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Three friends start charity to Decades after deaths of firefighters, arsonist help those affected by Kerala Pang to walk free again floods through crowdfunding By Janice Nesamani NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
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A calling to help those in need motivated three individuals to start Dream Vision Charity. Their first project provides backpacks to children hit by the floods in Kerala. Their next focus: Seattle’s homeless crisis.
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Today, scenes of waterlogged streets and homes caused by Hurricane Florence in North and South Carolina are a reminder of the havoc nature can wreak. see CHARITY on 11
From left: Boney Matthew, Varghese Thomas, and Megha Santosh along with another volunteer, Preethi Alexander.
Harry and Mary Pang at their Mercer Island Home in 1995
By Becky Chan NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Martin Pang may walk as a free man Sept. 27 after serving 20 years in prison. He is finishing a sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for burning down
his parents’ warehouse in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District in 1995, allegedly to collect insurance money. Four firefighters died battling the fire. Pang fled to Brazil after the fire and was captured there. see PANG on 12
SHELF Thrilling novels for foodies »7
Leana Wen, Chinese-born doctor, is new Planned Parenthood leader
MOVIES ‘A Simple Favor’ fun, but Asian? »8
WAYNE Son is collegebound! *bawls* »9
Rosie Rimando, South Seattle College’s new president, says diversity comes first
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Dr. Leana Wen
By David Crary THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant who fled her native country when she was 8 was named
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on Sept. 12 as Planned Parenthood’s new president, the first doctor to hold the post in five decades. Dr. Leana Wen will assume the role on Nov. 12, see PLANNED PARENTHOOD on 15
Seeing how the school system treated students of color motivated Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap, the new president of South Seattle College (SSC), to start a career in education in order to help more students of color obtain the resources they need to succeed. Born and raised in Charleston, S.C. to Filipino immigrants, Rimando-Chareunsap grew up well-connected in the Filipino American naval community. Her father is a U.S. Navy veteran who was in the submarine service, and her mother is a retired nurse. Rimando-Chareunsap moved to Kitsap County in middle school when her father was stationed in Silverdale, and she grew up on Bainbridge Island.
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After graduating from high school, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English and Ethnic Studies from Washington State University (WSU) and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from the University of Washington. She also earned her Doctor of Education in Higher Education Administration from WSU. see SSC on 15
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Sept. 11: Evening with Jane Fonda and Jonathan Sposato supports One Fair Wage
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Sept. 8: Thai Festival showcases culture, food, and art
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Threedet Chaiha leads a group of dancers in the Northern Thai (Lan-Na) culture parade during the Thai Festival Seattle 2018 at North Seattle College.
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Lines of people wait to taste a variety of Thai food, from mini appetizers to entrees, desserts and snacks, and fresh durian, king of the fruits in Thailand.
Last week, GeekWire’s Jonathan Sposato and the Riveter’s Amy Nelson hosted a fundraiser and panel event, An Evening with Jane Fonda in Support of One Fair Wage (OFW). OFW is a campaign to eliminate subminimum wage for tipped workers. OFW believes by doing this, working families are supported. About 80 people attended and $60,000 was raised. Jane Fonda is an actor and a long-time political activist. Her charity work has focused on youth and education, adolescent reproductive health, environment, human services, and the arts.
Sept. 16: Dr. Marguerite Ro named a winner of public health leadership award
Washington State Public Health Association (WSPHA)’s 2018 Public Health Leadership Award has named Dr. Marguerite Ro as a winner of this year’s award. Ro is Chief of Assessment at King County Public Health. She has spearheaded and implemented health initiatives to achieve health eq-
This year’s Thai Festival Seattle, run completely by volunteers, took place last week at North Seattle College. The family-friendly event highlighted Thai culture through performances like traditional and contemporary music, dances, and theater — as well as food through cooking demonstrations. More than 80 vendors served authentic and fusion Thai food, drinks, and snacks. Porranee Thanapakpawin, one of the organizers, said the event had a nice mix of international visitors and that this year saw an increase in visitors overall.
uity among our nation’s most at-risk populations through better use of data, community engagement in policy and systems change, and building the evidence-based strategies to achieve health equity. Ro obtained her masters and doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She will be honored on Oct. 16 at the WSPHA annual conference, held at the Wenatchee Convention Center.
Sept: Lena Hou sings national anthem at many events
Lena Hou with former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer at the Washington State Republican Party’s annual dinner on Sept. 12. Spicer was the keynote at the event.
Lena Hou is showcasing her singing talents and patriotism by singing the national anthem at various events this month. Hou sang at the Washington State Republican Party’s annual dinner on Sept. 12. She also auditioned, was a grand prize winner, and performed the national anthem live on Sept. 13 at the Washington State Fair. This is the third year in a row she has won this contest. Next up, Hou will sing at the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington’s Grassroots Summit’s closing ceremony on Sept. 23.
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Keepsakes reveal clues of life for Japanese in Yakima-area By Tammy Ayer YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Yoshiko Hide Kishi gazed at the small buckskin moccasins in her cupped hands as she recalled her early childhood in rural Toppenish. Her father and mother, Mantaro and Kiyo Hide, were farmers with five children, Yoshiko being their youngest. Her father raised several crops and Kiyo helped him amid her household duties, which included making dresses for Yoshiko because money was tight. The moccasins came from their landowner, George Adams, a citizen of the Yakama Nation in White Swan. They are soft, with little adornment — ideal for a toddler learning how to walk. “I was 7, 8 months old,” said Kishi, 82. She has photos taken in 1936 of her wearing them, one as she stood outside in a walker and the other sitting in a high chair inside. Kishi received other gifts from the Adams family, including two small beaded bags that her mother carefully packed away with the moccasins. One is round with bright geometric patterns on each side; the other is heart-shaped, with a scene of two deer. That was her favorite. “It’s really worn because I probably carried it around and played with it,” Kishi said. Like others in the Lower Yakima Valley’s Japanese community, the Hides enjoyed a close relationship with the Yakama Nation citizens from whom they leased land. When Japanese immigrants began coming to the Valley in the early 1890s, they cleared land, dug canals, and worked on the railroad. But due to legislation collectively referred to as alien land laws, they could not own or lease
“The [Yakamas] were the only people willing to rent land to Japanese immigrants in the area. ... As a result, thriving Japanese immigrant communities arose around the towns of Yakima, Wapato, and Toppenish.” — Isao Fujimoto land in most areas. The sovereign Yakama Nation, though, was not subject to those laws. “The [Yakamas] were the only people willing to rent land to Japanese immigrants in the area,” Wapato native Isao Fujimoto notes in his book, “Bouncing Back: Community, Resilience & Curiosity.” “As a result, thriving Japanese immigrant communities arose around the towns of Yakima, Wapato, and Toppenish.” Those immigrant communities included dozens of Lower Valley farms and several businesses in each city — hotels, stores, laundries, restaurants, barber shops, and beauty shops. Yakima, Wapato, and Toppenish were each home to a Buddhist temple and a Japanese school. The signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942, about 10 weeks after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, changed those communities forever. It set in motion the World War II incarceration of more than 120,000 West Coast residents of Japanese descent. That included 1,017 people from the Yakima Valley, twothirds of whom were born in the United States. Transported from the Yakima Valley to the Portland Assembly Center in
early June 1942, they were detained there for three months until they were taken to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. It closed in November 1945. Only about 10 percent returned to the Valley, almost all to Wapato. The Hides moved to California, where Mantaro and his sons began growing wholesale flowers, specializing in long-stemmed mums. Kishi, who lives in Seal Beach, Calif., was in Yakima last month with Patti Hirahara of Anaheim, Calif., who was honored as grand marshal of the Pioneer Power Show & Swap Meet in Union Gap. During her visit, Kishi donated the moccasins and one of the beaded bags to the Yakima Valley Museum, home to the exhibition “Land of Joy and Sorrow: Japanese Pioneers in the Yakima Valley.” Her brother, Tom, was deeply involved with the exhibition, which opened in 2013, and a related reunion. The Brownie uniform that she wore at Heart Mountain is on display, along with items that he donated that included her family’s mochi pounding set, clothing, other Heart Mountain items, and photographs. “The only reason I came twice before was the museum exhibits and the reunion,” Kishi said. Just 6 years old when her family was forced to leave, Kishi doesn’t remember a lot about their farm, which was near the intersection of East Branch and Oldenway roads on property crossed by the Wanity Slough. The house burned down years ago. “We were out in the boonies. I have pictures of the house, packing shed, chicken coop ... my mom took them all,” she said. “I remember when I was older, 5 or 6, I was the one to go in the coop and collect the eggs.” see YAKIMA on 13
Thai student deaths in Seattle ruled murder-suicide SEATTLE (AP) — The deaths of two female students from Thailand have been ruled a murder-suicide, according to authorities in Seattle. The women were 25-year-old Kornkamol Leenavarat and her close friend 32-yearold Thiti-orn Chotchuangsap, The Bangkok Post in Thailand reported. The younger woman had flown to the United States recently to attend the University of Washington just two weeks before her death, the news outlet reported. Police found their bodies in an apartment in Seattle’s University District on Sept. 4 after responding to a call from a building manager. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office in Seattle said on Sept. 6 that Leenavarat died from multiple stab wounds and her death was ruled a homicide. The medical examiner said the older woman died of a stab wound to the chest and that her death was ruled a suicide. Both died on Sept. 8. Police have said there are no outstanding suspects.
