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Change will PHAM’S UNLIKELY shape the CAMPAIGN future of Keiro Uphill battle ahead for GOP hopeful in blue district Northwest

By Nina Huang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Photo from savioforsenate.com

For over 40 years, Keiro Northwest has proudly served the aging Asian American community.

As the nursing home industry continues to face financial challenges, Keiro’s new CEO, Bridgette Takeuchi, is prepared and focused on making Keiro the best that it can be.

While change can be uncomfortable to some, Takeuchi is optimistic about the future.

Takeuchi, 38, who is half

Dr. Savio Pham and supporters joined the Everett community in celebrating the Independence Day, 2018 by participating in the Snohomish County’s Colors of Freedom Parade through downtown Everett.

By Zachariah Bryan NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Nobody expected Savio Pham to run for state Senate. Not even himself.

But here he is. On Aug. 11, running as an independent Republican in a three-way race for the 38th Legislative District, which represents the Bridgette Takeuchi

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Board: Tommy Le Former Vietnamese jailer says he respected shooting justified Sen. McCain

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

By TRAN VAN MINH ASSOCIATED PRESS

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Sen. John McCain’s Vietnamese jailer said he respected his former inmate and felt sad about his death, as others in Vietnam paid their respects to the former U.S. Navy pilot who became a prisoner of war and later was instrumental

The family of Tommy Le — who was shot and killed by a King County deputy last year — said they are “disillusioned but not surprised” about a recent county report.

A review board concluded that the June 2017 shooting death was justified.

The King County Sheriff ’s Office released the Use of Force

in bringing the wartime foes together.

McCain’s Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down over Hanoi in 1967 and he was taken prisoner and held in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton’’ prison for more than five years.

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ID carjacking

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY A 33-year-old developmentally delayed man named William has been found safe and unharmed after the car he was in was carjacked in the International District on the night of Aug. 24.

It happened at Maynard Avenue South and South King Street.

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the University of Alabama.

She’ll be representing women who have pursued a passion for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and a career in tech.

Farris is pursuing an MBA and hopes to someday become a chief technology officer. The Miss America title brings with it a $50,000 scholarship. 

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Chancellor Shouan Pan said, “Rosie’s commitment to SSC and student success, her passion for equity-minded leadership, and her sensitivity to people and attentiveness to the task position her well to lead SSC at this time.”

Rimando-Chareunsap is of Filipino descent — she has been with SSC since 2000 and previously served as vice president of student services.

She has a B.A. in English and Ethnic Studies from Washington State University (WSU) and an M.A. of Public Administration from the University of Washington. She also earned her Doctor of Education in Higher Education Administration from WSU. 

Veronica Kim retiring from ICHS

A delegation from Chongqing, China attended a celebration on Aug. 26, marking 35 years of a sister city relationship with Seattle.

The event was held at the Seattle Chinese Garden, a five-acre traditional garden of pavilions, pagodas, ponds, and lush greenery — the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Attendees sounded the gong and mingled with friends and supporters of the sister city ties.

Known as “The Mountain City,” Chongqing is the commercial, industrial and transportation hub of Southwest China. 

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Delegation from Chongqing, along with former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer (back row, 6th from left) who signed the original agreement initiating the Seattle Chinese Garden project.

Attendees check out the many booths at the festival while listening to local Vietnamese singers.

The Little Saigon community festival was held on Aug. 26. The annual event celebrates American Vietnamese street food, culture, and entertainment.

Past festivals have honored Vietnamese specialties, such as banh mi or café sữa đá (Vietnamese iced coffee).

This year, the spring roll took center stage. There was also a bia (Vietnamese beer) garden, live performances, activities and games for kids, and a market with local vendors. 

New president of South Seattle College

Microsoft software developer Allison Farris will be representing Washington, D.C., in the Miss America competition in Atlantic Allison Farris City, N.J., on Sept. 9.

The 24-year-old Taiwanese American graduated from

Dr. Rosie RimandoChareunsap is the new president of South Seattle College (SSC).

Seattle Colleges’

Veronica Kim is retiring this month after 25 years of service to International Community Health Services (ICHS).

She has spent her career working to level health disparities in breast, ovarian, cervical, and colon cancer fatality rates among Asian Pacific Islander and minority women.

According to ICHS, Kim’s work formed the backbone Veronica Kim of the organization’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Health Program (BCCHP), which connected nearly 2,600 low-income people with life-saving screenings and treatment in 2017.

When Kim became a cancer patient and survivor herself, she became even more aware of the challenges faced by those she had served.

“My own experience with breast cancer treatment inspired me to give the best case management possible,” said Kim. She plans to spend some time traveling after she retires. 

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Measles case in man who traveled to Asia

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

times listed was possibly exposed to measles:

King County public health officials confirmed on Aug. 24 a measles infection in a man who recently traveled to Asia. Before he was diagnosed, the man may have exposed others to the measles at Sea-Tac Airport and the Emergency Department of Harborview Medical Center.

The man reportedly wore a face mask while he was ill at the locations of potential exposure, which may have reduced the risk to others.

Anyone who was at the following locations during the

• Sea-Tac Airport: The man spent time at the international arrival area, customs/immigration, and the baggage claim area on Aug. 21, between 12:45 p.m.–3:50 p.m.

• The waiting room of the Emergency Department at Harborview Medical Center on Aug. 21, between 2:20 p.m.–5:15 p.m.

If you were at the locations at the times listed and are not immune to measles, the most likely time you would become sick is between Aug. 28 and Sept. 11.

Measles is a highly contagious and potentially severe disease that causes fever, rash, coughing, and red, watery eyes. Measles is contagious from approximately four days before the rash appears through four days after the rash appears. Call your health provider if you develop symptoms.  For more information about measles and measles vaccination, go to kingcounty.gov/health/measles.

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ICHS recognized among nation’s highest performing health centers

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY International Community Health Services (ICHS) announced on Aug. 17 that it is among 1,352 community health centers nationally that have been selected for $125 million in federal awards from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) — an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In issuing the grants, HRSA further recognized organizations exceeding national quality benchmarks as National Quality Leaders and those with the best overall clinical performance as Health Center Quality Leaders. ICHS was awarded both distinctions.

“We have been named a Health Center Quality Leader every year since 2014, and a National Quality Leader in 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018,” said Teresita Batayola, ICHS CEO. “We are proud of this record

LE from 1 Review Board’s findings on Aug. 22.

It said that Deputy Cesar Molina reasonably believed that Le, 20, was armed with a deadly weapon and that he had already attacked someone with a knife.

The board says that Le’s actions led Molina to believe that if not stopped, Le posed a serious threat of harm to Molina, as well as others nearby.

Le was shot and killed just hours before he was scheduled to graduate from high school.

of achievement. ICHS is an example of the exceptional value our nation’s system of community health centers routinely deliver, providing comprehensive care at significantly lower cost to millions of Americans.”

Dr. Asqual Getaneh, ICHS medical director, said a grant would boost ICHS’ efforts to widen access to high quality, affordable care among underserved communities.

The award was announced at ICHS’s

His family has filed a civil-rights lawsuit against King County, Executive Dow Constantine, and John Urquhart, the sheriff at the time of the shooting.

Jeff Campiche, an attorney representing the family, said the court date is set for June of 2019.

He also said the Use of Force Report was missing key forensic evidence, including the fact that Le was shot twice in the back, which would refute the county’s insistence that Le was attacking officers when Molina killed him.

Joe Nguyen, a candidate for state senate representing parts of south King County, including where Le was killed,

International District Clinic by Sharon Turner, U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Region X administrator, during National Health Center Week — the annual celebration that highlights the critical role community health centers play in providing high-quality, affordable, primary health care.  Staff can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

said the local Vietnamese community has been watching the case closely.

He told The Stranger, “The community is very aware of what’s going on and honestly we are torn because we do generally have a respect for authority and law enforcement, but this certainly does not build trust in terms of our existence in the community.”

