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Moy appointed Asian Hall of Fame inducts 4 new members AIT director UFC Fighter, “Black Widow” among the selections

Kin Moy, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, is set to become the new director of the Taipei Office of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) this summer. Moy will be taking over from AIT Director Christopher Marut. He is a senior U.S. Department of State official with extensive working experience of Taiwan-US affairs and has served in the U.S. Foreign Service

Kin Moy

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Hong Kong investors to purchase Seattle’s Columbia Center High-rise and high price: $725 million By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle has the Space Needle and the Smith Tower, the city’s guaranteed architectural treasures. But the building that is hard to overlook? That would be the tallest building in Seattle: Columbia Center, the city’s monolithic building at 76 stories high—and it is also the tallest building in the state of Washington. There is a recent pending agreement that Columbia Center will be purchased by Hong Kongbased Gaw Capital Partners for a reported $725 million, according to trade publication Real Estate Alert. The building is currently owned by Beacon Capital; the company paid $621 million in 2007 according to Seattle Times archives. Gaw Capital Partners owns 64 properties, including 19 in the United States. The company was co-founded by Goodwin Gaw and Kenneth Gaw and they have invested in the U.S. since the 1990s, according to its website. The company also states on its website: “Gaw Capital Partners is a uniquely positioned private equity fund management company

From left: Jeanette Lee, Betty Nguyen, Carie Ann Inaba, and Ben Henderson’s mother

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly The Robert Chinn Foundation inducted 4 new members to its Asian Hall of Fame for 2015. UFC Fighter Benson Henderson, billiards aficionado Jeanette “The Black Widow” Lee, Dancing with the Stars judge Carie Ann Inaba, and NBC News anchor Betty Nguyen were inducted at a ceremony at The

Fairmont Hotel in downtown Seattle on Saturday night, June 8th. Past inductees have included former Governor of Washington State Gary Locke, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, former U.S. Olympian Nathan Adrian, and former NFL Star and UW Football great Manu Tuiasosopo. {see FAME cont’d on page 15}

‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns — with iPhone, Instagram By Ted Anthony Associated Press

TRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) — He stands in the northbound lane of Vietnam’s Highway 1, traffic swirling around him, horns honking. He is pointing. Right there, he says — that’s where it happened. That’s where the screaming children appeared. That’s where I made the picture that the world couldn’t forget. Huynh Cong ‘“Nick” Ut was

that focuses on global real estate markets. Specializing in adding strategic value to under-utilized real estate through redesign and re-positioning, the company has seized the windows of opportunity presented in the current real estate markets to achieve significant {see BUSINESS cont’d on page 12}

Nick Ut and his iconic photograph

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The Inside Story NAMES People in the news » P. 2

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SPORTS More U.S. Open » P. 3

FILM SIFF recap » P. 8

A-POP! Emma Stone? Asian?! » P. 11

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■ names in the news Hokoyama to receive JACL Presidential Award The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) announced J.D. Hokoyama as a recipient of the 2015 JACL Presidential Award. Hokoyama served as a founding board member and President and CEO for Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics Inc. for over 30 years, J.D. Hokoyama a national, non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization founded in 1982 in Los Angeles to achieve full participation and equality for AAPIs. Hokoyama is also a former Peace Corps and served as the associate/acting JACL National Director from 1978-1981. Hokoyama will receive his award at the Sayonara Banquet on July 15, 2015 at the 2015 JACL National Convention in Las Vegas, NV. 

Fellows are interested in digital democracy, civic engagement and other subjects and are learning from state elected officials and groups like the Children’s Alliance. YSEALI Professional Fellows will work directly with their American counterparts to enhance their practical expertise, leadership skills, and professional contacts to address challenges and create new opportunities their home countries and communities. 

Wong-Mageo receives General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award

Captain Puletasi H. Wong-Mangeo with Congresswoman Aumua Amata and wife Seine (far right)

Yeo Bee Yin, from Malaysia, met May 28 with members of the Children’s Alliance in Seattle. Yin is a fellow of the Youth Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI).

Captain Puletasi H. Wong-Mageo was one of the recipients of the 2014 General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award on May 29. The General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award recognizes company grade commissioned officers and warrant officers in the Active Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard that demonstrate the ideals of “duty, honor, and country.” The award promotes and sustains effective junior officer leadership in the United States Army. Selection is based on overall leadership performance throughout the calendar year. Among hundreds of company-grade officers Army wide, Wong-Mageo one of only 28 officers selected for the award. 

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Marie Chong, artistic director of ARC Dance, invited Edwaard Liang to Seattle to set a world premiere dance work for the company for the Marie Chong Edward Liang upcoming Summer Dance at the Center, July 16-18 and 23-25. Liang will be running the rehearsal. Liang was born in Taiwan and grew up in Marin County, CA. He studied at the American School of Ballet and joined the New York City Ballet in 1993 and became a soloist in 1998. In 2003 Liang began choreographing, creating ballets for Nederlands Dans Theater and other companies. In 2013 he became the artistic director at BalletMet. 

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Jade Justad, a hapa Korean American filmmaker from Seattle is working on a short film “Creased” which is now in development. The film centers around an Asian American high school senior Kayla who is strongly considering Asian eyelid surgery. The film has received Jade Justad a grant from 4Culture, and Jade is currently working on a Kickstarter video that launched June 1. 

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■ sports

JUNE 13 – JUNE 19, 2015

Byeong-hun An Not too big for birdies

By Andrew Kim Northwest Asian Weekly Byeong-hun An is a 23-year-old Korean golfer who will be a contender in the upcoming U.S. Open, held at Chambers Bay, Washington this year. An currently plays golf in Europe and most recently, in May, he won the most prestigious golf tournament in the European Tour, the PGA Championship. He is the first Asian to win the PGA Championship and he set the tournament record by finishing 21 under par. On the last day, An made 5 birdies and an eagle in a bogey free round to win by six strokes. The victory at the PGA Championship comes on the heels of several other top 10 finishes. An is not new to record setting. Back in

2009, at age 17, An became the youngest ever winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship. A year later, An tried to defend his title which was coincidentally held at Chambers Bay when it hosted the US Amateur Championship in 2010. He is hopeful that this experience pays dividends as he contends for the U.S. Open. An’s parents were both table tennis medalists in the 1988 Olympics. An claims that he “took up golf because I’m not athletic enough for table tennis – I’m too slow and too big – but my parents are my role models.” An is larger than most golfers at 6’2” and weighing 209 lbs., but has handled the pressure and nerves

■ world news

Friends mourn teen’s drowning in Lake Washington

Last month, May25, a group of friends mourned the loss of 17-year-old Cuong Uong. Uong was swimming in Lake Washington this past weekend and his friends were not able to help the teen who was drowning. His girlfriend Linh Ly said,“He and his friends were yelling for help. I didn`t hear Cuong Uong anything.” Friends say Cuong was a good swimmer, making the drowning even more devastating and implausible. “I didn`t even get to say goodbye,” Ly added. During the waterside memorial, the girlfriend tried to get close to the spot where Cuong drowned. She was mourning for her loss but also grieving for Cuong`s parents. They are currently struggling to pay for his funeral. Cuong and his father moved to the United States from Vietnam three years ago. The family doesn’t have a lot of money so after a day of school, Cuong would work overnights cleaning businesses to save money. His girlfriend says he wanted to use the money to bring his mom over from Vietnam. The family has set up a fund to help with funeral costs.  If you would like to contribute: https:// centralcommunity.givingfire.com.

