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Van strikes pedestrians Bellevue’s advisory councils help in downtown Tokyo build community relations with law enforcement

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Eight injured in possible vehicle attack

Police and firefighters inspect around the site of a car attack near Takeshita Street in Tokyo, early Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019.

By YURI KAGEYAMA ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO (AP) — A minivan slammed into

pedestrians early on Jan. 1 on a street where people had gathered for New Year’s festivities in downtown see TOKYO on 6

By Aremi MacDonald NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY “We want to create a non-

threatening environment,” said Bellevue Police spokesperson Seth Tyler. see COUNCILS on 12

Photo by Nina Huang

The ID/Chinatown Top 10 most library is small, but rich read articles of in resources and culture 2018

The Seattle Public Library’s International District/Chinatown Branch

By Nina Huang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Not only is the International District/Chinatown Library Branch (IDC) a gathering space for

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community members to borrow educational materials and read, it is a special communal area to absorb rich Asian arts and culture. see IDC on 11

Compiled by Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY 2018 was an amazing year for

Asian and Pacific Americans.

To celebrate and to welcome the New Year, we look back on see TOP 10 on 15

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■ NAMES IN THE NEWS UW student Shree Saini wins Miss India Worldwide 2018

University of Washington senior Shree Saini was crowned Miss India Worldwide 2018 at a pageant held in New Jersey in December.

She represented the United States with national winners from over 42 countries.

The Punjab native, who moved to Washington when she was 7, had a pacemaker implanted at the age of 12 and was told that she would never be able to dance. At age 15, she Shree Saini started a nonprofit that advocates for heart health, progressive mindset, and the importance of emotional fitness.

KWA employees get raise

1,200 current employees of Korean Women’s Association (KWA) are getting a raise. At the December board meeting, the proposal to increase KWA’s starting wage to $15 per hour received a unanimous vote of approval.

“As an organization designed to help people find ways out of poverty, it was impossible to justify paying some of our staff wages that kept them in poverty,” said KWA Board Chair Grace (Myung Sook) Kim. Employees will see the raise implemented in their first paycheck of 2019. They include in-home caregivers, as well as staff in other programs including domestic violence, immigration, nutrition, and health navigation. 

moving to Seattle to head the kitchen at Nirmal’s, where he’ll continue to highlight India’s many diverse cuisines. Bangera plans to host special menu nights to showcase dishes from specific regions.  Nirmal Monteiro

Minnesota’s first Asian Pacific Caucus

Nirmal’s chef changes

From left: Samantha Vang, Fue Lee, Tou Xiong, Kaohly Vang Her, and Jay Xiong announcing the formation of the Minnesota Asian Pacific Caucus.

Shree Saini, moments after her coronation.

Her message as the newly crowned Miss India Worldwide is, “Your life’s legacy is defined by how you make people feel, with each vibe/interaction/conversation … us all have a solution mindset, we should always try to defuse the negativity in any situation and focus on the light within all of us.” 

Ashish Bagul (left)

Nirmal’s, an Indian restaurant and 2016 Eater Award winner for Restaurant of the Year, has lost its namesake chef, Nirmal Monteiro, according to Eater Seattle Magazine. The restaurant has hired Ashish Bagul to replace him. Owner Oliver Bangera calls Bagul one of India’s best chefs. Bagul cooked in five-star hotels in India before

A group of new State Representatives-elect announced on Dec. 18 that they are forming the Minnesota Asian Pacific (MAP) Caucus during Minnesota’s 91st legislative session.

The number of Asian Americans serving in the state Senate and House tripled from two to six members — it was one of the most significant outcomes of the 2018 midterm elections in the Midwest.

Asian Pacific Minnesotans make up about 5 percent of the overall Minnesota population, but only about 3 percent of its legislative body. 

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Get ready for Seattle Squeeze

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) will permanently close the Alaskan Way Viaduct on Jan. 11, and the new SR 99 tunnel is scheduled to open three weeks later in early February.

This closure, which is the longest highway closure in the history of the Puget Sound region, means that 90,000 vehicles a day, including several thousand trucks and buses, have to use another route. Expect traffic delays and be prepared for full buses during peak travel times.

This is just the beginning. Over the next five years, private and public construction projects will continue to change how goods are moved and delivered. WSDOT calls this the “Seattle Squeeze.”

On March 23, the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel becomes light rail only, bringing seven significant regional bus routes onto city streets. Construction of the new Alaska Way begins in early summer, and will last until 2021. 

Map of SR 99 closure through downtown Seattle

Visit seattle.gov/traffic for the tools and information you need to get around. Other helpful websites: 99tunnel.com, AlaskanWayViaduct.org, and kingcounty.gov/getready.

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Premiums for new paid family program start this week OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Employers and employees in Washington state are now paying into a new paid family leave program, and benefits from the program will begin in 2020.

As of Jan. 1, premiums of 0.4 percent of wages will be collected, with 63 percent paid by employees and 37 percent paid by the employers.

Eligible workers will receive 12 weeks paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child or for the serious medical condition of the worker or the worker’s family member, or 16 weeks for a combination of both, starting in 2020. An additional two weeks may be used if there is a serious health condition with a pregnancy.

Weekly benefits will be calculated based on a percentage of the employee’s wages and the state’s weekly average wage — which is now $1,190 — though the weekly amount paid out would be capped at $1,000 a week. 

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■ NATIONAL NEWS St. Paul leaders decry deportations of Vietnam-era refugees ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Trump administration push for the deportation of Vietnam War-era refugees has sparked protests from St. Paul’s Southeast Asian community, with elected officials and families saying they will do whatever they can to fight it.

State Rep.-elect Kaohly Her Kaohly Her called it a betrayal of wartime promise, the Star Tribune reported. She condemned the deportations measure while recalling the bravery of her grandfather, who fought alongside U.S. soldiers before resettling his family in the United States.

US charges 2 with China intelligence ties in hacking case

“This is not the dream that he fought for,’’ she said at a news conference in St. Paul.

It’s not clear when the deportations could begin, but advocates and community members say they’ve known since a roundup of dozens of Vietnamese Americans last year that the federal government had taken a new posture on their longtime status. A spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, did not respond when asked about the timeline.

Some 8,705 Vietnamese with deportation orders live in the United States, according to ICE. They’re generally green-card holders who were convicted of crimes, although 858 of them do not have criminal records, the agency said.