A formal King County inquest of Le’s death is pending.  Staff can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

CARJACKING from 1 William’s mother had parked the car and got out to pay for parking, while William remained in the passenger seat.

While she was out of the car, a man got into the driver’s seat and sped off.

Information about the stolen vehicle — a silver, 2012 BMW 328i hardtop convertible, Washington license plate AXL6052 — and William’s description and photograph were sent out to the public via the SPD Twitter feed.

About two hours later, William was spotted in Pioneer Square by someone who recognized him from the SPD tweet.

William was reunited with his family.

Detectives are attempting to determine when and how William got out of the vehicle.

The stolen BMW was located just after midnight on Aug. 25 in Portland, Ore. by Portland Police and a 31-year-old man was taken into custody. Detectives are working with authorities in Oregon to have the suspect returned to Seattle. 

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By The Associated Press American Airlines is dropping money-losing flights between Chicago and Shanghai, and Hawaiian Airlines will suspend its only route to China because of low demand.

The airlines announced those and other route changes last week. The decisions reflect growing competition from Chinese carriers and rising fuel prices that have made once-marginal routes unprofitable.

American, the world’s largest carrier, said it will end Chicago-Shanghai service in October. The Fort Worth,

Texas-based airline recently decided to cut flights between Chicago and Beijing, also in October.

In a podcast on the airline’s website, vice president of network planning Vasu Raja said the routes “have been

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colossal loss makers.’’

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By KEN MILLER ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A second federal lawsuit accusing a pair of Oklahoma business owners of luring immigrants to the U.S. on work visas then paying substandard wages highlights what some attorneys say is a prevalent human trafficking issue in the United States that seldom calls violators to task.

While there have been previous civil lawsuits over the treatment of immigrants in the United States on work visas, immigration attorney Kent Felty of Denver said they are

and will continue to be rare, partly because of the language barrier immigrants face, their unfamiliarity with U.S. law, and the amount of time it would take an attorney to win what might be a small judgment.

The latest legal action, filed in Oklahoma City in June, is by three Jamaican immigrants who came to the U.S. under student work visas between 2008 and 2012.

It follows a similar lawsuit filed in 2017 by three Filipino immigrants who came into the country on temporary work visas in 2012.

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Uber hires Nelson Chai as CFO

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Uber has named Nelson Chai as its chief financial officer — a move that could steer the ride-hailing company toward going public.

The CFO role at Uber has been vacant since 2015, when Brent Callinicos left.

Chai’s hire comes just over a year after the turmoil that resulted in founder Travis Kalanick’s ouster as Uber’s chief executive officer. Since

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Race-based school criteria roils AsianAmericans again

By JANIE HAR ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Time and again, Chinese American students consistently delivered top academic scores, only to be denied admission to their dream school. Parents bemoaned what they saw as an unfair racial advantage given to black and Latino children while their own children were overlooked.

“Every year hundreds of Chinese American parents would be in see CRITERIA on 12

then, new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has brought in his own team.

“I’m incredibly excited to bring on someone as experienced and thoughtful as Nelson,” Khosrowshahi said in a statement. “He will be a great partner for me and the entire management team as we move towards becoming a public company.”

Chai spent almost two years as president and CEO at Chicago-based The Warranty Group, and prior to that spent more than five years at

CIT Group. He also serves on the boards of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. “Uber is one of the world’s most iconic and exciting technology companies, and I’m honored to join as CFO,” Chai said in a statement. “I look forward to working closely with Dara and team as we build on the company's strong growth and forward momentum.” 

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Doctor accused of killing family with gas-filled yoga ball HONG KONG (AP) — An anesthesiologist is on trial in Hong Kong charged with killing his wife and daughter by placing a leaking yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide in their car.

Malaysian citizen Khaw Kim-sun, 53, was allegedly having an affair and had become estranged from his wife and four children, although they continued to live together, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported.

Khaw is accused of putting the gas-filled yoga ball in the trunk of a Mini Cooper driven by his wife, Wong Siewfung, on May 22, 2015, the paper said.

It said Wong and their 16-year-old daughter were found

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Vietnamese court sentences US citizens to 14 years in jail HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A court in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City sentenced two Americans of Vietnamese descent to 14 years in jail on Aug. 22 after finding them guilty of attempting to overthrow the government, state media reported.

James Nguyen and Angle Phan, alleged members of the California-based Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, were convicted of assigning group members to distribute anti-state leaflets, take over radio stations to broadcast antigovernment messages and participate in anti-state protests, the official Vietnam News Agency said.

Ten local members of the group were convicted on the same charges in the two-day trial and sentenced to between five and 11 years in prison, it said.

The two American citizens will be deported after serving their sentences, it said.

“The defendants’ acts are particularly serious, violating national security, sabotaging the country’s

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Heavily pork-reliant China battling African swine fever

stability and development, causing instability in political and social order and going against the interests of the state,’’ the agency quoted the judges as saying.

“We will continue to monitor Mr. Nguyen’s welfare, advocate for him and provide consular services until his release,’’ U.S. Embassy spokesman Pope Thrower said in a statement.

In January, the Ministry of Public Security declared the little-known group a terrorist organization, a month after 15 of its local members were convicted and sentenced up to 16 years in prison for an alleged failed bombing at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City.

Despite sweeping economic reforms since the mid-1980s that opened the country to foreign trade and investment and made the country one of fastest growing economies in the world, the Communist

Indonesia woman irked by mosque noise convicted of blasphemy

unconscious in the car about an hour after leaving home and were later declared dead from severe carbon monoxide poisoning, although the vehicle showed no defects.

Khaw was arrested in September and his trial began on Aug. 22. He has pleaded not guilty.

Khaw reportedly obtained the carbon monoxide from the teaching hospital where he worked, and was assisted by a student with whom he was having an affair. He told colleagues he wanted to “test its purity’’ and its effects on rabbits, the paper said.

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BEIJING (AP) — China, the world’s largest producer of pork, is battling an African swine fever outbreak that could potentially devastate herds.

The disease, which only affects pigs and wild boar, has been detected in at least three locations across the vast country. Thousands of pigs have died or been culled in an effort to curb the spread of the highly contagious viral disease.

The appearance of the disease comes as China seeks to shift pig rearing from farmyards to vast breeding operations where waste and the spread of disease can be better controlled.

China produces as many as 600 million pigs annually and pork is a staple of the Chinese diet, accounting for more than

By BINSAR BAKKARA ASSOCIATED PRESS MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman who complained about a noisy mosque to 18 months in prison for blasphemy.

The ethnic Chinese woman, Meiliana, burst into tears as presiding Judge Wahyu Prasetyo Wibowo announced the sentence on Aug. 21. She was taken from the court in handcuffs.

Prosecutors said the 44-year-old defendant violated the criminal code by committing blasphemy against Islam,

60 percent of animal protein consumed.

The fluctuating price of the staple meat is highly sensitive and the government maintains a large frozen supply to release when prices rise too high.

Soaring demand for more meat and richer diets over recent years have brought massive profits to large firms able to harness the latest technology for improved efficiency.

In the eastern city of Lianyungang, 15,000 pigs have been culled after an outbreak was detected last month, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

Inspectors found 615 pigs had been infected and 88 died. Measures see SWINE FEVER on 12

the dominant faith in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

Mobs burned and ransacked at least 14 Buddhist temples throughout Tanjung Balai, a port town on Sumatra, in a July 2016 riot following reports of Meiliana’s complaint about a mosque’s noisy loudspeakers.

The woman’s lawyer, Ranto Sibarani, said the sentence would be appealed. A conservative group, Islamic Community Forum, said Meilana’s sentence was too light.

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From left, Elijah Navarro, 9, Oscar Ferguson, 22, Nia Ferguson, 18, and Chelsea Ferguson, 9, all students at the Pocono Self-Defense School in East

By ANDREW SCOTT POCONO RECORD EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Students at Pocono Self Defense School in Smithfield Township train like their lives depend on it.

