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The Chinatown–International District’s annual Lunar New Year Festival is right around the corner! It’ll be taking place on Feb. 9, the day of Lunar New Year’s Eve, and will feature martial arts demonstrations, taiko drumming, parades, the 3rd Annual Lunar New Year Food Walk and much more. Excited to welcome the year of the Snake the Seattle way?

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■ NAMES IN THE NEWSOne Night Count finds an increase in homelessness

The One Night Count, a count of homeless people in King County, took place early in the morning on Friday, Jan. 25.

Volunteers with trained leaders were dispatched from 10 locations throughout the county to count. Approximately 800 volunteers observed people trying to survive in cars, tents, all night buses, hospital emergency rooms, or curled up in blan-kets under bridges or in doorways.

In total, 2,736 individuals were observed with no shelter, an increase of 142 compared to last year’s count.

The Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, an independent coalition of organizations and individuals that work on homelessness issues in our region, organizes the count, now in its 33rd year.

“The One Night Count is a humbling experience,” said Co-alition Executive Director Alison Eisinger. “This morning, we are especially reminded that everyone should have a place to call home. The Count is a call to action each January — the beginning of a full year of education and action for all of us who care about this crisis.”

Following the count, a gong was sounded 2,736 times, once for each homeless person counted.

Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata was first to ring the gong, followed by the Executive Director of the Low In-come Housing Initiative, Sharon Lee, and King County Coun-cilmember Larry Gossett.

ICHS honors long-tenured employees

International Community Health Services (ICHS) hon-ored their longest working employees in December, highlight-ing the careers of some of their most dedicated team mem-bers. In addition to those honored, several employees have been with ICHS for nearly the organization’s entire 40-year existence.

Bouasy Sisttanalay has been with ICHS for over 32 years. She staffs the front desk of the Women, Infant, and Children’s Program, a federal program which helps provide for the nutri-tion of low-income expecting mothers, breastfeeding women, and children under the age of 5.

Thu Ngo is an obstetrics nurse and is in charge of all work with prenatal and postnatal mothers.

Roger Chu, laboratory supervisor, has been officially with ICHS for 30 years. However, two years ago, the organization contracted out their lab work due to budget cuts. The outside lab kept Roger as manager, leading to a total of 32 continuous years of work.

ICHS is a nonprofit community health center that offers affordable health care services to Seattle and King County’s Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities, as well as other underserved communities.

Seattleite among members of 2013 Japanese American Leadership Delegation

Ten Japanese Americans have been selected to travel to Ja-pan where they will visit Fukushima Prefecture and Tokyo for meetings with newly elected top officials from March 8–16.

The Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD) provides opportunities for Japanese Americans to establish a meaningful role in strengthening U.S.–Japan relations.

This year, the delegation will visit Fukushima to learn from those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear crisis. They will also participate in a symposium sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the U.S.–Japan Council.

In Tokyo, the delegates typically meet with the prime min-ister, foreign minister, and top business executives.

The delegates come from across the country and are active in their communities, engaged in U.S.–Japan relations, and committed to deepening ties between Japanese Americans and Japan. U.S.-Japan Council President Irene Hirano Inouye will lead the delegation.

The delegate chosen from Seattle is Kelly Ogilvie. He is the founder, chairman, president, and COO of Quemulus, Inc. He is also the founding partner of Social Milli, LLC.

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■ NATIONAl NEWS

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Tsujihara was named the next chief executive of the Warner Bros. studio, one of the largest producers of TV shows and movies in Hollywood, on Monday, Jan. 28. He’ll take over for Barry Meyer on March 1.

Tsujihara, 48, has been president of the studio’s home entertainment division since 2005.

Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Warner Bros. parent Time Warner Inc., said in a statement Mon-day that Tsujihara was the right leader for the stu-dio, combining strategic thinking with financial discipline.

“Kevin is one of the most effective and respect-ed executives within Time Warner,” Bewkes said.

Tsujihara said in a statement that it was an honor to lead the studio.

“We’re at a pivotal moment in the histories of Hollywood and entertainment. Technology is changing the canvas we use to create theatrical re-leases,” he said.

Meyer will continue on as chairman of the stu-dio through 2013.

The appointment ends a three-way race to suc-ceed Meyer, 69, who has been chairman and CEO of the studio since 1999.

After Alan Horn left as president of Warner Bros. in April 2011, an office of the president was shared between Tsujihara, Warner Bros. Pictures President Jeff Robinov, and Warner Bros. Televi-sion President Bruce Rosenblum. It was assumed one of the three would succeed Meyer.

Rosenblum said in a statement that he was dis-

appointed, “Who wouldn’t be? Warner Bros. is a unique and special place and I know it will be in good hands with Kevin at the helm.”

Since divesting its AOL and cable TV opera-tions, Time Warner has narrowed its focus on con-tent in recent years, making the studio a more im-portant factor in the company’s finances.

In fiscal 2011, the studio accounted for $12.6 bil-lion in revenue, about 43 percent of the entire com-pany’s revenue, and $1.3 billion in operating profit, about 22 percent of the total.

Time Warner shares fell 31 cents to $50.09 in afternoon trading Monday in a mixed overall market.

Kevin Tsujihara named CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment

Kevin Tsujihara

By StaffTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Chinese business owner and one of his employees have pleaded guilty in Missouri to con-spiring to steal trade secrets from a U.S. company, in what one expert called a rare example of foreign business people being successfully prosecuted for corporate spying.

Ji Li Huang, 45, and Xiao Guang Qi, 32, admitted Friday, Jan 25 in federal court that they tried to buy Pittsburgh Corn-ing Corp.’s proprietary formula for cellular glass insulation by bribing an employee of the company’s Sedalia plant.

U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes sentenced Huang to

18 months in federal prison and fined him $250,000. Qi — Huang’s employee at a plastic novelties manufacturer called Ningbo Oriental Crafts Ltd. — was sentenced to time served and fined $20,000, with the understanding that he would leave the United States immediately.

Both men paid their fines Friday, The Kansas City Star re-ported.

Peter Toren, a former Justice Department prosecutor and expert on economic espionage, told The Star that Huang’s sentence showed that the judge took the crime seriously.

“Eighteen months is not insignificant time, particularly for a white-collar crime,” Toren said.

Toren said only a small number of foreign businessmen

have been successfully prosecuted for trying to steal U.S. trade secrets under the Economic Espionage Act. Most defen-dants in the 125 or so cases prosecuted since 1996 have been employees of the victim company who planned to use the in-formation to benefit themselves, to start a new company, or to sell to another firm, most often in China, Toren said.

Huang, who speaks no English, appeared anguished after a translator whispered the sentence.

“When I go back to China, I will tell my family and my friends that you have to understand American laws and obey American laws,” Huang told the judge through the translator

{see CORPORATE SPYING cont’d on page 19}

Chinese nationals plead guilty to corporate spying


■ WORld NEWS

By Matthew PenningtonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — North Korea could be al-most ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said, pointing to recent satellite photos.

The images of the Punggye-ri site, where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009, reveal that over the past month, roads have been kept clear of snow and that North Koreans may have been sealing the tunnel into a mountainside, where a nuclear device would be deto-nated.

