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		<title>Shawn Wong and Eric Byler talk “Americanese” at film screening</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 24 at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown, director Eric Byler appeared at a screening of his critically acclaimed 2006 film “Americanese,” which is based on Shawn Wong’s 1995 novel, “American Knees.”   Byler and Wong answered questions from the audience after the screening, which was partly aimed at stirring up interest for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tao: The Art of the Drum comes to Seattle Feb. 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Feb. 3, The Seattle Theatre Group is presenting Tao: The Art of the Drum at the Moore Theatre. Tao has been seen in 16 countries and 300 cities, with 500 performances a year. To date, it has been seen by 3.5 million spectators worldwide. Tao is based on traditional Japanese taiko drumming but, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Lost Years” documentary is screened in Canada, includes local Seattle leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Lost Years: A People’s Struggle for Justice” is a documentary about the Chinese diaspora directed by Tom Radford and Kenda Gee. Gee is Chinese Canadian, and the film traces his grandfather’s journey from China to Edmonton, Canada. Also included in the film are views from Chinese Americans, Chinese New Zealanders, and Chinese Australians. Part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eri Takahashi joins Union Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 11, Eri Takahashi became senior relationship banker at Union Bank’s Bellevue branch (10900 N.E. 8th St.). Takahashi began her financial services career in 2000 in customer service for Shinsei Bank in Tokyo, Japan. Over the next decade, she held positions in the environmental, financial services, and insurance industries. Takahashi holds a Bachelor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s new young leader gets rock star treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Foster Klug The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s young new leader gets rock star treatment when he visits his troops — just as his father did. But while the late Kim Jong Il mostly stayed aloof in dark shades, his son holds hands and hugs his soldiers. Kim Jong Un [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan’s population to shrink by one-third by 2060</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s population of 128 million will shrink by one-third and seniors will account for 40 percent of people by 2060, placing a greater burden on a smaller working-age population to support the social security and tax systems. The grim estimate of how rapid aging will shrink [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia urges football lawmakers to lift hijab ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Asian Football Confederation on Monday urged football’s top lawmaking body to approve a headscarf with safety features for use by Islamic female players. Football governing body FIFA banned the hijab or headscarf in 2007 for safety reasons, a move condemned by Islamic leaders and sports officials. Iran’s team forfeited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s next for this newspaper publisher? — Part 2 of the NWAW 30th anniversary series</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly “When is she going to retire?” people often ask my staff members. Yes, my competitors would love to see me disappear. But it would be a loss for the community if we were to vanish. The question of when is not up to me. If God continues to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman suffers broken hip after dog scare, gets $200,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Evangeline Cafe Northwest Asian Weekly As the saying goes, “Every dog has its day,” and in this case, a woman injured during a pit bull encounter had her day in court — and won. In June, a jury awarded more than $200,000 in damages to Yuanquin Ge, a Chinese woman who fell and broke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney Steven Kim goes to South Korea to teach other prosecutors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office’s Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Steven Kim left for Seoul over the weekend. He was invited by the South Korean government to spend six months in Seoul teaching Korean prosecutors trial practice skills and lecturing on the American Criminal Justice System in anticipation of the country’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A delegation to Chongqing slated for March</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Heinlein and Sandy Marvinney For Northwest Asian Weekly In the works is a business, civic, and cultural delegation to Chongqing, Seattle’s sister city, a booming metropolis on the Yangtze River and the gateway to southwest China. The March 18–23 program, “Seattle Week in Chongqing,” reciprocates a May 2011 visit by a Chongqing delegation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Parade of Dragon Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 28, families from all over the Greater Seattle area came down to the Chinatown-International District for its annual Lunar New Year festival. Featured were lion and dragon dances, drumming, food from local restaurants, and a children&#8217;s parade and costume contest. All photos taken by George Liu/NWAW Related stories Classified Ads: February 4 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Ron Chew tells often forgotten story of murdered Filipino cannery workers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Northwest Asian Weekly Ron Chew, executive director of the International Community Health Services Foundation, said his recently completed book on Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, two young cannery union officials murdered in 1981, is the most difficult piece of writing he’s ever done. “It took me 30 years to arrive in an emotional space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year commemorated with USPS forever stamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The colorful Year of the Dragon stamp is the latest collectible in the U.S. Postal Service’s Celebrating Lunar New Year series, which began in 2008 with the Year of the Rat. The Year of the Dragon began Jan. 23 and ends Feb. 9, 2013. The stamp is on sale at post offices nationwide, online at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much of Asia expects more babies born in the Year of Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Annie Huang The Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, but you wouldn’t know that from visiting the obstetrics department at Taiwan Adventist Hospital. The hallways were abuzz this week with dozens of women lined up for ultrasound checks and other appointments with obstetricians. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban U.S. Chinatowns shrink back as Asians head to the suburbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hope Yen and Ben Nuckols The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s historic Chinatowns, home for a century to immigrants seeking social support and refuge from racism, are fading as rising living costs, jobs elsewhere, and a desire for wider spaces lure Asian Americans more than ever to the suburbs. As the Lunar New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lunar New Year winter wonderland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related stories Lunar New Year commemorated with USPS forever stamp Year of the Dragon 2012 BLOG: Snowed in: an issue to remember Where do red envelopes come from? BLOG: Prayers answered at Lunar New Year fest]]></description>
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		<title>Whoa and wow! — 30 years of challenges and wonders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly In September 1981, when I dreamed of starting a newspaper, I was a mother with a baby and toddler. Most people called me nuts, thinking a woman should put her family first and ambition second. In addition, it would be a risky venture. Yet four months later, the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAPAC chair calls for congressional hearings on hazing in the military</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a series of high-profile hazing incidents endured by members of the United States Armed Services, CAPAC Chair Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-32) along with 12 other Members of Congress sent a letter Friday to the House Armed Services Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committees requesting a hearing on the military’s hazing and harassment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Northwest cities have the most people of Chinese heritage?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Eric De Place In honor of Chinese New Year, I thought it would be fun to crunch some Census numbers to get a sense of where people of Chinese heritage live in the Northwest. In the tables  below, I’ve rank-ordered places in the Northwest according to their share of people who self-identify as Chinese. As you’ll see, [...]]]></description>
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