It’s not known exactly how many are in Minnesota, but state Democratic Sen. Foung Hawj said his office estimates that nearly 800 Hmong, Laotian, Cambodian

Man accused of ramming church a no-show in court

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say two Chinese citizens acting on behalf of their country’s main intelligence agency carried out an extensive hacking campaign to steal data from military service members, government agencies and private companies in the United States and nearly a dozen other nations. It was the latest in a series of Justice Department indictments targeting cyberespionage from Beijing.

The two are accused of breaching computer networks in a broad swath of industries, including aviation and space, banking and finance, oil and gas exploration and pharmaceutical technology. Prosecutors say they also compromised the names, Social Security numbers and other personal information of more than 100,000 Navy personnel.

All told, prosecutors say, the alleged hackers — identified as Zhu Hua and Zhang Shillong — stole “hundreds of gigabytes’’ of data, breaching computers of more than 45 entities in 12 states. They are not in custody.

U.S. law enforcement officials described the case as part of a trend of state-sponsored hackers breaking into American networks and stealing trade secrets and confidential and valuable information. More than 90 percent of Justice Department economic espionage cases over the last seven years involve China, said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and more than two-thirds of trade secrets cases are connected to the country.

“China’s state-sponsored actors are the most active perpetrators of economic espionage,’’ FBI Director Chris Wray said in announcing the case on Dec. 20. “While we welcome fair competition, we cannot and will not tolerate illegal hacking, stealing or cheating.’’

Earlier in December, officials from the Justice Department, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that China is working to steal trade secrets and intellectual property from U.S. companies in order to harm America’s economy and further its own development. Those efforts have continued even after Beijing committed in 2015 to halting the theft of trade secrets following a first-of-itskind indictment that accused Chinese hackers of stealing corporate data from brand-name U.S. companies.

“We want China to cease illegal cyber activities and honor its commitment to the international community, but the evidence suggests that China may not intend to live up see HACKING CASE on 14

and Vietnamese Americans who live in the state are under deportation orders.

The news has shaken Minnesota’s sizable Southeast Asian community, which is home to some 115,000 Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese. Many of those marked for deportation qualify because of crimes committed decades ago and have already served their time in prison and gone on to start families and build careers, advocates say.

“We believe it is wrong to sentence our family members with life sentences (of) deportation,’’ said Jenny Srey, who organized the Dec. 20 news conference. Her husband was detained in 2016 and targeted for deportation to Cambodia, but supporters successfully fought the effort when a federal immigration judge found that his deportation would cause extreme hardship on his family. 

Hieu John Phung

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 35-yearold man who is accused of intentionally crashing his SUV into a Vietnamese church on Dec. 24 didn’t show up to a Portland courtroom as ordered.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Hieu John Phung was in Astoria when he was “picked up’’ and taken to a hospital, a member of the Clatsop County Sheriff ’s Office told Multnomah County Circuit Judge Katharine von Ter Stegge.

The sheriff ’s office says it’s possible that

Phung was on a mental health hold.

His court appearance was moved to January.

Phung was booked into Multnomah County’s jail at 4 a.m. on Dec. 24 on suspicion of criminal mischief and other charges after authorities say he called police to report he’d run his Acura MDX into the Our Lady of Lavang Catholic church.

He was released from jail the same day.

The northeast Portland church was extensively damaged. 

1st Asian American taking seat in Indiana Legislature

By JERRY DAVICH POST-TRIBUNE DYER, Ind. (AP) — On more than one occasion, Chris Chyung had a front door slammed in his face while campaigning against state Rep. Hal Slager.

“They told me, ‘Go back to China!’’’ recalled Chyung, who was born in Merrillville and raised in Munster. “I’ve never even been to China. My parents, who are both physicians, were born in Korea. So at least get your racism right.’’

The 25-year-old political newcomer doesn’t take such slights too personally.

“I’ve lived my whole life in Indiana, so I’m used to being the only Asian person in the room,’’ he said. “Any room.’’

Chyung, who lives with his parents, beat Slager by 82 votes on Election Day last November. He earned more than 12,000 votes the hard way, by pounding sidewalks, meeting strangers, attending community forums.

“The notion that we could actually pull this off was unfathomable when we began,’’ he said.

Slager, a long-term Republican from Schererville, served 10 years there as a town councilman and with three two-year terms as a state representative. He had name recognition, General Assembly experience, and a much deeper war chest of campaign donations.

But the young Democrat from Dyer simply out-hustled Slager, knocking on thousands of doors — sometimes the same doors three or four times during his campaign — while surfing a small blue wave of voters in the 15th House District,

which covers Schererville, Dyer, St. John, and parts of Griffith.

“So far, everyone has been nothing but pleasant to me. But it’s still the honeymoon period,’’ said Chyung, who will be part of the General Assembly when its 2019 session begins Jan. 3 in Indianapolis.

Chyung will become the first Asian American state legislator in Indiana’s history.

Chris Chyung “It’s absolutely an American success story,’’ he said. “Still, at the end of the day, it’s all about getting business done for the state of Indiana.’’

Chyung has been getting down to business by researching policy topics, drafting bills, meeting with interest groups, and listening to constituents. He’s been learning about issues ranging from child advocacy and Medicaid to taxation and the annual debate on our state’s time-change controversy.

Chyung recently attended a crash-course orientation hosted in Indianapolis by the Legislative Services Agency, which offered one-hour primers on key issues. He is already receiving calls and texts from constituents, asking about concerns — everything from pot holes on their street to education reform.

“I’ve got a list of dozens of things to do before I take office,’’ he said, checking his smartphone’s calendar. see CHYUNG on 13

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Japan shows video of alleged radar lock-on by S Korea warship

By MARI YAMAGUCHI ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO (AP) — Japan released video footage on Dec. 28 that it said proved a South Korean warship locked its firecontrol radar onto a Japanese warplane off the northeastern coast in the latest move of an escalating row between the Asian neighbors.

The Defense Ministry’s just over 13-minute footage, filmed from the P-1 patrol aircraft, contained voices of Japanese crewmembers asking the destroyer for

clarification but getting no response.

Japan alleged that the South Korean destroyer repeatedly locked its targeting radar on the Japanese aircraft Dec. 21 inside of Japan’s exclusive economic waters off the Noto Peninsula. A lock with fire-control radar is considered a hostile act and only one step away from actual firing.

South Korea has denied the allegation, saying its warship used an optical camera while rescuing a North Korean fishing boat in distress. Seoul’s Defense Ministry expressed “deep regret and concern’’ over Japan’s release of the video a day after the countries’ military officials

held a video conference to resolve what Seoul described Tokyo’s “misunderstanding.’’

Relations between Japan and South Korea have degraded to their worst in recent years over compensation issues related to sexual abuse of “comfort women’’ and Korean forced labor during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 through 1945.

