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		<title>Asian American banks set to rebound from financial crisis?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asian Americans started Washington state’s first bank in the 1960s. There are currently close to 10 Asian banks including local, national, and international offices. The Black community still does not have its own bank, and the Latino community founded its Plaza Bank in 2006.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Skateboard kid becomes a techie, helps design trucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lakota Middle School student, of Filipino and Nigerian ancestry, has been skateboarding for eight years. As he became more skilled, he noticed that most skateboards don’t offer the proper resistance in performing intense feats that he and his friends are capable of.]]></description>
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		<title>High-powered businesswomen to speak on climbing the corporate ladder — their way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[However, on Jan. 29 at China Harbor Restaurant in Seattle, men and women of all ages and ethnicities will get a chance to peek into the conference room as powerful women of various backgrounds, who own their own successful businesses or belong to corporations, convene to talk shop — so to speak.]]></description>
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		<title>Lights, camera, ka-ching!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a year after two of India’s favorite actors decamped for Miami to film a romantic comedy, Bollywood mega-star Shahrukh Khan is preparing to make the same trip to shoot one of his country’s first big budget superhero movies.]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese student disputes police stun gun account</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A non-English speaking Chinese college student disputes a Eugene police officer’s account of events that led the officer to shoot the student with a Taser stun gun, the student’s lawyer says.]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. dismisses North Korea’s call for peace treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — On Jan. 11, North Korea proposed signing a peace treaty this year to formally end the Korean War, a suggestion that Washington quickly dismissed.]]></description>
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		<title>Kids to scavenge in the ID?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about a dozen years, Chinatown International District Business Improvement Area (CIDBIA) staff members have organized the International District’s annual Lunar New Year Celebration.]]></description>
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		<title>2009, a year of dragon&#8217;s magic and new opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a year of recession gloom, business closures, and newspapers dying in droves — why are we, a small paper, still here? Why didn’t we fear that Northwest Asian Weekly would be next? Why didn’t we blame the competition that caused us so much grief, such as Craigslist and other Internet advertising? Why do we feel lucky, energized, and strengthened by the economic turmoil?]]></description>
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		<title>Asian American civil rights groups seek disclosure on ‘special interest countries’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Dec. 14, two Asian American civil rights organizations, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and the Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDEF), asked the federal government to reveal how Customs and Border Protection agents single out individuals at the border based solely on their national origin.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Those massacred for gold get a memorial, 122 years later</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1887, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. They wanted the gold dust that the Chinese had painstakingly accumulated. Historians and scholars debate the exact number of miners. Only 11 names are known. The gold was never recovered.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: ‘The courage of one’s conviction can make a difference’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read [Mark Lee’s] Nov. 21 column on George W. Bush and Ehren Watada (“Bush and Watada: two intertwining stories”).  I whole-heartedly agree with [Lee’s] column comments, and I find this amazing, as I know nothing about [him]. I am grateful for the published statement that … the courage of one’s convictions can make a difference.]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: 1999-2009: A retrospective on closing the achievement gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the two previous task forces formed in 1986 and 1992, the charge was to have a group of leaders in education and human services to make recommendations to the school district to close the achievement gap — in eight years.]]></description>
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		<title>Nov. 27: Kuan and Yan act as PNB guest conductors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Kuan, former associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Judith Yan, music director/principal conductor of Opera on the Avalon in Canada, were two of four guest conductors for the performances of the Stowell/Sendak version of “The Nutcracker” by the Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB).]]></description>
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		<title>Dec. 15: Sakakihara and Tang complete fellowships</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Sakakihara is the 2009 Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Masaoka Fellow and a Harvard Law School graduate.

Shirley Tang is the 2009 JACL Inouye Fellow and a University of California, Davis graduate.]]></description>
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		<title>Dec. 5: Winnie Lim receives 2009 president’s Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winfred “Winnie” Lim was awarded the 2009 President’s Award by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Pacific Northwest Section Awards Committee. The award was based on his contributions to the sport of tennis. The award was presented to him during the annual USTA Pacific Northwest Awards and Hall of Fame luncheon at the Bellevue Club in Bellevue.]]></description>
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		<title>Dec. 12: LIHI opens building named after Jim McDermott</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) opened a 75-unit building called McDermott Place. The building is located in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood and is dedicated to Congressman Jim McDermott. It will provide permanent supportive housing for 75 homeless men and women, with half of the units reserved for homeless veterans.]]></description>
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		<title>Dec. 10: Japanese Mandarin and Pear Expo a success</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle welcomed Japanese fruit growers as they reintroduced the traditional Japanese Aoshima mandarin orange and the Japanese Tottori 20th Century pear at the Japanese Mandarin and Pear Expo, held at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center.]]></description>
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