Because, in a very real sense, their lives do depend on how well they learn the values of discipline, focus, self-control, respect, humility, determination and hard work taught at the school.

Self-defense students wear belts of different colors, each representing a promotion to a different level of experience and progress. Representing the levels of promotion from least to most experienced,

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Pocono Self Defense School belt colors are white, blue, yellow, green, brown and black.

“Here, if you’re over a yellow belt, you must be on the Honor Roll,’’ said Sensei Anthony Scott, founder and head instructor, himself coming from a family of educators.

“Academic excellence is one of the requirements we stress.’’

Located in the business area by Alaska Pete’s Roadhouse Grille, off the stretch of Route 209 known as Seven Bridges Road, Pocono Self Defense School functions as an extended family for each of its students.

“Our dojo (school) is the proverbial village raising each child walking through our doors,’’ Scott said.

The racially diverse student body numbers

42, ranging in age from 4 to adult.

Upon entering, each student and instructor gives the greeting, “osu’’ or “oss’’ (pronounced “oos’’), which is taken from a Japanese phrase meaning “I will persevere.’’ That term also is a response to an instructor’s guidance.

Each class is a series of practice fighting stances, sparring matches and holds and positions demonstrated by instructors, who alternate between English and Japanese when addressing students.

“There usually isn’t a class where we aren’t wiping sweat off the mat at the end,’’ Scott said, accompanied by co-instructor Shihan Ray Lewis. “That’s how hard we work.’’

Competitive arena

This work ethic has propelled the fouryear-old school to amass 200 trophies and medals at various competitions and tournaments between New York and Pennsylvania in the past year, Scott said.

Eleven students won top places in the most recent competition, the annual Keystone Karate Tournament earlier this summer in Wilkes-Barre.

Pocono Self Defense School will join Pennsylvania’s best in competing against the best from other states at a national event next year in West Virginia.

Having established itself in the competitive arena, Pocono Self Defense School is now hosting its own tournament, inviting other schools from this area and beyond to compete, Oct. 26 to 28 at the Bushkill Inn & Conference Center.

“But again, it’s not about throwing punches and kicks or winning trophies,’’ Scott said. “It’s about the character we’re trying to build in our students. And going hand in hand with this is the philosophy of giving back to our community.’’

Which is why part of the proceeds from registration and attendance fees for the October tournament will go to Women’s Resources of Monroe County and the Suicide Prevention hotline.

As part of fundraising efforts to help pay the expenses of hosting the tournament, Pocono Self Defense School had a yard sale last month.

There’s a reason Pocono Self Defense School has chosen Women’s Resources and the Suicide Prevention hotline as causes to benefit with its upcoming tournament.

Both agencies help people survive and overcome challenging circumstances to lead full lives.

“It’s about empowerment, the very thing our school teaches,’’ said Scott.

Empowerment is something Scott, 55, began learning at age 4 when introduced

by his uncle, Warren Bailey, to the world of Seido karate, in which Bailey has been an instructor for decades.

“Seido is a traditional Japanese style of karate that has two goals: to maximize each student’s physical skills and to cultivate individuals of the highest moral character who can make significant contributions to their family life, the workplace and to society at large,’’ states information on the website of the World Seido Karate Organization, of which Bailey and Scott are members.

A tragedy’s impact

Learning the “physical skills’’ part helped Scott survive in the tough neighborhoods of New York City and later Los Angeles, where he lived after his U.S. Coast Guard service. After his 18-yearold younger brother was murdered in Los Angeles in a case of mistaken identity in 1992, Scott settled in the Poconos.

“My brother was the mama’s boy while I was the more adventurous one,’’ Scott said, the tears in his eyes showing how this tragedy’s impact still lingers 26 years later. “His murder sent me down a path where I started drinking and doing other self-destructive things to dull the pain of losing him.

“My uncle Warren rescued me by bringing me back to Seido,’’ he said. “I began training again. One year, I trained for five hours a day, five to six days a week, for 11 months. I entered and excelled in international competitions involving fullcontact semi-knockdown with no gloves or shin guards. I began getting back into the discipline and values that motivated me to make better decisions in my life.’’

Scott came to realize the best way to honor his brother’s memory. It’s by inspiring children and young adults to rise above the environment of crime and senseless violence claiming too many lives.

It’s why the former security guard and constable has been mentoring children for years, whether as a counselor in alternative educational systems for troubled youths or as a karate instructor.

“One of the things I love about the martial way is that it builds self-esteem,’’ Scott said. “Notice I say the martial ‘way’ and not martial ‘arts’ because I believe it’s a way of life, not just something you practice as a hobby. The martial way teaches defending yourself not just against people looking to harm you, but also against the negative influences and situations that can lead you down the see SELF-DEFENSE CLASS on 12

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Hawaii defeats South Korea 3-0 to win Little League title

By PATRICK BURNS

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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — It only took one pitch for Mana Lau Kong to deliver Hawaii its first Little League World Series title in a decade on Aug. 26.

Against a South Korea team that hadn’t surrendered a home run in the tournament, Kong drove the first pitch his team saw over the center field fence. As he rounded the bases and headed home, his teammates poured out of the dugout in a pack led by pitcher Ka’olu Holt and formed a huddle around home plate.

“It was great,” Holt said, “because we all knew that pitcher was tough to hit.”

Holt took it from there, throwing a two-hitter to lead Hawaii to a 3-0 victory in the Little League World Series championship, the first shutout in a title game since 2002. It was Holt’s first-ever complete game.

The team from Honolulu allowed just three runs in the entire tournament, shut out four of its five opponents and struck out 53 batters in 34 innings.

“Someone asked me, what’s the strength of the team, and I honestly have to say, it’s that they play as a team,” Hawaii manager Gerald Oda said. “Ka’olu pitching, or Aukai (Kea) pitching, Mana hitting a home run, it’s everybody just doing the best that they can do. Once they bought in and once they accepted their roles, it makes my job a lot easier.”

In the bottom of the second inning, Hawaii had the bases loaded with no outs, but failed to score. So Oda took a more aggressive approach on the basepaths with two runners in Honolulu, Hawaii’s Caleb Okada, left, throws his hat in the air as he celebrates with his teammates after their 3-0 win over South Korea in the Little League World Series Championship baseball game in South Williamsport, Pa., on Aug. 26.

Combined Koreas crew upgrades to gold; Chelimo wins marathon JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A day after a delivering the historic first medal for a combined Koreas team, the women’s dragon boat crew has upgraded to gold at the Asian Games.

The crew comprising South Koreans and North Koreans won the 500-meter dragon boat final on Aug. 26 at Palembang, which is co-hosting the Asian Games with Jakarta.

A Koreas crew won the bronze in the 200-meter final the day before, and celebrated by joining together to sing a popular folk song “Arirang.’’

At the medal ceremony on Aug. 26, the “unification’’ flag was raised into the top position with the adopted anthem played during the medal presentations at a major multi-sports international event for the first time.

South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted Kim Kwang Chol, a North Korean coach of the traditional canoe team, as saying he “felt the strength of a unified

(Kim Ju-hyung/Yonhap via AP)

By JOHN PYE AP SPORTS WRITER

Members of combined Koreas team (top) celebrate after winning the women's 500-meter dragon boat at the 18th Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia on Aug. 26.

nation when we came together, dedicated our minds to a single purpose, and paddled the boat forward.’’

Rather than being added to the tally of either nation, the gold was awarded to Korea — the name given to the combined teams that are entered in rowing, canoeing and women’s basketball.

The Koreas, still technically at

war after their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, have fielded 60 athletes in combined teams in the three sports along with larger contingents for their respective national squads.

Athletes from both countries paraded into the opening ceremony together on Aug. 18 behind the “unification’’ flag, which features the outline of the

peninsula in blue on a white background. It took a week to reap the medals, a big achievement considering the joint canoe crews only had three weeks to prepare for the games.

