Dr. Vernasius T. Tandia By Dr. Vernasius T. Tandia For Northwest Asian Weekly Compared to about a decade ago, when there was widespread opposition to reunification, a growing number of Koreans now seem to be settling for it. With increasing public discourse on the issue, including the current jostling over a mandatory reunification tax, the [...]
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COMMENTARY: Stereotyped impressions of North Koreans hurting Korean reunification
Posted on 06 January 2012.
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 31 No 2 | 1/7-1/130 Comments
COMMENTARY: Be a real person and log off!
Posted on 16 December 2011.
By The-Anh Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Facebook. Voxer. Myspace. Twitter. Text messaging. They are destroying our society. What has Facebook done for you? Facebook is a support group for gossiping and garbage conversations. Have you given your acquaintances the green light to invade your privacy? Please don’t be so cheap. Is your friend so preoccupied [...]
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 30 No 51 | 12/17-12/232 Comments
Reader’s Corner: Forced to flee: voices and visions from the Thai-Burma border, put on paper
Posted on 02 December 2011.
By Erika Berg For Northwest Asian Weekly In September 2007, the world’s attention was riveted by video footage of never-ending columns of saffron-robed monks streaming through the streets of Burma. Overnight, the government had removed all fuel subsidies, spiking food prices. Moved by the people’s despair, tens of thousands of Buddhist monks took to the [...]
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 30 No 49 | 12/3-12/90 Comments
OPINION: Sen. Shin supports governor’s sales tax proposal
Posted on 23 November 2011.
Sen. Paull Shin is supporting Gov. Chris Gregoire’s proposal to ask the voters to increase the state sales tax in order to offset the drastic cuts that would be necessary to balance the state budget. But he is concerned that the increase doesn’t go far enough. Shin, D-Edmonds, said that in the 43 years he [...]
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COMMENTARY: America — no place for moderates
Posted on 23 November 2011.
By Susan L. Cassidy For Northwest Asian Weekly Where has my country gone? I am one of the millions of Americans who has no interest in my neighbor’s religion. I care that they obey the law and rake their leaves. I am grateful that they welcomed me into the neighborhood with brownies. I have no [...]
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 30 No 48 | 11/26-12/20 Comments
READER’S CORNER: The pitfalls of being an American in China
Posted on 18 November 2011.
By Colgan Chan For Northwest Asian Weekly Editor’s note: Being fans of his blog, “The ABCs of China,” which details the adventures and cultural differences he experiences in Asia, we asked Colgan Chan if he’d write something special for the newspaper. Chan is an American student studying in China. When I was asked to write [...]
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 30 No 47 | 11/19-11/252 Comments
READER’S CORNER: Have you ever gambled or are you still gambling? Can you join me in saying, ‘I have never gambled in my life?’
Posted on 04 November 2011.
By Gideon Sanoy For Northwest Asian Weekly The phone rang. Being a new desk clerk at the Bush Hotel, which is owned and managed by SCIDpda (Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation Authority), I was excited to answer, “This is the Bush Hotel. May I help you?” He asked me in what area the hotel is [...]
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 30 No 45 | 11/5-11/110 Comments
COMMENTARY: Families and education levy hold key to livable wage jobs for our children
Posted on 28 October 2011.
By Janice Deguchi and Kristina Johnson For Northwest Asian Weekly By 2018, 67 percent of jobs in Washington will require post-secondary education. Today, only 25 percent of King County residents who have a bachelor’s degree or higher were born in Washington state. The City of Seattle elections are quickly approaching, and on the ballot this [...]
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 30 No 44 | 10/29-11/40 Comments
COMMENTARY: A case for more diversity in our state’s highest court
Posted on 19 October 2011.
By Sharon Sakamoto For Northwest Asian Weekly For some time now, our state’s highest court has lacked a justice who can represent the many, many communities of color throughout Washington. As noted in several recent articles and in ongoing community conversations, Gov. Chris Gregoire has a record short on the appointment of qualified persons of [...]
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 30 No 43 | 10/22-10/280 Comments
COMMENTARY: Grants provide technology access for the underserved
Posted on 14 October 2011.
By Bruce Harrell For Northwest Asian Weekly As the [City of Seattle’s Energy, Technology, and Civil Rights Committee] chair, I am pleased to announce that $320,000 in grants have been given by the City’s Technology Matching Fund (TMF).
Posted in Commentaries, Vol 30 No 42 | 10/15-10/210 Comments
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