The radar flap has added to the strain.

“Korea South Naval Ship, Hull Number 971, this is Japan see WARSHIP on 14

Trump and China loom Tsunami alert lifted over a tumultuous year after undersea quake in Asia off Philippines

By FOSTER KLUG ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Donald Trump

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — To judge by the stream of extraordinary images on the Korean Peninsula, you might think 2018 marked the beginning of an elusive peace

in one of the world’s last vestiges of the Cold War. Just months after a barrage of threats of missile strikes and personal insults had many fearing the worst, President Donald Trump and see TRUMP on 12

By JIM GOMEZ ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong undersea earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Dec. 28 and the head of the country’s quake-monitoring agency advised people in a southeastern province to avoid beaches in case of a

tsunami.

No casualties or damage have been reported, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center lifted its warning for a potential tsunami that could hit coastal areas of the southern Philippine and Indonesia.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology see TSUNAMI on 15

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Scientists say Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano island, which erupted and collapsed before Christmas triggering a deadly tsunami, is now only about a quarter of its preeruption size.

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TOKYO from 1 Tokyo, injuring eight people, police said.

The suspect, 21, Kazuhiro Kusakabe, was arrested and being questioned, Tokyo Metropolitan Police said on customary condition of anonymity.

He is suspected of intentionally trying to kill people by driving the small vehicle through the street. NHK TV footage showed a small van with the entire front end smashed and officers and ambulance workers rushing to the scene.

A ninth person was injured after Kusakabe got out of the car and punched him, police said. His condition was not immediately known.

A large tank filled with kerosene was found in the car, police said. The suspect appeared to have planned to set

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his car on fire, Mainichi newspaper and other Japanese media reported. Police declined to comment on the reports, saying such possible motives were still under investigation.

The crash occurred on Takeshita Dori, a road well known to tourists and pop culture and fashion fans that runs right by Meiji Shrine in Harajuku, Shibuya ward.

Every New Year’s Eve, the train line that includes Harajuku station runs all night, for people welcoming the new year with a shrine visit.

Japan is a relatively crime free nation with strict guncontrol laws. In 2008, a man drove his car into a crowd in the popular Akihabara electronic-shopping district, got off and went on a stabbing spree with a knife. Seven people were killed. 

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Police: Nail salon worker killed by customer over $35 manicure

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police searched on Jan. 1 for a woman accused of using a stolen car to run over and kill a nail salon worker after failing to pay for a $35 manicure.

Police were trying to identify the woman and were investigating the crime as a murder, Officer Larry Hadfield said. The woman got a manicure on Dec. 29 at a salon about a mile and a half from the Las Vegas Strip, but her credit card was declined when she went to pay.

The woman went to her car, telling salon workers she would come back to pay another way but then tried to drive away, according to police Lt. Ray Spencer.

The manicurist, 51-year-old Ngoc Q. Nguyen of Garden Annie Nhu Nguyen

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Grove, California, ran in front of the car to try to stop the woman from driving off but was hit by the vehicle, police said.

The woman drove away, and Nguyen was taken to a hospital, where she died.

The suspect was in a rental car that had been stolen three weeks ago, Spencer said. The car was found abandoned at a nearby apartment complex.

Investigators don’t believe the person who rented the car was connected to the crime and were reviewing surveillance video to try to identify the woman.

The Clark County Coroner’s Office said Nguyen’s cause of death was multiple blunt-force injuries.

A GoFundMe page for Nguyen, which said she was the mother to three daughters, had raised more than $10,000 by Jan. 1. 

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Fashion reigned at the ACRS Holiday Party earlier this month, where staff modeled Gary Tang creations.

1. Emcees Gary Tang and Hong Chhuor in blue.

2. Genizim Lalramlian’s top celebrates 10 years ACRS on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South.

3. Gabrielle So’s velvet hat adds a 1940s touch to her high waisted shorts.

4. Katie Nguyen’s colorful poppy print dress brings out the holiday spirit.

5. The audience went wild over Mala Lim’s red-hot cut shoulder dress.

6. A Japanese origami motif adds glam to Yoon Joo Han’s not-so-simple black number.

7. Genizim pays tribute to our beloved ramen noodles.

8. Hector Kwan strikes a pose with his ramen jacket, complete with bowl and chopsticks.

9. Wayne Rocque‘s luxurious sweatpants and his mile-long wool scarf.

10. Hai Ton’s wears western, with a modern interpretation.

11. Tiare Chanel charms as ‘Alice in Wonderland’.

12. Gabrielle’s white long coat pops with dachshunds.

13. Tracy Nguyen, straight out of ‘Downton Abbey’.

14. A tribute to the 1970s.

15. Sehee Shin’s evening gown was inspired by Deco Japan.

16. Michael Byun (ACRS’ new Executive Director) shares an important message.

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Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk

By DAKE KANG ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: “gait recognition’’ software that uses people’s body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras.

Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, “gait recognition’’ is part of a push across China to develop artificialintelligence and data-driven surveillance that is raising concern about how far the technology will go.

Huang Yongzhen, the CEO of Watrix, said that its system can identify people from up to 165 feet away, even with their back turned or face covered. This can fill a gap in facial recognition, which needs close-up, high-resolution images of a person’s face to work.

“You don’t need people’s cooperation for us to be able to recognize their identity,’’ Huang said in an interview in his Beijing office. “Gait analysis can’t be fooled by simply limping, walking with

Watrix Gait Recognition Platform

splayed feet or hunching over, because we’re analyzing all the features of an entire body.’’

Watrix announced in October 2018 that it had raised $14.5 million to accelerate the development and sale of its gait recognition technology, according to Chinese media reports.

Chinese police are using facial

recognition to identify people in crowds and nab jaywalkers, and are developing an integrated national system of surveillance camera data.

Not everyone is comfortable with gait recognition’s use.

Security officials in China’s farwestern province of Xinjiang, a region whose Muslim population is already subject to intense

surveillance and control, have expressed interest in the software.

Shi Shusi, a Chinese columnist and commentator, says it’s unsurprising that the technology is catching on in China faster than the rest of the world because of Beijing’s emphasis on social control.

“Using biometric recognition to maintain social stability and

manage society is an unstoppable trend,’’ he said. “It’s great business.’’

The technology isn’t new.

Scientists in Japan, the United Kingdom and the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency have been researching gait recognition for over a decade, trying different ways to overcome skepticism that people could be recognized by the way they walk. Professors from Osaka University have worked with Japan’s National Police Agency to use gait recognition software on a pilot basis since 2013.