In the 500, the Koreans finished the six-team final in 2 minutes, 24.788 seconds to hold off China and Thailand.

There could be more gold for the

Koreas, too, with the combined women’s basketball team reaching the semifinals with a 106-63 win over Thailand.

South and North Korea have entered joint teams in previous international events, starting with the 1991 table tennis world championships, and more recently at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The women’s ice hockey team at the Olympics had huge support despite losing all of its games, and inspired more cooperation.

The Korea’s women’s basketball team, featuring nine South Koreans and three from the North, will play Taiwan in the semifinals, with the winner advancing to the gold-medal game. Taiwan beat the Koreas by two points in the group stage.

Track and field competition entered a second day with world champion Rose Chelimo winning the women’s marathon for Bahrain in a hot and humid race.

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SEPTEMBER 1 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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By JAKE COYLE AP FILM WRITER NEW YORK (AP) — The opening weekend for “Crazy Rich Asians’’ was historic. Its second weekend was even more impressive.

The romantic comedy sensation slid just 6 percent from its chart-topping debut to again lead the box office with $25 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Aug. 26. Almost as many people turned out over the last weekend for “Crazy Rich Asians’’ as they did for its opening Friday-to-Sunday bow — an unheard of hold for a non-holiday release.

Drops of close to 50 percent are common for wide releases.

But propelled by enthusiastic reviews and an eagerness for a major Hollywood film led by Asian stars, “Crazy Rich Asians’’ is showing almost unprecedented legs. After opening with $35.3 million from Aug. 15 to Aug. 19 and $26.5 million over the most recent weekend, the Warner Bros. release — the first Hollywood studio movie in 25 years with an all-Asian cast — has already grossed $76.8 million.

Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros noted that after a 44 percent Asian American audience over opening weekend, that percentage fell to 27 percent on the second weekend while Caucasian and Hispanic ticket buyers grew.

“The audience is broadening,’’ he said.

“There’s no greater indicator of the enthusiasm of an audience than a minimal drop in a second weekend,’’ said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore. “This isn’t the product of opening-weekend hype. This is the product of a great movie resonating very strongly with all audiences. The movie has become a cultural phenomenon.’’

“Crazy Rich Asians’’ also expanded internationally, though with a more muted effect. It grossed an estimated $6 million in 18 markets, including $1.8 million on 105 screens in Singapore, where much of the movie is set.

“Crazy Rich Asians’’ hasn’t yet been granted a release in China.

went to see the film a third time to keep her parents company.

Fanchiang’s mother, Kao Han Fan, also wanted to see the movie because she recognized Michelle Yeoh, who plays a wary matriarch. But it was Wu’s character who touched the 64-year-old the most. Fan said she liked how the story depicted an “ABC,’’ (American-born Chinese) who showed Asian cultural values such as putting family first.

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CRA draws immigrant parents to the movies

For many older, first-generation Asian immigrants, going to the movies doesn’t rank high among hobbies and interests. The crowds, the language barrier and ticket prices are often turnoffs.

But the appeal of “Crazy Rich Asians’’ has bridged a real-life generation gap.

“The over-performance of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ shows the power of a great movie with universal themes to draw all audiences and also to break down preconceived notions of what can constitute a box office hit,’’ Dergarabedian said.

Lie Shia Ong-Sintzel, 36, of Seattle talked her parents into coming along the second time she saw the movie. It was the first time in five years the couple — Chinese immigrants from Indonesia — had been to the cinema.

“They don’t really go to movies in the theater.

I usually have to drag them,’’ Ong-Sintzel said.

“I felt like this was a big occasion — a movie with an all-Asian cast.’’

Looking at her parents, she cried because everything from the acting to the food seemed to resonate more. She wasn’t the only one.

“I looked over again, my dad was wiping tears from his eyes,’’ Ong-Sintzel said.

In Temple City, California, Catherine Fanchiang, 27, who is Taiwanese American,

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John and Tracy’s wedding ceremony at Ballard Bay Club with officiant WA State Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu. Photo by Yolanda Eng John and Tracy change to traditional Chinese wedding attire before the tea ceremony.

Photo by Susan Ulep

By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY My son John got married recently in Seattle. It is a major milestone for him, and for me as well.

The wedding was lovely. By the way, weddings don’t have to be perfect to be amazing. It’s the countless beautiful moments and fascinating accidents (no matter how much you plan ahead), which makes the whole event fantastic. Any imperfections can be transformed to perfections in our memories—weddings simply ignite magic.

Warning my kids

When my kids were growing up, I warned them not to give me surprises, such as “your friend got his girlfriend pregnant, and he dropped out of school.” If my kids had done that, they were aware of the consequences. “I will cut you off, man. Pay for college yourself,” I would say.

Or “Mom, surprise! We just got married in Las Vegas,” without inviting the parents to be present at the wedding ceremony. I told my sons I wouldn’t forgive them if they go that route. My son John responded, “I know that, Mom.” Yay, they listened to me well.

Thank God, my sons took every word to heart, and I am grateful. I don’t require that my kids take care of me when I get old — the Asian way. All I ask is, let me be a part of your life, including challenges, joy, and sorrow. I might not have solutions to everything, but I will support their wishes and desires, so they can overcome their adversities and be confident no matter what dreams they pursue.

Mothers and daughtersin-law

If you have watched the movie Crazy Rich Asians, you discover that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship is complicated and competitive. Some mothers-in-law feel that the woman in their son’s life is never good enough.

The movie has a dramatic scene with lead actress Constance Wu challenging her boyfriend’s mother, played by Michelle Yeoh, to a mahjong game. That might be an exaggeration, but the fear and insecurities in many mothers are real and irrational because they perceive that this new woman would soon replace them in their son’s life.

Also, they worry if their daughterin-law would respect them. What is silly in many mothers’ minds is that, their sons are forever little kids, not recognizing that their sons will be men one day. What transforms boys to men is when boys take chances at different stages of their lives, and they learn from their mistakes. No one can imagine my bliss when I witnessed my son become a family man on his wedding day. I felt like I did my job when he said, “I do,” at the altar.

Unlike most in-laws, I emphasized to my son that he is the lucky one to have found his love, and not the other way round.

And I shared with my peers that I am fortunate to gain a daughter, Tracy, who is so attentive, easy to get along with, hard-working, thoughtful, dependable, and a fast learner. Above all, she is a great cook. Yes, we have tasted and benefitted from her skills in cooking and creating many beautiful gifts for our family.

Weddings of the past and present

More than 40 summers ago, I got married in Seattle, too. Our wedding was much simpler and smaller compared to my son’s.

His was a fusion wedding of the East and West. During the lunch reception, we had a traditional Chinese tea ceremony for many Asian American and non-Asian friends. In the evening was a Chinese banquet mixed with Western traditions, such as dancing.

Our guest list was, perhaps, onefifth of my son’s, as my husband and I were international students from Hong Kong. We didn’t even order a cake. We didn’t think we see BLOG on 15

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■ LETTERS Tommy Le Review Board findings Dear Liz (Rocca, King County Sheriff ’s Office Chief of Staff ), Please correct me if I’m mistaken, but after perusing the media outlets and reporters that received the report and findings (on Aug. 22), I didn’t see the Northwest Asian Weekly, International Examiner, or any local Vietnamese media or reporters listed. Was this a deliberate attempt by the King County Sheriff ’s Office (KCSO) to again control the Tommy Le narrative that the KCSO put forth under [former sheriff John] Urquhart

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LITTLE LEAGUE from 8 scoring position in the third.

Pinch-runner Zachary Won scored Hawaii’s second run on a wild pitch from starter Kim Yeong-hyeon. As catcher Kim Gi-jeong chased the ball, Oda sent Taylin Oana all the way home from second to give Hawaii its third run.

