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Phnom Penh Noodle House closing Co-owner faces mounting medical bills

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“It’s definitely bittersweet,” said Diane Le, of her family’s decision to close the Phnom Penh Noodle House on 660 South King Street. “Realizing that life is short

and there’s so much time spent at the business. We just need to focus on our families.” A big part of that focus has been on Devin Cropp, the son of Dawn Ung, Diane’s sister — and one of the co-owners of Phnom Penh. Dawn and another sister, see PHNOM PENH on 16

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Canada’s Consul General Lee skillfully navigates international waters

Consul General Brandon Lee represents the Canadian Prime Minister in the U.S. Paciﬁc Northwest

Vancouver mayor to apologize to residents of Chinese descent for past wrongs Gregor Robertson, the mayor of Vancouver, B.C., will formally apologize

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By Jessica Kai Curry NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Brandon A. Lee has been Canada’s Consul General in Seattle for about six months, and he has spent almost all of that time traveling. His responsibilities representing the Prime Minister of Canada in the Pacific Northwest region are wide-reaching and varied. With most of the passport and visa processes people associate with a consulate, having been centralized and digitized in New York and Los Angeles, Lee’s position here is closer to that of an ambassador. His duties revolve largely around trade and politics — representing Canadian business interests and supporting U.S.Canadian diplomatic relations. In addition, he is the senior digital

in April for past discrimination against residents of Chinese descent, The Canadian Press reported. The apology will acknowledge the wrongdoings of past legislation, regulations and policies of previous city councils. “The historical wrongs of Vancouver City Council need to be addressed, particularly as the city is focused now on being a city of reconciliation and that extends beyond our First Nations to people of other cultures who faced racism and discrimination in the past,” Robertson said in an interview. see ROBERTSON on 14

strategist of the entire nation of Canada. Lee is accustomed to working at a global level. His expertise in digital technology led him to Europe with the World Trade Organization (WTO), and then with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). From there, Lee was invited to serve as the Canadian Consul General for California, Hawaii, and now Seattle, for the Consulate that serves Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Idaho. Lee explains, “I’m originally a tech entrepreneur, and I was brought inside the government to help modernize or transform or disrupt the government from the inside. So with the WTO and the ICRC, what I was brought in to do, I think is the most diﬃcult and see LEE on 13

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SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle pain doctor who ran eight pain treatment centers in Washington state has reached an agreement that resolves state administrative charges filed against him. Under an agreement finalized on March 26, with the Washington Medical Commission, Dr. Frank Li will remain suspended from practicing medicine for at least another year. The Seattle Times reports that Li, who did not admit wrongdoing, will also face a range of other limitations, including lifetime restrictions on his ability to prescribe. see LI on 13

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■ NAMES IN THE NEWS Bothell boy wins at Augusta National

established in 1935. Catague is a longtime community activist and a leader and volunteer at the Filipino Community Center. 

Emma Catague (left) and Mary Nam at KOMO TV, following the Feb. 21 “Sustainable Communities” segment

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Taighan Chea of Bothell was named champion of the 7-9 boys age group at the Drive, Chip and Putt finals at Augusta National on April 1. Chea, 7, was one of four junior golfers from Washington who earned an invitation to the annual event. Kasey Maralack of Snoqualmie tied for second in the 12-13 girls. Conrad Chisman of Stanwood was fourth among the 12-13 boys, and Zach Huang of Sammamish was 10th in the 10-11 boys. A joint initiative founded in 2013 by the Masters Tournament, United States Golf Association, and the PGA of America, Drive, Chip and Putt is a free nationwide junior golf development competition. 

Community Center were featured during a EcoConsumer segment in February, about sustainable communities on the KOMO 4 TV 4 p.m. news with anchor Mary Nam. In the segment, Catague highlighted the Center’s senior food program and food bank for seniors, which offer healthy and culturally-appropriate Filipino foods. The Filipino Community Center was

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Held from March 30 – Apr 1 at the Washington State Convention Center, tens of thousands of anime fans got to mingle and cosplay at Sakura-Con. Known as the Northwest's “oldest and most wellattended” convention devoted to the

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art, the member-only festival featured contests, panels, “cosplay chess,” gaming, and the Kawaii vs. Kowai Dance Party. There were also two fashion shows, and special Shinjuku musical guests Okamoto. 

New senior editor of Eastside publications

Samantha Pak has been named senior editor of all of Sound Publishing’s Eastside publications. The former editor of the Kirkland Reporter and Bothell-Kenmore Reporter, and monthly “On The Shelf” columnist for the NorthSamantha Pak west Asian Weekly, Pak will oversee the Kirkland Reporter, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter, Bellevue Reporter, Issaquah-Sammamish Reporter, Mercer Island Reporter, Redmond Reporter, and Snoqualmie Valley Record. She is a University of Washington graduate with a bachelor’s in journalism. She enjoys reading, dancing, yoga, and paddleboarding.

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Frank Fukui became Keiro Northwest’s board president in January, after serving the board since 2014. Longtime CEO Jeﬀrey Hattori left in January and Bridgette Takeuchi is leading the Keiro team in the interim. Fukui grew up in Seattle and his father was a Kiero resident. He is a Garfield High School and University of Washington graduate. Takeuchi grew up in Renton and graduated from Seattle University. Before joining Keiro, she worked in corporate America at Ernst & Young and at Symetra Financial. 

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US judge opens door for thousands to apply for asylum By GENE JOHNSON ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle opened the door on March 29 for thousands of immigrants to apply for asylum, finding that the Department of Homeland Security has routinely failed to notify them of a deadline for filing their applications. U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez issued the ruling in a class-action lawsuit brought by immigrant rights groups on behalf of those who fear persecution if returned to their home country. U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez In many cases, those asylum seekers are released from custody after oﬃcials have interviewed them and determined their fears to be credible. They’re told that they’ll need to appear in immigration court, but they typically aren’t directly told that they only have a year to apply for asylum. Due to a backlog in immigration cases, the asylum seekers are not given a hearing within a year, and thus, by the time they show up in court and learn about the deadline, it’s already passed, Martinez found. “This means many asylum seekers

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who were previously going to have a door slammed in their face are now able to say, `No, a federal court has said that I am timely filing my application and you need to accept it,’’’ said Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and an attorney for the plaintiffs. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of Homeland Security, did not immediately return an email seeking comment. The judge ordered the department to begin providing notice about the one-year deadline within 90 days any time an immigrant seeking asylum is released from custody pending deportation proceedings. He also said the department must give those who missed the deadline another year to file their applications. Further, Martinez told the department it must fix another catch-22 in its system: that while asylum-seekers must file their asylum applications within a year, the government refuses to accept the applications unless the applicant has been given a formal notice to appear in immigration court. Often those notices aren’t issued within a year, so even if asylum seekers know about the one-year deadline, there’s virtually no way for them to meet it, Martinez said. He ordered the government to come up with a uniform system for accepting asylum applications.

“Defendants have left class members without an adequate mechanism to timely file their asylum applications, thereby denying them the opportunity to exercise their statutory right to apply for asylum,’’ Martinez wrote. Government lawyers argued that they do publish some materials that inform asylum seekers of the deadline and that federal law does not require that oﬃcials directly notify asylum seekers of the deadline upon their release from custody. The judge disagreed on the latter point and said the former wasn’t good enough. Martinez noted comments from Republican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, also cited by the plaintiffs, about the one-year deadline in 1996: “I am committed to ensuring that those with legitimate claims of asylum are not returned to persecution, particularly for technical deficiencies. If the time limit is not implemented fairly, or cannot be implemented fairly, I will be prepared to revisit this issue in a later Congress.’’ Among the asylum-seekers who sued was Lidia Margarita Lopez Orellana, who arrived in Eagle Pass, Texas, from Guatemala in 2014 with her two youngest children in tow. She said that despite checking in with immigration authorities regularly as required, she didn’t learn about the deadline until December 2015, when she met with a lawyer. 