But it remains difficult to discern North Korea’s true intentions, as a test would be conducted underground.

The analysis was provided Friday, Jan. 25 to The Asso-ciated Press by 38 North, the website of U.S.-Korea Insti-tute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The latest image was taken Wednesday, Jan. 23.

North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commis-sion declared its plans Thursday after the U.N. Security Council tightened sanctions in response to a December long-range rocket launch. It described it as part of a “new phase” of combat with the United States, which retains 28,000 troops in South Korea and which it blames for leading the U.N. bid to punish Pyongyang.

The North said a nuclear test was part of “upcoming” action, but did not say exactly when or where it would take place.

38 North concludes that the Punggye-ri site, in the

country’s northeast, “appears to continue to be at a state of readiness that would allow the North to move forward with a test in a few weeks or less once the leadership in Pyongyang gives the order.”

South Korean media have cited intelligence officials as saying technical preparations appear complete and the North could be ready to test within days of making a de-cision to do so.

U.S. officials confirmed Friday that the United States has seen some trucks moving around the site. One official said the United States is not ruling out that the test could happen in the near future.

But the officials cautioned that, as in previous tests, be-cause it would be done underground, the United States may not know much before it actually happens. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss intelligence matters publicly.

In 2006, North Korea detonated a nuclear device just six days after it announced its plans to do so, and in 2009, 26 days after the announcement. Both tests came weeks after the U.N. Security Council had condemned it for long-range rocket launches.

“While the test site appears to continue to be at a high state of readiness, it’s anyone’s guess when a detonation might occur. The North Koreans may do it tomorrow, some other day, or they may decide to wait until a mean-ingful date like Kim Jong Il’s birthday on February 16th,” said Joel Wit, a former U.S. State Department official and

{see NUKE TEST cont’d on page 15}


YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The World Bank on Sunday, Jan. 27 announced a long-awaited deal to allow Myanmar to clear part of its huge decades-old foreign debt, opening the door for new much-needed lending to jump-start its lagging economy.

The bank’s Washington head-quarters announced in a statement that the Japan Bank for Interna-tional Cooperation, the country’s overseas development bank, will provide a bridge loan to Myan-mar to allow it to cover outstand-ing debt to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, which totals about $900 million.

Myanmar stopped payments on its old loans about 1987, making it ineligible for new development lending.

The deal is a major breakthrough for Myanmar, with loans likely to go to upgrading its dilapidated infrastructure, including electric-ity and ports. The knock-on effect would be to bring in more foreign direct investment, already attract-ed by the country’s relatively low-cost economy.

The deal is also likely to draw

criticism, because it comes as Myanmar’s army is pushing hard against ethnic Kachin rebels in the country’s north, in an echo of the notorious counterinsurgency campaigns of previous military re-gimes.

A former general, Thein Sein, became the country’s elected presi-dent in 2011 and began reversing almost five decades of military re-pression by instituting political and economic reforms.

He won the substantial easing of economic and political sanctions imposed against the junta by the United States and other nations. But some pro-democracy activists say his administration has been re-warded too much, too fast, allow-ing some abuses to continue, such as repression of ethnic minorities.

The World Bank had already made some exceptions to provid-ing new aid.

In November, it approved an $80 million project to provide $25,000 grants to villages in 15 townships across the country, where com-munity councils will identify the kind of help they want, such as roads, bridges, irrigation systems, schools, health clinics, or rural

{see LOANS cont’d on page 15}

Loans cleared to jumpstart Myanmar investment

Images suggest North Korea ready for nuclear test


■ NATIONAl NEWS


HONOLULU, Hi. (AP) — Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has been elected vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.

The committee voted unanimously Tuesday to elect Gabbard, who represents Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district.

Gabbard will serve as vice chair for the next four years.Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

praised Gabbard’s dedication to public service, saying she exemplifies the par-ty’s values.

Gabbard was elected to a two-year term in Congress in November, represent-ing suburban Honolulu and Hawaii’s neighbor islands to Oahu. She won the seat in a landslide.

The 31-year-old congresswoman previously served in the Hawaii Legislature and the Honolulu City Council.

Gabbard is one of the first female combat veterans elected to Congress. She is also the first Hindu and the first American Samoan to sit in Congress.

By Gillian FlaccusTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Khanh Nguyen, a South Vietnamese general who briefly gained control of the govern-ment in a coup and went on to lead a “government in exile” in California, has died.

Nguyen died Jan. 11 at a San Jose hospital after struggling with diabetes-related health problems, said Chanh Nguyen Huu, who succeeded Nguyen as head of the Garden Grove-based Government of Free Vietnam in Exile. He was 86.

In November 1960, Nguyen helped thwart a coup against the U.S.-backed President Ngo Dinh Diem, when he mistook the rebels for Viet Cong soldiers and rushed to the president’s defense.

“Because I thought it was a Viet Cong attack, I sent orders to the troops to help us,” he said in a 1981 interview with

WGBH in Boston. “At that time, I saw it was a coup managed by some of the paratroopers — not all of them, but some.”

South Vietnamese generals overthrew Diem’s regime three years later, starting a volatile period of political unrest.

Nguyen himself briefly took control of the government in a Jan. 30, 1964 coup, but left Vietnam the following year af-ter being forced out of power by other generals amid growing tension with U.S. military officials. He lived and worked in France for several years before settling in California with his wife and four children in 1977.

“I left Saigon with some of my soil of ... Vietnam, you know, in my hand,” he said in the 1981 interview. “I feel that I missed to bring peace to my people.”

Nguyen was a leader in the Government of Free Vietnam in Exile, which was founded in 1995 and operates out of a store-front in Garden Grove, in the heart of the largest U.S. Viet-namese expatriate community, said Huu. In 2002, Nguyen or-

ganized an international convention in Anaheim, in suburban Orange County south of Los Angeles, and held elections for the party he founded.

He was elected head-of-state in 2005 for the exiled govern-ment and transferred his power to Huu in 2007 as his health began failing, Huu said.

The former general continued to fight Communism in Vietnam, even from his adopted home in California and as recently as 2005, tried to contact his former soldiers in Viet-nam, he said.

“A lot of people followed him, but it failed,” he said.Several hundred people attended a public memorial for

Nguyen in Garden Grove on Jan. 19.Nguyen was buried in San Jose, where his family resides,

Huu said.


FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — The first Vietnam-ese American to serve on the Fountain Valley City Council is opposing plans for Vietnam-ese officials to visit the Orange County city.

The local Chamber of Com-merce invited the delegation of officials and business leaders to visit in March, although the visit hasn’t been con-firmed.

Mayor Pro Tem Michael Vo says Vietnam doesn’t respect human rights and the visit could spark protests from the large lo-cal Vietnamese community.

The Los Angeles Times says Vo also argues in a letter to the chamber and council members that police services would be financially drained.

Vo says nearly 300 dem-onstrators showed up when a

Vietnamese theater troupe arrived last fall and the city spent nearly $8,000 on police services to control the crowd.

