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Archive | Vol 28 No 19 | 5/2 – 5/8
Dearborn project dead
Posted on 02 May 2009.
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P-I reporters: From deadlines to the bottom lines of survival
Posted on 02 May 2009.
The print publication of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ended on March 17, and so did many of its employees’ jobs.
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Pageant recrowns winner due to counting error
Posted on 02 May 2009.
On the night of Saturday, April 18, the organizers of Hoa Khoi Lien Truong, a Vietnamese cultural pageant, breathed a sigh of relief, thinking they could start putting a successful event behind them. However, an officer of the Vietnamese Student Association at the University of Washington (VSA), the organizer of the event, recounted the judges’ scores and discovered an error in the calculation of the scores.
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UW Tacoma in need of Asian American studies
Posted on 02 May 2009.
When Kayomi Wada graduated from the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) in the spring of 2008, she intended to pursue her master’s degree there as well, hoping to expand on her interests in Asian American (AA) and Black communities in North and South America.
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Female activists to share the secrets of making a difference
Posted on 02 May 2009.
Women of Color Empowered is an event organized by a planning committee to recognize women who have made a significant contribution to their field. It strives to dispel certain stereotypes. To be held on Friday, May 15, at Ocean City Restaurant, the theme for the upcoming event is “Civic Activism: Making a Difference.”
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Update: CEO Clayton Fong removed from NAPCA
Posted on 02 May 2009.
On Wednesday, April 29, the board chair of the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) John Duong told Northwest Asian Weekly that Clayton Fong is no longer the CEO and President of NAPCA.
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Seattle Public Library Web site now in more languages
Posted on 02 May 2009.
The Seattle Public Library has expanded its Web site to offer more information for its Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese, and Spanish-speaking readers.
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Muckleshoot tribe invests nearly $3 million in Washington
Posted on 02 May 2009.
Despite last year’s downturn in the economy, the Muckleshoot tribe donated more than $2,853,000 in 2008 to more than 180 nonprofits and other government sponsored organizations serving communities throughout Washington state.
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Local Asian-owned bank accused of Ponzi scheme
Posted on 02 May 2009.
Regal Financial Bank, a small bank in Seattle, was sued earlier this month by a group of 4,200 Indonesian investors over accusations that it helped operate a $600 million Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme involves a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money (or money paid by subsequent investors) rather than from any actual profit earned.
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Cambodian consulate opens in Massachusetts
Posted on 02 May 2009.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — The third Cambodian consulate in the United States has opened in Massachusetts.
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