Teens arrested following Easter purse snatching in ID SEATTLE — Police arrested three teenagers for a purse snatching incident in the International District on the afternoon of April 1. A man and his wife were loading groceries into their car in the 1200 block of South King Street around 5:30 p.m. when they were approached by three teens. One of the teens ripped the woman’s purse from her shoulder as the group ran away. Two officers in the area responded and quickly found the three teens trying to scale a fence in the 1200 block of South Lane Street. The teens had made it to the opposite side of the fence, but stopped when told to do so by the officers. Additional officers arrived and took the three into custody. Officers recovered the purse, which contained the victim’s ID, 10 feet from where the suspects were taken into custody. While searching the suspects, police found debit cards and additional ID cards belonging to the victim. Officers booked the teens, two 15-years-olds and one 16-years-old, into the King County Youth Services Center for investigation of robbery. 

■ NATIONAL NEWS

New Asian American, Brazilian apostles make Mormon history

By BRADY McCOMBS ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church made history and injected a bit of diversity into a previously all-white top leadership panel on March 31 by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry. The selections of Ulisses Soares of Brazil and Gerrit W. Gong, a Chinese American, were announced during a twice-annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The choices triggered excitement among a contingent of Mormons who for years have been hoping for the faith’s top leadership to be more representative of a religion that has more than half of the its 16 million members outside the United States. “It’s a sign that the church is for everyone,’’ said Guilherme De Castro, a 37-year-old Mormon from Brazil who was in attendance for the announcement. “It doesn’t matter where you are from or the way you look.’’ The selections come during a two-day conference happening as the faith grapples with heightened scrutiny about its handling of sexual abuse reports and one-on-one interviews between local lay leaders and

youth. Mormon leaders hadn’t spoken about the topic as of the afternoon of March 31, but a person in attendance yelled several times, “Stop protecting sexual predators,’’ as new people were announced to secondtier leadership posts. The outburst came one day after about 1,000 current and former Mormons marched to the church’s headquarters in Salt Lake City, delivering petitions demanding an end to closed door, one-on-one interviews between youth and lay leaders where sexual questions sometimes arise. The church changed policy last week to now allow children to bring a parent or adult with them to the interviews, but protesters said that doesn’t go far enough to keep children safe. The change came as part of more revisions to sexual abuse reporting guidelines following recent revelations that a former prominent missionary leader was accused of sexually assaulting two women in the 1980s. The ex-leader denied the allegations. It was the first conference presided over by new church President Russell M. Nelson. His choices for the two open leadership spots sparked hope that the 93-year-old former heart surgeon will focus on the see HISTORY on 12

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California governor pardons 5 men facing deportation By PAUL ELIAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown on March 30 pardoned five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two whose families fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia four decades ago. The pardons don’t automatically stop deportation proceedings, but eliminate the state convictions federal California Gov. Jerry authorities based their deportation Brown decisions on. That gives the men’s lawyers strong legal arguments before immigration judges to try to prevent the deportations.

“The pardon does provide enormous benefit to immigrants facing deportation,” said Anoop Prasad, an immigration staff attorney at Asian Law Caucus. Brown’s intervention for the men — among 56 pardoned — marked the Democratic governor’s third consecutive pardon round in which he intervened on behalf of immigrants who were deported or faced deportation because of criminal convictions. Brown has accused the administration of President Donald Trump of “basically going to war” with California over immigration policy. Brown last year signed sanctuary legislation limiting state and local cooperation with federal enforcement of immigration laws. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions responded with a Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to invalidate three state laws protecting residents living in the country without documentation.

Those pardoned included Sokha Chhan and Phann Pheach, both of whom face deportation to Cambodia, a country ruled in the 1970s by the genocidal Khmer Rouge. Chhan was convicted of two counts of misdemeanor domestic violence in 2002 and served 364 days in jail. Pheach was convicted of possessing drugs and obstructing a police oﬃcer in 2005 and served six months in jail. His wife said he is in federal custody. Also pardoned was Daniel Maher, who was convicted in 1995 of kidnapping, robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm and served five years in prison. Maher is facing deportation to China. Chhan, Pheach and Maher hold permanent U.S. residency but had exhausted all legal avenues to fight deportation, see BROWN on 14

Asian American monument gets county approval

Mom mistook labor for bad Chinese food

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Commissioners in New Mexico’s most populous county have approved a purchase agreement for a public art sculpture that will recognize a landmark Chinese American civil rights case that predates statehood. Bernalillo County commissioners voted unanimously last week in support of a motion authorizing the county manager to approve the purchase agreement. Artists Cheryll Leo-Gwin and Stewart

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman awoke to what she believed were the consequences of a bad dish of General Tso’s chicken, but instead had an unexpected baby in arms three hours later. The Pensacola News Journal reports 29-year-old Crystal Gail Amerson thought food poisoning was responsible for the stomach pains that woke her up early on March 25, unaware that she was actually 37 weeks pregnant. An ambulance arrived hours later, as the pain escalated. Her second son, 19-inch, 5-pound Oliver James, soon entered the world in the back of the ambulance en route to the hospital. Amerson says she’s never felt many pregnancy symptoms and didn’t notice

Wong are the creators of “View from Gold Mountain.’’ The sculpture will be installed near the state district courthouse in downtown Albuquerque. Oﬃcials say the monument will commemorate the Yee Shun case of 1882, which resulted in Chinese Americans being granted the right to testify in court and have their testimony accepted. Funded with a combination of local and state sources, the project has been in the works for a few years. 

American SamoaCitizenship By SOPHIA YAN ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU (AP) — Meet John Fitisemanu, who works for a lab company in Utah, and has paid U.S. taxes and been subject to American laws his whole life. But the 53-year-old father and husband isn’t considered a U.S. citizen by the federal government, because he was born in American Samoa, a U.S. territory and the only place in the country without automatic claim to citizenship. Now, he’s suing to be recognized as an American. Fitisemanu is the lead plaintiff on a lawsuit filed on March 27 on behalf of American Samoans in Utah to be treated as U.S. citizens under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The Associated Press obtained the documents before the case was filed. People born in American Samoa, a U.S. territory since 1900, are instead considered U.S. nationals. Under that status, they cannot vote, run for oﬃce, sponsor family members for immigration to the U.S., or serve on a jury — despite paying

taxes to Uncle Sam. They’re even issued special U.S. passports that say: “This bearer is a United States national and not a United States John Fitisemanu citizen.’’ With colleagues, “it’s kind of like an oﬃce joke — ‘Hey! John is not a citizen, he’s an alien!’ I know they’re joking, but it still hurts,’’ Fitisemanu told the AP. “It feels like a slap in your face, that you’re born on U.S. soil, but you’re not recognized as a U.S. citizen.’’ He’s even been rejected for jobs that list U.S. citizenship as a requirement. Prospective employers “need me to show them proof that I am a U.S. citizen, which I am not.’’ Rosavita Tuli, another plaintiff in the case, has had to obtain special permits and pay fees that wouldn’t apply to U.S. see FITISEMANU on 12

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much weight gain. Although the Chinese food was absolved of blame, Amerson says she may never look at it the same way again. 

