The International Examiner

The Examiner looks into the stances and API recognition of each candidate in major offices in Seattle. Decide for yourself.

A small round lump was all it took to bring a lifestyle of fun, parties, and basking in the sun to an abrupt halt for a former NFL cheerleader. It was 2006, the week before her 32nd birthday, when Lyly Thanh Koenig was diagnosed with breast cancer. “I was like, ‘Yeah right,’”said Koenig in an [...]

Unfurling a large blueprint of their future home on the hood of their car, Millie Leung and David Huang wear contagious smiles on their faces while exhibiting their latest project: the Green Concept Home, a two-story 2,840 sq. ft. contemporary single-family home at the Greenwich Crest neighborhood in Bellevue, Wash. They broke ground on Sept. [...]

What we see on headlines about gang activity are the scary one-liners. “A gang-related shooting outside a well-known Seattle establishment” or “Gang violence raises homicide rate by x-percent.” We’ll get a dabble of statistics here, be reassured how the city is doing something there, and maybe the particulars of a certain crime that initially sparked [...]

Domestic violence victims should never feel like they’re alone. Survivor and advocate against domestic violence, Angela Flores, a pseudonym, spoke about her experience. Flores has faced huge changes and challenges in her life ever since she and her ex-husband separated. Raising her two children has been difficult. She has to worry about finding a day-care [...]

Recently, the Filipino community was shaken by Typhoon Ondoy that left riverside communities in Metro Manila devastated by rain and mud. Over 300,000 families were displaced and in need of clean water, food and shelter. Homes were washed out in overflowing rivers from a one-day storm that spilled a month’s worth of rain. In a [...]

Seattle’s Ballard Avenue and Columbia City are two examples of once sleepy derelict neighborhoods that are now lively and prosperous at night. Both, like the International District, have preserved their physical structure and pedestrian scale by being historic districts. But unlike the other two neighborhoods, the International District (ID) has yet to find its night [...]

CHINA 1428 (DU Haibin) North American Premiere Tue, Oct 6th 6:00pm Empire Granville 7 Th 5 Wed, Oct 7th 12:40pm Empire Granville 7 Th 5 The Great Sichuan Earthquake of 2008 and its aftermath traumatized and inspired China in equal measure. Du Haibin’s documentary captures everyday heroism as victims rebuild their lives among the rubble. [...]

I think I first heard about Jamie Ford’s new book “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter And Sweet” sometime last year from Oregon poet, Lawson Inada, who told me it took place in Seattle’s International District. I later found out Ford was living in Montana but had passed through Seattle and was part- Chinese American. [...]

The most recent installment of Sex In Seattle starts with a video vignette where the “Heavenly Spirit,” like a Grecian god, looks down and laments the passivity and tacit dishonesty of humans living below, sending an apprentice to guide three ingénues—Tess, Elizabeth, and Jenna—to express and follow their hearts, to “come clean.” This opening scene [...]

West and East meet in Pandit Chitresh Das’s practice and performance of Kathak, one of the many forms of classical Indian dance. This blending presents opportunities, but also poses many challenges. “In the west, there tends to be a lumping together of cultures and it is difficult for people to distinguish folk dance from pop [...]

There is an issue that is haunting Asian America. It’s a topic that is only talked about in whispers behind closed doors, safely out of the earshot of children. This problem entails a seemingly innocent concern that raises more disturbing questions. It involves a phenomenon that is more rare than Big Foot or Loch Ness [...]

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” President John F. Kennedy’s words changed my life, as they did for many of those who came of age during his presidency. They caused me to seriously consider the purpose of my life. I changed directions as a [...]

Again I write to express my dismay at an article (“HIStory Got It Wrong,” Sept. 2-15, 2009, Vol. 36, No. 17) in which Caroline Li, the writer, quotes her teacher as asking “Why would a white man create something that made work easier for his slaves?” (in reference to the invention of the cotton gin). [...]

As a child of two cultures, I appreciate diversity. My family and I are from Taiwan, but we moved to Georgia when I was an infant and became US citizens. I was taught at an early age the importance of serving the community and participated in Girl Scouts, eventually earning my Silver and Gold Awards, [...]