But few have tried to commercialize gait recognition. Israelbased FST Biometrics shut down earlier this year amid company infighting after encountering technical difficulties with its products, according to former advisory board member Gabriel Tal. “It’s more complex than other biometrics, computationally,’’ said Mark Nixon, a leading expert on gait recognition at the University of Southampton in Britain. “It takes bigger computers to do gait because you need a sequence of images rather than a single image.’’ see WATRIX on 13

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Give me LIBERTY or give me BEEF SATAY!

By Wayne Chan NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY File this under: non-earth shattering news.

I’m just about to head home after a two week-long journey to Hong Kong, Taipei, and Phuket. It’s been a great trip where I got to visit with friends and family, and sample food from different parts of the globe.

But there’s been something I’ve been wondering about since I’ve been there.

Actually, it’s something I’ve always wondered about when I visit Asia.

Why do they do such an awful job with English signage?

Now, before you start writing letters or complaining that I’m a typical ugly American who thinks that the world revolves around us, just give me a chance.

What I’m talking about isn’t your typical, translated English rushed out to explain something to us clueless Americans.

What I’m talking about are major business signage. Let me give you an example.

Wooderful Life — This is a boutique in Taiwan selling trinkets and wooden music boxes.

What Do You Fab — Another gift store in Taiwan, with no products remotely resembling The Beatles.

Meat Liberty — A restaurant in Bangkok.

DIKE — A speaker company, I kid you not.

Funkpeanuts Coffee — Well, it’s a coffee house.

F.A.T. — An airline, which stands for Far Eastern Air Transport.

Gift Shop: We considerate more for you!

— I don’t really remember the place, but I’m guessing it’s a gift shop.

In each of these cases, the business owner came up with the name, and then presumably, decided to spend thousands of dollars on professionally produced signage above their store, in print ads, and on all their stationary. It isn’t a translated sign of a business named in their own language. These are the names of the stores.

Apparently, in their brainstorming to come up with an English name, no one thought, “Hmm…maybe we should run this past a native English speaker.”

Well, what do I know? I know that there are plenty of western businesses that on first glance, seem nonsensical. I still don’t know what a “Starbucks” is supposed to represent.

Maybe in the next couple of years, we’ll all be saying things like, “Let’s grab a cup of coffee at Funky P’s and talk about it.”

Maybe there’s some historic reference in Thailand related to protein and freedom.

“Give me liberty or give me beef satay!”

Look, I admit, I’m clueless.

The real reason I’m wondering about all this is that if I were starting up a business in the United States and decided to come up with a Chinese name for the business based on my Chinese speaking abilities, you’d better believe I’d take a moment and send out a copy to a friend or colleague and just ask, “Does this make sense?”

Why? Because I know, right now, what would happen if I didn’t. It would look something like this (Chinese translated into English, of course): Round Dough Smashed in Face with Fresh Wind. I’ve always wanted to start an artisan pizza place, and who doesn’t like the smell of oregano?

Foot wrapped with Fresh Wind: A shoe store where all the shoes are pre-scented with lavender. Who wouldn’t like that?

Puncture Hole Dough: We can always use more donut shops, am I right?

Actually, I think I’m starting to get the hang of this. Look out, world! Freshly Wind, LLC — here I come! 

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IDC from 1

Free and open to all members of the public, the IDC is the city’s third smallest branch with 3,930 square feet of program space and open every day of the week for a total of 46 hours.

Esperanza Stewart, supervising librarian for the IDC, has worked in public libraries since 2003 in a variety of roles. She and her team are dedicated to serving the community and providing customer service to the library patrons.

Opened on June 11, 2005, the IDC was the 16th project completed under the “Libraries for All” building program.

The branch is located inside International District Village Square II. The library’s space is leased from the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority. The complex also includes 57 units of affordable family housing, the ID/Chinatown Community Center, and retail space. The space was designed by Miller Hayashi Architects and built by Cope Construction.

According to Seattle Public Library (SPL) Communications Director Andra Addison, this location has been visited nearly 53,000 times from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, 2018. During that time period, more than 46,000 books and materials have been circulated— DVDs being the most circulated material at this branch. As a result, the branch plans to expand the DVD sections for adults and youth.

Stewart said the library is a very popular gathering space for the community. It is the neighborhood resource for computers, copy machines, reading materials, movies and television shows, and for a place to socialize.

“Every day, we have people who come to read the newspapers and magazines, use the two study rooms, and read in the children’s area,” Stewart said.

The children’s area was recently stocked with new toys that help children learn the alphabet, creativity, colors, numbers, animals, shapes, and more.

Stewart mentioned that the staff see a wide range of patrons of all ages from the community daily. The branch staff can provide library assistance in a variety of languages, including Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Taishanese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and English.

Resources The benefit of a library card is that patrons have access to the entire print and digital collection, and are not limited to material that is in the branch. SPL is a shared use system, so patrons are able to place books on hold from another branch and have them sent to the IDC to pick up. This allows patrons to have access to most of the SPL collection.

Staff are available in-person and via online chat to help patrons navigate the website to find materials and learn more about resources.

The IDC carries books and DVDs in Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese. They also carry a few DVDs in Tagalog, Hindi, Indonesian, and Marathi.

However, the DVD collection is a floating collection that changes based on what patrons put on hold. Floating collections help customize the collection based on patron usage.

Kanopy is an online resource that is free for all SPL library card holders. The collection varies and offers films and television shows to stream in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Another free resource with a library membership is Access Video, which offers Asian language videos in Chinese and Japanese. Overdrive SPL accounts can access videos in Chinese and Japanese and books in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Hindi, and Thai.

The IDC also carries print magazines in Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, as well as newspapers in Korean, Vietnamese, and Chinese. While they don’t have any printed newspapers in Japanese, they do carry The North American Post, which is geared toward the Japanese community.

Programming In addition, SPL hosts popular early literacy programs, including a Mandarin Chinese Story Time that takes place on Saturdays at IDC. In a statement, early literacy program manager of SPL, CiKeithia Pugh, explained that the program is for communities that speak languages other than English. The goal is to demonstrate to parents and caregivers how to share books with young children and build early literacy skills to support reading success later.

Currently, SPL offers story time in Mandarin, Spanish, Somali, and English. These are funded by The SPL Foundation. Funding for this program aims to close the gap

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in programming that disproportionately impacts people of color, specifically the refugee and immigrant communities.

Recruitment and training of community storytellers honors the rich resources available in Seattle. Programs are delivered in a culturally respectful manner that truly honors the home languages of the library’s diverse patrons.

The IDC’s Mandarin Chinese Story Time is conducted by a contracted SPL employee on most Saturdays. The sessions include reading of books, songs, and play time.