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■ WORLD NEWS

China space lab mostly burns up on re-entry in south Pacific By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING (AP) — China’s defunct Tiangong 1 space station mostly burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere over the central South Pacific on April 2, Chinese space authorities said. The experimental space laboratory re-entered around 8:15 a.m. Beijing time, the China Manned Space Engineering Oﬃce said. Scientists monitoring the craft’s disintegrating orbit had forecast the craft would mostly burn up and would pose only the slightest of risks to people. Analysis from the Beijing Aerospace Control Center showed it had mostly burned up. Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at Australian National

“It could have been better, obviously, if it wasn’t tumbling, but it landed in the Southern Paciﬁc Ocean, and that’s kind of where you hope it would land. It’s been tumbling and spinning for a while, which means that when it really starts to come down it’s less predictable about what happens to it.” — Brad Tucker An astrophysicist at Australian National University

University, said that Tiangong 1′s re-entry was “mostly successful” and that it would have been better if the space station had not been spinning toward Earth. “It could have been better, obviously, if it wasn’t tumbling, but it landed in the Southern Pacific Ocean, and

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Nobel Prize winner Chinese insurer founder tried for alleged Malala visits her Pakistan hometown fundraising crimes By SHERIN ZADA and MUNIR AHMED ASSOCIATED PRESS MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to her hometown on March 31, for the first time Pakistan’s Nobel Peace since receiving a Prize winner Malala gunshot wound to Yousafzai the head there in 2012 for her work as an advocate for young women’s education.

Yousafzai and her family arrived in a helicopter provided by the Pakistani military, which took her to the town of Mingora in the Swat Valley from Islamabad. She had arrived in the capital before dawn on March 29 flanked by heavy security. Yousafzai, 20, won international renown after she was shot by the Taliban in Mingora. She received initial treatment in Pakistan and later was taken to England for further care. She stayed on in the United Kingdom to continue her education and became the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. see YOUSAFZAI on 15

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READY PLAYER ONE ARE YOU READY? BECAUSE I WASN’T!

By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Children were not the only ones hunting for Easter eggs last weekend. Adults were also looking for Easter eggs in the Oasis. Ready Player One, a novel written by Ernest Cline in 2011, was released on Easter weekend. The story centers around the Oasis, which is a virtual world created by James Halliday (Mark Rylance) for humanity to escape the everyday problems of reality. After Halliday passes away, he delivers a message to all the Oasis players about three hidden challenges. The reward for solving all the challenges is the best Easter egg of them all — heir to the Halliday fortune and ownership of the Oasis. An Easter egg is defined as a hidden feature or trivia that is unlocked after fulfilling a secret requirement. In the Oasis, that would be completing the challenges. To the audience watching, every single pop culture reference is considered an Easter egg, and there are many! Wayne Watts, aka Parzival (Tye Sheridan), teams up with other Easter egg hunters — Aech (Lena Waithe) and Art3mis (Olivia Cooke). Their team is complemented by the samurai, Daito, and ninja, Sho. Daito is played by Win Morisaki, the lead vocalist for the J-pop boy band PrizmaX. Newcomer Philip Zhao provides funny dialogue as Sho. Let’s not forget our evil corporate empire, IOI (Innovative Online Industries), who wants to gain control of the Oasis for its bottom line. IOI has spared no expense in hiring the best minds to solve the Oasis challenges and soldiers to keep everyone else away. I never read the novel, but after reading a few posts on Reddit, I learned that some references were changed to improve the entertainment value of the movie. Some obscure video games and movies were changed to something more relevant to today’s movie-watching demographic. There are so many pop culture references in this movie, you would have to watch it multiple times to catch most of them. The director, Steven Spielberg, receives major props for being able to acquire hundreds of intellectual property rights to all the featured cameos. Just some of the iconic Asian characters found in this movie are Speed Racer, Street Fighter 2 characters, and many more. I don’t want to spoil it, but I was smiling at every new cameo that popped on screen.

Playing in the Oasis was much like PC Game Diablo 3’s Hardcore mode, where dying in the game meant you lost everything. For example, if someone spends 10 years leveling a character and suddenly dies, that’s like losing 10 years of your life. It really messes someone up mentally .... not that I would know! We get to witness some examples of this near the beginning of the movie. Of course, when it does happen in the movie, people just shrug it off. The movie only had a PG-13 rating, so I suspect there could not be anything too dark. The plot is nothing to write home about. In fact, it is pretty generic. There is a romance trope, which I wish was not in the movie. Real life interactions between our protagonists feel rushed. I suspect there is diﬃculty going back and forth between the Oasis and real life without making the runtime too long. The ending message is not what I expected. That’s as much as I can say without revealing any spoilers. Ready Player One grossed over $53 million during Easter weekend and over $128 million internationally. If you love pop culture from the 1980s to 2010, I highly recommend seeing Ready Player One. My friend saw it three times and each time, he said he noticed something different. All premium formats are nothing short of exceptional, and I highly recommend watching the movie in 3D. I also expect the 4DX to be very immersive given

all the CGI in the Oasis. Regardless of which format you pick, just do yourself a favor and watch Ready Player One! 

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“Big Fish & Begonia” puts China on the anime map

By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The anime feature “Big Fish & Begonia,” directed by Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang, took 12 years to complete, and was systematically designed to put China on the map in a style and tradition dominated by the Japanese (with some interesting incursions from South Korea). It’ll do that, handily, on the strength of its supple, rich, and evershifting visuals. The story, written by Xuan Liang from a confluence of Chinese folk tales, confuses at times. It’s set primarily in a realm of magic, positioned below the corporeal world that humans live in, and below the human oceans. The magical beings there usually, though not always, assume human form, except for a rite of passage in their teen years. They assume the form of ocean animals, to get a look, though not too close a look, at the humans. We meet a teenage girl called Chun, who’s going up the enormous enchanted spout for her liaison with humans and aquatic life. We also meet Chun’s best friend Qiu, who’s known her since early childhood and harbors strong, though not entirely platonic, feelings for her. And Chun, once she’s transformed into a red dolphin, will meet a teenage boy, a human, who will challenge everything she’s ever thought and felt. Her determination to save him at any cost will prove her steadfastness and her good heart. But it will also disrupt, and threatened to ruin, all of the multiverse — the humans’ land, the ocean, the spiritual realm, and even the sky that sits above all. Talking too much about the plot would give away too many spoilers. Suﬃce to say that for most of the movie’s run, someone is in serious trouble, dead or dying. And

someone will sacrifice to bring that person back. So many crises and so many salvations do become somewhat wearying, especially at such a frantic pace. And while the film is pitched at children, not adults, the whole notion that someone can always be brought back, for the right price or the right sacrifice, seems implausible. Even in realms of magic, sometimes what is destroyed, stays destroyed. The anime vistas save the day. The sky and the sea seem ever interchangeable in this fantasyland, so any sort of critters, dolphins included, might swim through the air in hordes. Figures float in the air, or what seems to be air. Solo excursions or massive groups move up and down and all around the frame, showing off a color scheme with bright reds and blues. Secret places and secret rituals reveal even

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more fantastic characters, boasting color schemes of their own, adding their own plotting and their own unorthodox bodies to the mix. China now has the deserved attention of the anime world. I’m hoping the next one out after this will give viewers a less hysterical and more practical plot. But Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang prove they can knock your eye out and throw in some well-intentioned, if naïve, thoughts on life, power, struggle, and sacrifice.  “Big Fish & Begonia” opens on April 11. Check local listings for theaters, prices, and showtimes. Andrew can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

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New Dynasty Bar opens at Four Seas

Susanna Tran stands before “The Wolf”

No, you did not misread the headline. Yes, the Northwest Asian Weekly recently reported that Four Seas Restaurant will be demolished in 2019 for an affordable housing project. Dynasty Room a.k.a. The Wolf Temple just opened on April 2 inside the Four Seas Restaurant. The old Dynasty Room has been completely transformed into a chic, cozy, and stylish lounge. The only original artifact that remains is the Cantonese opera wood carvings. This is I-Miun Liu’s new vision. He is also owner of the Oasis bubble tea shops and the Eastern Cafe in the Chinatown International District. Why did he invest so much energy and money into such a short-term project? Will this enterprise be a bust or boon? Is this an experiment? Is he brilliant or nuts? Or just a big-risk taker?

