He’s a Hollywood actor, businessman and family man. Yuji Okumoto starred in the 1986 film “Karate Kid 2” as the character Chozen, the antagonist to Ralph Macchio’s famous role. He currently resides in Seattle with his family and owns Kona Kitchen restaurant in North Seattle. He has been in other films since then, such as [...]
On August 7, news broke that in Afghanistan, ten members of a medical team — six Americans, a Briton, a German and four Afghans — were shot and killed by militants as they were returning home from a remote aid mission, reported the New York Times. The attack, the largest massacre in years of aid [...]
Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel, who has been doing press for his role as Zuko in “The Last Airbender”, recently spoke out to CNN Entertainment about Hollywood’s institutional racism, saying that “Asian actors are limited to roles as terrorists, taxi drivers or geeks.” He added, “Because ‘Slumdog’ was such a big hit there was a [...]
The death toll from landslides in northwestern China more than doubled August 10 to 702, as crews in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people, according to the Associated Press. Rescuers digging by hand through mud found a 52-year old man who had been trapped for [...]
An American warship docked August 10 in central Vietnam where the former foes planned to conduct naval training in a sign of growing military ties amid new warnings from China for the U.S. to stay out of its backyard, according to the Associated Press. The USS John S. McCain’s port call comes as the U.S. [...]
The Associated Press reported that on August 10, Japan apologized to South Korea for its colonial rule over the country, seeking to strengthen ties between the two countries ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula. During Japan’s occupation from 1910-45, many Koreans were forced to fight as front-line soldiers, [...]
Hundreds of Filipino guestworkers lured to teach in Louisiana public schools were cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars and forced into exploitative contracts by an international trafficking ring run by labor contractors. A federal class action lawsuit was filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of more than 350 Filipino teachers [...]
The police raided the office of Google Korea in Seoul on August 10 over allegations of illicitly collecting sensitive personal information from wireless networks reports the Korea Herald. Investigators from the Cyber Terror Center of the National Police Agency confiscated computer hard disk drives and paper documents from the office. The local unit of Google [...]
On August 9, the last-place Seattle Mariners announced that they have fired manager Don Wakamatsu. Starting the day at 42-70, the second-worst record in the American League, the team made the announcement just hours before tonight’s game against Oakland. They started the night with their fifth manager in three years plus one month. Daren Brown, [...]
Two men are dead and four injured from a barrage of gunshots fired around 9 p.m. at a party on July 17 at Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah, reported the Seattle Times. Yang Keovongphet, 33, of Kent, and Justin Cunningham, 30, of South Seattle, were killed that night when an altercation between two groups [...]
Bob Hasegawa Running for re-election: State Representative, 11th District, Position 2 Bob Hasegawa prioritizes family wage jobs, access to capital and protecting small businesses, basic and higher education, civil rights and social justice and equity of access to all society has to offer. With a background as a longtime labor and social justice activist, Hasegawa [...]
Immigration / Refugees Patty Murray – Murray supports comprehensive immigration reform and believes that it is the right thing to do for families, businesses and future generations. Immigration reform must “include a path for immigrants to become citizens and realize the American dream” and “protect the rights of victims and refugees,” she says. Dino Rossi [...]
The Los Angeles Times reported that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated 3rd District Court of Appeal Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye as the next chief justice on July 28, which would make her the first Asian American to lead the state’s judiciary and give the California Supreme Court a female majority for the first time in its [...]
The Seattle Chapter of Ascend, a pan-Asian American professional leadership organization, will host the Diversity Career Expo and Appreciation Gala on September 2, 2010. Both events will be held in downtown Bellevue, Wash. at the Westin Hotel. Over 20 diversity employers are expected to exhibit and will be hiring for positions ranging from entry to [...]
See more photos of the event here. Photos by Don Pham/Nguoi Viet Tay Bac-Northwest Vietnamese News.
