Local journalists and community members gathered at the KOMO-TV headquarters on May 18 to celebrate the Northwest Journalists of Color (NJC) scholarship winners. The event was hosted by Seattle’s Asian American Journalists Association and featured keynote speaker Hari Sreenivasan, a PBS NewsHour correspondent and former NJC scholarship recipient. The 2012 scholarship winners included Kelly Manalo, [...]
Archive | May 2012
Local journalism students awarded the Northwest Journalists of Color scholarship awards
Posted on 28 May 2012.
Posted in Names in the News, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
Grand prize awarded at SingCon 2012 singing competition
Posted on 28 May 2012.
On May 14, more than 800 supporters attended SingCon, a singing competition hosted by UW’s Hong Kong Student Association at the STG Neptune Theatre. Local musicians Fiona Dawn, Gowe, and Lijie Yang made special guest appearances, and Hong Kong based hip-hop artist MC Jin performed and encouraged the contestants to follow their dreams. Nine contestants [...]
Posted in Names in the News, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
Oriyas of Greater Seattle organizes Odissi dance performance
Posted on 28 May 2012.
Oriyas of Greater Seattle, a newly incorporated nonprofit promoting awareness of Oriya culture and arts, organized “Samsara: The Cycle of Life” last month at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center, featuring famed Odissi dancer Shibani Patnaik. Odissi is a classical form of dance from India and is one of the oldest dance forms in India. “Samsara” [...]
Posted in Names in the News, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
Northwest School student named Gates Scholar
Posted on 28 May 2012.
John-Christopher Hoang Trinh, a senior at The Northwest School, was awarded the 2012 Gates Millennium Scholar award. Trinh was one of 1,000 students selected for the award, out competing 24,000 students who applied. He will receive a full scholarship to any U.S. accredited college or university of his choice. Trinh plans to attend the University [...]
Posted in Names in the News, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/11 Comment
Police arrest two in USC shooting of Chinese students
Posted on 26 May 2012.
By Christopher Weber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anson Cheung says the shooting deaths of two international graduate students near the University of Southern California made headlines back home in Hong Kong, unnerving his parents.
Posted in National News, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
Indian Rutgers student gets 30 days jail time
Posted on 26 May 2012.
By Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A former university student from India who used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate was sentenced Monday to just 30 days in jail — in a case that focused attention on anti-gay bullying, teen suicide, and hate-crime laws in the fast-changing Internet [...]
Posted in National News, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in U.S.
Posted on 26 May 2012.
By Andrew Duffelmeyer, Didi Tang, and Gillian Wong The Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the United States on Saturday, ending a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. Chen Guangcheng had been hurriedly taken from a hospital [...]
Posted in Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/1, World News0 Comments
Lady Gaga faces protestors in Philippines protests
Posted on 26 May 2012.
By Staff THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Pop singer Lady Gaga arrived in the Philippines on Saturday to cheers from fans and protests from young Christians calling for the cancellation of her upcoming concerts. About 200 Christian young people marched in Manila for a second straight day, holding placards urging the singer to [...]
Posted in Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/1, World News0 Comments
South Asia is a rising force in global methamphetamine trade
Posted on 26 May 2012.
By Sebastian Abbot The Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Iran, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries are a fast-rising force in the global methamphetamine market, with drug cartels thriving off the weak governance and law enforcement that have long fueled the region’s heroin trade.
Posted in Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/1, World News0 Comments
Pastor Patrinell Wright honored with Cultural Treasure Award
Posted on 25 May 2012.
On June 1, the Ethnic Heritage Council (EHC) will honor Pastor Patrinell Wright with the Cultural Treasure Award. The EHC calls Wright a true cultural symbol who preserves and promotes ethnic and cultural traditions, fosters mutual understanding, enriches lives, and celebrates Black heritage. Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir have been involved in hurricane [...]
Posted in Briefs, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
Scam targets elderly Chinese women in International District and other Chinatowns
Posted on 25 May 2012.
Three Cantonese-speaking women approached an elderly woman in the International District and told her that her family was in danger of experiencing misfortune. The woman was conned into withdrawing $50,000 from the bank and providing $20,000
Posted in Briefs, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
Helping Link opens new computer lab with courses for Vietnamese adults
Posted on 25 May 2012.
Helping Link, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the Vietnamese community, created a Computer Lab Marketing Initiative to offer new computer courses designed for Vietnamese adults who have little to no experience with computers. Helping Link will provide classes like Basic Computer Skills, the Internet and E-Mail, Creating Resumes, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Social [...]
Posted in Briefs, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/13 Comments
BLOG: The good, the bad, and the ugly of SCP’s 30th Anniversary Gala
Posted on 25 May 2012.
This entry was previously published in the Seattle Chinese Post’s May 5 issue. Join us for the Northwest Asian Weekly’s 30th Anniversary Gala on Oct. 5 at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel. By Assunta Ng Paranoia I am not really superstitious. When we sold 40 tables for our anniversary gala, however, I stopped pushing for more. [...]
Posted in Publisher Ng's blog, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
A word from our local podiatrist: Ensuring health includes tending to the problems with our feet
Posted on 25 May 2012.
Dr. Jinwah John Hoy FOR NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY As a Chinese growing up in America, the concept of Western medicine was something to be feared. Doctors were too expensive, gave medications with dangerous side effects, or were always ready to perform surgery. Whenever I injured my foot, the treatment was to pull on it or [...]
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
A-pop! Asians in new fall sitcoms
Posted on 24 May 2012.
A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Racial caricatures as an incentive to buy … chips?
Posted in Column: Pop Culture, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
Development woes — Is gentrification imminent for the Rainier Valley?
Posted on 24 May 2012.
By Samantha Test Northwest Asian Weekly Not long after the construction of the light rail began, Nararisaya “Al” Les, the owner of Halal Asian restaurant Olympic
Posted in Community News, Features, Vol 31 No 22 | 5/26-6/10 Comments