The bar counter

“This is current,” said one of the visitors at Dynasty’s opening party, who was admiring what Liu did with the space. Although Liu leases the whole restaurant, the bar uses only about half of the restaurant space. Other International District (ID) lounges are just old, he added, implying that they are unattractive. “Did you see (former governor) Gary Locke’s photo on the mural?” he pointed out to the Asian Weekly reporter. The mural is part of the new wallto-wall artwork, illustrating the history of Seattle, at the bar’s entrance. At the end of the hallway stands a dramatic and gigantic paper mache of a wolf howling. A pagodashaped structure was stacked on its back. Inside, the bar is nothing you can imagine. One visitor said, “Definitely, there is a story here.” The wall is printed with an original design of a reversed white Chinese character on black ink. Its tabletops are screen-printed with a brownish-gold Chinese theme. Who made all these? I was curious. “We did,” said Liu, beaming with pride. “We did everything. From floor to ceiling, installing lighting to painting, building the bar benches to shelves and tables. We worked 10 to 12 hours a day without a contractor. It saved us a lot of money. We have invested a lot of money in the artwork.” Overnight, the bartenders, staff, and owner became carpenters and handymen. Since signing the lease last December with Interim, the developer for the Four Seas housing project, Liu said his team of under 10 people worked non-stop for close to three months. Michael Chu, Dynasty’s general manager, said his wife had doubts about the project. Now, she is excited with what the team has accomplished. “She can’t wait to see the bar open,” Chu said. It’s not surprising that the families of Chu and Liu didn’t believe in the project at first because of the restaurant’s condition.

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The transformation

I-Miun Liu (standing)

Chu recalled there were holes in the floor when he first walked in. “The restaurant had been dying and neglected for a decade,” Liu said.

Why the bar?

“I know a lot of people think this (Dynasty) does not make a lot of financial sense,” Liu said. “Just because it doesn’t make financial sense doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. Not all businesses have to make money. It may not be possible for me to make money (out of the bar). What I get (from this project) is the satisfaction to create.” The late Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, once said consumers don’t know what they want. But if you make something great, they will buy it. And Liu believes if he builds it right, people will come. Liu built Dynasty just like he did Eastern Cafe. He felt that there wasn’t an affordable cafe for the community to hang out four years ago. So he built the cafe from scratch (from remodeling to shopping for furniture), and it’s now a popular meeting site in the ID. The knowledge he gained from building Eastern helped him to create Dynasty from something useless and decaying. He built it to something beautiful, vibrant, and functionable. Simultaneously, Liu is creating a couple more venues — another bar on Capitol Hill and a donut shop. His entrepreneurial spirit and zeal is beyond the

General Manager Michael Chu

ordinary and he is only 37 years old.

The cocktails

How are Dynasty’s cocktails different? “We serve craft cocktail,” said Chu. “It’s not common in the ID.” An experienced bartender for over a decade, Chu knows the nuts and bolts of cocktailing. Creating his own drinks, Chu said mixing cocktails with green tea, lychee, rosebuds, and oolong tea is the trend. “Wait, those are bubble tea ingredients,” I said. Chu nodded. Clever! Liu’s tea ingredients can now serve at least three of his businesses — Eastern, Dynasty, and Oasis, and possibly more later. Dynasty drinks cost $9 and up. It’s reasonable compared to bars outside the ID, which sell for $15 to $20, Chu said. Dynasty also serves Chinese and Korean food.

Is the bar going to be profitable?

Liu may have pride in the product after constructing the bar, but the guy is no dummy. He does ponder the results, and not just the process. Imagine a customer ordering a couple of dishes and drinks at Dynasty. The tab can easily add up to $30 to $50. It’s a known fact that drinks have a much higher profit margin

than food. Liu’s other Asian neighborhood restaurants are much more labor-intensive. Workers have to wash, cut, and cook a lot of bok choy or pho before they can make 10 bucks from one customer. Don’t forget Dynasty has more than 20 parking spaces. That’s a competitive advantage compared to many ID restaurants, which have none. Whoever said Liu is crazy to start the bar, think again! Liu, the former banker, has definitely done his math. Whatever he learns from the Dynasty experiment, can be duplicated elsewhere because he has learned how to apply the formula for success. He sees possibilities when other people see nothing.

Old Dynasty was full of history

The old Four Seas had a glorious past. There are many stories between the old and new Dynasty. “I have so many great memories of the Four Seas, particularly while my father Abe Lum owned the restaurant (1962-89),” said Judge Dean Lum, who used to work at Four Seas. “Lots of famous, infamous, and not so famous people came through the restaurant in its heyday,” said Lum. It was once “the drinking place, a place to see all the friends,” said Al Quan, owner after 1989. see BLOG on next page

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Don’t whitesplain food to Southeast Asians By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY This outrageous story came into my radar because I am from Malaysia. Two white judges on the cooking show, BBC’s MasterChef UK, insisted a Malaysian contestant’s chicken rendang curry should have been crispy. The contestant, Zaleha Kadir Olpin, was eliminated from the competition. Her offending rendang was presented as part of Malaysia’s national dish, Nasi Lemak, or rice cooked in coconut milk that comes with sides such as peanuts, spicy prawns, and rendang. Judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace complained about the way Zaleha Kadir Olpin the meal was prepared in a recent

BLOG from previous page When you sip your cocktail, appreciate and reflect that Four Seas was where the Asian community rallied together to build political power. Many Asian Americans running for oﬃce would fundraise at Four Seas. Mainstream candidates, who lured Asian community’s support, held their events there. Between the 1990s and 2010s, the late Ruth Woo, a political guru, organized fundraising events tirelessly for Sharon T. Santos, Lloyd Hara, Martha Choe, the late Kip Tokuda, Ron Sims, Dolores Sibonga, Velma Veloria, Gary Locke, and many others at the Four Seas. Both Asians and non-Asians would pack the room. It’s a statement the Asian community made to the mainstream, “We’ve got clout.” The late Al Sugiyama would also host many big parties to honor Asian Americans who had broken the glass ceiling. The Northwest Asian Weekly’s first community dinner of 250 people to honor Mayor Norm Rice was held at the Four Seas in 1989. Over the decades, even national

Singapore. Other Southeast Asians pointed out that the chicken is cooked in curry sauce, not fried, and is never crispy. Some accused the judges of neo-colonial attitudes and racism. Malaysia’s Foreign Minister said the judges were guilty of “whitesplaining.” Remember last year’s hubbub caused by Bon Appétit magazine that ticked off Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans? Chef Tyler Akin, a white man, did a video originally titled “PSA: This Is How You Should Be Eating Pho” (it was then changed to “We’re in Love With This Pho”). Please, white people. Stop telling us how to eat our food. And stop telling us how to cook our food. 

Chicken rendang

episode of the show, saying, “The skin isn’t crispy.” The backlash online was swift. “Saying chicken rendang should be crispy is like saying that hamburgers should be boiled,” said one Asian street food expert based in

political figures visited the Four Seas to meet the Asian community. “The Dynasty Room was a de facto clubhouse for politically involved folks: a very young (then City Council member) Norm and Constance Rice would be in one corner, Bob Santos and Bernie Whitebear in another, Senator Warren Magnuson and wife Germaine in another, with Seafair executives and (famous restaurateurs) Victor Rossellini and Ivar Haglund nearby, planning business partnerships with my dad when they all weren’t at the 410, 610, Andy’s Diner, or one of Ivar’s joints.” According to Lum, many celebrities wined and dined at the Four Seas, including John Wayne, Danny Kaye, all the professional athletes (Sonics, Seahawks, Mariners, Sounders, etc), and business and political figures. “Movie star Mickey Rooney came in one night, looking to play golf the next day,” Lum said. “My dad accommodated him. “But what really sticks out in my mind was the year before the Sonics won the 1979 championship. Many people forget that in 1978, they lost the championship, during

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the seventh game at home to the Washington Bullets. Ten minutes after the game ended, I got a call at the front desk from General Manager Zollie Volchok, who said, “Get three bartenders! We’re coming down!” And all of them did. To say they were disappointed would be a gross, gross understatement, but I always remembered how gracious Lenny Wilkens

was. For some reason, they went elsewhere (Henry’s Off Broadway) to celebrate winning the next year (the championship).”  Assunta can be reached at assunta@nwasianweekly.com.