The medical examiner identified the women as Kornkamon Leenawarat and Thiti-on Chotechuangsab, names that match those on file with the University of Washington. According to the Bangkok Post, Weerasak Leenavarat, Leenavarat’s elder brother, said the family had no doubts about the forensic finding by U.S. authorities. The Bangkok Post identified the younger woman as a member of a political family in Thanyaburi, in Pathum Thani Province northeast of Bangkok. She was the daughter of the former deputy mayor and niece of the current mayor. University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce said in a statement posted online Thursday that both women were studying for a master’s degree in law. “This is a heartbreaking loss for their families, friends, and our entire community. I offer condolences on behalf of our University to everyone who is grieving as a result of this tragedy,” she said.
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Couple who immigrated from China killed on Oregon Coast
DEPOE BAY, Ore. (AP) — A wave hit two recent immigrants from China as they visited the Oregon Coast, sweeping them out into the ocean and killing them. Miaochan Chen, 49, and Wenjun Zhu, 41, from Lake Oswego, Ore., perished on Sept. 9, but their 10-year-old daughter was unharmed, Capt. Tim Fox of the Oregon State Police said Sept. 10. The family had been picnicking near Depoe Bay when they took a trail down to rocks overlooking the ocean. A wave washed over the rocks, engulfing the couple.
A Coast Guard helicopter and boat searched, and they were found and helicoptered from the ocean to a nearby state park. Life saving measures were attempted as they were driven by ambulance to a hospital, but they succumbed to their injuries. The family immigrated in July. A state agency placed their daughter into a local foster home. Family members were notified with the help of the Chinese Consulate. The Department of Human Services will be working with the families for the daughter’s
Ex-convict pleads guilty in Chinese student’s shooting death in Utah By Lindsay Whitehurst THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An ex-convict pleaded guilty on Sept. 12 to killing a University of Utah student from China using a gun stolen after another slaying. Austin Boutain, 24, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the plea agreement that allowed him to avoid the death penalty. He pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping charges. He and his wife were charged with hatching a carjacking plot that led to the October 2017 death of Chenwei Guo, whose parents live in Beijing and were devastated over the death of their only son at age 23. He “was a perfect son to them,” said
prosecutor Chou Chou Collins. Boutain stood in the courtroom shackled, surrounded by guards. He also pleaded guilty to attacking another inmate and damaging a sprinkler in jail. “I know sorry doesn’t mean much, but I am truly sorry,” he said. His wife Kathleen Boutain, 24, has been charged with criminal solicitation, theft, and other counts. She has yet to enter a plea. They were drifters who fled to Utah after cutting the throat of Mitchell Ingle, 63, in Golden, Colo., in a plan to steal his trailer home, authorities said. After Ingle’s death, they drove his truck to Salt Lake City, ditched it, and set see BOUTAIN on 14
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Law aims to resist court order to repay mortgage fund SAC R A M E N TO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on Sept. 10 that attempts to circumvent a court order requiring the state to pay back Gov. Jerry $331 million to a California Brown special fund related to the mortgage crisis. The bill concerns a 2012 settlement between all 50 states and the major mortgage services related to the Great Recession. States were awarded a collection of $2.5 billion, with California bringing in $410 million. The Legislature passed a law in 2012 to set that money in a special fund. Lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown then drew $331 million out of the fund for a variety of
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Diver who aided in Thai cave rescue sues Elon Musk over pedophile accusations
By Tom Krisher THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A British diver who helped rescue youth soccer players trapped in a cave in Thailand is suing Elon Musk, alleging that the Tesla CEO falsely accused him of being a pedophile. Diver Vernon Unsworth, who lives north of London, contends that Musk made the false allegation on Twitter and then repeated multiple other falsehoods after the dramatic rescue of a dozen youth soccer players and their coach in July. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court Monday seeks more than $75,000 in damages and a court order stopping Musk from making further allegations. Tesla did not respond to requests for comment on Sept. 17. Musk called Unsworth a “pedo” in a tweet to his 22.5 million followers after Unsworth criticized Musk in a July 13 television interview with CNN about the rescue. Musk and engineers from his rocket company, SpaceX, built a small submarine and shipped it to Thailand to help with the rescue. The device wasn’t used and in the interview, Unsworth called it a “PR stunt” and said it wouldn’t have worked to free the boys who were trapped in the flooded cave. He also said Musk “can stick his submarine somewhere where it hurts.” The lawsuit alleges that Musk, apparently angered by Unsworth’s remarks, began a campaign to destroy his reputation “by publishing false and heinous accusations of criminality against him to the public.” In a series of tweets July 15, Musk, who personally delivered the submarine to the cave, wrote that he never saw Unsworth and challenged him to show a video of the final rescue. “Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it,” Musk tweeted. Later on Twitter, Musk wrote “Bet ya a signed
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dollar it’s true.” Later Musk deleted the tweets and apologized after being criticized by shareholders, the lawsuit alleged, stating in a tweet that his words were “spoken in anger” and that the sub was built out of kindness according to specifications from the dive team leader. But on Aug. 28, Musk tweeted about Unsworth once again, writing: “You don’t think it’s strange he hasn’t sued me? He was offered free legal services.” The lawsuit states that with the tweet, Musk sought to tell the average reader that Unsworth’s failure to sue at the time was evidence that Unsworth is a pedophile. Two days after the Aug. 28 tweet, Musk emailed a BuzzFeed News reporter, suggesting that the reporter investigate Unsworth and “stop defending child rapists,” according to the lawsuit, which is 65 pages with exhibits. “He’s an old, single white guy from
California board candidate Zhao quits race after trans comments SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco school board candidate has quit the race after apologizing for controversial remarks about the rights of transgender students. The San Francisco Examiner says Josephine Zhao announced her withdrawal on the morning of Sept. 10 in a Facebook post. Zhao was criticized after comments she made to Chinese-language media in 2013 recently surfaced. In those remarks, Zhao said legislation that allows transgender students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity could lead to rape. The ensuing controversy caused her to lose endorsements. Zhou apologized last month. But the newspaper says that apology was
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England who’s been traveling or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years,” Musk wrote, adding that Unsworth moved in Thailand “for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time,” according to the lawsuit. Then in a second email to BuzzFeed, Musk accused Unsworth of being a liar and said he wasn’t on the cave dive team. “Mr. Unsworth is not a pedophile. Mr. Unsworth has never engaged in an act of pedophilia. Mr. Unsworth is not a child rapist,” the lawsuit stated, adding that Unsworth has never been married to a minor. Unsworth has a “significant other” in Thailand, a 40-year-old woman with whom he shares a house, according to the lawsuit. He first started going to Thailand in 2011, where he explored and mapped caves, the documents stated. The lawsuit explains Unsworth’s role in the rescue, saying that on June 23, when the soccer players became trapped, several Thai officials called and asked him to go to the cave as soon as possible. He was the first foreign rescuer to arrive. He recommended that the Thai government seek help from divers in the United Kingdom, and Unsworth called friend and fellow diver Rob Harper. Harper, who had just returned from exploring Thai caves with Unsworth, brought two other divers, John Volanthen and Rick Stanton, to help with the rescue. The boys, ages 11-16, were found July 2 by Volanthen and Stanton, according to the lawsuit. The last soccer player was rescued July 8. “Together with Mr. Unsworth, Mr. Harper, Mr.