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■ WORLD NEWS

6th person dies of MERS virus in South Korea By Tong-Hyung Kim Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A sixth person in South Korea has died of the MERS virus, as the government announced last week that it was strengthening measures to stem the spread of the disease and public fear. Sixty-four people in South Korea have been infected by Middle East Respiratory Syndrome since last month in the largest outbreak outside the Middle East. Hundreds of schools have closed and more than 2,000 people are isolated at their homes or in facilities after having contact with patients infected with the virus, health officials said. Acting Prime Minister Choi Kyung-hwan said Sunday that there was no reason to believe that the virus would significantly spread further in the country.

“So far, all the MERS cases have been hospital-associated, and there has been no case of an infection in other social settings. We think we have a chance at putting the outbreak under total control,” Choi told a news conference. While the virus has no vaccine, health experts say it spreads through close contact with infected people and not through the air. The U.N. health agency has reported that there’s no evidence yet in South Korea of “sustained transmission in the community.” Departing from its earlier policy, the government announced the names of the 24 hospitals where the MERS patients have been diagnosed or had been treated before their condition was confirmed. This will allow people who have visited those facilities in recent weeks to report themselves if they are showing symptoms similar to

MERS-related illnesses, Choi said. While the government had earlier identified one hospital in a city south of Seoul where the first MERS case was confirmed, and another in southern Seoul that has been a significant source of infections, it had been reluctant to release the full list of hospitals over concerns that it would cause a disruption in services if people started avoiding them. Choi said the government will also strengthen its monitoring of the hundreds of undiagnosed patients who are quarantined at their homes because officials believe they might have contracted the virus. It includes tracking their whereabouts through cell phone signals. More than 1,200 schools were closed at the end of {see MERS cont’d on page 13}

Philippines arrests British man wanted on child sex offenses MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A British man living in the Philippines for 10 years has been arrested to face charges he molested a 14-year-old boy in the United Kingdom, Filipino immigration authorities said Thursday. Douglas Michael Slade, 74, was arrested by immigration agents last week at his

home in northern Angeles City where he has been a permanent resident for 10 years, said Bureau of Immigration and Deportation spokeswoman Elaine Tan. Slade denied the charges, saying they were “make-believe” and a “magical fantasy.” He had been arrested in five child abuse and child pornography cases in Angeles City

but all the charges were dismissed, Tan said. A report by the immigration bureau said Slade lived close to a school in Angeles, “making it easy for him to lure children to his home” where he allegedly paid boys as young as 8 years old 150 pesos (about $3.30) to pose for nude pictures and perform sex acts on him. “Indecent images” of boys were

allegedly found in his laptop, the report said. Tan said the British Embassy requested Slade be apprehended to face the molestation charges. He is being held at an immigration detention center pending resolution of the deportation proceedings. {see PHILIPPINES cont’d on page 13}

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China focus turns India finalizes longon sleepy Jianli amid delayed land swap cruise ship disaster deal By Christopher Bodeen Associated Press

JIANLI, China (AP) — An influx of rescue workers, journalists and victims’ relatives is putting the sleepy town of Jianli on the map in a way that lifelong resident Tao Gengsheng never thought he’d see. As the closest town to the site of last week’s Yangtze River cruise ship disaster, Jianli is the staging area for what began as a rescue effort and has now shifted to identifying the remains of more than 450 people aboard the Eastern Star, which capsized in a freak tornado. Just 14 people survived China’s worst maritime disaster in nearly seven decades. “I’ve never seen so much activity. And I’ve never seen so many foreigners,” Tao tells an American journalist standing beside his cart laden with bananas, apples and melons. Signs of the influx of aid are evident in the dozens of army trucks lined up along the embankment and the convoys heading to the riverbank where the bodies of those caught inside the four-deck vessel were being offloaded on Saturday. Individuals and groups looking to help, part of a wave of disaster volunteering that has arisen in recent years, have also flocked in to offer their services. With a population of 1.5 million in the

town and surrounding county, Jianli is fairly typical of China’s fast-developing rural areas. Cars, buses, scooters and electric bicycles cruise slowly down the wide streets of the new town, honking at anything that moves. In the narrower lanes of the old town, recorded advertisements blare from shops selling off-brand clothing and electronics, while the musical styles of the many patrons of restaurant and guesthouse karaoke parlors assault the ears of passers-by. “We’ve got a lot of history here, but we’re a little behind and don’t get many visitors,” said taxi driver Cheng Lixiong. That backward profile is gradually changing along with the economic growth gripping the Chinese countryside. Isolated and backward just a decade ago, Jianli, located in the central province of Hubei, is now just a 2 1/2-hour drive down a fourlane highway from the provincial capital of Wuhan, one of China’s most important industrial centers. An outdoor electronics mall already sells the latest iPhones, while advertisements for a soon-to-be built shopping mall promise a future Starbucks, a sign of how Western brands are moving into China’s smaller cities after conquering the major metropolitan areas. {see CHINA cont’d on page 13}

By Julhas Alam Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — India and Bangladesh finalized a much-delayed land swap agreement to settle a long-running border dispute on June 6. The deal — initially reached in 1974 but only recently ratified by India’s Parliament — calls for the transfer of 111 border enclaves to Bangladesh in exchange for 51 that will become part of India. More than 50,000 residents will get citizenship after the agreement is implemented. Relations between India and its smaller neighbor have significantly improved since Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina promised that her administration would not allow India’s separatist insurgents to use the porous 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) border to carry out raids in India. Aided by India, Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan following a bloody nine-month war in 1971. Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in Bangladesh on Saturday for a two-day visit, exchanged the ratification documents for the land swap agreement before holding official talks. Bangladeshi Foreign Affairs Minister A.H. Mahmood Ali said a number of other agreements covering trade, security and connectivity are also expected to be

signed, as well a framework for combating human trafficking, counterfeit currency and cooperation for the sea-based “blue economy.” Officials said India could offer a $2 billion line of credit to Bangladesh for infrastructure development inside the country. Ali said Bangladesh was focusing on better connectivity with India by introducing new bus service with Indian states. India faces difficulties reaching its isolated and impoverished northeastern region, and any passage through Bangladesh could cut hundreds of kilometers (miles) to get to those areas. Energy-starved Bangladesh is also looking forward to importing 600 megawatts of electricity from India, in addition to the 500 megawatts it currently imports, Ali said. Separately, Bangladesh signed memoranda of understanding Saturday with two Indian companies to set up power plants for producing 4,600 megawatts of electricity, Bangladeshi authorities said in a statement. The state-run Power Development Board signed the deals, which are worth $5.5 billion, with Indian companies Adani Power Limited and Reliance Group, the {see BANGLADESH cont’d on page 12}

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■ COMMUNITY calendar FRI 6/12 THRU SAT 6/27 WHAT: Seattle International Dance Festival WHERE: South Lake Union COST: $17-$55 INFO: seattleidf.org