Stewart noted that the program is well attended by the community and by those in the greater Seattle area who want to increase their children’s Mandarin Chinese literacy skills.

In 2018, over 600 sessions were delivered, for all of the Seattle Public Libraries.

Challenges

Budget

Long hanging lamps illuminate a ceiling canopy made of ribbons of wood. A highlight of the building is “Wellspring,” a series of artwork by Chinese American artist Rene Yung, who collected teacups from neighborhood residents as her medium.

“My public artwork is a conceptual and poetic response to each site and its community,” Yung said. “I am especially excited about cross-generation work as a bridge between past and future in the reality of the present.”

The art budget for the branch was $18,749.

According to a description about the project, “Wellspring” draws from the idea of essential nourishment represented by the library and its community.

Some of the teacups are in glass cabinets, the stories of their donors etched into the glass, while others are showcased throughout the library, suspended singularly in resin cubes. Another 120 teacups form a beautiful oval that looks down on the book stacks.

“As a vessel that contains and brings the primal sustenance, water, to our lips, the cup is a simple but potent symbol across cultures. Among the diverse cultures of Seattle’s International District/Chinatown, the teacup has additional meanings, including the gesture of hospitality, and embodies ritualized cultural traditions that continue to enrich the community. From this emanated the idea of Wellspring: a collection of teacups from the community, each cup an individual well of nourishment, and jointly, a gathering of goodwill and vitality,” the description explained.

Yung said, “The process of generating the teacup donations was in itself made possible through a series of relationships between the library and community groups and institutions, and brought me into contact with some of the contributors. The stories the teacups bring are all touching and remarkable, and often connect to one another.

Thus, Wellspring is also a celebration of the storms in teacups, which, far from trifling, are the stuff of life, and the subject of all the volumes of all libraries.” 

Addison said the SPL’s budget has been stable in recent years, thanks to a library levy that Seattle voters approved in 2012. This restored many services that were cut during the prolonged economic recession.

The levy funds 24 percent of the library system’s budget (the rest comes from the city’s general fund) and supports essential library services, including open hours, more books and materials including electronic resources, up-to-date technology such as computers, and building maintenance at all 27 locations. Also, the levy has funded additional hours for the IDC branch. The branch was previously closed Fridays and Sundays before the levy. It is now open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Fridays and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

Looking ahead SPL is always looking for new ways to meet the community’s changing needs and interests.

“We launched the new Peaks Picks program. Patrons can go to the Peaks Picks display in the branch and find many current popular titles available to check out on the spot — no wait! This was a service patrons have been asking for — getting popular books faster,” Addison said.

SPL works with many organizations to offer programs and services for the public. For example, they also work with Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) to provide citizenship classes at some branches. And SPL recently joined the Museum Pass program, which provides free passes to 15 cultural institutions in the city, including the Woodland Park Zoo, the Seattle Aquarium, the Wing Luke Museum, and more.

SPL expects to continue to build a strong digital collection, which is one of the largest of any public library in the nation. They have a growing number of patrons who enjoy the ease of borrowing ebooks and downloading digital media, including movies and music. Addison added that SPL is also planning for the 100th anniversary of its popular Summer of Learning Program for children in 2019.

“One of the IDC’s biggest challenges is space,” Stewart said. “As the library becomes more well-known in the community, our challenge is that the building is sometimes at capacity for chairs and people in terms of comfort level.

But being a well-used community resource is something we take pride in at the library. IDC does not have a meeting room so programming in the branch is a struggle.”

IDC does have two study rooms that are frequently booked, but there are nearby branches including the Central Library, accessible via the light rail if patrons wanted more space.

Community-centric art

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COUNCILS from 1 With recent high profile incidents involving local law enforcement and people of color, including the November incident at Menchie’s in Kirkland where a Black man was asked to leave because employees said he made them feel uncomfortable, the City of Bellevue is finding more culturally and racially aware practices to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.

Bellevue City Councilmember Janice Zahn is an immigrant from Hong Kong.

“There’s this idea that police are always one of those scary entities that you don’t want to do anything wrong around. The more that our community connects with our public safety, the better we can work together,” said Zahn.

The Bellevue Police Department (BPD) is finding ways to connect with the community and adopt culturally aware practices through training and community outreach.

Bellevue remains as Washington’s biggest majorityminority city since 2016 with its population totaling over 140,000 inhabitants, according to data by the U.S. Census Bureau.

“Once an incident happens, you can’t just go back and rebuild that relationship,” said Tyler.

In 2017, the BPD, in collaboration with members of the community which represent the city’s ethnically and racially diverse population, formed police advisory councils. The goal was to inform and help BPD improve current policies and develop new culturally aware practices in law enforcement training.

There are currently six advisory councils which include the Asian and Pacific Islander Council, the Latino/Latina Council, the Muslim Council, the African American

VOLCANO from 5 tsunami, according to Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation.

The analysis shows the scale of the island’s collapse, shedding light on the power of the tsunami that crashed into more than 186 miles of coastline in Sumatra and Java.

More than 420 people died in the waves that were 6.6 feet or higher and 40,000 were displaced.

TRUMP from 5 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un strode toward each other on a sultry June day in Singapore and grasped hands, vowing to upend decades of animosity and pursue a nuclear settlement. About a month earlier, Kim walked across the cracked concrete block that marks the Korean border, the world’s most heavily armed, and then, with a grin, guided a delighted South Korean President Moon Jae-in back into northern territory for a quick photo-op. Moon later flew into Pyongyang for a triumphant tour that saw him address a stadium of 150,000 North Koreans.

And yet, despite all the jaw-dropping images, any one of which would have stood out in sharp relief in an ordinary year, a sense of unease has taken hold in South Korea.

There has been no substantial disarmament by the North, no grand peace deals, and many have the same old fears that North Korea will never give up its nuclear arsenal.

As 2018 draws to a close, the Korean Peninsula is not the only place in Asia looking ahead with apprehension.

Across the region, there are pockets of optimism but also a pervasive feeling of disquiet, a lot of which is linked to the twin political behemoths whose presence has been felt this year in every corner of Asia: China and Trump. That’s especially true of a Trump-China trade war that has caused fears of a global economic slowdown.

Much of the news in Asia has been the typical scattershot fare of tragedy and triumph: there were catastrophic tsunamis, quakes and floods in the Pacific “Ring of Fire,’’ the return to office in Malaysia of a 93-year-old former strongman, and a fall from grace for the Nobel Peace laureate who now leads Myanmar over what many call a campaign of ethnic cleansing against hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya.