Volanthen, and Mr. Stanton put together the dive portion of the rescue plan that ultimately saved the boys,” the lawsuit stated. It concedes that Unsworth was not involved in the final planning stages of the rescue because he didn’t have enough experience to make the dive. The lawsuit was filed by lawyers led by L. Lin Wood, an Atlanta attorney who has represented plaintiffs in several high-profile libel cases including the family of homicide victim JonBenet Ramsey and security guard Richard Jewel, who was accused in media reports of being a suspect in a 1996 bombing during the Olympics in Atlanta, a crime committed by anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph. The documents said a separate lawsuit would be filed in England. Unsworth will not do interviews, Wood said, but the attorney said in a statement that Musk’s wealth “cannot convert his lies into truth or protect him from accountability for his wrongdoing in a court of law.” Unsworth’s British lawyer, Mark Stephens, said that “Twibels (Twitter libels) show that falsehoods by the rich and powerful can circulate round the globe to their 22.5 million followers and to the media before the truth can pull its boots on.” “The truth has now got its boots on and Elon Musk is being brought to account for repeatedly attacking and taunting the good name of an ordinary spelunker: Vernon Unsworth who answered the call and (with others) put his life on the line to help rescue the 13 trapped in the caves in Thailand,” he said. Stephens did not say when Unsworth planned to file a claim in the British courts.
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22 MID-AUTUMN GALA & SINGING FUNDRAISER China Harbor Restaurant, 2040 Westlake Ave. N., Seattle 5 p.m. $60/ticket cisc-seattle.org
2ND KOREAN CHUSEOK FESTIVAL 4851 S. Tacoma Way, Tacoma 12 p.m. apcc96.org JOHN OKADA, A CELEBRATION AND BOOK LAUNCH The Seattle Public Library 2 p.m. NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE AND SEATTLE CENTER PRESENT 5TH ANNUAL SEATTLE CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Seattle Center 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 6TH ANNUAL WOMEN IN BUDDHISM CONFERENCE Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple, 1417 S. Main St., Seattle 9:30 a.m. $45 seattlebetsuin.com TAP-SEA: SEPTEMBER VOLUNTEER EVENT AT FARESTART FareStart, 700 Virginia St., Seattle 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE VGOC CHAMBER PERFORMANCE Kinokuniya Seattle 6–8 p.m. KINO ARTIST ALLEY Kinokuniya, 525 S. Weller St., Seattle 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Drama, mystery, and murder novel recommendations for foodies By Samantha Pak NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
“The Way You Make Me Feel” By Maureen Goo Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018
Clara Shin doesn’t take life too seriously. For her, it’s all about pranks and disrupting the status quo. But when one of her pranks goes too far, her dad forces her to spend her summer working on his food truck, the KoBra (named for his Korean and Brazilian upbringing) — alongside her nemesis Rose Carver. So — there goes her plans to visit her mom in Tulum, Mexico. But as the summer goes on, Clara finds herself actually becoming friends with Rose. There’s also Hamlet, the boy who works at a coffee stand at one of their food truck stops, who might have a crush on her and who she just might be crushing on as well. And maybe, just maybe, she’s beginning to care about the KoBra. “The Way You Make Me Feel” is a comingof-age story about a young woman who has spent her entire life in the shallow end but is suddenly thrust into the deep end. Clara is a strong and independent character who goes through the very relatable process
of figuring out who she is as a person. She’s not perfect. She can be self-centered and impulsive and doesn’t always think things through, while also considering the consequences. However, we see her grow up over the course of the summer as she builds new relationships, reexamines old ones — and strengthens some while maybe letting go
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Tokyo chief opens replacement for city’s iconic fish market TOKYO (AP) — As a brass band blared “Anchors Aweigh,” Tokyo’s governor led the opening ceremony for the Japanese capital’s new fish market on Sept. 13 and tried to assuage concerns about contamination at the site that delayed the move from the famed Tsukiji market. The new Toyosu market won’t open for business until Oct. 11, but hundreds of government and fisheries industry officials in dark suits came to the ribboncutting ceremony at the sprawling facility. Wholesale fish sales will end at Tsukiji, which opened in 1935 and became one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions. After taking a tour of the new facility, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike told the crowd that Toyosu will carry on the “Tsukiji brand,” which represents a food culture loved around the world. “Safety has been ensured,” she said. “Steps have been taken.” Koike delayed the move scheduled see FISH MARKET on 15
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of others. Goo also does a great job with creating well-rounded secondary characters — from the anxious, type-A Rose to the sweet and earnest Hamlet to Clara’s teenage-punkturned-businessman father, Adrian. The relationships Clara has with these three characters are the focal point of the story.
Her relationship with her father is especially touching as the two experience some major growing pains. There are some definite tear-jerking moments that will have readers appreciating the parental figures in their lives and what these figures have done for them. see SHELF on 12
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I think this film was yellow-washed!
I feel a little guilty reviewing “A Simple Favor” because the Asianiest things in this movie is Henry Golding and the child actor, Ian Ho, who plays his son.
Can I say that? Is that bad to say?
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The plot “A Simple Favor” is super fun. It’s like “Gone Girl,” if “Gone Girl” were funny. The movie is a th r iller-myster y about a mysterious and enviable woman, Emily (Blake Lively), who becomes friends with a real socially awkward but adorable dork, Stephanie (Anna Kendrick). This odd couple crackles with fun chemistry that made me laugh a lot — until Emily suddenly vanishes without a trace — and then turns up dead! And then we start wondering if the husband, Sean (Henry Golding), did it! Guys, this stuff happened in the first 20 minutes of the movie. I did not even give you spoilers. That’s how bananas this movie is. From Emily’s death, the movie takes some really crazy, unexpected, wildly exciting turns. There were moments that were frankly scary for me, because I am a wuss and I don’t like scary movies. There was a moment when I was so pissed at Northwest Asian Weekly’s editor, Ruth, because I did not sign up to review a scary Exorcist-y movie, and I felt she tricked me. But I closed my eyes for a few seconds, and then the terror passed. So the movie does not become a horror movie at all, but the fact that this was a legit worry for me at a certain point should speak to how well this movie flexes.
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Sponsored by Sound Publishing, Joyale Restaurant, and SeaBeez I actually just spent a long time trying to Google whether or not Golding’s character, Sean Townsend, is also of Asian descent in the book. Unfortunately, there is no information about this on the internet. I didn’t want to pay top dollar for the book, to read it only to verify this. I did read the first four pages through the Amazon preview, and Sean’s race was not explained in those pages at all. So I’m going to cautiously assume that this is actually cool ethnicity-bending casting! I’m going to assume that director Paul Feig, the delightful person that brought us fun, feminist-y fare like “Bridesmaids” and the “Ghostbusters” reboot, took a white character and put an Asian actor in him. I think this film was yellow-washed! Can I say that? Is that bad to say? Anyway, because Golding was cast as a lead, everyone related to him in the movie was also Asian-y! That was really cool. Of note is the actor who plays Sean and Emily’s son, Ian Ho. He was simultaneously adorable and a really good child actor. He had to throw a tantrum a few times in the movie as well as mourn his mom’s death, and I believed him each time. He had a white counterpart, see MOVIE on 13
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■ WAYNE’S WORLDS My grown up, confounding, exasperating, exhilarating blessing of a son is going off to college!
