Northwest Asian Weekly
A recent announcement that the Navigation Center, a homeless shelter in Seattle’s Little Saigon owned and operated by the Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC), will not relocate in January, as previously planned, has spurred former Seattle City Councilmember Tanya Woo to start a petition calling for the City of Seattle, King County, and Washington’s legislature to support ...
About - Northwest Asian Weekly
For 41 years, we were the only weekly English-edition newspaper serving Washington’s Asian community. The Northwest Asian Weekly released its final print edition on Jan. 19, 2023, and transitioned to online-only operations.
A momentous gathering marks a new era for the Northwest Asian …
2024年6月4日 · Why the Asian Weekly? And why did the new owners step up? “Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic and seeing how much our community hurt during this pandemic, I don’t know if our community would have been able to take the fact that [the Asian Weekly] potentially would not have existed,” said Cho.
Last day of print operations at NW Asian Weekly, Seattle Chinese …
A KING 5 news crew came to film our last day of print operations. From lef: Cornelius Hocker, Sophia Vandewark,and Eric Desrosiers. (Photo by Assunta Ng)
Northwest Asian Weekly’s 35th anniversary: Let’s hear it from …
2017年11月16日 · “I congratulate Assunta and the entire staff of the Northwest Asian Weekly on the occasion of the paper’s 35th anniversary. The publication has been an integral part of the Seattle community, bringing news of a growing and diverse segment of our population, and vital information not otherwise available to all of us.
Three AAPI candidates vie for open seat on Seattle City Council
2025年1月16日 · Meet your AAPI candidates. Hong Chhuor: In his letter of interest for the seat, Chhuor noted that his family came to the United States from war-torn Cambodia. He retold how he helped serve as an interpreter for his parents and other family members at doctor appointments and parent-teacher conferences, as he was the only one …
Seattle’s Asian American community looks back at 2024, looks …
2024年12月31日 · As the final days of 2024 wind down, Seattle’s Asian American community gathered to reflect on a year filled with significant milestones, obstacles, and transitions. At Assunta Ng’s year-end celebration on Dec. 10, the community also gathered to share hopes for 2025. Ng, former publisher of ...
A word from our new publisher: Embracing change, upholding …
2024年6月3日 · Today, we embark on a new journey. In order to create a successful path forward, however, we must first acknowledge and learn from our past. Undoubtedly, this journey begins with a huge debt of gratitude owed to Assunta Ng, our fearless pioneer and beacon for our local Asian American community.
Northwest Asian Weekly sold — Assunta Ng passes the torch to …
2024年5月24日 · By James Tabafunda NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY After decades of nurturing one of the most influential Asian American community media publications in the Pacific Northwest, Assunta Ng, founder and publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly, announced its sale to a group of four partners on Friday. The move comes seven months after Ng and her family donated the publication’s elder sibling, the Seattle ...
Northwest Asian Weekly going online only
2022年12月29日 · More than 40 years ago, we made history by launching the first Chinese newspaper in the Pacific Northwest since 1927, Seattle Chinese Post. A year later, we founded the Northwest Asian Weekly, the only English weekly for the Asian community despite the Asian population being small—the risks were high and obstacles immense and unpredictable.