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Taiwan suspect in school attack plot had ‘unusual ideas’ By RALPH JENNINGS and JOHNSON LAI ASSOCIATED PRESS TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — People who knew the 18-yearold Taiwanese exchange student charged in the U.S. with threatening to shoot up his school say he liked guns and flamethrowers and had dreams of a police career. An Tso Sun, who has been jailed in the state of Pennsylvania, was “a child who really cares about things,’’ said Cheng Wei-ting, a tutor who home-schooled Sun in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. “He was an extremely simple and kind student, yet he would often have unusual ideas,’’Cheng said. An Tso Sun Sun idealized the famed Taiwan-

HISTORY from 3 globalization of the faith during his tenure. He is set to embark on a trip in April to visit eight cities in Europe, Africa and Asia, including Hong Kong. The last time there were openings on the quorum, in October 2015, the church chose three Utah men. Past church president Thomas S. Monson, who died in January, was leading the church at the time. The religion believes church presidents choose new Quorum members with the help of divine revelation. The choices mark the strongest statement in favor of global diversity by senior church leadership since 1978 when the church lifted a ban on black men in the lay clergy, allowing the church to spread to Brazil, Africa and elsewhere, said Mormon scholar Patrick Mason, associate professor of religion at Claremont Graduate University in California. He said most people were hoping for at best one new nonwhite leader, so the double selection will be welcomed with enthusiasm throughout the religion. The announcement sparked a wave of tweets and other social media posts, some by Mormons who said they never thought they would see the day. Soares and Gong join a panel called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles that, before March 31, was made up entirely of white men from the U.S. with the exception of one German, Dieter Uchtdorf. The all-male panel sits below President Nelson and his two counselors and helps set church policy and oversees the faith’s business interests. The new appointees start as junior members, but they could someday become church president because the group’s longest-tenured member ascends to

FITISEMANU from 4 citizens when visiting her aging parents outside American Samoa, according to court documents. Although American Samoans can pursue naturalized citizenship, the lawsuit says it is a “lengthy, costly, and burdensome’’ process. The cost to apply is $725, and legal fees pile up if applicants hire an attorney to help navigate the process. For Fitisemanu, a previous divorce and other financial burdens have prevented him from going that route. “I don’t know why we need to go through a process to be recognized as U.S. citizens when you are born in American Samoa — hence the name ‘American’ in front of the word, ‘Samoa,’’’ he said. Those born in the territory, however, can claim citizenship at birth if one of their parents is a U.S. citizen. The same generally holds true for children born abroad to Americans. This is Weare’s second attempt on the issue. A previous case he led stalled in 2016 when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider a ruling from a lower court in D.C., which found the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship didn’t apply to American Samoa, and referred back to controversial colonial era decisions from the early 20th century after the U.S. acquired a spate of territories in the

ese-American forensics scientist Lee Chang-yu and wanted eventually to study criminal psychology at an American university, his father’s friend Tuo Zong-kang told reporters. “He planned to study in the same fields as Lee, such as criminal psychology and forensics,’’Tuo said. Sun’s case comes as school shootings in the United States, including the deaths in March of 17 students and teachers in Parkland, Florida, have triggered some of the biggest youth protests in recent years and calls for stronger gun control measures. Sun threatened to commit a shooting on May 1 at the Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School he attended, according to police in the Pennsylvania town of Upper Darby. They said he had live ammunition, a military-style ballistic vest, ammunition clip pouches and a high-powered crossbow in the home where he was staying in the town of

Lansdowne, and had researched how to buy weapons. Sun later said his threat was only a joke, but he was arrested on March 27 and has been charged with making terroristic threats. Defense attorney Enrique Latoison said his client “had no intention or plans’’to commit a school shooting and many items found were what he wore to school for a Halloween costume contest. He said his client said he was “Just kidding.’’ Sun’s latest Facebook post, from October, shows a person dressed in army fatigues, headphones and a brown ski mask carrying what could be an automatic firearm. A February 2017 post that was also his Facebook background cover photo shows orange flames being fired beside a cement wall and stairwells leading into a ravine. An earlier Facebook post — one of several flamethrower

president when the current one dies. They join a quorum undergoing a substantial turnover following a string of deaths as previous leaders succumbed to the effects of aging. Five of the 12 panel members have been appointed in the past three years. Prior to 2015, it had been six years since a new quorum member was chosen, and more than a decade since the leadership council had two openings. Like the previous 12 men chosen for the panel, Soares and Gong were serving in a lower-level leadership called Quorum of the Seventy that that has served as a farm system for the governing body. The 59-year-old Soares was an accountant and auditor for multinational corporations in Brazil before joining church leadership, according to a church biography. He was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The 64-year-old Gong worked for the U.S. State Department, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and Mormon-owned Brigham Young University before being selected for the lower-tier church leadership panel. He was born in Redwood City, California. His grandparents immigrated to the United States from China. The new selections reflect the “rising focus of church leadership on the world outside the United States, where the church is growing most rapidly,’’ said Mormon scholar Matthew Bowman, an associate professor of history at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. With 1.4 million members, Brazil has the second-most Mormon in the world along with Mexico, according to church figures. Both rank behind the United States, which has about 6.6 million members.

Nelson has long had a special interest in China, Bowman said. He speaks Mandarin and spent time there during his professional career. It’s possible Nelson is hoping Gong’s selection could help establish a stronger foothold in the Asian country that currently doesn’t oﬃcially recognize the religion and only allows certain activities, Bowman said. It is estimated that there are at least 10,000 church members in mainland China, most of which are native Chinese members, though there are no oﬃcial church estimates because the Chinese government does not recognize the religion, said Matt Martinich, an independent Mormon researcher. Of the 116 highest-ranking church leaders serving in several tiers, 40 percent of them were born outside the U.S, said Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor to President Nelson. The diversity in leadership should help broaden conversations about race and ethnicity and add new prisms through which the gospel is viewed, said Ignacio Garcia, a professor of Western and Latino history at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University. Making a sports analogy, Garcia said the religion has many great minority leaders on the “bench’’ (mid-tier leadership councils) and now for first time, two in the “starting lineup’’ (Quorum of the Twelve). It’s likely an indication of the religion’s future since indigenous members are who will help sustain the church going forward, Garcia said. “Those are the ones that are growing: black and brown and Asian,’’ he said. “That’s the future of the church.’’ 

Spanish American War. Known as the “Insular Cases,’’ the Supreme Court distinguished between “incorporated’’ and “unincorporated’’ territories. The former, such as Arizona and New Mexico, mostly settled by white people, were thought destined to be a permanent part of the U.S. The latter, such as American Samoa, weren’t considered candidates for statehood, whose inhabitants were described as “alien races’’ and “uncivilized,’’ and thus weren’t granted full constitutional rights. Over the years, Congress has decided on a per territory basis whether those born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands can claim citizenship by birth. American Samoa, however, has continued to fall to the wayside. “This is the holding pattern we’ve been in now for over a century,’’ said Sam Erman, an expert in constitutional law and a professor at the University of Southern California. Still, he thinks “American Samoans are clearly citizens under the 14th Amendment.’’ If the courts decide favorably, a question mark hangs over whether the millions that lived in the Philippines while the country was a U.S. territory for five decades until 1946 would also be able to seek U.S. citizenship. “That haunts the case,’’ said Erman, who plans to file a legal brief on the

current lawsuit. The local American Samoan government has before taken a nuanced view over the issue, given concern about how various aspects to Samoan life and culture “would be jeopardized if subjected to scrutiny under the 14th Amendment,’’ according to court documents filed in 2014 by lawyers representing the government. American Samoa Governor Lolo Moliga didn’t respond to a request for comment. The U.S. State Department, named as the defendents on the lawsuit, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. American Samoa consists of seven South Pacific islands located 2,600 miles (4,184 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii. The islands are home to about 55,000 residents, most of which live in or near the capital of Pago Pago. Utah has a major Samoan population, and if the case there is decided favorably, this would create a “circuit split,’’ or a conflicting ruling to what was previously decided, which could add pressure to the federal government to review. “The odds of getting up to the Supreme Court go way up,’’ Erman said. Until then, Fitisemanu is standing firm: “People will say what they want to say, and I’m going to believe in what I want to believe, and I believe that I should be a U.S. citizen.’’ 