From left: siblings Tyler, Savannah, and Ethan
By Wayne Chan NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY In about 10 days, our oldest son Tyler is heading off to college. Maybe I need to provide a little background. Tyler is indeed our eldest child, but since he is a triplet, he’s only older by about three minutes because he came out first. Whether he was born three minutes or three years ahead, you can still say that he was born to be a leader. Even the doctor remarked that Tyler was the one who got the whole delivery started when he broke his mom’s water. Evidently, he didn’t want to be stuck in there with his brother and sister anymore — he wanted out! I don’t know how the doctor determined that Tyler was the one who broke it — unless there’s some inutero interrogation technique that I’m not aware of. For the last 18 years, his mother and I have raised him the best we could. Of course we wondered: What kind of person would he turn out to be? What will he do with his life? I know we probably put more pressure on him to make the most out of his life than many others. Some of it undoubtedly comes from being parents, but I’m sure a lot of it has to do with the fact that we all have had to deal with the fact that his brother and sister are autistic. Since the age of 2, Tyler’s life has been surrounded by a near-constant presence of doctors, special needs therapists, alternative therapies, and just a generalized feeling of organized chaos. Understandably, we, especially their heroic mom, focused most of our attention on what needed the most attention — Tyler’s brother, Ethan, and sister, Savannah. With so much effort being spent on Ethan and Savannah, we also wanted to make sure Tyler could grow up in an environment that was as “typical” as it could be. So, we decided early on that we would not let his brother and sister’s diagnosis stop us from doing anything. We went on vacations — flying all over the world. The first time we took the three of them out for dinner as a family, we brought along a triplet stroller, three baby carriers, a backpack filled with diapers,
Chan family photo! Parents (behind) are Wayne and Maya. Kids, from left, are Ethan, Savannah, and Tyler.
and enough milk to open a dairy. After fellow diners watched what we had to do to get through a simple dinner, they stood up to applaud our efforts as we got up to leave. Then, there was the time we decided to take the triplets to the San Diego Zoo to visit the newly opened panda exhibit. As I was pushing the triplet stroller near the panda enclosure, half the people in the panda line left to surround us as apparently, we were the more exciting draw. Looking back at the last few years, as far as I can tell, Tyler has become just your average American boy, sometimes irritatingly so. When he was about 6 years old and we were in the car on a car trip, as he was looking at me from the backseat as I was driving, he pointed to the back of my head and said he noticed a gray hair. Since I was still in my 30s and didn’t appreciate having any gray hairs, I asked Tyler to pull it out. He started digging into my hair and suddenly said, “I’m like your personal monkey!” And for the record, he ended up pulling about 10 perfectly black hairs out while leaving the solitary gray hair in place. This is a boy who started playing tennis with me and, after a few points, innocently remarked to me, “You know, you don’t have to hit it so soft to me.” I told him, “I’m not trying to hit it soft to you!” Then the next time we played, I deliberately tried hitting the ball harder, and he said, “You know, you’re definitely hitting it a little harder to me now.” I told him to stop talking. And the last time we played (and I’m pretty sure it will be the last time), he said, “I want to beat you while you’re still young enough to play.” Faint praise, indeed. Still, we’ve discovered that having him grow up with two special needs kids has affected him — and I couldn’t be any prouder of him for it. In high school, he started a club called “Best Pals” in which he would recruit other students so that they could spend time at lunch with special needs kids just to keep them company. For his senior project, he started “Aceing Autism,” which is a group of volunteers that gets together every weekend to teach
special needs kids how to improve their hand/eye coordination by learning tennis. And in middle school, when he saw a group of bullies towering over a special needs kid during lunch — he stepped in front of the boy and stood up to the bullies and got them to stop. When he was younger, as I tucked him
into bed every night, my last words of the night to him were, “You’re my hero.” As he heads off to school at UCLA, those same three words keep running through my mind. Wayne Chan can be reached at info@ nwasianweekly.com.
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By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY President Donald Trump has lashed out at China for unfair trade practices, leading to his decision to impose tariffs. The $350 billion trade deficit with China may sound overwhelming, but experts have shown that Trump’s interpretations of trade deficit is outdated, thus furthering the public’s misconceptions in regard to U.S.–China trade. Last July, Trump’s statement said, “Trade between our nations, however, has been very unfair, for a very long time … China has, for example, long been engaging in several unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology. These practices, documented in an extensive report published by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on March 22, 2018, harm our economic and national security and deepen our already massive trade imbalance with China.” The Northwest Asian Weekly interviewed Ben Zhang, CEO of Greater China Industries, and the new Chinese Consul General, Wang Donghua, who was in Seattle last Saturday, on their U.S.– China trade views.
1. Are trade deficits actually read correctly? Ben Zhang, CEO of Greater China Industries
Trump’s view on trade is based
on business’ bottomline estimates, whereas trade has different sets of criteria in measuring success. For instance, University of Washington Foster School of Business’ Ed Rice gave an example about his dental visits in a panel for the Seattle Rotary Club. He said that he pays his dentist to fix Ed Rice at the Seattle Rotary Club his teeth consistently, and in return, he makes no money from his dentist. This shows that he has a deficit with the dentist. However, the reality is, you can’t call services performed on teeth a deficit. And, we also know that the more dental services he has done, the better it will be for his health. A trade deficit means a country imports more than it exports. According to Investopedia, “A country’s large trade deficit means that that nation’s citizens are so wealthy that they can afford to purchase what other nations have to offer. So it isn’t necessary desirable or fair to compare exports to imports, let alone to consider them to be two sides of the same coin. As large as American imports are, the U.S. still exports more than any country, except China.” The United States imports about $500 billion worth
from China. China imports about $150 billion from the United States. The difference in these amounts is the $350 billion trade deficit. This is not cause for alarm, though. The United States is the third-most populous country in the world with respect to gross Consul General Wang domestic product. Its total trade deficit is only 2.5 percent of its GDP. Consul General Wang said, “You can’t look at U.S.– China trade from the surface. You have to understand all angles. Trade produces mutual benefits for both the U.S. and China. It’s impossible for China to take advantage of the U.S.”
2. Who actually makes the most money? U.S. companies make the most money, said Consul General Wang. “You can’t judge a book by its cover,” added Zhang. “Out of the $500 billion in trade with China, Apple products alone make up $200 billion. Another $200 billion is from Target and Walmart,” said Zhang. “Those are U.S. see BLOG on 16
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Justice served? No. Martin Pang should not be released from prison early On this week’s front page, we ran a story about the release of Martin Pang, an arsonist who set fire to his parents’ Chinatown building on Jan. 5, 1995 to collect insurance money. That blaze led to the deaths of four Seattle firefighters when they broke through a false floor and fell to the basement. There, Lt. Walter D. Kilgore, then 45, Lt. Gregory Allen Shoemaker, then 43, Firefighter Randy Terlicker, then 35, and Firefighter James T. Brown, then 25, all suffocated to death. This was the worst loss in Seattle Fire Department (SFD) history, one that the city has not fully recovered from. This tragedy is remembered through the Fallen Firefighter Memorial, four bronze statues that are in Occidental Park, adjacent to SFD. In our front page story, “Decades after deaths of Seattle firefighters, arsonist Martin Pang will walk free again,” we talked to retired King County Superior Court Judge Larry Jordan, who was the one who sentenced Pang to 35 years in prison to atone for his actions, and asked Jordan if he thinks that justice has been served. Jordan said, “Some justice, not complete justice.”