SAT 6/13 WHAT: 4th Annual Lake to Lake Bike Ride WHERE: Lake Hills Community Park, 1200 164th Ave. S.E., Bellevue WHEN: 9-10 a.m. COST: $15/pre-registration, $20/ on the day REGISTER: code 95182, myparksandrecreation.com

SAT 6/20 THRU THU 9/13 WHAT: Pop Art that Packs a Punch: Artist Roger Shimomura Sheds Light on Stereotypes WHERE: Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma WHEN: Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. COST: $12-$35 INFO: 253-272-4258, tacomaartmuseum.org

SUN 6/21 WHAT: Bonsai Rising WHERE: Pacific Bonsai Museum, 2515 S. 336th St., Federal Way WHEN: 1 p.m. INFO: pacificbonsaimuseum. org, 253-353-7345 WHAT: Japanese Urushi Lacquerware Demonstration & Gallery Talk & Maki-e Workshop

WHERE: Kobo at Higo, 604 S. Jackson St., Seattle WHEN: 1 p.m. INFO: 206-381-3000

THU 6/25 WHAT: Asian American & Pacific Islander Community Roundtable WHERE: APCC, 4851 S. Tacoma Way, Tacoma WHEN: 6-7 p.m. COST: Free

SAT 6/27 WHAT: 2015 Beacon Art Walkabout WHERE: Beacon Hill, Seattle WHEN: 1-8 p.m. INFO: 206-323-7733 WHAT: NVC Chow Mein Dinner WHERE: NVC Hall, 1212 S. King St., Seattle WHEN: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. COST: $15 INFO: seattlenvc.org

FRI 7/3 WHAT: Public Talk: “Living a meaningful life” WHERE: Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave., Seattle WHEN: 7-8:30 p.m. COST: $20

SAT 7/4 WHAT: 31st Annual Naturalization Ceremony WHERE: Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center WHEN: 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m. INFO: seattlecenter.org

FRI 7/10 & SAT 7/11 WHAT: “Asian Collection” Premier Auction WHERE: Pacific Galleries WHEN: 7/10 at 12-5 p.m., 4/11 at 10 a.m.-12 p.m. BID ONLINE: www. invaluable.com INFO: www.pacgal.com

FRI 7/10 THRU SUN 7/12 WHAT: DAIPANbutoh Collective presents the 6th annual Seattle Butoh Festival WHERE: Taoist Studies Institute, 225 N. 70th St., Seattle WHEN: 7/10 at 6-9 p.m., 7/11 at 12-6 p.m., 7/12 at 10 a.m.-4 p.m. INFO: brownpapertickets.com/ event/1179163

2 nd & 4th TUES OF MONTH WHAT: International District Special Review Board meeting WHERE: Bush Asia Center, 409 Maynard Ave. S., Seattle WHEN: 4:30 p.m. INFO: 206-684-0226 www. seattle.gov/neighborhoods/ preservation/historic_districts. htm

EVERY TUE WHAT: Asian Counseling and Referral Services Employment Program Orientation WHERE: ACRS, 3639 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., Seattle WHEN: 3–4:30 p.m. INFO: 206-695-7527, employmentprogram@ acrs.org, acrs.org/services/ employmentandtraining

■ briefly Reusing those extra papers is chic Fashion recycling contest coming up!

Do you have extra papers lying around and have an urge to create something? The Northwest Asian Weekly will be hosting its annual fashion recycling contest on July 11. Here’s what some of our stylish community members had to say to get you motivated to recycle (and also look good in the process): “Eco-chic? Yes! Turn trash into treasure by repurposing some of those discarded paper, plastic, assorted throwaway materials by transforming them into an unimaginably hot wearable design! Make a new fashion statement while raising awareness of the importance of recycling (for those still clueless about the impact we have on our planet). So stretch that imagination: glue, tape, sew, weave it together - work your magic and show off your creation in whole new ways! Can’t wait to see what YOU come up with.” — Gei Chan Former designer for Gunne Sax/ Jessica McClintock

“Go for it! What a fun and environmentally friendly project, I learned how to recycle for the earth through the arts creation.” — Karen Tsuo “The Eco-Chic Fashion Contest & Show is a fun way to motivate all of us to notice the conveniently ignored, to re-purpose the casually discarded, and to give character and personality to the assumed ugly.” — Belinda Louie, Ph.D. University of Washington, Tacoma Please join us for the contest. It will be an afternoon of fun, fashion, and most importantly, realizing the options and potential of turning what you might consider now to be trash…into treasure.  For full details on how to enter the contest, see page 10.

KING COUNTY INVITATION TO BID Project: Vashon Island Passenger Only Ferry Terminal Improvements - REBID, C00990C15 Sealed Bid Time/Date: 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 30, 2015 Location Due: King County Procurement & Contract Services Section, Contracts Counter, 3rd Floor, 401 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 Engineer’s Estimate: $228,000 - $252,000 Scope of Work: Construct a roof deck canopy and windscreen on the existing gangway. The canopy would be 15 feet 8 inches wide and extend approximately 67 feet along the gangway and would be constructed of steel decking supported by a steel frame over the existing gangway frame. The glazed panel windscreen would also be approximately 67 feet long, approximately 9 feet high, and attached to the existing framing by welding or utilizing threaded headed studs welded to the structure. Work site: Vashon Island, Washington. Contact Information: Tina Davis, 206-263-2939, TTY Relay: 711, Fax: 206-296-7675, or via email at tina.davis@kingcounty.gov. A bidder may be asked to put a question in writing. No verbal answers by County personnel will be binding on the County. Pre-Bid Conference: June 19, 2015 at 12:00 p.m., Vashon Island Ferry, 10800 North Vashon Highway, Vashon, WA 98070. A site tour will be conducted immediately following the conference. No PPE is required for the site tour. Subcontracting Opportunities: Structural Steel; Steel Decking; Wind Screen; Luminaires; Water Line Relocation; Demolition of Existing Handrails, Luminaires, Water Line; Signage. Apprenticeship Requirements: No minimum Apprentice Utilization Requirement. SBE Requirement: 15% minimum Small Business Enterprise (SBE) Requirement. DBE Goal: The County has determined that no DBE goal will be established for this Contract. However, the County will require that the selected Contractor report any actual DBE participation on this Contract to enable the County to accurately monitor DBE program compliance. Please see §00120 for further information. Applicable Federal Provisions: Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity, Federal Labor Provisions and Davis Bacon (Federal) Wage Rates. Federal Funding: This contract is funded, in part, by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), and is subject to the requirements set forth in Grant WA70-XO12-01 and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein. The federal participation is estimated at 80% of the total contract value. In accordance with the requirements of the Grant and with USDOT’s policy on the utilization of socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and disadvantaged business enterprises in procurement under assistance programs, the Contractor shall comply with 49 CFR PART 26. Bid Bond: Not less than five percent (5%) of the Total Bid Price. Bid Documents Electronic copies of the plans, specifications, reference documents, and any addenda for this solicitation are available on the King County Procurement website shown below. Printed documents may also be ordered by contacting United Reprographics at 206-382-1177. Copies of documents are not available for purchase from King County, but are available for review 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. M thru F. at the Contracts Counter: Chinook Bldg, 3rd Floor, 401 Fifth Avenue Seattle, WA 98104. To receive email notifications of addenda or other important information concerning this solicitation, you must register to be a planholder under the “Solicitations” tab at the following internet link: http:// www.kingcounty.gov/procurement/solicitations This information is available in alternate formats for individuals with disabilities upon advance request by calling 206-263-9400, TTY Relay: 711. Notes: Bids received after Sealed Bid Time will not be considered. Bidders accept all risks of late delivery, regardless of fault. King County is not responsible for any costs incurred in response to this Invitation to Bid. THIS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE IN ALTERNATE FORMATS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES UPON ADVANCE REQUEST BY CALLING 206-263-9400, TTY RELAY: 711.

