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Vol. 31 No. 16 • Friday, April 20, 2018
Published Weekly from Houston
Voice of Asia publisher presents plaque of press coverage to Missouri City Mayor Allen Owen
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'A beautiful life': America mourns Barbara Bush by Mathes
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Publisher & CEO Koshy Thomas presenting the plaque to Mayor Allen Owen at the Missouri City, City Hall on Monday, April 16, 2018. (Photo credit: Cory Stottlemyer, MCTX)
ASHINGTON | AFP | 4/18/2018 Former president George W. Bush thanked his mother Barbara for her "beautiful life" as tributes poured in Wednesday for the much-loved political matriarch and one-time first lady following her death at the age of 92. Former US first lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at the age. Long seen as Photo: AFP File) the pillar of one of America's most prominent families, as wife comforted on her deathbed, my in Texas after a memorial to the 41st US president and soul is comforted," George W. ceremony on Saturday in mother to the 43rd, Barbara Bush told Fox Business. "It's Houston to be attended by the first lady, Melania Trump. Bush died at her home in Texas the end of a beautiful life." on Tuesday surrounded by her President Donald Trump His father, the 93-year-old family. George H.W. Bush, was said ordered flags to be flown at "As a result of her soul being by staff to be heart-broken to half-staff at all public buildings lose "his beloved Barbara," and military posts in Bush's his wife of more than seven honor, as he paid tribute to her work to promote literacy -- a decades. Known for her trademark cause she embraced during her faux pearls and tart-tongued time as first lady, from 1989 to comments about life in and out 1993, and beyond.
Body of 12-yr-old, last missing member of Indian family, found in California river
The Thottapilly family, from Santa Clarita, were on a road trip when they disappeared on April 6 while driving through Redwood Coast Highway.
Having undergone heart surgery in 2009, she was treated for years for Graves' disease, a thyroid condition, and as her health failed in recent days, was moved into comfort care at her home in Houston.
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ASHINGTON | PTI - 4/17/2018 - Searchers and rescue team have found the body of a 12-year-old boy, the last missing member of an Indian family of four which died when their sports utility vehicle plunged into a swollen river in the US state of California some 11 days ago.
Separately, an adult female body recovered on Friday from another area of the river was identified as Soumya Thottapilly, 38. "At approximately 4:00 PM water searchers located the body of a juvenile male submerged in the Eel River approximately 6 miles north of the reported crash site," it said.
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A hugely popular figure during and after her time in the White House, Bush made history as one of just two women to be wife and mother Continued on Page 12
Trump issues public challenge to Abe
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ALM BEACH, Florida | AFP | Wednesday 4/18/2018 - US President Donald Trump issued a blunt face-to-face challenge to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in full view of the cameras Wednesday, demanding more favorable terms on trade.
Sandeep Thottapilly, his wife Soumya, along with their two kids were on a road trip in a maroon Honda Pilot from Portland, Oregon to San Jose in Southern California. (Photo: Facebook). remaining missing member of the Thottapilly family. An autopsy is expected to be performed this week as part of the Coroner's investigation into the incident," it added. The family's maroon SUV was seen falling into the river in northern Mendocino County from a pullout during a rainstorm. They had been travelling south from Oregon along Highway 101 when the
incident occurred. Officials last week determined the vehicle belonged to the Thottapilly family. On Sunday, 70 searchers using Jet Skis, boats and kayaks worked along the river in an ongoing effort to find the vehicle and family. The vehicle was encased in sediment and visibility was poor but divers believed there
was at least one body inside, officials said. About 6:30 pm a tow truck was able to partially pull the vehicle out and two bodies were found inside it. Soumya's body was found several miles from where the vehicle went into the water. The river was swollen from recent storms and officials had to wait several days for it to recede.
Serious Car Accident?
"As the prime minister knows, they have done very well with the United States. We have a very big deficit," Trump said as the two leaders and their delegations sat across the table from each other at Trump's Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida. Insisting the "relationship is a very good one," Trump nonetheless broke with the usual diplomatic niceties, urging Abe do more to make trade "free, fair and reciprocal." "We have a massive deficit with Japan," he said, pointing to passenger plane and fighter jet orders that could plug the
gap before railing about unfair practices. "The word 'reciprocal' is that when you have a car come in, we charge you a tax. When we have a car go through Japan, which aren’t allowed to go there, we have to take down the barriers and we have to pay the same tax," Trump said. "But that goes for other countries too," he said, vowing to "weed" the deficit down. The blunt talk will appeal to Trump's domestic political base, which was promised a better economic deal and a tougher "America First" stance under his administration. "This is a very exciting meeting for me, because I like this maybe the best. I love the world of finance and the world of economics, and probably, it's where I do the best," Trump said, playing up his business credentials.
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George W. Bush and his wife Laura expressed their gratitude for the prayers and sympathies pouring in for his mother, who is survived by five children, 17 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She lost a sixth child -- a daughter -- to leukemia as a toddler.
She will be laid to rest
The Thottapilly family, from Santa Clarita, disappeared on April 6 while driving in a Honda Pilot through the Redwood Coast Highway on vacation, officials said. Their disappearance coincided with reports that a vehicle had sunk into the Eel River in Northern California. Searchers on Monday found the body of Siddhant Thottapilly, the last to be found after the family of four went missing. Sandeep Thottapilly, 41, and Saachi Thottapilly, 9, were found dead inside a vehicle encased in sediment in the Eel River, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said.
of Washington -- but also her deep loyalty to family and selfdeprecating humor -- Barbara Bush was in many ways a figure more popular among ordinary Americans than her high-flying husband and sons.
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