But if you want to mark a through-line in a region that contains more than half the world’s population and boasts a stunning range of diversity, look to China and Trump.

China’s increasing power has been impossible to ignore on the Korean Peninsula, where Beijing props up its ally in Pyongyang even as it serves as Seoul’s largest trading partner. Beijing fires up feelings of both nationalist rage and avarice in Southeast and South Asia as it pushes its territorial claims, using huge sums of money, investment and diplomatic energy to promote its interests.

For his part, Trump has made himself felt in a way

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Council, the LGBTQIA Council, and the Inter-Faith Council.

There are 21 members collectively on the advisory councils. Each are appointed by Bellevue’s city manager.

“The city’s advisory councils meet with officers from the Bellevue Police Department and the police chief, where we identify issues and we try to address them,” said Tyler.

Especially after the 2016 election, Tyler said the department noticed there was fear of calling the police and reporting crimes among the Latino community.

“In response to that, we created a series of informational videos informing the community about the police department’s role, and that local police don’t enforce immigration law.”

The videos created in 2017, called “At Your Service,” were created with input from the Latino Advisory Council and were provided in both English and Spanish, along with brochures to make the information more accessible to the city’s Latino community.

“Looking at multilingual community outreach and communication is really important,” said Zahn.

“The community is growing and it’s changing. The more that we find ways to gain understanding and connect, the better off we are.”

According to the BPD’s 2017 annual report, the Asian and Pacific Islander Advisory Council introduced the department to the Indian Association of Washington, a local nonprofit with a goal to connect with Washington’s Indian community, invited police officers to a peacemaking rally at Crossroads Park, and participated in events where the police department informed the community on how to prevent hate crimes.

Tyler said one of the challenges the department faces is

breaking down fear of authoritative officials, such as police and establishing public trust within the community.

Another challenge the BPD has identified is a lack of diversity on the police force.

Tyler said, “I encourage anyone that is interested in going into law enforcement in Bellevue to apply.”

“Our Asian and Pacific Islander community needs to feel like they can talk about the barriers for going into law enforcement and public safety. It’s a very important field and helpful to have the police reflect our community so that when they are out in the community, we see ourselves,” said Zahn.

An Asian and Pacific Islander police liaison was at the Northwest Asian Weekly Top Contributor Award Gala in December in order to reach out to the community and understand some of the barriers as to why very few Asian and Pacific Islanders go into law enforcement, said Zahn.

“It’s important for us to be aware of where the blind spots are. We can always do better, yet we have a lot that has already been put in place and we’ve been very intentional in doing so.”

In their continued efforts to connect with members of the Bellevue community and improve best practices, the police department plans to form a Youth Advisory Council, as well as an Eastern European Council in the upcoming years.

“The fact that we have all these things to reach out to a diverse community helps create an understanding and lessen the fear around people that might look or sound different than someone else, and I do think that makes a difference,” said Zahn. 

The center said that the crater peak was 360 feet high as of Dec. 28 compared with 1,108 feet in September.

Experts have largely relied on satellite radar images to work out what happened to the volcano because cloud cover, continuing eruptions and high seas have hampered inspections. The center said it would get more precise results from more visual inspections.

Authorities have warned residents to stay a kilometre (less than a mile) away from the coastline of the Sunda

Strait, which separates Java and Sumatra, because of the risk of another tsunami.

But experts now say another potential tsunami triggered by the volcano collapsing again would be less severe due to its reduced mass.

Anak Krakatau, which means Child of Kratakau, is the offspring of the infamous Krakatau volcano whose monumental eruption in 1883 triggered a period of global cooling. 

both modern and unorthodox, using his Twitter feed to repeatedly wade into Asia’s biggest hot spots in a manner that for many here can seem intent on upsetting years of previous U.S. policy and precedent in the region.

His fraught diplomacy with North Korea and his highstakes trade dispute with Beijing have drawn the most attention.

After testing the effectiveness of belligerent rhetoric, Trump has turned to action with China, hiking tariffs on Chinese goods over U.S. complaints that Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology.

Trump’s moves against Beijing, which denies any trade misbehavior, reflect broad American anxiety about Chinese competition and fears that Beijing’s plans for the state-led creation of global tech champions might erode U.S. industrial leadership.

Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed Dec. 1 to postpone more tariff hikes for 90 days while they negotiate, and U.S. and Chinese envoys are preparing for talks in January. But penalties that have hammered Chinese manufacturers, American soybean farmers and other exporters remained in place.

Forecasters warn that with no resolution, the conflict could knock up to 0.5 percentage points off global growth through 2020. They say the loss to China’s growth could be as much as 1.3 percentage points next year.

As Trump and Kim angle for another summit, there are growing doubts that Kim will ever voluntarily deal away the weapons that he likely sees as his strongest guarantee of survival. Several reports from private analysts in recent weeks have accused the North of continuing nuclear and missile development, citing details from commercial satellite imagery.

And analysts say that China, North Korea’s main economic lifeline, has been loosening its enforcement of sanctions against the North following Kim’s outreach to Beijing and amid the trade dispute with the United States.

China and Trump were also on the minds of officials in South and Southeast Asia this year.

India managed to avoid the worst of the Sino-U.S. trade spat, but even New Delhi, which Washington sees as a valuable ally and a bulwark against growing Chinese power, comes in for occasional criticism, such as when Trump blasted India’s tariffs amid Harley-Davidson’s decision to move production overseas.

The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is often more focused on Beijing than on Washington, watching warily as China’s influence grows in countries like the Maldives and Sri Lanka, both of which India has long seen as within its sphere of influence. New Delhi was quietly relieved by the 2018 electoral defeat of former Maldives strongman Yameen Abdul Gayoom, who had forged increasingly close ties to China.

In Southeast Asia, China, whose historical influence over the region used to be checked by projections of American force, has stepped up efforts to take advantage of a perceived U.S. vacuum and has, with little challenge, asserted its maritime claims in the South China Sea by building island bases in waters also claimed by four other governments, most notably Vietnam and the Philippines.

China’s soft power, in the form of infrastructure investment, especially related to its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, began to meet some pushback, as financial terms and prospective debt began to be seen as potentially onerous.

The region’s most stunning political development came in Malaysia, where Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad united with former foes to oust his old long-ruling party.

After taking over, Mahathir canceled plans for some major Chinese projects.

In Myanmar, democracy activists’ high hopes that the coming to power of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2016 would usher in enlightened civilian rule have died as the Nobel Peace laureate has failed to restrain, or even denounce, the Buddhist-majority country’s violent military campaign against the Muslim Rohingya minority. More than 700,000 Rohingya still languish in miserable refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh after being driven out of their homeland beginning in 2017.

