy Lee Ray for a state-to-province relationship between Washington and Sichuan, it was 1980. With the Washington-Sichuan relationship formally established in 1982, Mayor Charles Royer thought it made sense for Seattle to [...]
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