In the stands, Hawaii’s fans, waving tea leaves for luck, started to mix their signature “Hon-o-lu-lu!” chants with “U-S-A!” The victory marks the first time a Hawaiian team has won the Little League World Series since 2008. It is now one of seven U.S. states with at least three LLWS titles. All of Hawaii’s championships have come in the past 13 years.

Seoul, South Korea, has played in the three of the last six LLWS title games, but won only once — in 2014. It lost in 2016 to Maine-Endwell, New York.

— Frank Irigon

Mr. Irigon, I sincerely apologize and take responsibility for any errors that excluded you, and I wish to assure you that no deliberate attempt was made to exclude the Northwest Asian Weekly, International Examiner, or other Vietnamese media from [the Aug. 22] press release or to control any narrative.

My administration has worked proactively and deliberately with the media to provide investigative, administrative, disciplinary, and other information, very often prior to any media interest or public disclosure request.

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international human rights groups have criticized Vietnam for jailing people for peacefully expressing their views. The Vietnamese government says only law breakers are put behind bars. 

“It was equally the same thing, from 2016 to 2018,” South Korea manager Su Ji-hee, who was also a member of the coaching staff of the 2016 team, said through a translator. “After the game, the kids were crying, they feel sorry for themselves.”

At the conclusion of a six-pitch final inning, Hawaii’s players tossed their gloves and hats as high as they could, and sprinted to the mound to form another celebratory huddle.

“It felt really great because barely any Hawaii teams get to be in this moment and feel what it feels like meeting other people from around the world, to playing baseball against them too,” Kong said.

After finally achieving what his team set out to accomplish at the beginning of the summer, Oda can’t wait to return home to his family.

As for the kids? They want to see their families, too, but they have other plans.

“I want to go to the beach,” Holt said. 

of the year so that we were more timely and transparent in our work and partnership with the media and community.

I am sorry that I failed to deliver our best service today. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I would like to meet in person to formally apologize and do so at your earliest convenience.

AIRLINES from 4 Angeles and Dallas-Fort Worth. It disclosed the latest pullback from China and reduced flights between Chicago and Tokyo as it announced additional flights to Europe, most of them limited to the summer peak-travel season.

Hawaiian Airlines said in a statement it will suspend its three flights a week between Honolulu and Beijing in October.

The carrier started the route in 2014 and had already downgraded it from daily service. Hawaiian said it will shift planes to other routes that fit its expansion plans.

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Respectfully, — Mitzi G. Johanknecht, Sheriff King County Sheriff 's Office

in the future. Hawaiian CEO Peter Ingram said his company still believes “in China’s future as a robust market for the Hawaiian vacation experience.’’

Chinese airlines have added flights and destinations in recent years, sometimes undercutting U.S. rivals on prices.

Separately, the Chinese government pressured U.S. and other foreign airlines this year to describe the island of Taiwan as part of China on airline websites, a move that the U.S. carriers initially resisted.

Meanwhile spot prices for jet fuel have risen nearly 40 percent in the last year, tracking the spike in oil prices. Fuel competes with labor as the biggest cost at most airlines. 

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CRITERIA from 4 anguish,’’ said Lee Cheng, a 46-year-old intellectual property attorney, who sought to end the practice. “I remember the disappointment in some of my friends who were the kids of immigrants, of very, very poor people who worked in Chinatown.’’

This may sound like the fights going on today over testing in elite public schools in New York City or lawsuits against prestigious universities such as Harvard over affirmative action.

But the scenario played out more than three decades ago on the other side of the country over a public high school, demonstrating the enduring nature of a controversy in which Asian Americans have played a key role despite some feeling shut out of the broader conversation.

In the 1980s, San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School required Chinese applicants to score higher on an admissions index than whites, blacks and even other Asians as part of a legal mandate to diversify its schools.

Cheng, a Lowell graduate, couldn’t believe that was fair or even legal. But when he turned to Asian American civil rights groups, they were of no help.

“These organizations, which all came of age largely as the ‘yellow’ affiliates of the NAACP and civil rights establishment, they said, `Hey there’s nothing to see here,’ " Cheng said.

So he helped form a legal foundation and sued.

Race-based affirmative action has long polarized Asian Americans, with critics feeling demonized and advocates chagrined by the attention to what they call minority-withinminority views.

Now, critics of the policy sense an opening for change, led by a White House hostile to the idea of considering race in admissions.

The U.S. Department of Justice is backing a 2014 lawsuit against Harvard University by Asian American applicants, who say the Ivy League college unlawfully suppresses the number of Asians admitted. The DOJ also said last year it would investigate a May 2015 complaint filed against Harvard SWINE FEVER from 5 are also being taken to disinfect contaminated areas and block the disease’s spread to other farms.

Shenyang in the northeast reported China’s first outbreak of the disease, with 47 pig infected, all of which died, the ministry said. Infected pigs were also found last month at a slaughterhouse in the city of Zhengzhou, where they had been transported from Jiamusi in the far north. Authorities were looking into the

BLASPHEMY from 5 Indonesia’s Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion, but in recent years blasphemy cases have been filed against people perceived as offending Islam in a possible sign of a more conservative brand of the religion gaining ground in Indonesia. The overwhelming majority of cases end with guilty verdicts.

Since 2004, 147 people have been imprisoned under blasphemy or related laws, according to monitoring by Human

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by a coalition of Asian-American groups.

The 2014 lawsuit, led by conservative strategist Ed Blum, is being closely watched as it goes to trial in October. It could wind up before a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court that only narrowly affirmed the use of race in school admissions in a case that Blum lost two years ago.

Other cases have raised the ire of Asian Americans, even ones who consider themselves progressive allies. In 2009, the University of California plowed ahead with new admissions criteria that analysts said would boost white enrollment at the cost of Asian students.

More recently, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to get more blacks and Latinos into specialized public high schools where Asians make up the bulk of students. Asian American politicians said they were blindsided by the June announcement.

New York Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Democrat, said conservatives pigeonhole Asians as the “model minority,’’ but progressives on the left, such as de Blasio, vilify Asian Americans instead of seeing them as partners.

“They rank us at the bottom of what it means to be a minority. They don’t consider us as minorities,’’ Kim said.

“They’re shunning us from right and left, and we’re stuck in this dreadful space where we’re always questioning ourselves: Where do we belong?’’

Advocates of affirmative action say bias against Asians doesn’t make it OK to abandon policies meant to counter longstanding systemic disparities. The agitation also sidesteps the legacy of privilege given whites, they say.

“No one is entitled to put other communities down,’’ says Vincent Pan, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco. “Of course we are entitled to be free of discrimination, but we are not entitled to perpetuate discrimination against others.’’

Surveys have shown broad Asian support for affirmative action policies, says Karthick Ramakrishnan, a public policy professor at the University of California, Irvine and founder of AAPI Data, which provides data on Asian Americans.

But overall support dropped to below two-thirds in 2016,

he said, driven by changing attitudes of one demographic in particular: Asian America’s largest ethnic group, Chinese Americans.

In 2012, 78 percent of Chinese Americans said they supported race-based affirmative action; in 2016, the figure was 41 percent.

Ramakrishnan says the newer immigrants moving public opinion are active on Chinese-language social media. They are wealthier and better educated than previous generations.

“They look down upon prior waves of Chinese immigration as well as other Asian immigration,’’ he said. “They somehow believe that the most significant racial discrimination that exists is not getting into Harvard.’’

The Asian American Coalition for Education, the nonpartisan organization that filed the complaint against Harvard, disputes the surveys as vague.

Swan Lee, a founder of the organization, said she got involved after the brother of her daughter’s friend was rejected by what she described as basic four-year colleges despite his high test scores and grades.

He ended up employed as a waiter at the Chinese restaurant where his father worked, a victim of the “Asian tax,’’ she said.

“I said, ‘This cannot be right.’ We came here for opportunities, but this young man, our society is not doing him justice,’’ says Lee, who moved to the United States in 1996 for graduate school. “What happened to his American dream?’’