The IE is now seeking a P/T Distribution Driver to deliver its newspapers to various sites in the Greater Seattle region. The applicant must be available to work all day first and third Wednesdays and Thursdays of each month. The driver must be complete with the route by end of the second day, Thursday, and report [...]
It’s now July, which means our annual pig roast is coming up! This year marks our 35th year hosting this fun community gathering. Come help turn the pig and enjoy the potlucks on Friday and Saturday. InterIm CDA is purchasing a local and sustainably raised pig that has access to pasture at all times and [...]
Fewer summer meal sites will serve WA kids this summer New report highlights nationwide decline in summer meal participation. According to an announcement on June 29, about 700 schools, parks, community centers, apartment complexes, trailer parks and other sites will be providing summer meals to hungry children across Washington this summer, down from 723 last [...]
In Baltimore, Maryland, four Filipina ex-staffers of Bon Secours Hospital say they were fired from their jobs in April, allegedly because they spoke in Tagalog during their lunch break. According to the ABS-CBN North America News Bureau, Corina Capunitan-Yap, Anna Rowena Rosales, Jazziel Granada and Hachelle Natano were fired from their jobs at the Bon [...]
When South Philadelphia High School erupted into racial violence on December 3, community liaison Violet Sutton-Lawson was one of the few school staff members who did something about it—apparently risking serious injury—to protect Asian students who were being beaten by mobs, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. She worked with pregnant students and teenage mothers, was [...]
For the Vietnamese Americans living in the Gulf Coast region, the oil disaster is especially complicated. It’s made murky by language barriers, cultural misunderstandings and a history of challenges that have shaped them for more than half a century, reports CNN. The Vietnamese interpreters BP first brought in for safety and cleanup training stirred painful [...]
Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline. As more Americans shun BP gasoline as a form of protest over the Gulf oil spill, station owners are insisting BP do more to help them convince motorists that such boycotts mostly hurt independently owned businesses, not the British oil giant, reports [...]
The advocacy organization, Restore Fairness, profiled Filipina Shirley Tan and her experience as a homosexual woman, mother, and potential deportee. According to the Restore Fairness site, Tan came to the United States from the Philippines over two decades ago, and built a life with her partner Jay Mercado, giving birth to twin boys. Now, Tan [...]
World-champion tennis star, Andy Roddick was stunned in the fourth round at Wimbledon by an 82nd-ranked Taiwanese player who hadn’t won a match at the All England Club the past four years. According to the Associated Press, on June 28, Yen-hsun Lu beat out Roddick in a match that lasted over 4 1/2 hours. Lu [...]
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s brother-in-law was elevated June 7, to the second-most powerful position in the leadership, reports The Los Angeles Times. The promotion of Jang Song Taek, 64, long believed to be one of the most powerful men behind the scenes in North Korea, was announced after an unexpected meeting of the [...]
A South Korean rocket appears to have exploded moments after take-off, ending the country’s latest attempt to join the space-launch industry, reports the BBC. The Korea Space Launch Vehicle 1 is thought to have blown up 137 seconds after take-off, said science minister Ahn Byong-man. The rocket lifted off from Goheung’s Naro Space Centre but [...]
Asian Americans may have the lowest unemployment rate of any racial group nationwide, but a new report shows college-educated Asian Americans have a harder time finding jobs than whites, reports New America Media. The new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), “Hidden Disadvantage: Asian American Unemployment and the Great Recession”, shows that in the [...]
Benigno S. Aquino III was officially proclaimed the next president of the Philippines on June 9, vowing to fulfill his campaign promise to fight corruption and to immediately determine the “true state of the country,” reports The New York Times. According to analysts, Aquino, who will become the 15th president of the republic on June [...]
Addressing the nation three weeks after a military crackdown on protesters, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva presented what he called a “letter to the Thai people” on June 10, calling for reconciliation in a country shaken and divided by months of turmoil and scores of deaths, reports The New York Times. The plan, as he described [...]