Ex-general who briefly ran Vietnam dies in US

Hawaii Rep. Gabbard to help lead DNC

Orange County official opposes visit by Vietnamese officials

Tulsi Gabbard

Michael Vo


SAT 2/2

WHAT: Lunar New Year 2013 sneak peak: Year of the Snake!WHERE: The Wing Luke Museum, 719 S. King St., SeattleINFO: 206-623-5124, www.wingluke.org/2013newyear

WHAT: Tea Experience WHERE: APCC, 4851 S. Tacoma Way, TacomaWHEN: 10–11 a.m.COST: $5/members, $10/non-membersINFO: 253-383-3900, www.asiapacificculturalcenter.org

WHAT: Cooking Class, “Szechuan Shrimp” WHERE: APCC, 4851 S. Tacoma Way, TacomaWHEN: 12:30-2 p.m.COST: $20/members, $25/non-membersINFO: 253-383-3900, asiapacificculturalcenter.org

THU 2/7

WHAT: Bruce Harrell for Mayor Kick Off PartyWHERE: First AME Church, 1522 14th Ave., SeattleWHEN: 6–8 p.m.INFO: 206-650-3545

WHAT: Black History Month film, “Every Mother’s Son”WHERE: Seattle Public Library, 2306 42nd Ave. S.W., SeattleWHEN: 6 p.m.

WHAT: Korean Traditional Performance “KKOCDOOSEH”

WHERE: Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, TacomaWHEN: 7 p.m.TICKETS: 360-540-5041, [email protected]

SAT 2/9

WHAT: NWAW/SCP presents, “Chinatown-International District Lunar New Year Celebration Children’s Parade ContestWHERE: In front of NWAW/SCP office, 412 Maynard Ave. S., SeattleWHEN: 1 p.m.APPLICATION: download at nwasianweekly.com or pick up a form at NWAW officeINFO: 206-223-5559, [email protected], www.nwasianweekly.com

WHAT: Lunar New Year FestivalWHERE: Chinatown-ID Hing Hay Park, Maynard Ave. S. & S. King St.WHEN: 11 a.m.–4 p.m.INFO: www.cidbia.org

WHAT: APCC Lunar New Year CelebrationWHERE: Tacoma Dome, 2727 East D St., TacomaWHEN: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.INFO: 253-383-3900 , asiapacificculturalcenter.org

WHAT: Korean American NightWHERE: Tacoma New Life Presbyterian Church, 9702 E. B St., TacomaWHEN: 4 p.m.

WHAT: 2013 Chinese New Year Eve Celebration PartyWHERE: Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E. Mercer Way, Mercer IslandWHEN: 7:30 p.m.COST: $15/person with reservation, $20/at the doorRESERVATION: 425-737-9744, [email protected]

WHAT: Public meeting, “Let’s build a movement for affordable childcare!”WHERE: Deldridge Library, 4523 Deldridge Way S.W., SeattleWHEN: 2 p.m.INFO: 206-722-6057, [email protected], www.sistersorganizeforsurvival.org

SAT 2/9 & SUN 2/10

WHAT: One Earth Tour 2013: LegendWHERE: UW, Meany Hall for the Performing ArtsWHEN: 2/9 at 8 p.m., 2/10 at 2 p.m.COST: $41–$45INFO: uwworldseries.org/world-music-theatre/kodo

TUE 2/12

WHAT: The Young Professional Ambassadors of Puget Sound Blood Center present a Happy Hour eventWHERE: 921 Terry Ave., SeattleWHEN: 5:30–7:30 p.m.RSVP: www.eventbrite.com

SUN 2/17

WHAT: Minidoka Pilgrimage 2013 Taiko FundraiserWHERE: Seattle University, 901 12th Ave., SeattleWHEN: 1 p.m.COST: $10/students, $20/generalTICKETS: minidokataiko.brownpapertickets.com, 206-568-7114, Seattle University International Student Center

EVERY WED

WHAT: Seattle University School of Law Citizenship ProjectWHERE: Yesler Community Center Computer Lab, 917 E. Yesler Way, SeattleWHEN: 5–6:30 p.m.COST: FreeINFO: 206-386-1245

EVERY THU

WHAT: Free Chronic Disease Self-Management WorkshopWHERE: Kin On Health Care, 4416 S. Brandon St., SeattleWHEN: Every Thursday, 10 a.m.RSVP: 206-652-2330INFO: [email protected]

EVERY TUE, WED & THU

WHAT: After School tutoring for Vietnamese students 6-14, Conversational ESL classes, and Computer Classes.

WHERE: Helping Link, 1032 S. Jackson St. #C, SeattleWHEN: 3-6 p.m.INFO: 206-568-5160, [email protected]

EVERY SUN (SUN 2/3 THRU 4/21)

WHAT: Matinee Eiga’s classic filmsWHERE: JCCCW, 1414 S. Weller St., SeattleWHEN: Every Sunday, 2 p.m.SUGGESTED DONATION: $3/members, $5/non-membersINFO: www.jcccw.org, [email protected], 206-568-7114

THRU SUN 10/10/2013

WHAT: Exhibition Display: Etsuko IchikawaWHERE: SAM Gallery, 1300 First Ave., SeattleINFO: 206-903-5291, [email protected]

THRU 2/23

WHAT: Naoko Morisawa’s collection got chosen by the CVG Show WHERE: Collective Visions, 331 Pacific Ave., BremertonINFO: www.collectivevisions.com, 360-377-8327

■ COMMUNITY CAlENdAR

King County is requesting Proposals from qualified firms interested in providing mul-tidisciplinary architectural and engineering design services to King County Facilities Management Division for modifications to King County buildings on a work order ba-sis.

The Request for Proposals, all addenda and current document holder’s list are avail-able on the internet at http://www.kingcoun-ty.gov/procurement. The County will not mail, ship or fax RFPs and addenda.

Interested firms must register with the County at time of download and ensure that a valid contact email address is given. Noti-fication of addenda will be sent to the regis-tered email address. Failure to register will result in the proposer not being notified of any addenda, which may result in rejection of the proposal.

The County may award up to one contract with a maximum dollar value of $3,000,000. The contract will have an initial period of performance of one (1) year. The County reserves the right to amend the contract duration in one (1) year increments up to a maximum of three (3) years, if funds remain.

CONTRACT TiTLe: Multidisciplinary De-

sign Services Work Order for King County Buildings

NuMbeR: E00288E12PROPOSALS due: February 22, 2013TiMe: 5:00 p.m. PRe-PROPOSAL MeeTiNG: February

7, 2013 TiMe: 9:30 a.m.LOCATiON: Chinook Bldg, 401 5th Av-

enue, Seattle, WA; Room 121SuMMARY OF WORK: Provide multi-

disciplinary architectural and engineering services on a work order basis for main-tenance, capital improvement, and repair projects at facilities operated by King Coun-ty Facilities Management Division (FMD). Consultant should have ability and experi-ence to manage multiple concurrent work orders. Refer to RFP Attachment 1 for a description of the primary types of work or-der projects anticipated.

SubCONSuLTANT OPPORTuNiTieS: Provided for informational purposes only, following are subconsulting opportunities that may be available on this Contract: struc-tural engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, acoustical engineer-ing, historical preservation, cost estimating,

and detention facility architectural services.SCS uTiLiZATiON ReQuiReMeNTS:

The Consultant shall ensure that at least 15% of the Total Price for all executed Work Orders, as amended, shall be performed by King County Certified SCS Firms over the life of the Contract. Evaluation points for meeting and/or exceeding the SCS utiliza-tion requirements will be provided to each proposer responding to this requirement. King County will not evaluate the proposal and will not execute a contract with a Pro-poser who does not commit to meet at least the SCS utilization requirement as stated above.