After Cheng graduated from Harvard, he helped found the Asian American Legal Foundation and sued San Francisco schools in 1994.

At issue was a 1983 consent decree aimed at desegregating San Francisco schools, the result of a lawsuit filed by the local NAACP. The parties agreed to settle in 1999, and the quota system was eventually dropped.

Cheng recalls the fight as a lonely one.

“We never really wanted to be the leaders in the fight,’’ he said. “It’s just that nobody wanted to do it.’’ 

source of that outbreak in which all 30 of the infected pigs died.

African swine fever outbreaks have also been reported in the European Union, chiefly in the Baltics, Poland and Romania.

Denmark plans to erect a 43.4-mile fence along the German border to keep out wild boars, in the hope of preventing the spread of African swine fever, which stands to jeopardize the country’s valuable pork industry. 

DRAGON BOAT from 8

Rights Watch. The number of cases has slowed since 2014 under President Joko “Jokowi’’ Widodo’s administration.

Last year, the minority Christian and ethnic Chinese governor of Jakarta, the capital, was convicted of blasphemy and imprisoned for two years after massive street protests over comments seized upon by his political opponents.

Judges imposed the sentence despite prosecutors downgrading the blasphemy charge to a lesser offense. 

SELF-DEFENSE CLASS from 7

saying.

“The last thing the accused wanted was for his 16-year-old to die,’’ Bruce was quoted as saying. “(But) if that person knew what was in the car was carbon monoxide and knew it was a dangerous gas likely to kill you, you can confirm this person had homicide on his mind,’’ Bruce was quoted as telling the jury of five men and four women. 

and won in 2 hours, 34 minutes and 51 seconds.

Chelimo represented Kenya internationally before switching to represent Bahrain ahead of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She won the world championships title in London last year.

Keiko Nogami held off North Korea’s Kim Hye Song for silver, finishing more than 1 1/2 minutes behind Chelimo.

While China is dominating the medals

wrong path.

“It also teaches humility and selfcontrol,’’ he said. “Our students learn not to be showoffs with their skills, to be indifferent to insults and to always seek to resolve conflicts nonviolently if at all possible. When you realize how easily you can seriously hurt someone with what you

standings at the games, there won’t be any gold, silver or bronze added in men’s singles in badminton, a sport the nation loves.

Chen Long lost to Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting 21-19, 21-11 in the quarterfinals, meaning China is set to miss a medal in the men’s singles for the first time since 2002, and only the second time since 1970.

Jonatan Christie, another local hope, upset top-seeded Shi Yuqi in the second round. 

know, you try to avoid violence if you can.’’

Student Mikyla Askew, 14, of Stroudsburg, seems to get it.

“This has helped build and shape me as a person,’’ Askew said.

Fellow student Sebastian Cohen, 9, of East Stroudsburg, agrees.

“There’s a really strong support system here at our school,’’ he said. 

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Predictions and advice for the week of September 1–7, 2018

By Sun Lee Chang

Rat — It’s hard to get to know someone from afar.

Whether you both meet halfway or one goes to the other, find a way to come together.

Ox — You are so in the moment that it may be difficult to see beyond it. Stepping away could provide you with some much needed perspective.

Tiger — The ripples from a recent decision are just beginning to cause waves. To the extent that you can anticipate what is going to happen, it is prudent to prepare.

Rabbit — An opportunity to learn can come from both your successes and failures, allowing you to prevail the next time around.

Dragon — Has it been difficult to obtain the level of cooperation needed to complete your objective?

You could be required to play a larger role than was initially cast.

Monkey — Is the task before you so great that you don’t know where to start? What you start with is less important than simply the act of beginning.

Snake — A certain level of conflict is to be expected, but too much can stall progress. When you see a rough patch, try to smooth it over.

Rooster — If you spot an issue that can be dealt with early on without much fuss, then it makes sense to do so, rather than being bothered by it down the road.

Horse — With practice comes familiarity, but it must be sustained over time or you could lose the gains that you have already made.

Dog — Your agenda is clear, but not everyone is so open with their intentions. Don’t settle for less than you deserve.

Goat — A swift moving series of events has taken you by surprise. Even so, you should finish what you are working on before turning your attention elsewhere.

Pig — A small rift could widen rather quickly.

Depending on whether you value the relationship, amends should be made sooner rather than later.

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.

CRAZY RICH ASIANS from 9 ... it will be in your mind when you do something, you will always think about other people,’’ Fan said. “You are not really, really selfish, thinking about yourself.’’

Fanchiang enjoyed watching her parents see an American film with Asians that wasn’t a period piece.

“It was just a regular movie that just happens to have Asian people in it. It’s not like we’re ninjas or we’re good at fighting. It’s Asians existing in the modern world,’’ Fanchiang said.

In the case of Alice Sue and her daughter, Audrey SueMatsumoto, the 67-year-old mother saw the movie first. She

MCCAIN from 1 who ran the prison at the time, said he met with McCain many times while he was confined there.

“At that time I liked him personally for his toughness and strong stance,’’ he told the newspaper Vietnam News, published by the official Vietnam News Agency.

“Later on when he became a U.S. senator, he and Sen. John Kerry greatly contributed to promote Vietnam-U.S. relations so I was very fond of him,’’ Vietnam News quoted Duyet as saying.

“When I learnt about his death, I feel very sad. I would like to send condolences to his family. I think it’s the same feeling for all Vietnamese people as he has greatly contributed to the development of Vietnam-U.S. relations,’’ Duyet was quoted as saying.

McCain died of brain cancer on Aug. 25 at age 81 in his home state of Arizona.

Meanwhile, scores of people in Hanoi paid their respects to McCain at the U.S. Embassy and at a monument by Truc Bach lake, where he landed after parachuting from his damaged

went a second time in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Daly City with her daughter. Sue, who is Chinese, doesn’t go to the movies much but knew she had to see this one.

“It’s talking about Asian culture. It’s real Asians mixed with American-born Asians,’’ Sue said. “And I want to support the Asian movies.’’

Sue-Matsumoto, 35, said there probably wasn’t a more fitting film for the two to see together.

“It was good to watch it with my mom because I feel like it was very relatable in our situation,’’ Sue-Matsumoto said.

“She’s an immigrant, and I’m American-born. That movie has that generational distinction.’’

For Mark Gadia, 36, of Chula Vista, California, the movie

led to him learning more about his parents’ courtship in the Philippines. His parents related to Wu and Henry Golding’s star-crossed couple because of how his mother was treated by her future in-laws.

“She apparently wasn’t good enough for my dad. It took this movie to make this revelation of how they met,’’ Gadia said.

He did not expect to come away having enjoyed seeing the film alongside his parents as much as he did.

“As sappy as this sounds, it’s something I’ll always remember,’’ Gadia said. “It’s kind of sad it took 25 years, but I’m glad I had the opportunity to have this experience as an adult.’’ 

plane.

Speaking to reporters after writing in a book of condolences, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kritenbrink said McCain was “a great leader and real hero’’ who helped normalize relations between the former enemies.

“He was a warrior, he was also a peacemaker and of course he fought and suffered during the Vietnam War, but then later as a senator, he was one of the leaders who helped bring our countries back together and helped the United States and Vietnam normalize our relationship and now become partners and friends,’’ Kritenbrink said.

McCain and former Sen. Kerry played important roles in the normalization of bilateral relations in 1995.

The Vietnam News Agency said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan sent messages of condolence to McCain’s family and U.S. Senate leaders, while Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh paid respects to McCain at the embassy.

Pham Gia Minh, a 62-year-old businessman who signed the condolence book at the embassy, said he witnessed Vietnamese civilians being killed by the U.S bombings of

North Vietnam, including the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972, but he admired McCain for overcoming the difficult past to build better ties between the two countries.