But Southeast Asia also had what might have been Asia’s most inspiring story of the year when Thai navy SEALs and cave divers from around the world staged a daring underwater rescue of 12 members of a boys’ soccer team and their coach who’d been trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand for almost three weeks.

Maybe it’s fitting that this rare feel-good story, unlike much of the rest of Asia, had little to do with either Trump or China. 

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By Sun Lee Chang Rat — Despite your best efforts to stay neutral, you may be asked to take sides. Don’t be surprised if the parties lobby for your support.

Dragon — Not quite sure where you fit into the picture? There is definitely a role for you, but it won’t be obvious at the start.

Monkey — Err on the side of prudence and be discreet about your recent good fortune, as you do not want to attract unwanted attention.

Ox — Are you trying to convince yourself that something is better than it actually is? Once you accept the truth, your next steps will become clear.

Snake — Have you been focusing mainly on one area and ignoring others? Seek to find a more balanced approach going forward.

Tiger — It’s not just what you have to say, but how you say it. While the content is important, so is the way in which it is delivered.

Horse — It has taken a while for you to reach this point, but once you recognize what you must do, there is no turning back.

Rooster — Your passion for learning is starting to pay off as your skills have been improving by leaps and bounds. Attaining the level that you desire should soon be within reach.

Rabbit — The value of purpose is not to be underestimated. Something that is inconsequential to you could be of great worth to someone else.

Goat — In the face of some early doubts about meeting the minimum standard, you will realize and exceed even your own expectations.

Dog — As you struggle to find just the right gift, remember that the best aspect of a present cannot be bought. It is your thoughtfulness that will show through in the end.

Pig — Too much of the same thing could lead to boredom. Try going in a new direction to see what adventure it leads to.

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CHYUNG from 4 “I’m still digesting my victory. And so is my family,’’ he said.

Chyung’s parents arrived in this country during the aftermath of the Korean War, eventually landing in Chicago where they completed their medical fellowships. They later moved to Northwest Indiana, where they still practice.

They continue to hope Chyung will follow their career paths as physicians, similar to his two sisters and his brothersin-law.

“In grade school, I thought I would be a doctor, too, but I don’t like seeing blood,’’ Chyung joked. “I have no plans for medical school at this time.’’

He also never planned on becoming a public servant or state officeholder. Raised in an upper middle class home, the Munster High School graduate leaned more conservative than liberal. His parents typically voted Republican in presidential elections.

He dabbled in real estate after attending college in New

York City to become an industrial engineer. He’s not married and doesn’t have children.

In 2016, when national politics became the daily conversation, Chyung began showing an interest in local politics. He volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and other endeavors, eventually attending meetings of the Lake County Young Democrats.

“My family and I began self-identifying as Democrats,’’ Chyung said.

He learned that his district’s state representative, Slager, was “out of step’’ with its people. Chyung tried contacting Slager, who never responded to him, Chyung said.

“A lot of people feel their representative is not listening to them, and so did I,’’ he said.

Chyung tried suggesting that other Democratic candidates run against Slager, but no one stepped up.

“So I did,’’ Chyung said with a shrug, “even though I knew we would be outgunned on many fronts by Mr. Slager and the state’s Republican Party.’’

In 2017, at a local political forum, a college student from

Crown Point asked about his campaign efforts. After talking with him, Chyung brought on Sam Barloga as his campaign manager.

“Honestly, there were points in the campaign where I thought it was such an uphill battle that it couldn’t be done.

But we made a plan to stick with our message of transparency and good governance, and bring that message to the doorstep of as many voters as possible,’’ said Barloga, who knocked on more than 10,000 doors.

With just over $100,000 in campaign funds, and a few high school volunteers, Chyung was victorious, stunning Slager and likely everybody else.

“Chris was quite the candidate,’’ Barloga said. “He had his heart in the right places, and voters were quite impressed.

They wanted a new voice in Indianapolis.’’

Chyung notes Slager is a constituent.

“If he wants to talk with me about any issues on his mind or projects he was working on, I’m available,’’ Chyung said.

“Just like for all of my other 65,000 constituents.’’ 

WATRIX from 9 Watrix’s software extracts a person’s silhouette from video and analyzes the silhouette’s movement to create a model of the way the person walks. It isn’t capable of identifying people in real-time yet. Users must upload video into the program, which takes about 10 minutes to search through an hour of video. It doesn’t require special cameras — the software can use footage from surveillance cameras to analyze gait.

Huang, a former researcher, said he left academia to co-found Watrix in 2016 after seeing how promising the technology had become. The company was incubated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Though the software isn’t as good as facial recognition, Huang said its 94 percent accuracy rate is good enough for commercial use.

He envisions gait recognition being used alongside face-scanning software.

Beyond surveillance, Huang says gait recognition can also be used to spot people in distress such as elderly individuals who have fallen down. Nixon believes that the technology can make life safer and more convenient.

“People still don’t recognize they can be recognized by their gait, whereas everybody knows you can be recognized by your face,’’ Nixon said. “We believe you are totally unique in the way you walk.’’ 

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from the radar on the South Korean destroyer, but the pilot confirms that a gun is not pointed to their aircraft.

Choi Hyun-soo, South Korea’s Defense Ministry spokeswoman, said the footage provided no proof of what Japan said had happened but showed a Japanese aircraft conducting a “threatening low-altitude flight’’ over a South Korean warship at a rescue operation of a drifting North Korean boat.

“The video material made public by Japan contains only footage of the Japanese patrol plane circling above the surface of the sea and the (audio) conversation between the pilots and it cannot by common sense be regarded as objective evidence supporting the Japanese claims,’’ Choi said. She reiterated that the destroyer Gwanggaeto was in

normal rescue operation. “There’s no change to the fact that our military did not operate tracking radar on a Japanese patrol plane.’’

Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told reporters that he decided to release the footage and data as objective evidence to let the people in and outside Japan know that the Japanese Self-Defense Force operated appropriately.

“It is most important that an incident like this should never be repeated between Japan and South Korea,’’ Iwaya said, adding that relations between the two sides are crucial for regional national security. “Even though difficult issues remain between Japan and South Korea,’’ he said, “I hope to overcome those problems and push forward our mutual understanding and exchange between our two militaries.’’

HACKING CASE from 4 to its promises,’’ Rosenstein said.

In recent months, the Justice Department has filed separate cases against several Chinese intelligence officials and hackers.

A case filed in October marked the first time that a Chinese Ministry of State Security officer was extradited to the United States to stand trial.

