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USPS unveils newest addition to Celebrating Lunar New Year series By James Tabafunda NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY SEATTLE — When the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) holds a “first-day-of-issue” dedication ceremony, it makes sure the event is both a celebration of the diversity of the American people and the introduction of a new commemorative stamp. The national unveiling of the Year of the Rooster Forever stamp took place Jan. 5 at Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Beginning Jan. 28, the Year of the Rooster will be celebrated through Feb. 15 in China, Vietnam, and Korea, among other countries. Some of the ceremony’s highlights included a personal appearance by stamp artist and Fashion Institute of Technology professor Kam Mak, a lion dance performed by the Mak Hin Fai School of Kung Fu, and the presentation of colors by the Seattle Police Department Honor Guard. Wearing a small pin with the stamp’s design, Chinese Radio Seattle (CRS)’s Office Director Yibo Lu served as master of ceremonies. see STAMP on 13
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A life taken and other lives forever changed By Stacy Nguyen NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY “That morning, we didn’t think that anything was going to be different,” Lam Lieu said in Vietnamese, in an interview with Northwest Asian Weekly. “Our family was so happy. But that night, people called me.” On Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, Lieu’s wife, My-Linh Nguyen, 45, was shot just steps from the front door of their family home in South Seattle. Also known as Lily to her friends and neighbors, Nguyen was on her way home from work via light rail and a bus. At around 8:30 p.m., a man approached her and attempted to steal her purse at 39th Avenue South and South Warsaw Street. Nguyen reportedly fought see NGUYEN on 15
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My-Linh Nguyen (left) and her son.
Twin sisters meet face to face for the first time By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Photos from the Doering and Rainsberry families.
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Audrey Doering (left) in her Green Bay Packers gear, and Gracie Rainsberry (right) in a Seahawks jersey.
Gracie Rainsberry of Richland, Wash. and Audrey Doering of Wasau, Wisconsin cried and hugged each other on Jan. 11, live on ABC’s “Good Morning America” (GMA). Wearing matching pink tops and black-rimmed glasses, the twin sisters, 10, were meeting in person for the very first time — they were separated at birth in China, and then adopted by two different American families. Jennifer and Tom Doering, Audrey’s adopted parents, spent hours scouring Ancestry.com for Audrey’s family history — they thought it would make a meaningful Christmas present. At Research-China.org, a website that specializes in finding information related to children put up for adoption, Jennifer Doering found herself staring at a photo of a Chinese woman with “two copies” of Audrey on her lap. That’s when she realized Audrey had a twin sister. She tracked down Nicole and Scott Rainsberry of Richland and contacted the couple through Scott’s sister’s Facebook page. Two days later, the sisters met on FaceTime in a cloud of tears. see TWIN on 15
Bluefin tuna goes for $632,000 in 1st Tsukiji auction of ’17 (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
By Elaine Kurtenbach AP BUSINESS WRITER
Kiyoshi Kimura, center, president of Kiyomura Co., poses with the bluefin tuna that he won in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2017.
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TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese sushi chain boss bid a winning 74.2 million yen ($632,000) on Jan. 5 for a 212 kilogram (466 pound) bluefin tuna in what may be Tsukiji market’s last auction at its current site in downtown Tokyo.
The winning bid for the prized but imperiled species was the second highest ever after a record 155.4 million yen bid in 2013 at the annual New Year auction. This year’s price was $2,981 per kilogram, compared with about $7,930 per kilogram for the 2013 record-setting auction price. Kiyomura Corp. owner Kiyoshi Kimura posed, beaming, after
the predawn New Year auction with the gleaming, man-sized fish, which was caught off the coast of northern Japan’s Aomori prefecture. His company, which runs the Sushi Zanmai chain, often wins the annual auction. Last year’s New Year auction was supposed to be the last at see TUNA on 11
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