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■ food

JUNE 13 – JUNE 19, 2015

King and queens of beans Part 3 of the ‘Soy series’

By Greg Young Northwest Asian Weekly Soybeans could be considered the king of beans. For over 5000 years soybeans have been cultivated and used as a source of food and drugs. Emperor Shen-nung of China said soybeans are one of five sacred plants, along with rice, corn, and barley. The 20th century found versatile ways of using soybeans, such as animal feed, oil, and health supplements, and has since become a billion dollar business. Between 1961 and 2009, soy production increased 10 times, and in just the following year the total value of the soybean industry reached to nearly $27 billion. The United States is the largest producer of soybeans in the world, followed by Brazil, Argentina, and China, respectively. These four countries produce 85 percent of the world’s soybeans. 2012 alone saw a production of 270 million tons of soy, more than double since 1996. The United States is currently the biggest producer of soybeans. The largest concentration of soybean growers is located in the Midwest and some southern regions, and New England. The USDA divided the major growing region into six smaller regions. One of those regions is the Western Corn Belt, which contains five out of the top 10 soybean-producing states. One of those states is South Dakota, which is home of Tara and Tessa Miller, co-proprietors, and loving sisters, of Signature Soy, a different kind of

soybean growing and distribution farm. A typical soybean farm sells their beans to a grain elevator. The grain elevator then cleans soybeans, makes sure the soybeans are up to industry standards, and then sells them to food processors, or feedlots, or whoever needs large quantities of soybeans. Then they’re processed to become any number of products; animal feed, turned into oil, or added to food. The uses for soybeans are practically endless. About 95 percent of farms grow soybeans in as large quantities as possible, as quickly as possible, and as efficiently as possible, by any means as possible. For that reason they rely on cheap and easy methods of growing the beans, which includes using chemicals and

promoting the use of GMOs. The team at Signature Soy has developed a more intimate way of growing, processing, and distributing their soybean products. “All our distribution is online,” Said Tara Miller, one half of the ownership. Signature Soy specializes in soybeans that are free of genetically modified organisms. Signature Soy is a small budding soybean farm and business that creates a more intimate relationship with their customers, and they strive to produce a safer and healthier soybean by being dedicated to non-GMOs. Her sister Tessa adopted her passion for soybeans from her father, Jon Miller, who’s also the president of Brushvale Seed, Inc, a state of the art soybean grower and

distributor in North Dakota, also a strong advocate of non-GMO soybeans. Signature Soy came about when Tessa realized that there are people who want to place small orders and have soybeans sent directly from the farmer to the customer. Signature Soy does just that: Sell directly the customer, a true farm-to-table business. “We grow soybeans just like any other farm does,” said Tessa. “We typically start in the morning, we dig to prepare the soil, and we use a variety of soybeans that works best with different soils.” Seeds are planted in the springtime, usually in May. During that time they maintain their crop, protecting their farm from any sort of challenges that may arise, such as weather, or soybean nematodes, which will eat the roots of their crop. Problems certainly arise on the farm, such as when equipment may break down, or when other animals or organisms sneak into the farm to eat their crop. But sometimes the problems are far out of their control. “Weather is a big problem,” Tessa said. She recounted the problem with her crops in 2014 when there was so much rain that they couldn’t even plant their seeds until June, or even July, which put them way behind schedule. “Sometimes there will be a frost that will prevent the seeds from fully maturing.” She was happy to say that her crop in 2014 turned out just fine. {see SOY cont’d on page 13}

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■ at the movies

“Everything Before Us” By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly

SIFF 2015 *DID* represent A recap of featured Asian and Asian American films

By Tiffany Ran Northwest Asian Weekly

Imagine your entire life governed by a number. Imagine spending most of your entire life in an office waiting endlessly to change that number. Imagine that even when you see a specialist, there’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to change that number to a better one. In fact, a meeting might leave you with a worse one. No, it’s not your credit score (although that’s still important). It’s not your college grades. It’s not your salary. It’s your relationship score. And while the new feature film “Everything Before Us” never spells out the exact parameters for “relationship score,” the film, now available through Vimeo On Demand, the score rewards staying together as half of a couple, for one year or longer. Substantial penalty for early breakups. Substantial penalties for infidelity, lying, cheating generally. No penalty for gaming the system by dating people with higher scores. And what happens in cases of polyamory

isn’t spelled out. What happens in case of a significant other turning to violence, and/or telling lies constantly, isn’t spelled out. In fairness, the film, directed by Philip Wang and Wesley Chan, aims for a mainstream audience. The major characters are all Asian American, as is the directors’ production company, Wong Fu Productions; but they live American lives and make broadly American choices. And one of those American choices is to occasionally push all the chips into the middle. The film revolves around two couples, one older, one younger. The two young people, Seth (Brandon Soo Hoo) and Haley (Victoria Park), go proudly down to the D.E.I. (Department Of Emotional Integrity) to register as a couple, because they’re proud and they’re only seeing pink clouds. They’ve been sweethearts through high school, they will be buried under the same headstone, and no one, not even the patient advisor at the D.E.I., can tell them different. Then, life happens to them. The other couple, Ben (Aaron Yoo) and Sara (Brittany Ishibashi) already have history, and tumult, behind them. They’re living through that old saw that people should be forgiven for things they did while young, because anyone young is crazy. Problem is, nobody can agree on the cutoff age for forgiveness, or the cutoff for forgivable crazy. Ben and Sara hurt each other when they were younger, a bit like Seth and Haley will hurt each other as the film unspools. Ben

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South Korean team wins $2M in disasterresponse robot test POMONA, Calif. (AP) — The robots drove, walked trough rubble, climbed stairs, turned valves and sometimes fell, amid cheers and groans from a crowd of thousands at the Fairplex in Pomona, California. After three years of research, development and an obstacle course of competition, a South Korean team on June 6 won the three-year and $3.5-million U.S. contest to create a robot capable of responding to disaster conditions that are unsafe for humans. Team Kaist of Daejeon took home

$2-million in first-place prize money for its DRC-Hubo robot, which successfully completed eight tasks related to disaster response in less than 45 minutes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals. The contest by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) started after the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. Workers couldn’t vent hydrogen from the overloaded reactors without {see ROBOT cont’d on page 12}

and Sara both admit they made mistakes, but like most people, they hold a little back, and they apportion more blame to the opposite side of the table than to their own. That’s understandable, if not exactly commendable. But in a world where your relationship score determines which school you can get into (and stay in), which job you can get (and keep), which clubs you can patronize, and how the rest of society turns its eyes on you (or away from you)—such decisions carry much more weight. This world has no room for slipping and sliding, but it also has no room for designing and executing your own redemption, no room for bucking its system. Everything works by the numbers. At more than two hours, the low-key narrative ambles more than it should. But it effectively sketches what American life would look like reduced to one overreaching scale, and how individual souls would go about coping along that scale. It’s almost too mild. But it argues, however too-mildly, for the necessity of the power of passion. Of passionate risk. We need to get hurt in love, if we’re to learn what we need about love. And life.  “Everything Before Us” is available for view at vimeo.com/ondemand/everythingbeforeus. Andrew Hamlin can be reached at info@ nwasianweekly.com.