Chinese espionage efforts have become “the most severe counterintelligence threat facing our country today,’’ Bill Priestap, the assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, told the Senate committee.

As the U.S. was announcing its charges, the British government accused China of conducting a “widespread and significant’’ campaign of cyber espionage against the U.K. and its allies. The Foreign Office said a group known as APT 10 — the same one cited by the U.S. — carried out “a malicious cyber campaign targeting intellectual property and sensitive

commercial data in Europe, Asia and the U.S.’’ It said the group “almost certainly continues to target a range of global companies, seeking to gain access to commercial secrets.’’

Hacking by Chinese state-backed hackers dramatically escalated over the summer in response to the trade war with the U.S. and military tensions in the South China Sea, said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer of Carbon Black, whose company’s threat-hunting tool is used in global cyber investigations.

He credited the Justice Department with targeting a group that he said was China’s “most prolific hacker crew.’’ He said he was not optimistic that the pair would be prosecuted in the U.S., but that’s not the point.

“The Chinese are operating on a 50-year plan of information dominance, a comprehensive national strategy, and it’s high time we actually reacted,’’ Kellermann said. 

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9. ACLU-WA sues for man who was denied citizenship

people,” said Yolanda Yang, who identifies as Taiwanese American. “My family was raised with a distinct intolerance for Black people.”

“I would like Asian and Asian American people to educate themselves on how the model minority myth is used to build wedges between Asians and Blacks and ‘prove’ that racism isn’t really a thing,” said Shamay Thomas, who is Black.

7. Joe Nguyen runs for state senate

8. Anti-Blackness & Asians

In the wake of high-profile incidents including the Black men who were kicked out of Starbucks in Philadelphia for sitting in a store and not ordering anything, our reporter took a look at continued tensions on anti-Blackness and pan-African/Asian solidarity.

“It seems that the majority of anti-Black

Filipino-born and New Jersey-bred Paolo Montalban starred in Mamma Mia!, which ran at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre in February.

Montalban was that high-achieving student on his way to becoming a doctor.

While at Rutgers in 1993, a talent agent scouting conservatory students spotted Montalban, and the would-be-doctor turned into an actor.

In Mamma Mia!, he played Sam Carmichael, an Irish American architect played by the Irish-born Pierce Brosnan in the movie version.

4. Filmmaker Long Tran attacks Hollywood’s deepseated stereotypes Joe Nguyen made a successful run for the 34th district seat in the Washington state senate. He became the state’s first Vietnamese American legislator and the district’s first person of color to hold that seat.

Nguyen said he ran “because representation matters.”

The son of refugees, Nguyen said after he won the election, “To think about where I started, growing up in public housing in White Center, working as a janitor in high school to help my family make ends meet, washing dishes at night to help pay for college, to now being a state senator is proof that anything is possible.”

6. A-Pop column The ACLU of Washington (ACLUWA) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Army Specialist Do Hoon Kim, a decorated active-duty service member stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The suit said the government failed to process Kim’s naturalization application “within a reasonable time.”

Kim was brought to this country from South Korea by his parents in 2006. He enlisted in the Army in 2014 under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest program — established to recruit non-citizens with skills critical to the needs of the U.S. military.

The ACLU-WA won the suit and Kim was naturalized in November.

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The parade highlights and celebrates communities from the greater Seattle’s diverse cultural landscape, including Sikhs of Washington and many more.

2. Need a job? Forget about a 4-year degree

10. Chinatown’s new beat cop

Seattle Police Officer Young Jun Lim is one of three additional officers assigned to the redrawn boundaries of the West Precinct, which now includes Little Saigon.

In her announcement of the expanded precinct, Chief Carmen Best indicated one of the new officers would be Asian American.

Born in Portland, Ore., of immigrant parents from South Korea, Lim applied to be a cop after seeing a Seattle Police Department recruiting brochure. Lim covers the King 1 beat, which encompasses just north of the Safeco Field and CenturyLink area. He also responds to the newly added Little Saigon area in the King 3 beat when needed.

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1. Justice Yu: don’t be fooled

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Vietnamese American Long Tran edited a short film he directed titled “Jap,” which sets an Asian-man-white-female romance against the backdrop of Japanese American internment in Seattle in 1942.

An Arts, Media, and Culture student at the University of Washington Tacoma, Long received a grant to create the film, for which he gathered a diverse crew and professional SAG-AFTRA actors.

3. Alaska Airlines Torchlight parade pictorial Our March A-Pop column titled, “Think all Asians look alike? You’re racist! — (JK, but you def need more Asian friends)” took the number six spot.

“Star Wars” actor Kelly Marie Tran and Olympic figure skater Mirai Nagasu were mistaken for each other at the Oscars.

Critics accused The Washington Post, Getty Images, and other outlets of racial insensitivity for captioning pictures of Tran, a Vietnamese American actor, with Nagasu’s name, and vice versa. Nagasu is Japanese American. The two women, both Asian, and both wearing blue dresses, apparently looked alike.

5. Paolo Montalban in Seattle

TSUNAMI from 5 and Seismology said that the quake was detected at a depth of 30 miles and a magnitude of 7.1 about 100 miles off Davao Oriental province. It said that it could generate aftershocks but the agency did not expect any damage.

A report published in 2017 by the Washington State Auditor suggested that schools and parents are steering most kids toward bachelor’s degrees, without exploring other opportunities that cost less, result in more pay, and, at least in some cases, may be a better fit.

What’s more, Asian Americans are often underrepresented in these types of jobs.

In Washington’s apprenticeship programs, which includes everything from lashes and massage to aerospace manufacturing, Asians account for only 2 percent of participants. Meanwhile, Asians makeup about 9 percent of Washington’s population and are the state’s largest and fastest growing minority group.

Washington Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu penned an op-ed titled, “When Voting for Judges, Don’t Be Fooled by the Name — Vote for Justice Steve Gonzalez.”

Yu wrote that most voters opt out of voting in judicial races due to a lack of information about candidates. Or they vote based on name familiarity. She urged people — especially the Asian American community — to vote for Gonzalez, instead of Nathan Choi, a Bellevue attorney.

Yu wrote about Choi’s lack of qualifications, campaign violations, and bar association violations. 

Thousands of people showed up to watch

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at a depth of 37 miles and measured 6.9.

Renato Solidum, who heads the quake-monitoring institute, said that a major tsunami was unlikely given the depth of the quake and other factors but advised villagers to avoid the beach in Davao Oriental province and outlying

regions for about two hours after the quake struck around noon as a precaution.

The quake was felt in some coastal areas, he said.

Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said the quake doesn’t have a potential to cause a tsunami affecting Indonesia. 

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