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Predictions and advice for the week of April 7–13, 2018 By Sun Lee Chang

Rat — Are you tired of the same issue that keeps coming up? Instead of waiting until it ﬂares up again, address it at its source.

Dragon — If the usual options aren’t what you had in mind, you may have to think outside the box for something nontraditional.

Monkey — Delaying what needs to be done does not make it any easier. In fact, the quicker you get to it, the more time you will have for other things.

Ox — While you do enjoy a challenge, too many at once isn’t what you had in mind. Tackle what you can for now.

Snake — Once you have come to an understanding, then the real work begins of implementing what you have agreed on.

Rooster — You have struggled to complete a complicated endeavor. Just don’t forget the last remaining details.

Tiger — A slight change in plans should not be cause for alarm. After a minor adjustment, all else should go smoothly.

Horse — Working through the diﬃcult patches should give you the conﬁdence to handily overcome other obstacles.

Dog — Much to your surprise, you have come full circle. This should greatly inform you of the next phase of your journey.

Rabbit — It can be diﬃcult to judge your progress on a meandering path, but there is good reason to believe your destination is near.

Goat — You didn’t see it before, but now that you are aware of it, there is no ignoring it. It will only serve to enrich your experience.

Pig — Before you turn your back on what you consider old history, there are a few things that are worth taking away from it.

What’s your animal sign? Rat 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008 Ox 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009 Tiger 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 Rabbit 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011 Dragon 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012 Snake 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 Horse 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014 Goat 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015 Monkey 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016 Rooster 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017 Dog 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018 Pig 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007

*The year ends on the ﬁrst new moon of the following year. For those born in January and February, please take care when determining your sign.

LEE from 1 challenging and rewarding — is culture change.” Sometimes logistical changes are needed in order for a company or nation to run more eﬃciently. It also requires changes in the mindset of the people that work or live there. As the consul general explains, “Business as usual doesn’t work anymore for government. We have to re-think every process and service that we offer.” A lot of this re-thinking has to do with the way people view the infrastructures that keep a country operational and relevant. In his role as senior digital strategist, Lee is working on ensuring that the Canadian government is at the forefront of our digital future. “We know the digital economy is coming,” he explains. “We had the Industrial Age and we’re transitioning to the Digital Age. That’s going to require enormous polarizing shifts. So my job as digital strategist is to strategize and help position government to be ahead of this curve.” An example is the technology of selfdriving cars. “Do those who ride in a driverless car need a driver’s license? Who is responsible when a driverless car gets into an accident?” Or the controversy over the responsibility of digitally-based companies such as Facebook. “Who verifies that a tech company’s algorithms do what they say they’re supposed to do?” These are the types of questions Lee addresses as part of his already complicated portfolio. Lee is Korean Canadian, yet when talking to him, one does not get the raw response to race and discrimination that one often gets in the United States. Instead, one

senses the possibility of an alternate way of life. According to Lee, the experiences of minorities in Canada are similar to those in the United States — yet they are not identical. “In Canada, generally, I think diversity is more accepted, especially these days. So when I was growing up, there was a lot more racism and a lot more challenges then, but these days, it’s really changing.” Lee’s parents were Korean immigrants who arrived in Canada in the 1970s. His father followed what Lee terms a typical immigrant path. “When he first came, he worked three parttime jobs. He had an architecture degree. But you know, he worked at a variety store, as a painter, and he built himself up from there. Now he has a thriving business in Toronto.” There were undoubtedly hard times, yet the consul general’s story doesn’t include the types of incidents that often accompany the stories of minorities growing up in the United States. And even though Lee is the first nonwhite male to become a consul general for Canada in this region, he cannot think of any incidents of racism that stand out in his career, or personal life, apart from a few runins with small town residents in Europe. If anything, Lee states that he has experienced more ageism than racism. He shared about the time he and his wife, who is Caucasian, spent time in Europe. “The racism we felt was at little corner stores in the countryside when we’d travel. But overt? In my career, I’ve never received any of that. In fact, it’s more, because I am younger, I think it’s more ageism if anything! I’m 40 years old. And so even coming in [to the Consulate], you pass by a wall with all the former consul generals, and I think it’s all older white men,

the entire wall … and before this, I was the consul general to California and Hawaii. I was 38 then, and probably in the U.S., I was one of the youngest consul generals in Canadian history.” Just as Lee is a youthful consul general with a lot to offer his community, Canada is a young country, 150 years old last year, with a lot to teach its neighbors. Nevertheless, Canadians don’t throw themselves about. Lee believes that people of the Pacific Northwest region have a lot in common with Canadians. “We have similar values,” he says. In addition to valuing nature, Lee finds both cultures “friendly, open, down to earth … [with] a little bit of ‘tall poppy’ syndrome. W don’t like people who brag about themselves so much.” Lee says he has never heard of, nor witnessed, “The Seattle Freeze.” He finds Seattleites friendly and says they are perhaps closer in behavior to Europeans, “friendly, but conservative.” Lee easily navigates complicated waters. He credits his practice of meditation for helping him when things get diﬃcult. His memories of the most impactful and meaningful experiences he has had in Europe, and so far, here in the Northwest, have been experiences that were traumatic, yet deeply human. When working for the WTO/Red Cross, for instance, he travelled to South Sudan and visited burn victims. “I saw human suffering I’ve never seen before,” he says. Here in Washington state, Lee visited an incarcerated individual whose mother was Canadian. The man asked Lee, ‘Are Black people like me accepted in Canada?’ We said, ‘Of course!’ And he said, ‘Is there any way you would even consider giving me Canadian

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citizenship?’ And we actually told him, he’s entitled to it! The look on his face … We had changed his life in that one meeting.” Lee stresses consideration of the entire human condition — emotional and intellectual, and encourages others to do the same: “There are these things that we have to be much more mindful about and … are a lot more real than a lot of things that we’re consumed with on a daily 24-hour news cycle basis.” Lee and his wife are both successful, busy individuals. Giovanna is also an entrepreneur with two businesses, and she travels almost as much as Lee does. When they spend time together, they prefer to do so in an unstructured way, simply enjoying what the area has to offer, particularly the gorgeous scenery, and the company of their two French bulldogs. The Consulate does offer occasional social interactions, such as participating in local festivals, where they invite Canadian musicians, drink Canadian beer, and basically party like Canadians. A good source of information about upcoming events is the Canadian Consulate General in Seattle’s Facebook page. And yes, Canada’s doors are open.  Jessica Kai can be reached at info@northwestasianweekly.com.