Few film festivals in the country can rival the diversity and caliber of films than our own Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which has for the past 41 years also spotlighted a wide range of Asian and Asian American films. This year, the themes touched on by Asian films at SIFF ranged from action and romance to food, coming of age, and female empowerment, but the everpervasive theme of homecoming transcends borders and genres at this year’s SIFF.

“Where I Am King”

In “Golden Hills”, college student Lhakpa returns from the big city to his rural village in the Nepalese mountains and confronts stark realities of the price of modernization and its effects on his people, and a portion of the proceeds from this film went to help with the earthquake relief efforts in Nepal. In “Where I am King”, we return to the slums in the Philippines with self-made millionaire Ricardo as he vies to rediscover his roots. In director Steve Liang’s debut narrative “Coming Home”, an obedient Chinese son embarks on a road trip in Taiwan with his rebellious foreign boyfriend only to discover the bittersweet meaning of home and family. Liang’s short is also the first gay themed film endorsed by the Taiwanese Tourism Board. Meanwhile, mother and daughter flee their tribal home through the mountains of northern Pakistan in “Dukhtar” to escape the young daughter’s fate as a child bride to a cruel tribal leader.

“The Birth of Sake”

The balance of new and old is alive in Asian films with documentaries spanning hundreds of years’ worth of sake making in “The Birth of Sake” to following Cambodia’s newly reborn music {see SIFF cont’d on page 13}

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JUNE 13 – JUNE 19, 2015

A tisket, a tasket Letters and loss

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Midday. Overcast. Reading Man and His Symbols, Carl Jung. That and looking over a few photographs of rural Ireland, plus notes I made in those days, more than a dozen years ago now, poke out of folders here on the park bench. Making headway. On the story. One I’ve been a long time writing. Finishing this month. Have to. I promised the person I wrote it for. Not to get all morbid, but… she’s… dead now. This was a long time ago. Three decades, exactly. Been working on it, been asking, “What about if?” Writing under the name Kismuth, which means “destiny” in Hindi--my parents’, and her parents’---native language. All things considered, the words are flowing okay. A good thing. ’Cause “Kismuth” is ending. I’m ending it. Junve got a picture of that, here, somewhere, too… Ah yes, this one. At Ahakista, in County Cork. The anniversary of Kanishka, the name of the plane… there’s a memorial in Ireland… It’s about writing. Put them all down in a letter to, well, someone I just met. Who lives in Paris. It’s all ready to go. A tisket a tasket. Nerves. This is hard. Jung. A green and yellow basket.

Memorial in County Cork, Ireland

She rolls up the sleeves of a prim, buttondown cotton shirt. It’s green, like the treetops, paired with a knee-length pleated skirt. Sun hat, too. Wide-brimmed, a little yellow feather in the band. Just 25, she’ll tell me later, she’s from the Mekong Delta. For now, though, it’s all business. “The law of attraction?” “Yes.” Then she asks me the next thing, and, because I’ve just poured my whole heart into the short letter, pre-writing the whole story of… that stuff from 1985… and the questions since… I’m ready. I’ve got it. I’m fielding this one, and it’s the sum of five years of writing Kanishka, quietly, to myself. “Do you know,” the girl says, “that everything is… empty?” “Yes.”

Wat Phnom, Cambodia

Is telling me about consciousness. Good. This is right. Now, wait a minute. Who is that? A young woman. Zipping a beeline at me. From… the other side of the giant clock. This is Wat Phnom, the Buddhist temple in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is a cone of

the few places you can catch some hearty shade. Who? We make eye contact. She’s not stopping. She stops. Right in front of me, at 10 o’clock. “Do you know about meditation?” Direct gaze. But somehow, maybe it’s my fading Kismuth?, some part of me meets it with matched evenness. “Yes.”

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clear that race-bending isn’t going away anytime soon in Hollywood, considering that the film executives couldn’t even bother to cast someone remotely Asian for the role of Ng. However, the negative light that “Aloha” has received surrounding Stone’s casting may be the least of the producers’ worries. “Aloha” has been critically panned with the Washington Post even going as far as to call it an “incoherent pu pu platter”. Is this what we would call justice?

The sun may be out in Seattle, but it’s definitely not shining in all parts of Hollywood! Read on to find out the latest pop culture news and media happenings for Asians and Asian Americans in Hollywood—the good and the ugly.

The whitest Asian character in Hollywood Another month, another whitewashed casting of an Asian character. This month’s offender? Actress Emma Stone in the new romantic-drama film “Aloha”. The film follows a celebrated military contractor (played by actor Bradley Cooper) as he returns to Hawaii, site of his greatest career triumph, and falls for an Air Force fighter pilot assigned to watch over him during his stay. Played by Stone, the Air Force fighter pilot is named Allison Ng, and is intended to be an Asian American character—one of Chinese, Hawaiian and Swedish descent. According to reviews of the film, Ng is a Hula dancing expert. She has a halfHawaiian/Chinese father. And she rocks the Hawaiian folk guitar. It’s clear that Ng’s roots are intended to be a major plot device for the film, in

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addition to being reflective of Hawaii’s great diversity. And the casting directors chose Stone—an actress with red hair who has poked fun at her extremely white, all European ancestry. She is quite possibly the whitest person in Hollywood to play her. Director Cameron Crowe, who could be one of many people held responsible for this casting, published a blog post apologizing “to all who felt [that] this was an odd or misguided casting choice.” He went on to explain that Ng, who was based on a real-life, redheaded local in Hawaii, was

a quarter Hawaiian and half-Chinese. Ng was “meant to show the surprising mix of cultures often prevalent in Hawaii,” penned Crowe. He went on to absolve any blame from Stone and praised her characterization of Ng. The point isn’t that Ng was a redhead— it’s the fact that there are so few mixed Asian roles like Ng in Hollywood, especially in big budget films like “Aloha”. It’s important to properly celebrate and recognize multiracial characters through multiracial actors since they have such little presence in mainstream media to begin with. But it’s

As the theater world’s biggest annual event, this year’s Tony’s did not disappoint for those who call themselves an inner theater nerd. Ruthie Ann Mills, an actress of Korean descent, won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical after receiving strong reviews for her performance in the revival of the classic musical “The King and I”. Miles played Lady Thiang, one of the wives of the titular king. “The King and I” marked her Broadway debut. Ken Watanabe, who is best known for his Oscar-nominated role in the film “The Last Samurai,” was also up for a Tony for {see A-POP cont’d on page 15}