Martin Pang
In May, when news broke that Pang was to be released from prison later this month on Sept. 27 — after serving only 20 years of his sentence — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan tweeted, “Martin Pang should never be granted an early release. He is responsible for the death of four heroic firefighters who gave their lives in service of our community. The families of the fallen and [SFD] are forever changed because of his cowardly
and deadly actions.” Pang is reportedly being released early for “good behavior,” which is a claim that many are doubting. Prior to the deaths of the firefighters, Pang was young, charming, and lived a life of leisure, footed by his parents. He also had a dark side. Pang was married four times between 1978 and 1989. All of his marriages ended in violence. His first wife, Jean Wyke, was hospitalized for
vertebral fractures, a broken nose, and broken eardrum, which he doled out. His second wife, Sandra Jean Spencer, said that Pang assaulted her — enough that she was taken to Swedish Hospital. His third wife, Rise Live Johansen, said he threatened to kill her. His fourth wife, Karlyn Tierny, wouldn’t talk about him to the press, but in 1995, it was reported that police records show that she told the police Pang tried to hire somebody to kill her. Further, while incarcerated, as recent as 2013, Pang was caught in a scheme to defraud firefighters. With a co-conspirator, Charles McClain, Pang planned to set up credit accounts in the names of firefighters, police officers, and witnesses involved in his case. They planned to steal theses identities and direct money to offshore accounts. At the time, investigators said he planned to travel to Brazil with his nest egg upon release. Does this seem like good behavior to you? It doesn’t to us. This man’s actions have taken away people from their families — a loss that is felt for a lifetime. Four firefighters died, and in all, Pang has only served five years for each death. We are struggling to make sense of this leniency.
for a separate charity to do the work they were doing with the Seattle Gospel Mission, Thomas said, “We wanted to bring this under the Dream Vision Charity so we can get more people to participate as part of the charity, and this is a process we can set up. Since Seattle Gospel Mission was part of a church, not many people from other communities wanted to join. Dream Vision has nothing to do with religion or race or anything.” “If anybody would like to volunteer their efforts, Dream Vision Charity is open to anyone,” said Matthew. “Find us on Facebook or Instagram. Let us know that you want to help on dreamvisioncharity@gmail.com, and we will coordinate our efforts.”
CHARITY from 1 For many from the South Indian state of Kerala, Florence seems like a flashback to last July, to the deaths and destruction caused when a deluge of showers killed around 480 people, injured several thousand, and displaced even more. The state, known as ‘God’s Own Country’ because of its natural beauty, suffered the worst flooding it has seen in over a hundred years. For Megha Santosh, Boney Matthew, and Varghese Thomas, the Kerala floods hit close to home. The three, who have spent more than a decade in Seattle, grew up in India and originally hail from floodhit Kerala. In fact, Santosh’s family home in Thiruvalla was damaged during the floods, but luckily her family is safe, and their home is now being rebuilt. Santosh, Matthew, and Thomas have been actively engaged in charity, regularly volunteering with the Seattle Gospel Mission, and helping the homeless. However, they always had the desire to do something more — something that is not affiliated to any religion, race, or caste. So, a meeting at a coffee shop earlier in July, combined with the impact of images of the horrific destruction of their home state, prompted them to act. “It all started with the Kerala floods that affected thousands,” said Thomas. “We were looking at providing relief and initially thought of raising funds to get relief supplies here in the United States and sending them to Kerala, but we ran into some issues with the end-to-end logistics.” Thomas is the treasurer of Dream Vision Charity (DVC), which was founded with Matthew and Santosh. DVC is now conducting a drive to collect funds to help children in Kerala. “The money will provide backpacks and supplies such as pens, pencils, color pencils, pencil boxes, notebooks, lunch boxes, water bottles, and umbrellas to children in Kerala that will help them succeed in schools,” said Matthew, head of DVC. “We have set a goal of 500 backpacks by the end of September and are already halfway through. Each backpack costs $10.”
The backpacks that the Charity will distribute to kids in need in Kerala
People who have been displaced by the of them have reached out to a lot of floods in Kerala have lost most of their communities within big corporations possessions and belongings. The floods such as Microsoft, Boeing, and Amazon, struck just as most schools in the region in addition to local communities in and opened after the summer holidays and around the Seattle area as well as the swept away most children’s new school Kerala community in the United States. supplies. “We have already reached out to and Next, helping Seattle’s have been getting requests for help from homeless schools and churches, because we have been part of the relief efforts from here Matthew, who also works in real estate, when the floods took place,” said Matthew. said, “We came together as a group of The areas that the group will be focusing friends who wanted to do things locally their efforts on are Wayanad, Chengannur, and outside our immediate neighborhoods. Kuttanad, and Paravur, which are still … We are not bound by any one race or reeling from the floods. religion, and we are open to anyone.” “We want to put a smile on the kids’ One of the driving forces behind the faces when they receive the bag and all group’s formation and something that the 自1872年起服務西北岸社區 of its supplies,” said Matthew. “We have trio discussed while founding the DVC 非營利獨立協會 volunteers working in Kerala who will was they didn’t only want to support those help us deliver them to the kids in those in need only with finances. affected areas. Our [charity’s] tagline says Having volunteered with the Seattle it all — Restore. Rebuild. Rejoice. Let’s Gospel Mission for a long time, what the restore the affected one, let’s rebuild, and three want to tackle next through DVC at the end, let’s rejoice together with a is the homelessness crisis in Seattle. smile.” “That’s a project we want to work on in Santosh, who is the secretary of DVC, the future. We understand the challenges said, “We are collecting funds through our and limitations homeless individuals face pages on GoFundMe and Venmo. We have in the area well. Through the charity, we reached out not only to people in Seattle, want to volunteer to help people in need, but all over the U.S., and a lot of it is over provide them with food, and be involved social media through friends and their in rescue missions as well as provide ‧陵墓地下室 ‧骨灰靈位 friends.” clothing.” Matthew said. ‧土葬福地 Thomas informed us that‧墓碑、紀念碑 the three Commenting on why they felt the need
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It took the United States a year of negotiation with Brazil to extradite Pang. In Brazil’s supreme court, the arson deaths didn’t warrant murder charges, which King County Prosecutor Norman Maleng sought for the death of the firefighters. The two countries settled on four counts of manslaughter to finalize the extradition. In March 1996, Deputy U.S. Marshal Denny Behrend, accompanied by Seattle Police Homicide Detective Steve O’Leary and Seattle Fire Department Arson Investigator Mike Shannon, escorted Pang onto a United Airlines flight at Rio de Janeiro airport. Thus began Pang’s journey to Seattle to face judgement.
The Pang family, in 1995 Pang led a carefree life once. He drove a Porsche, married four times, fathered two daughters, and had an unlimited expense account from his parents, Mary and Harry. The elder Pangs never imagined their son would burn their frozen-food warehouse to the ground for profit. The business empire that the elderly Pangs grew, from decades of toil, melted away in hours on Jan. 5, 1995. Mary and Harry were longtime contributing members of their community. Mary Mar Pang was born and raised in Seattle to Chinese immigrants, who came West to work on the railroads. She graduated from Franklin High School. Harry Pang was a World War II army air corp veteran who flew on D-Day in Normandy and received a Distinguished Flying Cross. The two met at the University of Washington and married in 1945. After running a grocery store on Beacon Hill, they immersed themselves in the frozen food business started by Mary’s sister, former restaurateur and Councilwoman Ruby Chow. (The two sisters later had a falling out and Chow left the partnership.) Mary and Harry seized the opportunity and turned it into their brand, Mary Pang’s Food Products. They bought a warehouse at 811 Seventh Avenue South as their headquarters and moved into a lake-view home on Mercer Island with their SHELF from 7
“Dim Sum of All Fears: A Noodle Shop Mystery” By Vivien Chien St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2018
It’s only been a few months since Lana Lee solved the mystery of who killed Mr. Feng, the owner of the Asia Village, the shopping plaza where her family’s Chinese restaurant is located. The memories of being held at gunpoint by the murderer are still with her. But new murder waits for no one, and she is back on the case after the couple running the store next door to the Ho-Lee Noodle House are found dead in their store. And before her maybe-boyfriend, detective Adam Trudeau, can tell her to stay out of it, Lana is chasing down leads at the local casino, knee-deep in the dead husband’s ex-wives (yes, plural) and in the middle of the couple’s family drama. It’s starting to look like their deaths weren’t the straightforward murder–suicide it was staged to look like. On top of all that, Lana’s parents take off for Taiwan, leaving her in charge of the restaurant — much to both her and sister Anna May’s dismay. Chien is at it again in this second installment of her “Noodle Shop Mystery” series. Her character Lana is still trying to figure out her life, thinking that working at the restaurant is just temporary (but we know that’s probably not true). It doesn’t happen overnight, and things are slow going for Lana, which is a more realistic picture of what it can be like to try to get your life back together. She’s not perfect but she’s trying, and readers can see she is
Northwest Asian Weekly extensively covered the Jan. 5, 1995 arson in depth. These are news clippings from the newspaper’s archives.
son and daughter. Not much is known about Pang’s sister, Marlyce, who left home after high school. Both went to Mercer Island High. Pang, never the academic type, later struggled as an actor and failed as a businessman. He remained financially dependent on his parents, and they obliged.