“War is losses and suffering,’’ he told the AP. “But the will of a brave nation is to go beyond that to look to the future. The Vietnamese people have that will and Mr. John McCain has that will. ... We both have that will to overcome the painful past, overcome the misunderstanding to together build a brighter future.’’

Hoang Thi Hang, a Hanoi resident who also signed the condolence book, said he had great respect for McCain’s compassion. “He had compassion for everyone, whether they were rich or poor, whatever their background. And that is important in life.’’

The U.S. Embassy announced it will launch a McCain/ Kerry Fellowship in which a young Vietnamese leader committed to public service will be chosen each year to travel to the U.S. on a study tour to deepen ties between the two peoples. 

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TRAFFICKING from 4 lawsuits over the treatment of immigrants in the United States on work visas, immigration attorney Kent Felty of Denver said they are and will continue to be rare, partly because of the language barrier immigrants face, their unfamiliarity with U.S. law, and the amount of time it would take an attorney to win what might be a small judgment.

“You can say it’s not about the money, but it’s about them money ... you can’t do it as a private attorney, it’s all about if you’re going to get paid” said Felty, who is not involved in the lawsuits.

“Maybe it’s a thousand dollars.

Where are you going to find attorneys to take that case for a thousand-dollar judgment?’’ Felty asked.

Jury selection would also be problematic, Felty believes.

“Half the country would give them a million dollars on a thousand dollar case, and half the country would like to see them deported,’’ said Felty, who successfully sued the John Pickle Company in Tulsa and Falcon Steel Structures, Inc., in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over claims similar to the

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Felty said none of the $1.3 million judgment in the Pickle case was paid while the Falcon case was settled for an undisclosed sum.

The Oklahoma lawsuits name husband-and-wife Walter and Carolyn Schumacher and companies they own and operate in Clinton, about 80 miles west of Oklahoma City, alleging the workers were paid less than minimum wage, charged for housing that was to be free or low-cost, and were given fewer work hours than promised.

The plaintiffs in the current cases are represented by the nonprofit Equal Justice Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom law firm, which provides pro bono services.

Equal Justice Center attorney Chris Willett said the Filipino workers contacted the center, perhaps due to workers’ rights documents that are included with their visa packages, and the Jamaican immigrants contacted the center after learning of the first lawsuit.

“They had contacted us to try to understand what was going on there in Oklahoma, that they were not getting what they were promised ... when

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Amir Farzaneh, an Oklahoma City immigration attorney also said the private lawsuits are unusual and the laws regarding immigrant worker visas are strict.

“If you hire a worker from overseas, you have to tell them how much you will pay them,’’ Farzaneh said. “The Department of Labor is adamant.’’

Labor Department spokesman Juan Rodriguez said the department is investigating two of the Schumacher’s companies where some of the immigrants worked, Hotelmacher, LLC, which operates a Holiday Inn Express, and Steakmacher, LLC, which does business as Montana Mike’s Steakhouse, but declined further comment.

Labor department records show a motion to either dismiss or delay any action has been denied.

Officials with the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services declined to comment on whether the agencies are investigating the Schumachers or any of their companies.

The Schumacher’s attorney, Kevin Donelson, did not return phone calls for

comment. Donelson said after the first lawsuit was filed in 2017 that the couple denies all allegations.

Willett said the public often thinks of human trafficking in the form of sex work.

“A lot of people imagine in their heads sex trafficking or people locked up in cages,’’ Willett said. “In this case our clients were being exploited for cheap labor.’’ 

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BLOG from 10

wedding merchandise. Nor could we afford to buy any of those or hire a decorator.

John and Tracy even visited Hong Kong for their wedding shopping, and Taiwan for their pre-wedding photo shoot because Asia offers better prices and varieties of style in wedding products. That’s unheard of among our peers.

Everything we did in our wedding was basic, and the point was to save money. The only big investment we made was hiring a great Caucasian photographer and assistant.

It was worth it. My son’s photographer was Asian. And the make-up lady for my daughter-in-law is also Asian, who owns a beauty salon and spa. Without the internet in my day, it’s hard to find Asian Americans in the wedding business.

But our wedding turned out to be just as wonderful. My parents even said I picked an excellent day for the wedding. I had no knowledge about auspicious dates on the Chinese calendar. I figured I needed

needed one. (Our wedding reception was at Four Kings Restaurant, which no longer exists. It was located at the defunct China Gate restaurant.)

I was broke when I got married. My husband paid for everything. I was surprised he saved so much, even though he was only a graduate student researcher. My parents bought me a wedding gown from Hong Kong, a Chinese-style dress, and all the wedding accessories such as shoes and a purse.

No one taught me how to plan for a wedding, I just copied my senior classmates’ wedding, including a church ceremony. Whereas my son and his wife hired a decorator. They were sophisticated in details, such as featuring a color scheme for the decor and bridal costumes, and even a pair of gigantic wine glasses for their toast. I didn’t know of any of those fancy

four weeks to organize my wedding after my graduation from the University of Washington. It was sheer luck. Luck struck again when I found a job six weeks after my marriage. Life has a mysterious way of knitting things together in a cohesive fashion.

Many of my friends who attended my son’s wedding raved about the program, food, and company. A couple of old friends and relatives had also attended our wedding decades ago. However, none of them raved about our wedding, which was pretty conventional. I am more thrilled and proud they enjoyed my kid’s wedding. It clearly shows that our and my daughter-in-law’s family did a nice job in organizing a special day.

Did my son and his wife plan their wedding for nine months to make it more interesting? Not really.

Their wedding was actually planned more than a generation ago. From the time I and

Everett area, he was able to edge out Democrat Bruce Overstreet 30 percent to 29 percent.

This November, he’ll go head to head with Democrat John McCoy, who received 40 percent of the vote.

Up until recently, he never even touched politics. He spent most of his career in the tech industry, most recently as senior vice president for Business Data Services, along with gigs in leadership development and teaching. He earned two bachelor’s degrees, a master’s degree in business administration, and a doctoral degree in management and organizational leadership.

“I never thought I would do anything for politics,” he said.

Then, last year, Pham became a field representative for Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), where he talked to constituents and relayed their concerns back to Smith’s office. During that time, he saw the struggles of many different people — veterans, immigrants, business owners — and came to the conclusion that not enough was being done.

“It inspired me,” he said. “If I become an elected official, maybe I can help.”

But before all of that, Pham was an immigrant from Vietnam. After the Communist Party took full control of the country after the Vietnam War, he said his father, a police officer in southern Vietnam, was imprisoned for 12 years. During that time, Pham said his family lived through hardship and discrimination. That lasted until 1987, when his father was released and his family went to the U.S. embassy and started the process to immigrate to the United States.

He showed up to the United States at 18 years old. He hardly had any money to his name (maybe $40 bucks, he said) and he didn’t speak English. But he was determined to make his way, nonetheless.

“When I came to the U.S., I had only one goal and that was to be successful. Anything that didn’t facilitate that goal, I just ignored. Things like discrimination, people laughing at me for not knowing English, I just shrugged it off. I said

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OK, that’s only temporary,” he recalled.

Looking back at his life, he believes he’s achieved a version of the American Dream. In part, it’s what makes him think he can make a good senator.

“I just felt like my story can help inspire other people.

I think we all face our own challenges in different ways, whether you were born here or whether you migrated,” he said.

As a newly minted politician, Pham said he aligns mostly with the values of the Republican Party. He doesn’t believe in what he calls “over taxation,” including a proposed state income tax and carbon tax. He’s pro-life, meaning he will vote down any bill supporting abortion. And while he wants to give more support to health care providers who are battling the opioid epidemic, he doesn’t believe in safe injection sites for heroin users.