QueSTiONS: Questions concerning this solicitation should be directed to Ruth Wil-liamson, Contract Specialist at 206-263-9333, or [email protected], TTY Relay: 711. The Proposer may be re-quested to submit the question in writing. No verbal answers by County personnel will be binding on the County.

This information is available in alternate formats for individuals with disabilities upon advance request by calling 206-263-9400, TTY Relay: 711.

KiNG COuNTY ReQueST FOR PROPOSALS AdVeRTiSeMeNT


■ WORld NEWS

By Sam Kim and Ahn Young-JoonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — South Korea began showing off its new snow sports mecca with the opening of the Special Olympics on Tuesday, Jan. 29.

Pyeongchang, the once-sleepy hamlet in the mountains east of the capital, will also host the Winter Olympics in five years.

But the arrival of 3,000 intellectually disabled athletes from around the world has also spot-lighted South Korea’s long-criticized treatment of the disabled, who for decades were kept out of sight and out of the mainstream.

About 5 percent, or 2.5 million, of South Ko-rea’s 50 million people are either physically or intellectually disabled. Among them, about 7 percent are intellectually disabled, according to government statistics.

South Korea classifies the physically and intellectually disabled on a scale of one to six, based on the severity of their disability. The government says the system guarantees fair-ness in determining what support each disabled person should receive.

Critics, however, call it a human rights vio-lation, arguing the classification grades bodies

“like meat” and stigmatizes the disabled in a society already that disdains them. They also

say the six-step breakdown of disability is inef-fective in meeting the diverse individual needs

of the disabled.Many workplaces in South Korea still shun

employing the disabled, and South Koreans are largely indifferent to the roadblocks that keep the disabled from entering society.

“The classification determines your social status in South Korea if you are disabled,” said Jeong Jong-hwa, a professor of welfare studies at Seoul’s Samyook University.

In a 2009 study, the poverty rate for the dis-abled in South Korea ranked fourth-highest among 27 developed nations, while government spending for the disabled was the second-lowest among 30 developed countries surveyed, ac-cording to the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development.

South Korea’s bid to host the Special Olym-pics was launched after former lawmaker Na Kyung-won — herself the mother of a child with Down Syndrome — attended the Special Olym-pics in the U.S. state of Idaho in 2009.

Na said she was dismayed that South Korea’s Special Olympics team was competing with al-most no support from the government.

“South Korea boasts a world-class economy, but what I saw in Idaho showed where we stood

{see OLYMPICS cont’d on page 18}

Special Olympics focuses on South Korean view of disabled

Though not as glamorous as the Olympics, the Special Olympics comes with it’s share of fanfare.

By Louise WattTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING, China (AP) — Thick, off-the-scale smog shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks on Tuesday, Jan. 29 forcing airlines to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting Beijing to temporarily shut factories and curtail fleets of gov-ernment cars.

The capital was a colorless scene. Street lamps and the outlines of buildings receded into a white haze as pedes-trians donned face masks to guard against the caustic air. The flight cancellations stranded passengers during the first week of the country’s peak, six-week period for travel surrounding the Chinese New Year on Feb. 10.

The U.S. Embassy reported an hourly peak level of

PM2.5 — tiny particulate matter that can penetrate deep into the lungs — at 526 micrograms per cubic meter, or “beyond index,” and more than 20 times higher than World Health Organization safety levels over a 24-hour period.

Liu Peng, an employee at a financial institution in Bei-jing, said he will keep his newborn baby indoors.

“It’s really bad for your health, obviously,” Liu said. “I bike to work every day and always wear a mask. The pollution in recent years is probably due to the increase in private cars and government cars.”

Visibility was less than 100 meters (100 yards) in some areas of eastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. More than 100 flights were canceled

{see SMOG cont’d on page 18}

By Christopher BodeenTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING, China (AP) — Xu Li-angying, a renowned Chinese rights advocate, physicist, and translator of Einstein, has died in Beijing. Xu was 92.

Xu’s death on Monday, Jan. 28 was widely reported on academic discussion boards and confirmed by a doctor reached by phone at Haidian Hospital’s intensive care unit in Beijing’s university dis-trict, where Xu lived for many years. The doctor declined to be identified by name and no cause of death was given.

Xu began translating Einstein in 1962 after being forced to leave his job as editor of a leading sci-ence journal for having criticized the policies of the Communist Party led by Mao Zedong.

In all, Xu was the main transla-tor of the three volumes of “The Collected Works of Einstein in Chinese,” and initiated or wrote numerous letters and petitions de-fending human rights.

Born in 1920 in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, Xu showed an early talent for physics and stud-ied under Wang Ganchang, later to help lead China’s atomic bomb program. His college years coin-cided with Japan’s World War II invasion of much of China, and Xu became radicalized by the re-alization of human suffering and

inequality, joining the Commu-nist Party before the 1949 revo-lution when it was still an under-ground organization.

After a stint at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xu de-nounced Mao’s crackdown on intellectuals in 1957 and was himself labeled a rightist and fired from his government job. Forced to move to the countryside, he began the translation project as a way to remain intellectually stimulated, even though Einstein had been criticized by many com-munists for the philosophical bent of some of his work.

Xu’s manuscripts were

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By Zachariah BryanNORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

There are a lot of things to prepare when celebrating the Lunar New Year (as opposed to the Solar New Year, which is overrated), but perhaps the most important is the food.

There are tons of traditional New Year’s dishes in China, from turnip cake and steamed chicken to niangao and dumplings. However, this year, we’ll be focusing on two other countries with strong traditions, Vietnam and Korea.

In Korea, the Lunar New Year is called Seollal, which means the first day of the New Year. Koreans take their New Year’s food seriously, setting up a table full of traditional dishes and often holding a ritual for their ancestors.

In Vietnam, the New Year is called Tết Nguyên Đán, which translates to “Feast of the First Morning,” but it is more commonly referred to as Tết. In Vietnamese, to celebrate Tết (“ăn Tết”) literally means to “eat Tết.” Can you guess that food might play some kind of role here?

Both countries have their specialty dishes, which retain much of the symbolism of the holiday. In Korea, the dish is tteokguk. In Vietnam, it is banh chung.

Below, we’ll take a look at these and a few other foods used in each country’s celebrations.

KoreaTteokguk: the most meaningful dish

during Korea’s Seollal is tteokguk, which are essentially thinly sliced, oval rice cakes in a clear broth. Tteokguk can be served with dumplings, beef, clams, seaweed, eggs, and more.

According to a World Food News article, there is a custom of saying “How many bowls of tteokguk have you eaten?” to ask a person’s age. Children, perhaps too eager to grow up, will eat several tteokguks in the hope that they’ll become adults sooner.

In a Korea Times article, staff writer Shim Hyun-chul describes the rice cake used to make tteokguk, which is made long

and is symbolic of wishing for longevity in life. The oval shape of the rice cakes, which resembles coins, is another expression, which means wishing for wealth and prosperity.