That night Beginning in the 1990s, growing competition ate into Mary Pang Food Products’ earnings. Pang wanted his parents to sell or redevelop the property. They refused. Pang told close friends his intent to burn the warehouse to collect insurance money. Weeks before the fire, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) received a tip that Pang was ready to burn the warehouse. The fire department and ATF surveilled the place, but saw nothing unusual. They ceased surveillance just before Christmas. On Jan. 5, 1995, Pang set the fire to the Seventh Ave. warehouse. The blaze killed responding firefighters James Brown, Randall putting her heart into everything she does — whether it’s running the restaurant in her parents’ absence or trying to solve her friends’ murders. Chien also continues developing the characters in Lana’s life — Adam, Anna May, her roommate Megan, her unofficial aunties of Asia Village, and Ho-Lee’s chef Peter and his almost love interest Kimmy Tran. Together, they create a strong support system for Lana, and it’s clear they have her back for when times get tough.
“Number One Chinese Restaurant” By Lillian Li Henry Holt and Co., 2018
Welcome to the Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Md, a go-to place for hunger pains and celebrations. It is a world of servers and kitchen staff — some who have worked there for decades, others who have been there for less than a month. Everyone within the restaurant has a story — from owner Jimmy Han, who has hopes of leaving his father’s restaurant for a fancier one, to his older brother, Johnny, who has drifted apart from his teenage daughter, Annie. Then there are Nan and Ah-Jack, who are considering taking the next step in their friendship, as well as Nan’s son Pat, who is constantly in and out of trouble. Then Pat and Annie, in a spot of boredom, find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game that implicates them in a Duck House tragedy. Told from the points of views of various characters, “Number One” is a story that takes readers beyond the dining room and kitchen of a family-run restaurant. Li gives us a glimpse into their lives after they leave
Terlicker, Lt Walter Kilgore, and Lt Gregory Shoemaker. “It’s one of those things that you always remember exactly where you were at that time,” Behrend said. That night, heading home to Capitol Hill from the gym, he saw all the fire rigs going by. “Something’s up,” he thought. Once home, he heard the news on TV. He had no idea that a year later he’d be involved. While the city mourned its loss, Pang returned to Southern California, where he was living. By the time investigators gathered enough evidence to arrest Pang, he’d disappeared. The FBI stepped in when it became known Pang had fled to Brazil, then an international fugitive. In a recent interview, Special Agent (SA) Gary Schoenlein of the Seattle FBI, who was the case agent of the Pang investigation, reflected on the events that transpired. He said, “We were just working it as Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution.” Schoenlein noted the tragedy as a “community heartbreak” and “felt responsible to do everything we could to find Pang.” The FBI worked with Brazilian authorities
the Duck House. She explores the different relationships in life including that between parents and their children, friends, lovers, and siblings. The characters are imperfect, complex, and multifaceted, going through their own ups and downs — making them that much more relatable to readers and that much easier for us to root for them. In addition to the detailed peak into the characters’ lives, Li also gives readers a taste of what it can be like working in a restaurant.
to locate and apprehend Pang. It didn’t take long. A few weeks later, they arrested Pang on the streets of Rio. Back in Seattle, Pang pleaded guilty to four-counts of manslaughter in March 1998. King County Superior Court Judge Larry Jordan handed down the “exceptional sentence” of 35 years to begin “the healing process” for the victims’ families and the surviving firefighters. Now retired, Judge Jordan hopes Pang “has learned a lesson” while incarcerated. Did he think justice was served? “Some justice, not complete justice.” When Pang leaves his cell block next week, will he be in complete freedom, knowing four firefighters sacrificed for his family? Only he knows. Part 2 of this story, with interviews from law enforcement, will be published in the coming weeks. Becky can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.
She does a great job of capturing the fast pace of the food industry. Whether it’s the details of how to run an efficient kitchen or how to make your basic fried rice, the details will make readers think more about the hosts, hostesses, and servers they encounter the next time they go out to eat. Samantha Pak can be reached at info@ nwasianweekly.com.
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Predictions and advice for the week of September 22–28, 2018 By Sun Lee Chang
Dragon — With a keen understanding of the dynamics at play, you are ready to take the next step. The unknown element only makes it more exciting.
Rat — A revealing view gives you a glimpse into something that you may want to avoid. This is the time to decide whether to stay or go. Ox — You never know when your paths will cross again, so leave things on a good note as you move elsewhere.
Snake — You are accustomed to being in charge, but there is value to taking a back seat now and then for the insights that can be obtained.
Tiger — A sticky situation should be handled carefully and without getting too many others involved, to prevent it from getting even messier.
Horse — Promises should be kept in order to maintain trust. It is no different when you make a promise to yourself.
Rabbit — If one route closes, then look for an opening elsewhere. Your persistence will pay off handsomely.
Goat — An honest answer isn’t necessarily pleasant to hear, but should prove much more useful to you in the long run.
Monkey — Spotting an issue can be as much work as resolving it, which is why you should not let the search effort go to waste. Rooster — There is no good reason for delaying what should be tackled upfront. Once done, then you can focus on more pleasant pursuits. Dog — Are you feeling ready to jump into a new adventure? Luckily, there is one waiting for you right around the corner. Pig — A smooth start is an indicator of what is to come. It should be smooth sailing for the rest of the day.
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.
MORTGAGE FUND from 4 Conference. Faith Bautista, president of the National Asian American Coalition, said the action was political “trickery” and called on California lawmakers to honor the court’s decision.
“I cannot believe the Democrats are stealing money from the homeowners,” she said. “We won.” When the settlement was adopted, then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris gave guidance that it could be used for consumer fraud education, borrower relief, grant programs to assist housing counselors, and
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on friendships (typically between women) more than it does romantic relationships. Feig also leans hard on this awkward, sometimes-rambly, and very, very sweet-yetalso-perverse sense of humor. All of the aforementioned things stay true with “A Simple Favor.” Additionally, Kendrick is consistent (consistently good at her job). Lively was surprisingly very charismatic and effective that it made me think that she has not been given the right material in her career thus far. And Golding — (this is his second movie and before this, he was a TV presenter) — it is actually kind of nuts that this guy is naturally so gifted at acting. The three leads make this movie really fun to watch, and my emotional investment in them kept me hanging on with each plot twist and turn. Finally, the costuming and set design is just gorgeous and lush — pastel pops all over. This movie is a visual feast for the eyes.
I really enjoyed this movie, just like how I generally enjoy all of Paul Feig’s work. He tends to put women at the center of his work, and his work also tends to focus
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MOVIE from 8 Stephanie’s son (played by Joshua Satine), and I did not buy that performance at all. Throughout the movie, I was just thinking that it is so cool that this adorable Asian child is getting such a meaty role in a real Hollywood feature. Maybe this adorable Asian child will continue acting and in a decade, we will be seeing him smash a paparazzo’s camera on whatever TMZ is in 10 years. I read that Feig’s wife told her husband to cast Golding as Sean. I read that Feig called up Jon M. Chu, director of “Crazy Rich Asians,” and basically asked if Golding was cool to work with or not. Chu said Golding is awesome. Thus, Feig decided to cast him.