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ROBERTSON from 1 “This is an important step to address that historic travesty and move forward.” Robertson will make the apology on April 22 as part of a larger Chinatown Culture Day event. Former city council members Bill Yee and Maggie Ip will also read it in Chinese languages. Robertson said delivering the apology within the community at a public event rather than at a government building would help convey the city’s “intention to make sure that Chinese culture is supported and embraced.” Between 2016 and 2017, the city established an advisory group of Chinese and non-Chinese experts and community leaders to help guide the development of a formal apology, which was approved by council in November. Their report said residents of Chinese

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descent weren’t allowed to vote when the city incorporated in 1886 until 1948, after veterans of the First and Second World Wars lobbied for voting rights. The City of Vancouver also advocated for discriminatory policies like the federal head tax and barred Chinese-Canadians from civic employment between 1890 and 1952. City policies and practices also included various attempts at segregation in schools, public spaces like swimming pools, and other public areas including residential housing, hospitals, and even cemeteries. Because of restrictions at local cemeteries, Chinese residents had to be returned to China for burial, the report said. The City of New Westminster became the first B.C. municipality to formally apologize to Chinese-Canadians for past discrimination in 2010. In 2015, Chinese-Canadians received

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an apology from former premier Christy Clark on behalf of British Columbia for more than 100 racist laws, regulations and policies of past B.C. governments. She pointed to Chinese immigrants’ contributions to building the national railway system, noting that one Chinese worker died for every mile of track between Vancouver and Calgary. In 2006, the federal government offered an apology for the head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants and included $20,000 in compensation for families or surviving people who paid the tax. Thousands of Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada starting in the 1880s to help build the country’s railway, but starting in 1885, the federal government imposed a head tax of $50, which rose to $500 by the early 1900s. 

issued 467 pardons and 55 commutations, but there have been long stretches of very few in California. From 1991 through 2010, former Govs. Pete Wilson and Gray Davis issued no pardons while Arnold Schwarzenegger handed out just 15. 

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YOUSAFZAI from 5 Yousafzai entered her childhood home accompanied by her father, mother and brother. She sobbed upon entering the home where relatives, former classmates and friends had been anxiously waiting since morning to welcome her with flowers and hugs. Youzafzai said she waited for the moment for more than five years and said she often looked at Pakistan on the map, hoping one day to return. She said she plans to permanently return to Pakistan after completing her studies in Britain. “It is still like a dream for me, am I among you? Is it a dream or reality,’’ she said. Yousafzai later returned to Islamabad, where she met with human rights activists. Arooj Bibi, a neighbor, said she was happy to meet with Youzafzai, but was sad because her visit was so brief. Bibi said Yousafzai “lit the candle of education. God willing, there will be thousands of girls like Malala getting an education’’ in Swat. Yousafzai also attended a gathering at the army’s Cadet College in Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban led by Mullah Fazlullah had taken over the scenic valley in 2007, marking the height of their strength there. The Pakistani military would later evict militants from the valley. Security had been visibly beefed up in Mingora the previous day. The Pakistani Taliban had warned after the attack on the then-14-year-old that they would target her again if they got the chance. Yousafzai had asked authorities to allow her to go to Mingora and Shangla village in the Swat Valley, where a school has been built by her Malala Fund. In October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban militant who jumped inside her school van and yelled, “Who is Malala?’’ She was targeted for speaking out on education for young women. The Taliban at the time claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying she was promoting “Western thinking,’’ adding that they had warned her family

INSURER from 5 government borrowing. Wu is accused of fraudulently raising $10 billion and abusing his post to benefit himself, according to a report by prosecutors that was posted on the social media account of the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court. At one point, Wu objected that he didn’t understand the law and didn’t know whether what he did was illegal, according to a post. Most trials in China last no more than a day, even for complex financial cases. Verdicts usually are issued days or weeks later. Anbang discussed possibly investing in a Manhattan skyscraper owned by the family of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, but those talks ended last year with no deal. Regulators said they took control of Anbang on Feb. 23 to protect its solvency and consumer rights. The China Insurance Regulatory Commission said the takeover had no effect on Anbang’s financial obligations. Wu founded Anbang in 2004 and gained

three times before deciding to kill her. Since her attack and recovery, Yousafzai has led the Malala Fund in which she said has invested $6 million for schools and books and uniforms for schoolchildren. Yousafzai has delighted in telling the Taliban that instead of silencing her, they have amplified her voice. She has also written a book, spoken at the United Nations and met with refugees. On March 30, Yousafzai praised the Pakistan army in an interview on the independent Geo news channel for providing her timely medical treatment, saying her surgery was done by an army surgeon at the “right time.’’ Yousafzai has won praise from across Pakistan on her return home, but some critics on social media have tried to undermine her efforts to promote girls’ education. Yousafzai told media outlets that she expected criticism from militants, who had a particular mindset, but doesn’t understand why some educated Pakistanis oppose her. “Those who do criticize have an absurd kind of criticism that doesn’t make any sense,’’ she said in an interview with Pakistan’s The News Englishlanguage newspaper published. “What I want is for people to support my purpose of education and think about the daughters of Pakistan who need an education,’’ she told the newspaper. “Don’t think about me. I don’t want any favor or I don’t want everyone to accept me. All I care about is that they accept education as an issue.’’ In the interview, she said she was sitting in her classroom when news broke about her Nobel Prize and that she was not aware of it as she was not using her mobile phone at the time. “My teacher came into my classroom and called me outside. I was worried that I might have done something wrong and I am in trouble. But she told me that I had won the Peace Prize. I said thank you. You don’t know how to respond. For me, it was for the cause of education,’’ she told the paper. 

a reputation for aggressive expansion in a stodgy industry dominated by state-owned insurers. The company grew to more than 30,000 employees with 35 million clients and diversified into life insurance, banking, asset management, leasing and brokerage services. Questions about Anbang’s future have swirled since the company announced Wu handed his duties to deputies in June following news reports he was detained for questioning about unspecified financial offenses. Anbang’s buying spree stumbled after Beijing tightened investment controls in late 2016. Regulators said they wanted to cool spending on foreign real estate and other assets they said did nothing to develop China’s economy. Following that, Anbang failed to complete several deals, including the proposed purchase of U.S.-based Fidelity & Guaranty Life for $1.6 billion. Wu also is accused of ignoring regulatory limits in selling high-interest investment products as short-term insurance contracts, according to a March 28 statement.

predictable about what happens to it,” Tucker said. He likened it to an airplane landing, saying it’s more diﬃcult to predict where a plane that is “shaking around and moving” will land than one that is smoothly descending. Launched in 2011, Tiangong 1 was China’s first space station, serving as an experimental platform for bigger projects, such as the Tiangong 2 launched in September 2016 and a future permanent Chinese space station. Two crews of Chinese astronauts lived on the station while testing docking procedures and other operations. Its last crew departed in 2013 and contact with it was cut in 2016. Since then, it has orbited gradually closer and closer to Earth on its own while being monitored. Earlier forecasts had said that only about 10 percent of the bussized, 8.5-ton spacecraft would likely survive re-entry, mainly its heavier components such as its engines. “The biggest takeaway from this is that as we put more things into space, all countries, we have to be aware that we do have to plan for these sorts of issues that are happening,” Tucker said. Roger Thompson, senior engineering specialist with the Aerospace Corporation in Virginia, said modeling of Tiangong 1′s re-entry by monitors in the U.S. had been highly accurate, leaving him feeling “great” about their predictions. “We believe it was an uncontrolled entry,” Thompson said, adding that the corporation’s own estimate had been just 15 minutes behind the time announced by China. The lack of control was not unusual given that about 15 percent of satellites re-enter the atmosphere prior to the end of their useful lives, he said. The corporation, which provides technical support for the space industry, had not been