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We lose more API teens

Last week we said we hoped to not have to write any more about API teen suicides and deaths. But unfortunately, we do need to write about it, and we need to acknowledge this has become an issue. Within the last few weeks, there have been more recent teen deaths, and they hit close to home—in Everett and Tacoma. It is always difficult to discuss tragedy. So perhaps the best way to discuss is to start off with what we know at this point. And so here are the depressing bullet points: — Christopher (AnhKhoi) Nguyen, passed away on April 27, at his childhood home in Everett, Washington. He was 18. He was a senior at Cascade High School and a member of the National Honors Society, due to graduate in the spring. According to his family, he also attended early

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start college courses at Everett Community College and had been recently accepted to the University of Washington as a sophomore in the pre-engineering program. —Izabel Laxamana, 13-year-old, left notes to her family members before jumping from an interstate bridge last Friday, police said. The youngster died the following day. Her death triggered sadness and anger, especially after a video of her father “shaming” her and cutting her hair found its way online. It was put online by a third party and later removed. Many online commentators claimed the girl’s father should he held responsible for her death. Police who have been probing the girl’s death said while the girl’s father had indeed cut her hair and recorded the incident, there was no evidence that he had committed a crime.

Discussing the dangers of non-organic food with the Chinese community

My in-laws are Chinese and do not know about the dangers of non-organic food. They do not believe me when I tell them that eating non-organic food can be dangerous because the Chinese papers do not discuss the effects of pesticides. I have an auto-immune condition and eat only organic in my house to keep myself healthy and well. However, we eat at their house once a week and all of their food is non-organic. The food they make is delicious and made with love, however, it is not as nutritious and safe as it could possibly because the chemicals used in it. They are completely unaware of this and think they are serving healthy food.

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They said it appeared there were a number of factors that were affecting the youngster and that the hair-cutting and video did not “have much to do with her decision to take her own life”. Why is this happening and what is the threshold for these teens? Is there too much pressure based on expectations by family, peers, or perhaps the individual on him or herself? Why is there no realization what the future can offer? It is tragic to consider these youth will not get the chance to experience more than what their earlier years did. And it is tragic we will all miss out on their potential contributions. Unfortunately, there will be a longer article about this later. 

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{ROBOT cont’d from page 8} enduring excess radiation. The idea was to create a robot that could do such important emergency tasks in the future and get to the problem site. Competition was fierce among 23 international teams, including a dozen from the United States and 11 from Japan, Germany, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong. The robots were timed while navigating eight tasks they would likely encounter in emergency scenarios. The challenge required the teams have their robots increasingly difficult competitions over two years. Team IHMC Robotics of Pensacola, Florida, finished second, winning $1 million for its robot Running Man. Tartan Rescue of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and its

{BANGLADESH cont’d from page 5} statement said. Adani Power Limited will invest $2.5 billion to set up a coal-based power plant with a capacity of 1,600 megawatts of power, according to the statement. The Reliance Group will set up another gas-fired power

{MOY cont’d from page 1} for more than 20 years. He most recently had responsibility for Taiwan, China, and Mongolia affairs. He has served as a senior adviser to

robot CHIMP designed by Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center came in third, winning $500,000. The event was live-streamed and YouTube videos culling together clips of the robots taking falls throughout the competition were tweeted out. “These robots are big and made of lots of metal, and you might assume people seeing them would be filled with fear and anxiety,” said Gill Pratt, DARPA program manager and the competition organizer in a statement. “But we heard groans of sympathy when those robots fell. And what did people do every time a robot scored a point? They cheered! It’s an extraordinary thing, and I think this is one of the biggest lessons from DRC—the potential for robots not only to perform technical tasks for us, but to help connect people to one another.” 

plant with capacity of 3,000 megawatts of power, investing $3 billion. Bangladesh and India have 54 common rivers and the sharing of water from them is a contentious issue for the countries. Officials say the two leaders will discuss how to effectively deal with the issue. 

former U.S. secretaries of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright. He has also served in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, the U.S. embassy in Seoul and the U.S. Consulate in Busan, South Korea. 

{HUYNH cont’d from page 1} 21 on that day more than half a lifetime ago when he stood on the same road, pointed his camera northeast and captured one of history’s most famous images — a naked Vietnamese girl screaming and fleeing after South Vietnamese planes looking for Viet Cong insurgents attacked with napalm from the air. ‘“On Monday, 43 years later to the day, Ut went back to document some of his Vietnam War memories with a tool from an entirely different era — a 4-ounce iPhone 5 equipped with the ability to send photos to the world in the blink of a digital eye. ‘“I stood here and watched the bombs come down,” Ut said of those long-ago moments just before he exposed a frame of Kodak Tri-X black-and-white film that carried the likeness of 9-year-old Kim Phuc, her body severely burned. Ut’s June 8, 1972, image of Kim Phuc, now known as the ‘“napalm girl,” helped crystallize the debate America had been having for more than half a decade about a far-off war that was lethal to so many. But the image began its persuasive work on newspaper pages many hours later, not in the instantaneous fashion we see today. So when Ut returned to the village of Trang Bang on Monday, he came equipped with something more era-appropriate: He brought his iPhone with him and was given custody of AP Images’ Instagram account for the day. That gave him the power to upload, instantaneously, images that during the war would have taken hours to get 25 miles south to AP offices in Saigon, then in and out of the film-developing process before a print could be beamed to the world. Sitting in a van bound for Trang Bang, Ut, a digital Leica around his neck, took a few practice shots with the iPhone. As he headed north from Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, the scenery revealed the ways Highway 1 has changed since the war. Today’s roadside attractions include a restaurant called ‘“Sushi World” and a roadside vendor hawking a small-scale Statue of Liberty. He pressed the phone against the windshield to photograph the road, then followed up with an image of the temple where Kim Phuc and her family took refuge before the bombing. He and the picture — and, by extension, the village — are forever linked. In Trang Bang, Ut visited a roadside stall operated by two of Kim Phuc’s cous-

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ins, then walked a kilometer down the road to where he made the famous image. There, he faced a gaggle of photographers as traffic changed lanes to avoid them. The scene that unfolded was a curious one: Ut taking pictures, Ut taking pictures of his own pictures, people taking pictures of Ut taking pictures. By the time it wrapped up, it was unclear whether more images were taken by Nick Ut or of him. Ut ended up posting six images of Trang Bang on Instagram, including one of Ho Van Bon, 54, Kim Phuc’s cousin and the boy to her left in the 1972 photo. Today, sitting at the roadside stall, he says instantaneous photo sharing can be a potent force when bad things happen. ‘“If this were to happen right now . it’s much better for the world now for these social networks to have instant attention for something,” he said through a translator. ‘“It makes the world a better place.” It wouldn’t just be Ut uploading, though. His photo, as powerful as it is, would have had competition for the eyeballs of the world. ‘“Imagine what it would have been like in 1972 if you had all the technology and systems of 2015,” says David Campbell, a visual storytelling expert and teacher in Newcastle, England. ‘“Some of those people escaping that napalm attack would have had their own smartphones. Some of the soldiers would have had smartphones,” Campbell says. ‘“In 1972, you got to see a very curated, edited selection of images that were much more isolated pieces of time. Now you would see greater scope, greater time scale and a much more comprehensive view.” Ut, whose AP photographer brother Huynh Thanh My was killed in the Vietnam War in 1965, suspects the conflict would have played very differently for people back in the United States — and their policymakers — if instantaneous photo sharing had existed then. He says that before he even got his film back to Saigon, ‘“it would have been on Facebook.” ‘“My God. Today in Vietnam everybody has a phone,” Ut says. ‘“A couple hours, that was too long. Now two minutes you get it to the world. I couldn’t have imagined.” 