Galbijjim (braised short ribs): Beef or pork short ribs are a staple Korean dish, and no Korean holiday meal would be complete without them. Daily Beast guest columnist and TV personality Kelly Choi says the table on New Year’s is decorated with several entrees and side dishes to symbolize prosperity and bounty. Ribs, of course, fall under that category.

Japchae: Another usual suspect on the Korean dinner table, according to Choi. Japchae is a dish composed of savory glass noodles, beef, and veggies. According to a New York Times blog entry, “The Temporary Vegetarian: Jap Chae, Korean Noodles,” people will eat japchae for longevity.

Hangwa: A traditional Korean candy, hangwa is commonly made of grain flour, honey, sugar, and fruit or edible root. The

candy has a lot of history. According to a Korea Times article by Noh Hyun-gi, hangwa can be traced back to the Three-Kingdom Period (57 B.C.-688 A.D.) with accounts of royalty eating various types of hangwa during ceremonies. The candy has also seen its fair share of “controversy.” The sweets have been banned by kings multiple times, with punishments for eating them being 80 “gonjang,” or lashes with a bamboo rod.

VietnamBánh Chưng: bánh chưng, a rice cake

wrapped in banana leaves and stuffed with mung bean and pork, is the Vietnamese traditional New Year’s dish and takes from hours to days to make. The process is so involved that many families no longer

participate in the tradition of making it — which requires soaking the rice overnight, stuffing everything in the banana leaves, and simmering them in foil for hours — and instead will buy them at the store.

The dish is tied to a legend. It is said that the 18th Prince of Hung was looking for a successor and decided that he would create a contest between his 22 sons. The contest would be to find or make a food dish in tribute to the ancestors. Whoever had the best and most meaningful dish would win.

While 21 sons went off around the world searching far and wide, one son, prince Lang Lieu, stayed home. Long story short, he ended up making two cakes out of rice, wrapped in banana leaves. One was round (Bánh Tét), to represent the sky, and the other was square (Bánh Chưng), to represent the earth. In the end, for the powerful meaning behind his simple dishes, Lieu was chosen as the successor.

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By Andrew HamlinNORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

Up until now, it’s been safe to say that South Korean di-rector Sang-soo Hong has had a knack for crisp photography, deftly-drawn interperonsal struggles, and strong characters. I think it’s also safe to say that he’s been making the same film over and over. The men lust after the women. The women re-main distant and don’t change. The men lust and drink more, and they don’t change either.

“In Another Country,” Hong’s latest film released to this country, breaks from his patterns in two crucial areas. First off, he’s using a Western actress — widely acclaimed French actress Isabelle Huppert. And while his characters stay static, this time, he’s come up with a creative excuse.

The film opens with a daughter and mother, played by Yoo-mi Jung and Yeo-jeong Yoon, as they take a room at a seaside inn (a setting dear to Hong’s heart, seaside and beach living appear in many of his films). A family crisis that involves some sort of betrayal, but is never fully fleshed out, haunts them, and they are scared to go home. The younger woman, a film student (filmmakers also often appear in Hong’s nar-ratives), decides to get her mind off things by writing a story for a script.

The remainder of the film plays out as what the young wom-an first writes, then re-writes, forming three separate stories. The central characters always include an English-speaking French woman named Anne (played by Huppert). Another constant character includes an amorous lifeguard, played by Jun-sang Yoo.

Yoo in real life is an actor, singer, master of several musical instruments, and a faculty member at the Korea Art College. It’s a measure of his acting talents, then, that he seems so per-fect as a fellow who’s earnest and physically strong, but a bit of a bumbler socially. Clearly smitten with Huppert’s character, Anne (in all three stories), he tries luring her inside his seaside

tent as he strums a song for her. He sings powerfully, but the ease of the song indicates that he may have done this for more than one woman.

Hong always demonstrates a strong sense of individual style. His characters gather on the beach or around the bar drinking Korean soju. His characters drink to loosen their in-hibitions, but they still have trouble saying what they mean to say, or even finding out within themselves what they actually mean.

Huppert, one of the most acclaimed working French actors, demonstrates restraint, mystery, and a winning smile, often all at once. Her character “Anne” (one of Huppert’s middle names, incidentally) always seems to be up for adventure. She slips inside the lifeguard’s tent with hardly a second thought. But she’s prone, in all three stories, to an inner guardedness, a reluctance to give away anything that truly matters.

The underlying structure of the film may seem affected or self-important, but thanks to the fascination of the characters, it never comes off as such. As characters, old and new, run over the same rough scenario again and again with important variations, we can see the screenwriter’s unseen hands work-ing the dialogue, the settings, and the inner souls of the people she’s creating. She works them like a sculptor, looking for a satisfactory final form.

As for Hong, he seems to have finally broken his own mold. Here’s to his new territory.

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By Wayne ChanNORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

The other day, in the middle of washing dishes, I started thinking about how my ancestors, a thou-sand years ago, must have had to do the same tedious chores I was in the midst

of doing. I sometimes think of things like that, partly because I’m fascinated with how some things never change no matter how life moves along, but mostly because I’d rather be thinking of anything other than the fact that I’m washing dishes.

I know my parents had to wash loads and loads of dishes. My grandparents, on the other hand, likely skipped a generation of washing dishes since my grandfather was a wealthy warlord in China and could afford servants to handle such things.

I can somewhat relate to my grandparents. We also often have people to wash our dishes. Back in the day, you would call them “servants”. Nowadays, my wife and I call them “children.”

The truth is that we live in an era of amazing con-venience. Modern advances have come a long way to make our daily living more manageable. At a mo-ment’s notice, you can heat up food in seconds with the touch of a button. You can keep food fresh for weeks at a time with-out having to pay someone for a daily delivery of ice to your door. And of course, the only time we really need to cook food over an open fire nowadays is when we’re trying to show off our new barbeque grill to the neighbors.

But then there’s the curious case of the dishwasher. Let me just say — I just don’t get it.

Oh sure, if you confine your cooking to meals of only clear broth and a glass of water, the dishwasher does a dandy job of cleaning your dishes in no time. But anything more than that and a dishwasher is a complete step backwards.

You don’t believe me? Let me explain.Whenever we cook at home, I often do the dishes. When my

wife Maya is cooking (and she’s a great cook), somehow she manages to use every pot, pan, utensil, and dish in the house in order to cook a one-pot meal. She uses so many items in

the kitchen to cook one dish I sometimes wonder if she’s secretly cooking other dishes for her other fam-ily she’s hiding in our basement — until I remember that we don’t have a basement.

But I digress.Inevitably, in the mountain of dishes in the sink

that I have to clean, there is always a pan or a serv-ing plate with some ingredient seared on to it, and this substance is so stiff and thick that if I could manage to pry it off in one piece, I could use it to patch holes in dry wall.

As I begin hand washing the dishes, Maya always says, “Why don’t you use the dishwasher? It’s faster!” Oh really?

So, upon seeing the first dish with the drywall patch on it, I begin to place it in the dishwash…oh no! You can’t put something like that in a dishwasher! Before you put it in your dishwasher, you have to wash it – by hand! The dishwasher instructions call this step “Pre-washing”. This is the step where you wash the dish but not quite all the way so that the dishwasher has something to do.

