Bellevue resident Wang Yung won his first Veteran World Championship title in fencing. The championship took place in Croatia, and Team USA won 17 medals in total, the most earned by any U.S. team at the World Championships. Yung started fencing in 1969 at City College of New York and was inducted into City College [...]
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Oct. 2: Wang Yung wins gold at Veteran Worlds
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Sept. 22: Mary Yu named Outstanding Judge of the Year
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The Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) presented Judge Mary I. Yu, of King County Superior Court, with the 2011 Outstanding Judge of the Year Award, along with Judge Steven C. González at an awards dinner at the Hyatt at Olive 8. Yu was appointed to the bench in 2000 by then-governor Gary Locke. Prior to [...]
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Sept. 12: Seattle Passport Agency celebrates relocation
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Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Passport Services Brenda S. Sprague, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the official relocation of the Seattle Passport Agency in downtown Seattle (300 5th Ave., Ste. 600). The agency is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays, and has served [...]
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Sept. 14: LIHI’s Gossett Place celebrates grand opening
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The grand opening celebration for the Low Income Housing Institute’s (LIHI) Gossett Place took place at its location in the University District (4719 12th Ave. N.E.). Gossett Place is named in honor of King County Council chair and human rights champion Larry Gossett. Named as one of the most influential graduates of the University of [...]
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September: Seattle artists featured on ‘Ragas Across Space’
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Stardust Records released the music album “Ragas Across Space — A space physicist’s musical journey through our solar system” this month. ‘Ragas Across Space’ is a unique album in which sounds from the Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, gathered by NASA’s Polar, Voyager, and Cassini spacecrafts, are harmonized with Indian classical music. The project was spearheaded [...]
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Secret to winning taekwondo? Try not to get kicked
Posted on 09 October 2011.
By Maria Cheng The Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — For the Iranian competitors, simplicity rules. Whereas for the Taiwanese, it’s grace and accuracy. But for the Europeans, it’s strength and speed. At last weekend’s British Open in Manchester, regional interpretations of Korea’s oldest martial art are clashing in one of the key taekwondo competitions [...]
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Filipino maid wins landmark Hong Kong ruling on residency
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HONG KONG (AP) — A Filipino maid in Hong Kong won the opening legal battle in her fight for permanent residency after a court ruled Friday, Sept. 30, that an immigration provision excluding the city’s hundreds of thousands of foreign maids was unconstitutional.
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In Beijing, Gary Locke is both admired and reviled
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By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Gary Locke has been praised for his down-to-earth manner since becoming the first Chinese American ambassador to Beijing. He’s also been denounced as a showboater, a neocolonialist tool, and a traitor to the Chinese race. China’s bipolar reactions to Locke since his appointment last month are [...]
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Congress addresses Chinese currency manipulation
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By Jim Abrams The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a political given that China’s economic assault has damaged American manufacturers and taken away American jobs. After years of trying, Congress is taking another stab at retaliating against what many see as Chinese manipulation of its currency to make its exports to the United States [...]
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Jailed China Nobel winner’s wife still silenced
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By Gillian Wong The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — In a quiet, leafy neighborhood of Beijing, a woman has been living in enforced isolation in her book-lined, fifth-floor apartment. Her apparent misdeed: being married to a Nobel Peace Prize winner the Chinese government calls a criminal. In the year since jailed democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo [...]
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