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other programs or actions that would benefit California homeowners affected by the mortgage crisis, according to the appeals court ruling. The state moved that money to the general fund to service debt on housing bonds and for public protection and consumer fraud enforcement and litigation.
YAKIMA from 3 Her father grew sugar beets, onions, potatoes, cucumbers, cantaloupe, watermelon, and tomatoes and, for his horses, hay. “Dad plowed the field with horses. I was sitting on the horse while Dad went plowing,” she said. “Growing up, I did have an affection for horses.” Like the Adams family of White Swan, Ken Hoptowit’s family leased land to Japanese Americans, including the Honda family, he recalled during a tour of Yakima’s Japan Town in 2017. “My grandfather Charlie had farmed 900-plus acres in the Lower Valley,” Hoptowit said then. “A lot of [Japanese Americans] farmed with my grandfather.” Growing up on reservation land, Fujimoto would often see Yakamas walking by their house as they cut across his family’s fields, he wrote in “Bouncing Back.” “A Yakama named Old Tom lived in a small cabin on the plot of land we rented. The older Yakamas still spoke [Ichiskiin]. The Japanese immigrants, unsurprisingly, primarily spoke Japanese,” he wrote. “Since neither the elder Yakamas nor the Japanese families on the reservation spoke English, I later asked my mother how she had communicated with Old Tom. `Oh, we used our hands,’ she replied.” Kishi has no recollection of her family’s landlord and hadn’t thought about the moccasins and beaded bags until a grandson who lives in Berkeley, Calif., took a closer look at his family history for a class project. “When he had to follow grandma’s path during the school year last year, in fifth grade, that’s when they had to tell about their family. Now he has some background,” Kishi said. She went to a trunk packed with family heirlooms for information for his project and rediscovered the moccasins and beaded bags. Her mother probably had that trunk shipped to Heart Mountain, Kishi said. “After my mother passed, I had the trunk,” she said. It also held a pink silk dress and knit bonnet and matching cape, all made by her mother. Kishi wore the dress for a family portrait taken at Fern Studio in Toppenish in April 1942 and the cape and bonnet for a picture of her taken at Jackson Studio in Seattle in 1949. Kishi donated those items to the Yakima Valley Museum, but one of the beaded bags — her favorite, the one with deer — is staying in the family. Her grandson’s family history project sparked a new appreciation for that in her daughter, too, who asked if she could keep one of the bags. “She’s going to frame it,” she added.
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NOTICE KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received by the King County Procurement Services Section, 3rd Floor, 401 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, until 2:00 PM of bid opening date for the following listed bids. To download a document, go to our web page at: http://www. kingcounty.gov/procurement. King County encourages minority business enterprise participation. King County does not discriminate on the basis of disability in its programs, services, and employment opportunities.
METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY COUNCIL DIRECTOR OF LEGISLATIVE ANALYSIS Closes: September 28, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. Salary Range: $153,814.75 - $194,969.01 (DOQ) The Metropolitan King County Council is seeking a dynamic leader to manage the King County Council's policy staff team and ensure staffing and policy endeavors are consistent with the Council's vision for Equity and Social Justice. The Director of Legislative Analysis will develop and administer analytical standards for staff, as well as assign staff to policy and budget topics. Policy staff support the Council in fulfilling its mission to set policies, enacts laws and adopt budgets that guide an array of regional services for the residents of King County. The ideal candidate will be a practiced manager, adept at policy, providing and presenting impartial analysis, politics and relationships. To apply online, go to www.kingcounty.gov/jobs A King County application is required to be considered for this opportunity. Interested applicants must complete the supplemental questions and submit a resume and letter of interest with your application.
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up camp in a canyon near the university campus, police said. There, they decided to find a car, force the driver to drive to Tennessee, using the driver’s money to fund the trip before killing the person, according to charging documents. After hours of looking for potential victims, Kathleen Boutain got frustrated and left, prosecutors said. Austin Boutain walked up to Guo’s car and knocked on the window to ask if he had seen her. When Gou, who was with a female friend, didn’t answer, Boutain “became enraged” and fired at the car until the gun was empty, documents state. Guo was fatally struck in the neck. The woman escaped and Boutain ran away, setting off a manhunt in the foothills
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SSC from 1 Growing up on Bainbridge Island, which is predominantly-white, spurred her to build strong connections with Indopino and Filipino American communities.
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The ‘exception’ “I witnessed how differently students of color saw the school system. I was seen as college-bound so I got the support,” she said. “In large part, I realized I was treated like an exception. I didn’t have the terms to articulate it [then], but I knew it wasn’t right. I wanted to go into education because I wanted to positively impact experiences for other students of color, and that led me to look into secondary education, but I ended up sticking with community college. I really saw this exciting place with open access and a mission that resonated with what I wanted to accomplish for students of color.” Rimando-Chareunsap became the president of SSC on July 1. She has been with SSC since 2000 and previously served as vice president of student services. “When you’re in college as an undergraduate looking at majors and degrees, there’s no path to becoming a community college adviser or counselor, so that was something I wasn’t exposed to until I worked in it,” she explained. “When I got more experience, it really resonated with me that that’s where I knew I belonged for the duration of my career.” Her top three priorities for SSC are to focus on strengthening the budgetary environment, redesigning the student experience at the colleges, and equipping staff to lead in the diversity and inclusion space. “South is an institution that serves communities of color, and I want us to continue to be that institution that is also extremely high quality and effective and efficient at what we do,” she said. “That really requires a major change, and that will be the areas of focus for the next few years.”
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One of the biggest challenges that she has faced has actually been the sheer volume of smaller challenges — such as microaggressions she’s experienced as a woman of color. “POCs in general experience so often and so frequently microaggressions,” she said. “They continue to be painful and difficult. It’s not blatant enough to call out comfortably. It’s the assumptions that, as an Asian American woman, that I am agreeable all the time. Those types of stereotypes were prevalent throughout my career.”
Mentorship “From early on, I’ve always known and understood the value of mentoring, but I’ve really struggled on and off to find someone to guide me,” she added. When Rimando-Chareunsap went through the Leadership Development Program in Higher Education (LDPHE) in 2011, she was able to connect with a national community of professionals and was mentored from different folks in different ways. She was also mentored by a former supervisor who is a white male, as well as
other women of color presidents in the system. “I think about the level of support that I see for other POCs, and I know it continues to be a pervasive challenge,” she said. “I try to find ways to fulfill that role for others when they want or need that support as well. I hope to model that for others.”