My definition for “Pre-washing” is:Pre-washing: the act of washing a dish without the

satisfaction of actually completing the process.In fact, I’d argue that pre-washing is harder than

just washing completely by hand because with pre-washing, you constantly have to monitor when you’ve

reached the tipping point of being able to confidently turn over the washing process to the dishwasher.

Next, I grab a plastic cup and put it in the dishwash…oh no! You can’t put plastic cups in the dishwasher! They’ll melt! Let me correct that – some plastic cups and dishes can go into the dishwasher, but you have to check. So now I have to look

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Wayne’s World: Washing my hands of the dishwasher

Wayne Chan


Never in my life had a concert moved me to tears until I experienced the blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii’s per-formance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. I wasn’t the only one who cried.

“Music changed Nobu’s life, and his music changes our lives,” said a woman who also cried during the pianist’s per-formance, during Celebrate Asia at the Benaroya Hall last Sunday.

“When Nobu was playing, I was playing, too (figuratively),” said former NBA player Fred Brown, who was among the packed audience of 2,100.

Nobu was the highlight of the event and was featured dur-ing the second part of the program. Even though he is blind, he could hear and feel the audience’s energy, applause, and long standing ovations. His smiles and bows showed that he was touched.

The Right MusicSeveral people attend Celebrate Asia each year in the spirit

of supporting a community event, not because they are the event’s natural fans. I was there simply to cheer the efforts of several Asian groups working tirelessly to bring the event together.

Going to symphonies is considered to be high class. I have to confess that I didn’t know how to appreciate the first three pieces in the program. It has nothing to do with the musicians. It has to do with the melody of the music.

No matter how many concerts I have attended, I am still unsophisticated when listening to classical music. When the music is too profound, I get lost. I am not surprised that five people that I talked to after the program shared my sentiments.

This was the second time I attended a Nobu performance. His first show, a solo recital, was also held at Benaroya Hall last Tuesday. Although he played Debussy flawlessly, I wasn’t excited at all. That night, I was more curious about his life and accomplishments than the music he was playing. A pianist playing sophisticated music, his fingers flowed from the high-est to the lowest keys quickly, accurately, and without sight. Each tone was so perfect. How did he overcome his adversi-ties?

During Celebrate Asia, however, Nobu played Tchai-kovsky’s — music more familiar to a widespread audience.

It was exciting and attractive. It shakes people up. You cannot ignore it. It goes right to my bones, my gut, and my heart. That’s the kind of music Celebrate Asia should pick from the beginning to the end of its program.

India’s Classical Violin

If you’ve heard Bollywood music, you would be surprised that the sound of Indian classical music is strikingly different.

Shanti Priya, a performance of the Indian violin and drums, accompanied by the 85 member symphony orchestra, was an-other piece that received a standing ovation.

The piece was performed by Indian violinist Ambi Subra-maniam and drummer Mahesh Krishnamurthy. It was a nov-elty for most of the audience.

Ambi played with his feet on the raised stage and without chairs. The violin was hanging down above his chest, almost reaching the ground. I have not seen anyone play the violin in such a relaxed position — sometimes, he leaned forward as if he was going to lie on the ground.

The rich and interesting music mesmerized Celebrate Asia sponsor Eric Booker of the Snoqualmie Casino.

“We will sponsor again next year,” he said.

A Small Connection with NobuA year ago, my sister-in-law Mei-Ling Liu emailed us and

asked if there’s any way Nobu could perform in Seattle. My husband quickly thought about Celebrate Asia. He introduced

Celebrate Asia founder Yo-shi Minegishi to Mei-Ling. Minegishi had already heard of Nobu’s talents.

Mei Ling has no relation-ship with Nobu at all, she’s just a big fan.

Mei Ling found joy listen-ing to Nobu’s music. A for-mer piano player, she felt the urge to play the piano again. She wanted to do everything in her power to spread the talent of Nobu to other parts of the world.

From Japan to London, Mei-Ling has followed Nobu’s per-formances across the world since 2009. We called her nuts, but Mei-Ling said Nobu’s music inspired her and saved her life. She has found passion after retiring from her days as a profes-sor in computer science.

This is how you make things happen for the people you love. When you believe in something, take action. When you create paths for other people, you are actually opening doors for yourself that you could never have imagined.

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Let’s not sugarcoat anything — Arizona’s Proposition 200 is racist, and the Supreme Court needs to strike it down. A law that systematically forces naturalized citizens to spend an appreciable amount of time to vote than native-born citizens is wrong. And that’s exactly what Prop. 200 does.

Passed in 2004, Prop. 200 requires new voter registration applicants to present proof of U.S. citizenship in order to reg-ister. This includes a birth certificate, passport, or naturaliza-tion certificate. While this doesn’t seem outrageous, its imple-mentation is horrible.

Native-born citizens can mail a copy of their birth certifi-

cate to the registrar to fulfill this requirement. Naturalized cit-izens? They have to physically bring an official copy of their naturalization certificate to a voter registrar. They can’t make their own copies and they can’t mail anything. They have to get in a car or on a bus and physically be at a registrar.

Prop. 200 also hurts the efforts of community organiza-tions, as they can no longer run voter registration drives with-out requiring new applicants to also bring their citizenship papers and making copies.

As bad as all of this is, it could have been even worse. Ari-zona tried to reject the use of the federal voter registration card

in 2012 because it didn’t fulfill their state law’s requirement. Why’s that bad? The federal registration card is translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Tagalog. The Arizona reg-istration form? Just Spanish.

And while this law only negatively affects 3.5% of Arizo-na’s white population, over 40% of Arizona’s Asian American population is naturalized.

There’s no excuse, Prop. 200 will be presented before the Supreme Court in March, and there’s no way they can let it stand. It’s bad for Arizona, it’s bad for U.S. citizens, and it’s bad for America.

Arizona voter law needs to go


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markets. The bank reopened its office in Myanmar in August last year.

The bank was able to act because President Barack Obama earlier lifted a long-standing U.S. restriction on interna-tional financial institutions, such as the World Bank, lending to Myanmar after Congress passed legislation enabling that step. It was one in a series of steps by Washington to reward the Southeast Asian country for its democratic reforms.

The World Bank statement did not detail the mechanics of the new deal to clear the debt arrears.

It did say the bank’s board on Jan. 22 approved a $440 million “Reengagement and Reform Support Credit to Myanmar.”

It said the credit would support “criti-cal reforms being implemented by the government to strengthen macroeco-nomic stability, improve public financial management, and improve the invest-ment climate.”

It added that its proceeds would “also help the government meet its foreign ex-change needs, including repaying (the) bridge loan” and that there are currently discussions with the government to iden-tify priority needs.

Separately, the Manila-based Asian Development Bank announced it would extend a $512 million loan to Myanmar under the same sort of arrangement with the Japan Bank for International Coop-eration.

“Myanmar has come a long way in its economic transformation, undertaking unprecedented reforms to improve peo-ple’s lives, especially the poor and vul-nerable,” the statement quoted the World Bank’s Myanmar Country Director An-nette Dixon as saying.

