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School principal on leave amid harassment complaints Formal complaint spearheaded by VFA
By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY A Seattle school principal will not return for the 2018-19 school year. Oksana Britsova, the principal at Seattle World School (SWS),
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was the focus of a formal letter of complaint written by James Hong, executive director of the Vietnamese Friendship Association (VFA). He said Britsova has taken (SEE PRINCIPAL ON 15)
Oksana Britsova
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Karthik Nemmani, 14, wins National Spelling Bee
Filipino entrepreneurs put on city’s 1st Blockchain conference
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By Sophia Stephens NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
Naysa Modi, 12, fourth from left, covers her face as her video profile is aired during the evening finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 31. From left are the six remaining spellers, Jashun Paluru, 13, Navneeth Murali, 12, Sravanth Malla, 14, Naysa Modi, 12, Karthik Nemmani, 14, and Abhijay Kodali, 11.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The end of the biggest Scripps National Spelling Bee in history came abruptly, and it wasn’t the
conclusion that many expected. Naysa Modi, a poised and charismatic four-time participant whose long spelling career seemed to be building toward triumph, sat next to a newcomer whom she had al-
ready beaten this year — at the county level. But 12-year-old Naysa blinked immediately, mixing up the single and double “s” in the German-derived word “Bewusstseinslage”
— a state of consciousness or a feeling devoid of sensory components — and 14-year-old Karthik Nemmani seized an opportunity (see SPELLING on 13)
Trump-Kim summit: After initial cancellation, it is back on By Sophia Stephens NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY On May 24, President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled the June 12 North Korea and United States summit in Singapore via a letter addressed to His Excellency Kim Jong Un, a move that has been largely condemned by the international community as a continuation of Trump’s bizarre approach to foreign policy. In a letter that praised North
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Korea’s “time, patience, and effort with respect to our recent negotiations and discussions relative to a summit long sought by both parties,” only to condemn the country’s “tremendous anger and open hostility,” Trump’s letter has been widely critiqued as a confusing, but threatening attempt at establishing the dominance of the United States over North Korea. Trump’s writing alternated between polite nothings and blatherings of sound and fury
“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.”
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Latinos, Asian Americans sue over citizenship question By Denise LaVoie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
will never have to be used.” In the wake of Trump’s cancellation, South Korean President Moon Jae-in informed reporters
Two dozen Latino and Asian American organizations filed a federal lawsuit on May 31, alleging that the Trump administration’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is racially discriminatory and violates the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit, filed in United
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— President Donald Trump throughout the letter, but made clear the prowess of the United States’ nuclear weapons. “You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they
On June 5, entrepreneurs Ramzey Staples, BrianTimothy Noble Franada, and Justin Wu produced the first-ever blockchain and cryptocurrency conference in Seattle. The current instability with established cryptocurrency systems including Bitcoin feeds into the growing need for blockchain technology,
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