AANAPISI and the future Rimando-Chareunsap is also involved in establishing Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Seattle Promise. The Seattle Promise is a bold new initiative from the Seattle Central Foundation to provide a full scholarship to every student at Seattle Central College who demonstrates financial need, enrolls full time, and maintains a 3.0 GPA. Rimando-Chareunsap said they based it on the 13th Year Promise Scholarship program at SSC, which aims to increase access to higher education for students, particularly those from underrepresented groups, and they’re working to design it together with the City. It will then go to vote in November. “We’re trying to tackle this as a district
for November 2016, after an inspection found arsenic and other contaminants in the groundwater at the site. Tsukiji became a favorite tourist spot for its array of tiny sushi restaurants, shops selling Japanese knives, and stalls hawking hundreds of species of seafood, as well as sweets. Yet it is also a working market, where an average of 1.6 billion yen, or about $14.5 million, worth of seafood is moved each day. This weekend will be the last time its iconic early morning auction will open for visitors. The city’s plan calls for a new mall-like facility for Tsukiji, including a theme park. Some of the stores and restaurants in the area surrounding Tsukiji’s wholesale market and auction area will stay, but its core fish market operations are moving to Toyosu.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD from 1 six days after midterm elections in which Planned Parenthood’s political wing plans to spend $20 million on behalf of candidates who support abortion rights. Wen, who has been Baltimore’s health commissioner since 2015, will be Planned Parenthood’s sixth president over a century of work, providing millions of Americans with birth control, sex education, and medical screenings. The organization also is the largest provider of abortions in the United States, making it a perennial target for anti-abortion activists. In recent years, its foes have been striving — thus far unsuccessfully — to halt the flow of federal funds that help Planned Parenthood provide some of its non-abortion services. Wen succeeds Cecile Richards, who had been president since 2006, before resigning earlier this year. Under Richards’ leadership, Planned Parenthood has been at odds with congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump on numerous fronts, most recently joining
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Tsukiji market, in 2016
Officials hope the new state-of-the-art market at Toyosu will also become a tourist attraction. The move to Toyusu has been unpopular from the start because an earlier plan envisioned keeping the fish market
the intense opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Abortion-rights advocates fear that Kavanaugh will tilt the high court to the right, possibly opening the way for rulings that would reverse or weaken the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a nationwide right for women to have abortions. Wen and her family fled from China just before her 8th birthday, and they were granted political asylum in the United States, and became U.S. citizens in 2003. Wen graduated summa cum laude from California State University, Los Angeles and earned her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine before becoming a Rhodes Scholar. Early in her tenure as Baltimore’s health commissioner, she provided strong leadership as the city was wracked by violent protests related to disputed police actions. She expanded trauma and mental health services, and secured funding for a program designed to treat gun violence as a contagious disease. Wen said she was proud of her accomplishments in
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as well. We have three presidents and a chancellor who are people of color, who can lead at a very visible and meaningful level to make change towards equity improvements,” she said, describing the collaboration to come. “Dr. Rimando-Chareunsap is well positioned to lead SSC,” Seattle Colleges Chancellor Shouan Pan said. “She is highly respected for her deep commitment to student success and her equity-minded leadership focus. I look forward to working with her and supporting her presidency.” “South has a legacy and history of being one of the first Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) in the U.S.,” said Rimando-Chareunsap. “It’s really positively influenced how we serve API students and informed how we serve other people of color, especially in immigrant communities.” She also said she’s hoping to lead SSC to become a strong AANAPISI once again by pursuing additional funding in the years to come. The AANAPISI program, one of eight federally designated Minority Serving Institution (MSI) programs, was established by Congress in 2007 as part of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act. It was expanded in 2008 under the Higher Education Opportunity Act. The AANAPISI program provides grants and related assistance to AANAPISIs to enable such institutions to improve and expand their capacity to serve Asian Americans and Native American Pacific Islanders and low-income individuals. In her free time, Rimando-Chareunsap enjoys spending quality time with her two kids and husband, as well as enjoying good food with extended family. For more information about South Seattle College, visit southseattle.edu. Nina Huang can be reached at info@ nwasianweekly.com.
in Tsukiji by modernizing the facility with construction while it continued to operate. Tsukiji is closer to central Tokyo. The city under Koike’s predecessors decided an updated facility was needed for sanitation and efficiency reasons. The proposal was damaged by the discovery of contaminants in the new site, and some critics have said consumer confidence can’t be restored, despite assurances that the new facility has since been made safe. Almost every speaker at Thursday’s opening ceremony talked about how long the struggle had been for the move, including wrangling among city lawmakers. Takaaki Yamazaki, the head of Koto Ward, where Toyosu is located, used the Japanese expression for moving beyond the past with water, to welcome the new market. “Let’s wash all that away and let bygones be bygones,” he said.
Baltimore — including reducing infant mortality to record lows and providing eyeglasses for all children who needed them. But she said she could not resist the new job offer. “For more than 100 years, no organization has done more for women’s health than Planned Parenthood,” Wen said. “As a doctor, I will ensure we continue to provide highquality health care, including the full range of reproductive care and will fight with everything I have to protect the access of millions of patients who rely on Planned Parenthood.” Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Baltimore, praised the appointment, saying of Wen, “When it comes to protecting her patients, she doesn’t back down from a fight.” With Wen’s encouragement, Baltimore sued the Trump administration for cutting funds for teen pregnancy prevention. A federal judge subsequently ordered the restoration of $5 million in grant funding to two Baltimorebased prevention programs.
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BLOG from 10 companies. The remaining $100 billion are from people like me (millions of other businesses) who are involved in buying Chinese goods.” No wonder Apple is now a trillion-dollar company. It takes its technological know-how to China and uses China’s cheap labor force to manufacture its products for global markets. And you know how much the iPhone sells for in the United States! While there are other costs besides manufacturing, Apple still pockets a hefty chunk in profit! Is a $350 billion deficient really a bad deal for the United States?
3. Does China really take away jobs from Americans? The above was Trump’s claim. “In today’s competitive world, each country competes on its competitive advantage,” said Zhang. “The U.S. is famous for technology companies, such as Boeing and Microsoft, as well as service sectors such as banking, finance, and insurance. “China is still considered a developing country. Its advantage is low-skilled labor and intensive manufacturing. Its mass population is working in low-wage sweat shops for about $450 to $500 a month. Would U.S. workers be willing to work in such low-wage jobs, like less than a dollar an hour? It’s very old-school thinking to assume that China is taking legitimate opportunities away from Americans.” According to the New York Times, the tariffs imposed on Chinese goods seem to have less of an effect on helping American products such as tires, since Chinese later came to America to open tire factories.
4. Trump thinks trade war will hurt China. Is he right? “Trump thinks the trade war will crash the Chinese economy,” suggests Zhang. “But he forgets that the Chinese government is promoting trade with the rest of the world by building up high speed trains and infrastructure across five continents.” Zhang added, “Since Trump’s intent is to withdraw from the Trans–Pacific Partnership and World Trade Organization, pursue lots of rules and protections among
These products from Greater China Industries were manufactured in China and are being sold in the United States.
its old trade partners in the European Union, and gut the North American Free Trade Agreement, his policies will eventually slow down the U.S. economy. This is actually a catalyst for China becoming the largest economy in the world.”
5. Trump thinks he will win. Is he right? With the United States’ swelling stock market and China’s drop, Trump believes he is going to win this war with China. Not so fast. Some economists predict the growing U.S. economy won’t last due to a number of factors, including the decline of the middle class and home ownership compared to numbers before the 2008 financial meltdown. Also, Trump may think China can be replaced by other developing countries as trading partners. However, Zhang argues that China is irreplaceable in his business dealings with other Asian countries. “Chinese products create value, in addition to the $500 billion in trade. Other countries don’t have the infrastructure like China. I have products sitting in Bangladesh and Cambodia for weeks because they don’t have enough boats to ship the merchandise. Countries like Vietnam and Thailand might be able to manufacture textile and clothes, but they can’t make other items.” Consul General Wang said China provides the best investment criteria for U.S. investors with good labor force.” Also, U.S. consumers have expanded their consuming power through Chinese goods, he said.
6. Who actually sacrifices more? “The sacrifices China has made are huge,” said Zhang. “Look at China’s water, air, and the environment — they are all polluted with emissions from factory production. The cost to Chinese people’s health is immense. Many parents must leave their children behind with relatives so that they can go find work in factories in big cities. That’s why you see so many Chinese going back to visit their hometown once a year during Chinese New Year,” Zhang explained. Also, some Chinese vendors do business with U.S. companies such as Walmart. These vendors don’t get paid until the merchandise is sold. One area where Zhang feels China could do better is to do more on cracking down on counterfeit goods such as handbags, coats, and watches. China is also famous for stealing intellectual property. “Microsoft’s Windows sells for $700 in the United States, but in China, you can get it for the equivalent of $10 USD,” said Zhang. “Pirating movies in China is also extreme. When I was in China, people on the street offered all kinds of American movies for just a few bucks.” Zhang concludes that Chinese copyright infringement and piracy are more legitimate concerns for Western countries. Editor’s Note: Ben Zhang will be speaking on U.S.–China trade at noon on Sept. 27 for the Washington State China Relations Council at Davis Wright Tremaine, 1201 3rd Ave. Assunta can be reached at assunta@nwasianweekly. com.