“Much work remains to be done. We are committed to helping the govern-ment accelerate poverty reduction and build shared prosperity. The bank’s en-gagement, together with the ADB, the government of Japan, and other partners, will help attract investment, spur growth, and create jobs.”

Myanmar had run up $8.4 billion in debt during the socialist regime of the late Gen. Ne Win between 1962 and 1988, and $2.61 billion of debt after a new mili-tary junta took over in 1988, making for a total of just more than $11 billion.

The largest creditor before 1988 was Japan, with loans of $6.39 billion, and the biggest post-1988 creditor was China, with $2.13 billion.

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Korea’s ruling dynasty, such as former leader Kim Jong Il who died in December 2011, are marked with great fanfare in the authoritarian nation.

In its assessment of the preparations at Punggye-ri, 38 North noted that there was considerable snowfall there in November 2012. It said subsequent clearing operations, as well as tracks in the snow in the remote area, reveal activity at buildings and on roads near the possible test tunnel.

A satellite image taken Jan. 4 shows 30 or more personnel, possibly soldiers or security guards, in formation in the yard of the main administrative buildings at the site.

A Dec. 24 image shows a pile of material in the same yard. Its purpose is uncertain, but it could be intended for sealing the tunnel. By the time of Wednesday’s photo, the pile has shrunk, which could indicate operations have begun to seal the tunnel, according to the analysis.

Associated Press writer Lolita Baldor contributed to this report.

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Thịt Heo Kho: Fatty pork stomach and boiled eggs stewed in coconut juice. Author Monique Trong, a Vietnam-ese American, half-jokes in her New York Times blog “Rav-enous” that pork is as important to Vietnamese as water.

“The slow cooking transforms them in different ways, and it’s the interplay of textures — the molten fat, the toothsome, caramelized meat — that makes this dish a Vietnamese clas-sic,” she writes.

Thịt Gà Luộc: A boiled or steamed chicken is essential for Tet meals, according to Vietnamonline.com, because all

tribute meals to ancestors must feature a chicken, whole or chopped. The chicken is often served with sticky rice and banh chung.

Hạt Dưa: While Americans traditionally spit out the black watermelon seeds, in Vietnam, they are dried and roasted. According to a Vietnam Online article, the seeds are actually extremely nutritious, containing protein, glucid, lipid, Vita-mins B1, B2, E, calcium, iron, zinc, and more. Supposedly, according to the article, eating a handful of hat dua every day can enhance memory and protect from coronary heart disease.

Mứt: Mứt are colorful, candied fruits that are synony-

mous with Tết. Traditionally handmade (though now avail-able at convenience stores), the ingredients are surprisingly healthy, according to Vietnam.com. “Coconut, ginger, sweet potato, kumquat, tamarind, and pineapple are the usual fruits made into Mứt Tết, which have the health benefits of relieving flatulence, sore throat, and stress, promotes diges-tion and good sleep, and eases hangovers.”

Rather than being a part of the main meal, Mứt tends to be a welcoming snack for visitors, often eaten with tea.

Zachariah Bryan can be reached at [email protected].


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Set amidst the majestic backdrop of the Snoqualmie Val-ley is what has become an unexpected gem, the Snoqualmie Casino. Snoqualmie is heading into its fifth year of operation and is the premier casino in the Northwest.

Since its inception, the Snoqualmie Casino has established itself as a true leader in the gaming entertainment world, as well as the place to come to have a great time, great food, and a great experience when one is looking for a night out on the town or a casual daytrip.

Snoqualmie Casino opened its doors in November 2008. If there was ever a time **not** (BOLD THIS WORD BOLD THIS WORD) to open a casino, or any business for that mat-ter, that was it. But in an uncertain economic time when peo-ple were being laid off from their jobs, the housing market had fallen, and the Northwest was experiencing one of the worst winters in over 15 years, Snoqualmie Casino did something most casinos would not have been able to do — survive. Not only did Snoqualmie Casino survive, but they also thrived and

created over 1,100 jobs in Washington.To ensure consistent and quality customer service, all new

hires went through a thorough training program that empha-sized not only their direct job responsibilities, but also cus-tomer service and guest relations.

Its staff trained, the Snoqualmie Casino needed to have a marketing strategy in place, one that was tailored to the sur-rounding community.

Snoqualmie Casino was able to achieve that through the hir-ing of talented individuals from many different backgrounds that work at the casino to this day.

A large segment of the casino guests are of Asian national-ity. Working with the different personalities at the casino, it has been a successful marriage.

“I am very happy that our casino is such a popular choice of the Asian Community in the Greater Seattle area,” Jon Jen-kins, CEO of the casino, said when asked about his thoughts on the diverse clientele. “We enjoy the business association of course, but on a personal level, it is a pleasure to have the op-portunity to provide our brand of entertainment and service to such diverse and fascinating people.”

Snoqualmie Casino also has a variety of eating options. Their offerings are:

• Terra Vista: A traditional steakhouse offering aged beef, fresh seafood, and pasta dishes.

• The Falls Buffet: A buffet featuring a diverse array of savory fares from around the world.

• Sno Deli: An eatery that sells toasted warm sandwich-es made to order, fresh salads, and pizzas.

• Sno Café: Specializing in “All Day” breakfast and the best burgers in town.

• The Drip: for the coffee aficionado.• 12 Moons Asian Bistro: Which offers comforting and

authentic East Asian Style cuisine.All in all, Snoqualmie Casino is the place you want to be.

Just a 20 minute drive from Seattle and with its eating options, wide open gaming floor, and team members that are happy to lend a hand at every turn, you can count on having a good time whenever you come.

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Purpose• To acknowledge and reward student and teacher achievements• To help inspire further interests in the teaching and learning of Chinese language and culture• To provide a positive venue for students with diverse background to come together to share knowledge and learning experiences

Competition CategoriesGroup Poetry Recitation, Individual Poetry Recitation, Public Speaking, Story Telling, Talent Show, Chinese Singing, Drawing, Chinese Chess, China Knowledge Bowl

Age DivisionsLower Elementary (Grades K-2); Upper Elementary (Grades 3-5); Middle School (Grades 6-8); High School (Grades 9-12)

AwardsAll contestants will receive a gift for their participation in the competition. Awards and scholarships (cash prize of $50 for individuals and $100 for team competitions) will be given to the top three performers in each category, division, and class. The awards ceremony will be held on the same day as the competition, beginning at 2:00 p.m. in the Chief Sealth International High School’s auditorium.

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Organizers• Cultural Exploration of Greater China Foundation (CE)• Confucius Institute of the State of Washington (CIWA)• Chinese Language Teachers Association Washington State (CLTA-WA)• Northwest Chinese School (NWCS)• Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction World Languages Program (OSPI-WL)

Washington State chinese Language and talent competition School Year 2012- 2013

SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2013Chief Sealth International High School, 2600 S.W. Thistle Street, Seattle

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at the bottom of each plastic cup or dish and attempt to decipher whether there’s anything printed on it confirming that it’s “dishwasher safe.” Now I’m not just a dish washer, I’m a plastic housewares archaeolo-gist.

After washing the pots and pans, I begin washing the plates. The kids hand me their plates, with whatever bones or vegetable bits on them, and I quickly place them into the dishwash…oh no! You can’t leave all that stuff on the dishes! They’ll clog the dishwasher! You have to scrape all that stuff off, rinse them and THEN put them in the dishwasher.