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For the week of June 13–June 19, 2015 By Sun Lee Chang

Rat — Before you stake out your position, do your homework. Upon further research, you may want to adjust your stance.

Dragon — Is it taking longer to get where you wanted to go than you expected? You may have to push a little to jump ahead.

Monkey — Instead of charging forward alone, it could be quite beneficial to your cause to garner support from those around you.

Ox — As competitive as you can be, there is much to be gained from trying to quell the desire to acquire something just for the sake of having it.

Snake — While it is good to say what is on your mind, there are instances where it might be best to bite your tongue.

Rooster — There are some unintended consequences to your choices this week. However, nothing that is beyond repair.

Tiger — Are you hosting a gathering soon? Instead of coming up with a complicated menu, stick to a few things that you know will work.

Horse — A compromise can be viewed as a win if you recognize that you are going to get much of what you asked for with some relatively minor concessions.

Dog — A lackluster start need not dictate the outcome. You have time to make up for any shortcoming and come out on top.

Rabbit — Does it feel like your time has been encroached upon recently? Set up some boundaries that you know you can stick to.

Goat — Keep an open mind when it comes to an area you are unfamiliar with. Chances are that you have much to learn before you come to an understanding.

Pig — Don’t fall for something that is more show than substance. It will soon become apparent that there is not much beyond the pretty façade.

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 Rooster 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005 Dog 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006 Pig 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007

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Once the beans are grown and harvested, they are sent over to the family cleaners to shake off the dirt and gravel. Once the beans are clean, they’re held in storage until they receive an order. The harvest comes in September, when the crops mature and the beans have grown. Tessa will head out to the farm with her tractor, or thresher, and gather the soybeans from her crops. She then sends the soybeans to the family cleaners, and then they proceed to make their products; soymilk, tofu, jars of soybeans, which they sell directly to the customer online. “All of our distribution is online,” said Tara. The Miller family, from both Signature Soy and Brushvale Seed, Inc are companies dedicated to nonGMO soybeans, of which they are part of five percent of farms in the soybean industry that are dedicated to nonGMO. “Growing non-GMO soybeans is very tough,” said Tara. “There are very strict regulations, and one hundred percent of every tool and method have to be traced. Everything about growing non-GMOs have to be accounted for. GMO soybeans are so prevalent because they are so easy to produce.” “People want non-GMO soybeans,” said Tara. “Our dad found that most his customers overseas won’t even take soybeans if they have any traces of GMO. Unless there’s hard research saying GMO’s are safe, they won’t take them.” Tara and Tessa continue to work on their business, and hearing them talk about it, it’s clear they’re very passionate about their product. “We currently have about a hundred customers,” Tara said, “and our sales have tripled within a year.” “We spread our name through word of mouth and continue making good products. We have a couple hundred customers right now, but we hope to expand that number very soon!” They recently made a trip to San Francisco for the Northern Californa Soy and Tofu Festival to help spread their name and encourage word of mouth, which is, currently, their main method of promotion. 

last week in reaction to fears about the spreading virus, according to the Ministry of Education. The number will surely rise on Monday after education authorities in Seoul and the neighboring Gyeonggi

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Province on Sunday ordered more schools in their regions to participate in the temporary closures. MERS was discovered in 2012 and has mostly been centered in Saudi Arabia. It belongs to the family of coronaviruses that includes the common cold and SARS,

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Despite his permanent resident status in the country, Slade may still be deported for being an “undesirable alien,” Tan said. Immigration chief Siegfred Mison said in a statement that Slade’s activities “pose a significant risk and threat to children’s wellbeing.” “The wellbeing of our children is considered the utmost interest of the State. We will not allow any such corruption of our youth to happen,” Mison said. 

Small-town traditions mix with trends of the future. In the town center, couples gather in Yusha Square for nighttime ballroom dancing alfresco, while on the outskirts, lonely high-rise apartment buildings jut out of rice fields in one of China’s most important agricultural regions. By all available measures, Jianli has risen to the challenge of dealing with the catastrophe, mobilizing resources and volunteers to aid in the rescue and recovery. Taxi drivers have waived fares for journalists and aid workers, and hotels are offering free rooms and meals. While local governments are not known to be friendly to outside journalists, a downtown hotel has been designated as the media center for the dozens of foreign and Chinese reporters who’ve flocked to the scene. The head of the county government, Xu Zhen, recalls how within hours of the capsizing late last Monday, officials began organizing boats to scour the river’s surface for survivors and for medical, security, engineering and other teams to start work at first light. “Jianli is part of the great Chinese family and it is our responsibility to do the very best we can in this difficult time,” Xu said.

{AN cont’d from page 3} of winning with composure. With such a strong pedigree, his success this year might have been seen as inevitable but it was far from that. After winning the U.S. Amateur Championship, An briefly attended U.C. Berkeley before deciding to turn pro. An initially struggled to find his footing as a pro, playing in the lower Challenge Tour with only one win and failing to make the cut in several tournaments. An credits his three years on the Challenge Tour as preparing him for success and is encouraging other Asian golfers to try their luck in Europe. An is playing the best golf of his career and he looks to parlay his recent string of strong performances into a good showing at this year’s U.S. Open. 

{SIFF cont’d from page 8} scene in “Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll.” Classics like the brilliantly restored “Apu Trilogy”, a renowned series by Satyajit Ray filmed in India in the 1950s, made its comeback on Seattle’s big screens while new animated feature “When Marnie Was There” by Miyozaki protégé Hiromasa Yonebayashi drew die-hard fans and took home SIFF’s Films4Families Youth Jury Awards. Crowd favorites included Japanese action epic “Snow on Blades” with its samurais versus assassins, and SIFF FutureWave Youth Jury Award winner “Seoul Searching”, a humorous homage to the John Hughes high school

and can cause fever, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure. The virus has spread primarily through contact with camels, but it can also spread from human fluids and droplets. 