Such sales raised $115 billion from 10.6 million investors from 2011 to 2017, the statement said. It said some of that money was transferred to companies controlled by Wu for “reckless personal spending.’’ Regulators warned Anbang and other insurers last year about use of such investment products. Other insurers have been accused of endangering the financial safety of their industry through reckless speculation in stocks and real estate. The chairman of a life insurance company was barred from the industry last year in an unrelated case and a third company was prohibited from trading stocks. Anbang has been under scrutiny since a multibillion-dollar string of global acquisitions raised questions about how it paid for its buying spree, including the $2 billion purchase of the Waldorf. Anbang’s negotiations with Kushner Cos. about a possible investment in its flagship property, 666 Fifth Avenue, prompted members of the U.S. Congress to raise ethics concerns. Five lawmakers said in a letter to the White House the possible deal represented

in touch with the Chinese side about the re-entry, Thompson said. China’s foreign and defense ministries said the country had relayed information about Tiangong 1′s return to Earth to the United Nations’ space agency and others. Debris from satellites, space launches and the International Space Station enters the atmosphere every few months, but only one person is known to have been hit by any of it: American woman Lottie Williams, who was struck but not injured by a falling piece of a U.S. Delta II rocket while exercising in an Oklahoma park in 1997. Most famously, America’s 77ton Skylab crashed through the atmosphere in 1979, spreading pieces of wreckage near the southwest Australian city of Perth, which fined the U.S. $400 for littering. Tiangong 1, whose name translates as “Heavenly Palace,” had two modules, one for its solar panels and engines, and one for a pair of astronauts to live in and conduct experiments. A third astronaut slept in the Shenzhou spaceships that docked with the station, which also contained facilities for personal hygiene and food preparation. China’s space program has made rapid progress since it launched its first crewed mission in 2003 — becoming only the third country after Russia and the U.S. to do so — including placing a rover on the moon and conducting a spacewalk. A mission to land a rover on Mars and bring back samples is set to launch in 2020, while China also plans to become the first country to soft-land a probe on the far side of the moon. The program’s military background has at times been a barrier to greater cooperation with those run by other countries, and it was excluded from the 420-ton International Space Station that is now beginning to wind down. 

a “clear conflict of interest.’’ They asked the Trump administration to confirm Kushner, who transferred his ownership stake to other family members, played no role in the negotiations. Anbang’s early investors included a state-owned automaker, an oil company and a mix of rural villagers and small business owners. Anbang said it raised $8 billion in capital in 2014 by taking on dozens of new shareholders. That increased its registered capital fivefold to $9.5 billion, the biggest among Chinese insurers. A prominent business magazine, Caixin, said in May 2017 at least $4.3 billion of that money really came from premiums paid by policyholders — a violation of insurance regulations. Anbang denied that and accused Caixin of publishing negative information about the company and Wu after pressing it to buy advertising. The China Insurance Regulatory Commission sent investigators to Anbang in June. It said in a statement in February they ordered unspecified improvements in operations and management. 

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36 YEARS

APRIL 7 – APRIL 13, 2018

PHNOM PENH from 1 Darlene Ung, run the place ever since their parents, who started the business, retired. Devin Cropp, a Franklin High School senior, was hit by a car on Sept. 26, 2017, while he was on his way home from a frisbee game at his school. His younger brother Derin, a freshman, was walking just a couple of steps behind — the car narrowly missed him. Devin was rushed to Harborview with injuries to his head and body that have required several surgeries to stabilize. Their mother Dawn said Devin’s prognosis is not good. “More than 30 percent of his brain is damaged. He doesn’t have functions. He’s tube fed.” The accident has taken a toll on the whole family. “Dawn’s had to step out of the business and Darlene has been managing it on her own … it’s just a lot,” said Diane. For now, the family is taking it day by day. Devin has been back and forth between a care facility and Harborview, depending on the changes in his condition. Most recently, he was discharged from Harborview on April 2, where he had spent two months after a fall that set his recovery back. Dawn said his caretakers placed him in his wheelchair without his seatbelt buckled and helmet on, and he fell out of his wheelchair face down. A GoFundMe drive for Devin (gofundme. com/devincrecovery) has raised close to $64,000. Dawn wrote on the GoFundMe page, “We’ve only been able to get by because of this extraordinary community. The genuine love and support on all levels have been overwhelming.” Unfortunately, the donations have only scratched the surface. “I had to purchase a van, so I could transport Devin. I had to put a lift on the

Devin Cropp

van. That’s another $14,000. I’d be in a worst state if I didn’t have that bit of support (from GoFundMe).” “It’s so hard to ask for help,” said Dawn. Two months ago, she left the restaurant to get a job with benefits. “I’m struggling to be honest — emotionally. Physically, I’m so exhausted. The new job is so taxing on the body.” She works during the day, then spends evenings with Devin, and cares for him. Often times, she doesn’t get home until 9 or 10 p.m. “I took a pay cut going to this new company because there was an opportunity. I thought it was a good foot in the door with my experience and so forth. Lateral movement is kind of slow, and pay increases take awhile.”

Siblings

In addition to Devin’s brother, Dawn has a 6-year-old daughter, Daylin.

From left to right, top to bottom: Sam Ung, Kim (wife), and daughters Dawn, Diane, and Darlene

SUN from 12 images on the site — is the image of a book titled “How to Make A Flamethrower: The Do It Yourself Manual.’’Sun made similar YouTube videos. Sun once made a flamethrower as part of a school science fair, said Cheng, his former tutor. He thought “a day would come when zombies would appear,’’ she added. He had also devised an escape route from his home, she said. “What I recall most is that when these school shootings happened in America, he would tell me that if he had been on the scene he would definitely be the first to protect his classmates, so he needs to have a strong physique,’’said Cheng, who added that she once helped him research how to join a police SWAT team. Sun’s parents, actor and assistant film director Sun Peng and actress Di Ying, could not be reached for comment. But Di told Taiwanese broadcaster Sanlih E-Television that her son was a “military affairs fan’’ who was “making a joke’’

about his school in the U.S. Tuo, his father’s friend, told reporters he remembers Sun as “a very polite kid who had good grades, very disciplined and very kindhearted.’’ “He lives in a family full of warmth, and his parents are very kind to him,’’Tuo said. Regarding his arrest, he said, “I think it is a very, very big misunderstanding.’’ Before moving to Pennsylvania, the teenager completed two years of high school at the private Kang Chiao International School in New Taipei City, publicity head Wu Hao-ming said. Prior to that, he achieved average grades at the private Wego Elementary School in Taipei, where he was popular among peers and teachers and showed no interest in guns, academic director Liu Jen-hao said. “So this matter (in the United States) we find rather surprising,’’Liu said. Sun was taken to Delaware County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 11. 

“She understands that she doesn’t have her brother around anymore the way she used to. It doesn’t affect her like it affects Derin.” Derin, Dawn says, is struggling with guilt — and has expressed that “it should have been me, not him.” “[Devin] was the one who always took care of him. His dad was in the military and really wasn’t in his life. But his brother was. They shared a room forever and now he doesn’t have that company anymore.”

The family business

“[The restaurant] was my dad’s dream,” Diane said tearfully. “He (Sam Ung) came as a refugee from Cambodia and had a talent for cooking. The restaurant was his gift to the community.” Sam Ung Diane said she and her sisters were always at the restaurant as

little girls. “We grew up with our customers. We saw them as young adults when they were dating, now they’re married and have kids. Thirty years is a long time to be in the community.” Even before the accident, Diane said the community has always been tight knit. “We feel so honored and special to be part of Chinatown International District. We’ve received so much support from the (Wing Luke) museum, other business owners (Kau Kau, Shanghai Garden, Oasis, and Hau Hau Market to name a few), and our landlord who’s like our uncle.” “It’s so sad that the restaurant is closing,” said Dawn. Prior to the accident, Dawn said the income from Phnom Penh gave her and her family a decent living. But then, things changed. “I’m divorced and I don’t have any benefits being a small business owner,” said Dawn. Ever since she stepped away from the restaurant to care for Devin, her business partner and younger sister Darlene has had to do everything. “She needs that break,” said Dawn. “For herself. To support me, Devin.” Diane said her family is still working through the paperwork of the sale. Once that gets signed and the buyers fulfill their end of the deal, they anticipate handing over the keys at the end of May. Phnom Penh’s tentative last day of operation is May 28. The restaurant Facebook page reads: “Be sure to join us for our closing celebration anytime between 2 – 6 p.m. on Friday, May 18th. We’ll have refreshments, cake, and lots of hugs!” Regarding the future of the Phnom Penh Noodle House, Diane said, “The possibilities are endless. We know we’ve got a great product.” “We definitely want to connect with our customers again.”  Ruth can be reached at editor@nwasianweekly.com.