If you ask me, any dishwasher really worth it’s salt would allow me to have a big barbeque dinner, leave all the rib bones on the plate, put them in the dishwasher with-out throwing out the bones first, and when the dishwasher finished it’s cycle, the dishes would all be sparkling clean and I’d have a beautiful set of ivory figurines I could dis-play on our mantle.

On next week’s show: the microwave – magical cooking device or metal hating radiation monster?

Wayne Chan can be reached at [email protected].

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in the eastern city of Zhengzhou, 33 in Beijing, 20 in Qingdao, and 13 in Jinan.

Every year, China’s transport system bursts at the seams as tens of millions of people travel for the Lunar New Year holiday, in the world’s largest seasonal migration of people.

Ren Haiqiang, a bank worker in his early 30s, said he had booked tickets to fly out of Beijing on Thursday to visit family in the coastal city of Dalian, but now worried about flight cancellations.

“Traveling over the holiday is already a huge hassle, along with all the gift-giving and family visits. We thought flying would be the best way to avoid the crush, but if the weather continues like this, we’ll be in real trouble,” Ren said as he waited in line at a bakery in downtown Beijing.

Beijing’s city government ordered 103 heavily polluting factories to suspend production and told government departments and state-owned enterprises to reduce their use of cars by a third, Xinhua said. The measures last until Thursday.

Beijing’s official readings for PM2.5 were lower than the em-bassy’s — 433 micrograms per cubic meter at one point in the af-ternoon— but even that level is considered “severe” and prompted the city government to advise residents to stay indoors as much as possible. The government said that because there was no wind, the smog probably would not dissipate quickly.

Patients seeking treatment for respiratory ailments rose by about 30 percent over the past month at the Jiangong Hospital in down-town Beijing, Emergency Department chief Cui Qifeng said.

“People tend to catch colds or suffer from lung infections during the days with heavily polluted air,” he said.

Air pollution has long been a problem in Beijing, but the country has been more open about releasing statistics on PM2.5 — consid-ered a more accurate reflection of air quality than other pollutants — only since early last year. The city hit its highest readings on Jan. 12, when U.S. Embassy readings of PM2.5 reached as high as 886 micrograms per cubic meter.

Celebrity real estate developer Pan Shiyi, who has previously pushed for cities to publish more detailed air quality data and who is a delegate to Beijing’s legislature, called Tuesday morning for a “Clean Air Act.” By late afternoon, his online poll had received more than 29,000 votes, with 99 percent in favor.

On Monday, Wang Anshun was elected Beijing’s mayor after tell-ing lawmakers the municipal government should make more efforts to fight air pollution, according to Xinhua.

Last week, he announced plans to remove 180,000 older vehicles from the city’s roads and promote government cars and heating sys-tems that use clean energy.

Associated Press writer Christopher Bodeen and researcher Flora Ji contributed to this report.

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confiscated during the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. Yet he recovered them eventually and brought them to publication in 1975, after which he regained his position at the academy and gradually became an advocate for human rights, democracy, free speech, and academic freedom.

Xu was confined to occasional house ar-rest following the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, but continued his rights advocacy.

“For a lifetime’s advocacy of truth, de-mocracy, and human rights — despite sur-veillance and house arrest, harassment and threats, even banishment — through his writ-ings and publicly speaking his mind,” the so-ciety wrote in its dedication.

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in our welfare policy for the disabled,” Na said in a written interview.

Taking the project on as a personal mission, Na lobbied to improve support for sports for South Korea’s intellectually disabled. She will host the opening ceremony of the eight-day Pyeongchang Special Olympics as the games’ chief organizer.

Conservative ruling party candidate Park Geun-hye’s victory in the December presi-dential election, and her platform of sweeping welfare policies, has given some hope to those who want to abolish the classification sys-tem. Park’s policy blueprint on her campaign website says there’s a need to either reform or abolish the system.

Park takes office in late February.The games take place as worries persist that

the resort hosting both the Special Olympics and the 2018 Winter Games may go bankrupt this year if the government refuses to extend the expiration of bonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars spent building the venue.

Na said she also extended an invitation to North Korea.

However, she said she never heard back from Pyongyang. The two Koreas have been divided by a buffer zone guarded by U.N. forces since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.

Associated Press writer Sam Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea.

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before being sentenced.Huang and Qi were arrested in Kansas

City last fall, about six weeks after Huang placed an ad in a Sedalia newspaper seek-ing “technical talent” with experience at Corning Pittsburgh to lead a project to build a foam glass factory in the Asian market.

Prosecutors said a confidential source working with the FBI responded to the July 22 ad and arranged to meet the two men on Sept. 1 at a Kansas City restau-rant. With Qi acting as Huang’s transla-tor, prosecutors said, the parties agreed the source would be paid $100,000 for documents showing Pittsburgh Corning’s processes and formula for Foamglas, a cellular glass insulation the Pennsylva-nia-based company sells mainly to energy companies.

The confidential source told Huang and Qi that he had to drive back to Pitts-burgh Corning in Sedalia and break into the engineering department to steal docu-ments and drawings. Huang and Qi met the source again on Sept. 2 with a bag of money and were shown documents pur-portedly containing the trade secret infor-mation. FBI agents arrested Huang and Qi that day.

Huang’s plea agreement called for a maximum sentence of 18 months, but defense lawyer J.R. Hobbs argued for 11 months or less of supervised probation. Hobbs also said few prisons have staff members who speak Mandarin Chinese.

“It’s almost a ‘cruel and unusual pun-ishment’ type of situation,” Hobbs said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Casey responded that deterrence demanded a substantial sentence.

“The United States understands that time in prison for Mr. Huang will be hard time,” Casey said. “But difficult is not inappropriate.”

Northwest Asian Weekly / Seattle Chinese Post presentsChinatown-International district lunar New Year Celebration

Children’s Parade Contest | Saturday, February 9, 2013

Children’s Parade Competition Schedule:• 1:30 PM — Parade Begins• 1:50 PM — Finals competition (5 contestants)• 2:00 PM — Parade winners announced!!!

• Contestants must be present at the announcement of finalists (1:50 PM).• Finalists will be lined up in numerical order. • All contestants will receive a fortune cookie and a stuffed panda.

Registration/Sign-Up:• You may pre-register for the contest by filling out this application and sending it in or sign-up on the day of the contest (Saturday, February 9) before 1:15 PM at the registration table. Registration table will be located in front of Seattle Chinese Post/Northwest Asian Weekly – 412 Maynard Ave S.• Contestants are chosen on a first come first serve basis.• Contestants must sign-in at the registration table 15 minutes prior to parade.• Register before Feb. 5 for a free Panda Express Panda! ($5 value)

Rules/guidelines:• Children ages 12 and under can participate in the contest• Parents are welcome to accompany their children during the Parade• Children will be given a contestant number for order of Parade lineup• Children attire should be culturally relevant to the Lunar New Year Celebration

Judging:• All contestants will be judged by the provided judging criteria.• Prizes will be awarded to First ($100), Second ($50), and Third ($25) Place Winners.• All decisions made by competition judges are final.

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