A Jianli county public works bureau worker, who like many Chinese bureaucrats would give only his surname, Huang, said he felt it was his responsibility to help with a group of eight from Shanghai who’d lost relatives in the sinking. He picked them up from the train station in his car, drove them to a hotel, then a clinic to provide a DNA sample to help with identifying their loved ones, and finally to dinner. “We’re here to help them for as long as we’re needed,” said Huang. “Our offices have given us all the leave we need to make them feel at ease.” Xu says the town’s biggest challenge now is housing and caring for the estimated 2,500 grief-stricken relatives, some of whom may be put up in private homes because of a shortage of hotel rooms. The town has pledged to provide at least one volunteer per victim’s family member to help with transport and accommodation and provide emotional support. Residents seem proud to be able to help, recalling the assistance they received during floods that devastated Yangtze River towns in the summer of 1998. “I’ve really been deeply touched by the·deeds done by local residents,” said a hotel clerk who gave only his surname, Lei. “I feel proud of them, it’s positive energy — I think in the future, young people will learn from them.” 

flicks of the 80s set in a Korean teen summer camp. The growth of the Taiwanese film industry is also reflected in this year’s lineup, which featured four films that touch on Taiwan’s unique history, culture, and modern day slice of life on the fast growing island nation. Next year, it could easily be another country from which new films provide us an intimate inside look. In Seattle anyway, SIFF remains among the most expedient way to grasp and engage in the Asian experience that is continually shaped by the changing times with politics, war, arts, culture, and technology. All we need to do is tune in and enjoy.  Tiffany Ran can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

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{TRAVEL REPORT cont’d from page 8} She teeters. “You do?” “Yes.” She doesn’t know it, most people don’t, but we are talking Kismuth’s beat. The “What about if?,” the questions of being, treks round Sheep’s Head and Punjab to suss a story, to unpack what you’re never really able to unravel altogether, what you can’t, no matter how hard you might like to think it’s important, reshape into tidy lines that connect now-absent dots. She sucks in air.

I copy. Breath. New breath. “Everything is blank space,” she says. Like it’s an equation. “Uncertain.” “Mmm-hmmm.” It is an equation. In 1900, Max Planck came up with: E=hc/λ. Relating energy, the speed of light, and wavelength. But he needed to use some stuff about uncertainties, Boltzmann, et al, to make it work. And throw in a constant. See ‘h’? It’s Planck’s constant: 6.626x10^-34 Js. Soon the space between us goes redolent with caramel, popcorn, soy sauce and fish.

Quiet, too, which is unusual. She tilts her head. “Have a name card?” A wind touches her hat’s yellow feather. “No. Just, um. Well, google ‘fuzzy quantum pop.’” She smiles. It’s buoyant, the smile of someone who’s ultra content with the way things are, doesn’t twist them into what she thinks they ought to be. “No name card? Really?” “I’m, uh. I’m going through some transitions.” For no reason I fish out the yellow envelope. I wrote a letter to my love, And on the way I dropped it.

I push it into her hands the way a big sister might. “I was going to send it to, well. Nevermind. But you know. The post. Cambodia. Take it, will you? I think you’ll enjoy it more.” She nods, and before I know it, she’s— A little girl picked it up, and— —Put it in her pocket.  Read the letter on June 23 at Kismuth.com. Dipika Kohli can be reached at info@ nwasianweekly.com.

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billiards. “Courage is not the absence of fear,” Lee said during her acceptance speech. At age 13, Lee was diagnosed with scoliosis and had a steel rod implanted in her spine. She has endured multiple surgeries to strengthen her back. The Korean American Lee is nicknamed “The Black Widow” because she would “eat people alive” when she got to the pool table. The 43-year-old Lee began playing in 1989 and ascended to the number one female pool player in the world during the 1990s. Lee auctioned off autographed cue balls, cue sticks, and her signature black glove which she uses when playing. She stated that she had never auctioned off a glove prior to the night at the Asian Hall of Fame. Betty Nguyen is an award-winning journalist and is anchor for MSNBC’s “First Look” and “Early Today” on NBC. She also serves as a correspondent for The Today Show. Previously, Nguyen has worked for CNN as a correspondent and anchor. Nguyen, a Vietnamese American, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in broadcast journalism. The evening benefited the Asian Hall of Fame and two charities: API Chaya and Rescue Freedom International. Both of the charities help to work to fight trafficking, slavery and provide aftercare for those who need it. The evening included a silent auction during a cocktail hour followed by a live auction during the dinner which included items donated by the inductees. 

According to its credo, the Asian Hall of Fame “honors distinguished individuals of Asian Pacific descent whose personal achievements have contributed to the American experience.” Henderson was the only inductee that could not make it to accept the award in person. Due to an undisclosed injury, he was unable to travel from his home in Phoenix to Seattle. However, Henderson’s mother, Song, was in attendance to accept the honor. Henderson’s mother resides in Federal Way, Washington where Henderson and his brother grew up. He was raised by his mother in Federal Way and it was his mother who suggested that he and his brother take up Tae Kwon Do to become more familiar with their Korean heritage. He was a standout wrestler at Decatur High School and went on to wrestle in college. He made a successful transition to mixed martial arts and became the World Extreme Cagefighting lightweight champion and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight champion. He currently competes in the UFC. Henderson gave a video speech accepting the award in which he apologized to the audience for not being able to attend in person. He also thanked his mother for being there for him as always. Inaba is best known as a judge on the popular ABC hit, “Dancing with The Stars.” She is also a successful choreographer. She got her start with the mid-1990s show, “In Living Color,” where she was one of the dancers known as a “Fly Girl.” In her acceptance speech, Inaba thanked everyone for making going after her dreams possible. “Without people like you, there’s not people like me [that could pursue my dreams].” Jeanette “the Black Widow” Lee is considered the first lady of

The Robert Chinn Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was formed in June 1986 to honor the prominent business and community leader. Chinn founded the first Asian-owned bank in the United States. Jason Cruz can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

Fans of the FOX comedy “The Mindy Project” were disappointed to learn of the show’s cancellation this past month. Although the romcom was a cult favorite, FOX decided not to renew the show after the third season due to consistently low ratings. However, actress, writer, producer, and creator Mindy Kaling, who also stars as the titular Mindy, wasn’t too disappointed by the cancellation. She broke news that the next seasons of “The Mindy Project” would live on through Hulu, the online video streaming website. So don’t fret, Mindy fans! Director Justin Lin, who is best known for directing four films from the “Fast and the Furious” franchise and the cult classic “Better Luck Tomorrow,” recently dropped his hands in wet cement at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Lin is now a part of the historic Hollywood of Fame! Popular Chinese actors Huang Xiaoming and Zhao Wei, who are famous for their respective filmographies in Mainland China, also put down handprints next to Lin for their collaboration together in the upcoming Mandarinlanguage comedy “Hollywood Adventures”. The film, which opens in late June, is Lin’s first foray into producing Chinese film. Meanwhile, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars in “San Andreas”—a disaster/drama flick that sees a rescue-chopper pilot, played by Johnson, trekking on a dangerous journey to rescue his daughter. If you love action movies and if you love The Rock, then this movie is for you. “San Andreas” is currently in theaters.  Vivian Nguyen can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

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Term Control Plan Update Number: E00353E15 Proposals due: July 1, 2015 Time: 12:00 p.m. Pre-proposal Meeting: June 16, 2015 Time: 8:30 a.m. Location: Chinook Building, Room 121/123; 401 Fifth Ave, Seattle SUMMARY OF WORK: Provide professional services to assist King County Wastewater Treatment Division in development of the 2018 Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) Update, which will recommend changes to the 2012 LTCP and include refined cost estimates, schedule and project priorities, and assumptions. This work will ensure that project recommendations reflect environmental, social, and financial goals to meet current needs, consider stakeholder interests, and address Consent Decree requirements. SUBCONSULTANT OPPORTUNITIES: Provided for informational purposes only, following are subconsulting opportunities that may be available on this Contract: public involvement; hydraulic modeling; wastewater CSO planning and design; data analysis; geotechnical engineering; green infrastructure analysis; cost estimating; environmental

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