As for the “independent” in Independent Republican, Pham said it doesn’t come from a desire to separate himself from the party or from President Donald Trump. Rather, he said he just doesn’t like how beholden politicians are to their parties. He believes if a bill comes before him, he will be able to exercise independent thought and choose what he feels is right, rather than vote along party lines.

my husband wed, and from the time my daughter-in-law’s parents came as refugees from Vietnam to this country, we were all committed to creating a better future for our kids. We were determined to raise a family in the land of free and plentiful opportunities, we persevered to give our kids a better life to fulfill our immigrant dreams, and we made sacrifices to nourish our children to be thankful of their heritage and cultures.

Former Seattle City Councilmember Dolores Sibonga came to the wedding and wrote me a thank-you card afterwards. “Your two sons are obviously amazing human beings, smart, humorous, and respectful of traditions.”

In the name of progress, hope, and aspirations, it is no accident that our children’s wedding were so much more vibrant, appealing, and fun than ours.

Cheers!  Assunta can be reached at assunta@nwasianweekly.com.

On Trump, Pham said he’s different from other politicians, and that can make people uncomfortable.

“If you have a beer with him, on a personal level, he’ll probably talk the same way as if he were president,” Pham said.

Usually, politicians will talk differently in different situations. That’s not something he holds against Trump.

Having made it through a competitive primary, Pham believes he has a shot at winning the general election in November. Although McCoy won the primary with a solid 10-point lead, Pham thinks it’s a weak showing for an incumbent.

“I’m a nobody, and I’m a Republican. People hate Republicans! And I got 30 percent,” Pham said.

The odds are stacked against him, though. The 38th District is reliably blue — the last time citizens elected a Republican state senator was in 1994. And ever since McCoy won a seat in the state house in 2002, he has comfortably beat out Republicans in seven elections, including most recently in 2014, when he moved over to the state Senate.

McCoy is also much further ahead in fundraising. He has gathered over $83,000 in contributions, backed by unions, businesses, political action committees, and tribal agencies across the state.

That’s compared to $24,000 for Pham and $4,000 for Overstreet.

But Pham pointed out that McCoy far outspent his opponents in the primary, throwing $40,000 at the election.

Pham spent $14,000 and Overstreet spent $10,000 (which includes money from a $10,000 loan).

While McCoy had a clear money advantage, including professional consultants, Pham said he had to build his campaign from scratch, with no prior experience.

“I pretty much ran my campaign by myself, with a few volunteers, and we got 30 percent,” he said.

Playing the part of the optimist, he said it’s a sign that the 38th District is ready for a new state senator.  Zachariah can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

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Jeffrey Hattori

Japanese and half Caucasian, knows she looks different and she represents the future generations that some folks may be nervous about.

She took the helm from Jeffrey Hattori earlier this year after spending 10 years in audit and governance through vice president positions at Symetra Financial.

Response to community feedback and challenges Ahead of a town hall event on Aug. 9, a community member, who has a loved one at Keiro, sent a letter addressed to specific employees including Takeuchi.

Takeuchi said that the letter contained outrageous and false claims. The organization responded with a full-page ad in local newspapers, including the Northwest Asian Weekly, reassuring the community of Keiro’s direction and priorities.

She wanted to assure the community that there are no plans to sell Keiro, nor is the organization changing its nonprofit status. In addition, Takeuchi said that her number one goal is to bring transparency to the organization’s financial situation.

“The industry is being hit right now and it’s a tough time to be in this line of work,” she said.

Prior to Takeuchi coming on board, there was a compression with Medicaid rates. Rates don’t cover the cost on a heavily regulated industry and Keiro gets reimbursed $230 for a resident that lives on-site, but it costs Keiro about $390 per day to take care of someone.

With the tight regulations and requirements, rates haven’t kept up. Takeuchi cited the pressure from the minimum wage in Seattle; for example, someone could work at a burger joint and make more money than a caretaker.

There is a 24-hour RN coverage requirement, but the shortage of nurses makes it difficult for Keiro to find the help they need to support members of the API community who are living longer.

Keiro residents often come for short-term stays at first, but they end up staying at the facility for a long time and that pattern has caused the Medicaid population to grow over time.

“Seventy-five percent of our building is on Medicaid.

When you come to a facility like ours, that’s unique. We provide all the language services, activities, and they stay here with us for a while,” she said.

Takeuchi was brought on board to help stabilize the organization financially and operationally. They realized quickly that they needed to figure out how to get additional funding to buy them time, so they could implement operational changes to help them in the long run.

Takeuchi said that even if they created efficiencies from an expense and revenue perspective, there’s a six-month lag before they see returns.

“It’s a tough message for this community to accept, everyone has a sense of real ownership in the organization.

To be here is a little bit shocking and some folks are having a hard time with that,” she said.

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comfortable, but her late mentor and one of the co-founders of Keiro Northwest, Tosh Okamoto, had confidence in her.

“Tosh called me hours before he passed to tell me that he had the confidence in me to have strength to face criticism. He knew I represented the change. He said, ‘You can pull this community together and you can put Keiro on the right Tosh Okamoto path.’”

Okamoto’s words, as well as support from Keiro cofounder and board member Tomio Moriguchi, keep her focused.

As a result, Keiro will be kicking off a “40 More Years” campaign to fundraise and buy time to implement changes that are necessary to sustain the business.

Takeuchi plans to continue Hattori’s legacy to broaden Keiro’s focus on serving the greater API community.

Takeuchi recalled her great grandmother needing a facility that offered familiar languages, activities, and food that appeased her palette. As the Japanese Americans have assimilated over time, Takeuchi believes that the Japanese community can pull together what their ancestors needed to give back to those who need it today.

As of July 1, Keiro’s residents were made up of 32 percent Chinese, 30 percent Japanese, 12 percent Vietnamese, and 12 percent of other API. Takeuchi said that Keiro has a very low staffing ratio, which is great from a service perspective.

“We want to honor that and better manage how we staff for 150 beds. We’ll be implementing operational changes to help manage staffing — changing how our shifts are assigned so they better reflect hospitals, so folks can work at both organizations,” she said.

As a skilled nursing facility that is the second most regulated industry after the nuclear industry, the organization needs to complete an elaborate 500-question report that logs all resident activities, including assisting someone with eating and toileting needs.

“We need to be able to provide better resources for our staff so they can be better educated and capture services that

we’re providing from a paperwork perspective,” she added.

The power of community “It’s a beautiful gift to reach our hand back and pull together for the other APIs who have since immigrated to this country,” Takeuchi said of fulfilling Hattori’s legacy.

Takeuchi emphasized the importance of coming together as a community.

“Every day I wake up, the board wakes up to the spirit of kimochi in our hearts. That compassion for service, but I’m not perfect, we’re not perfect. We have a challenge ahead of us. This is a time to pull the community together. Change is hard. Pushing away or pointing fingers in this moment is not what we need right now. That’s not what the residents need. It’s disrespectful to the legacy of the “Magnificent Seven” who started this. We need to pull together, put personal feelings aside, and work together to make this organization what it could have always been and what it should be. It’s time for this community to pull together,” Takeuchi said.

Takeuchi said that the organization intends to raise $2 million in three to four months.

“That’s an ambitious goal, but I have never been accused of anything less than ambitious. We’re going to do this,” she said.

“I pride myself on wherever I go or wherever I’ve been that I like to leave things better than I came in. It’s not time to be distracted. It’s time to focus and come together as a team,” she said.

In the coming months, Keiro will be hosting a series of “Keiro Conversations” in the Kimochi room at Keiro on the first Tuesday of each month, starting on Sept. 4 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Takeuchi looks forward to hearing from folks and talking about ways to partner with one another.

“I can’t be anything but optimistic and positive, and creating a positive work environment where we feel the inspiration. It’s time to open our hearts to new friendships and really just come together. We can talk about how to make this organization the best it can be,” she said.  Nina can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

Takeuchi is optimistic for positive changes to come for Keiro Northwest. They recently brought in a new interim director of nursing who has great experience in the field.

“We’ll continue to get better and provide better service.

We’ve maintained a five-star quality service rating,” she said.

Takeuchi said that a lot of change all at once can be un-

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Optimistic future

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