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SYSO raises $67,000 at anniversary concert

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:59:16 +0000

The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra raised $67,000 at their Spectacularly SYSO Gala on June 8. The event, which included a performance and silent auction, was hosted at the Museum of History and Industry and was attended by approximately 150 people. Yoshi Minegishi, Celebrate Asia committee member, donated $10,000. (end) Related stories Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra [...]

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Shari Song holds campaign kickoff

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:12:12 +0000

Shari Song, a real estate broker and current candidate for King County Council, held her campaign kickoff on May 21 at the Renton Community Center. She is running for Position 9, currently held by former Republican candidate for Attorney General Reagan Dunn. According to most recent filings, Song has raised $89,284 versus Dunn’s $220,769. (end) [...]

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EDI Leadership Discovery participant honored by Philippine Embassy

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:10:35 +0000

Maria Bea Querido, a current Leadership Discovery participant with the Executive Development Institute (EDI), has been selected for the 2013 Filipino American Youth Leadership Program. She is one of 10 participants chosen from the United States and Guam. “I’m eager to meet the leaders of the Philippine Government and Filipino industry leaders,” Querido said in [...]

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LIHI receives award for Ernestine Anderson Place

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:09:13 +0000

Sen. Maria Cantwell presented the Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award to the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) for the performance of Ernestine Anderson Place on May 22 in Washington, D.C. Pearl Leung, who serves on the LIHI Board of Directors, accepted the award. The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition sponsors this national awards program to [...]

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Holly Woo receives Legacy Award from The Arc of King County

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:07:40 +0000

Holly Woo received a Living Our Legacy Award on behalf of Bill Sellars, a long-time supporter of The Arc of King County. The award was given at the 6th Annual Living Our Legacy Luncheon on May 23, at McCaw Hall. The event was hosted by The Arc of King County, the oldest nonprofit in the [...]

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Another Chinatown bus company shut down by Feds

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:58:27 +0000

By Staff The Associated Press BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — Federal transportation regulators ordered a discount bus service between Boston and New York to shut down June 6, saying its vehicles and drivers were a threat to public safety and that it once dispatched a bus with a large hole in the bottom. Boston-based Lucky Star’s [...]

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Obama, Xi signal new start

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:57:33 +0000

By Julie Pace AP White House Correspondent PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — It may not have been Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Cold War walk by a frozen lake in Switzerland. But President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 50-minute stroll on June 8 through an estate in the California desert could mark a [...]

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ASTROLOGY: For the week of June 15–June 21, 2013

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:56:37 +0000

Do you have good luck coming to you this week? Check and see!

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SF schools to reduce services for Chinese immigrant students

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:56:34 +0000

By Staff New America Media Two schools in San Francisco will be scaling back courses and other programs for newly arrived Chinese immigrants starting next year, reports the Sing Tao Daily. While the decision has caused alarm among parents and teachers, district officials say it will ultimately benefit students struggling with the English language. Lincoln [...]

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Cambodia passes bill against genocide denial

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:55:21 +0000

By Sopheng Cheang The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s National Assembly approved a bill on June 7 making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed by the country’s genocidal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, a law that critics allege will be used as a weapon against the political opposition. The assembly [...]

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Japanese troops head to California to train

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:54:16 +0000

By Julie Watson The Associated Press SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — Japanese troops will converge on California’s southern coast in the next two weeks as part of a military exercise with U.S. troops aimed at improving that country’s amphibious attack abilities. U.S. and Japanese military officials said the unprecedented training, led by U.S. Marines and [...]

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Singer Charice comes out as lesbian

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:52:43 +0000

By Staff The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Charice Pempengco, a Filipino singer who played an exchange student in “Glee,” says she’s a lesbian and has apologized to her family in an emotional TV interview. The 21-year-old said on a talk show June 9 on ABS-CBN TV that she wants to apologize to those [...]

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“Wish You Were Here”

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:49:53 +0000

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The two people on the beach at the beginning of “Wish You Were Here” are white and attractive, though iridescently so. They look healthy enough — normal enough. They’re wistful, though a little tired. The sand gleams underneath them. They ask themselves where they would go if they could [...]

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5 rules to a perfect marriage

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:34:07 +0000

By Wayne Chan Northwest Asian Weekly This September will mark my 22nd wedding anniversary, and the only thing I keep asking myself is “how the heck did that happen?” I’m not complaining, mind you. It’s been an amazing adventure right from the start, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. But boy, did [...]

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Maulik Pancholy, the man behind Nickelodeon’s Sanjay

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:31:20 +0000

By Monica Luhar India-West Staff Reporter He’s got plenty of tween energy, even after he gorges down on spicy chicken wings at the local Frycade, witnesses the “world’s first butt transplant,” and participates in barfing adventures with his talking snake pal and best bud Craig. Meet 12-year-old Sanjay Patel, a curious, socially awkward, and energetic [...]

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COMMENTARY: Low interest at home, kung fu master opens secrets to the West

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:28:18 +0000

By Andrew Lam New America Media Lam Chun-fai, a master of Southern Chinese kung fu style, Hung Kuen, is the first of the kung fu masters to publish a fighting manual in English. Hung Kuen is a secret technique that has been closely guarded and, up until now, only transmitted orally to trusted pupils. News [...]

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Month-long celebration of Korean culture comes to Pacific Northwest

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:09:32 +0000

By Vivian Miezianko Northwest Asian Weekly What do you think when you hear kimchi, bulgogi, Psy, Chang-rae Lee, Park Chan-wook and Oldboy, or Jeju Island? It’s likely that a teenager in Seattle can say that Gangnam is in South Korea, but where in South Korea is Gangnam located? This month, Seattle’s Consulate General of the Republic [...]

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Professor honors Japanese American baseball in research

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:06:31 +0000

By Gabrielle Nomura Northwest Asian Weekly Long before Ichiro, Seattle’s Japanese American community had other baseball heroes. But they weren’t Mariners. They were the Asahi, Cherry, Lotus, and Cavaliers, to name a few. With great dignity, people of Japanese ancestry took an American sport and turned it into an art form. At least, that’s how [...]

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NSCC President Mitsui headed to U.S. Education Dept.

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:04:18 +0000

By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly North Seattle Community College (NSCC) President Mark Mitsui has been selected to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges in the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. The selection follows a many-month-long process that began in January. Mitsui will take the post on Aug. 12. He will work in [...]

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UW instates diversity graduation requirement

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:01:37 +0000

By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly A long-time student-led effort to pass a diversity course requirement for all University of Washington undergraduates came to fruition May 24. The Faculty Senate approved the legislation, which is supported by UW President Michael K. Young, on April 25. Only 23 of a required 213 objections needed to amend or [...]

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