Chetanya Robinson

Karachi, Pakistan’s capital, a bustling metropolis and home to some 20 million people, is a major center for trade and industry. It is also known for lawlessness, rising crime rate, and high levels of political corruption. All of this makes it an ideal setting for a suspense novel.   In The Museum Detective, an intricate new […]

Twenty CCTV cameras will be installed in the Chinatown International District (CID) this year under a Seattle Police Department pilot project, raising concerns about privacy, racial equity, and use of public funding — and for some, hope for improvement in neighborhood public safety. Last month, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) was granted approval from the […]

The Navigation Center shelter in the Pearl Warren Building at 12th and Weller Street in Little Saigon is closing at the end of March, two months later than the original deadline of January announced last year.  Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC), which operates the Navigation Center, is waiting for its new Stability Through Access and […]

Two temporary murals paying tribute to Bruce Lee’s philosophy and connections to Seattle will be installed on the outside of the New Central building and on the Rex Apartments on Maynard Avenue. The International Special Review District (ISRD) Board recommended approving the project, which is a collaboration between the Wing Luke Museum and the Bruce […]

Joël Barraquiel Tan stepped down as executive director of the Wing Luke Museum after two-and-a-half years, the museum announced in a September 13 newsletter to members. Barraquiel Tan (who uses all pronouns) said many factors went into the difficult decision, from navigating challenges in the Chinatown International District (CID) neighborhood to personal wellness. Two other, […]

Frank Irigon, Chinatown-ID activist and Asian American community leader, dies at 77

United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance Washington (UTOPIA Washington) has an distinctive logo: a striped, purple and white spiral seashell – “a shell that acts as an incubator space that protects, shelters, and is ever so ready to cultivate anew as it cycles through future generations,” according to UTOPIA’s website. Founded in 2009 by Taffy […]

InterIm Community Development Association is under contract to buy and rehabilitate the empty Republic Hotel building, and add some 36 units of affordable housing to the neighborhood. When the building at 416 7th Ave S went on the market earlier this summer, InterIm jumped at the opportunity to repair and repurpose the building, said Leslie […]

Serving the Asian American Community Since 1974

Serving the Asian American Community Since 1974

Serving the Asian American Community Since 1974

Serving the Asian American Community Since 1974

Serving the Asian American Community Since 1974

In the race for a seat on Seattle City Council District 2, incumbent Tammy Morales led with 49.24% of the vote as of this afternoon. Chinatown International District (CID) community activist Tanya Woo was not far behind, taking home 44.91% of the vote. Woo’s campaign announced in a statement that these results “exceeded expectations” for […]

It is a victory for some Chinatown International District (CID) community advocates, and a disappointment for others. On March 23, the Sound Transit board voted 15-1 to endorse building two light rail stations to the north and south of the CID instead of building under Fourth Avenue next to the existing station. The decision, proposed […]

Community organizations in the Chinatown International District wrote letters to Sound Transit concerned about the impacts of the agency’s plans for building a second light rail station in the neighborhood. In the letters, submitted as part of public comment on Sound Transit’s Draft Environmental Im…

Teresita Batayola plans to retire as CEO of International Community Health Services (ICHS) in December 2022, after 18 years leading the state’s largest Asian American and Pacific Islander healthcare non-profit, which now provides affordable, culturally and linguistically competent healthcare to immi…

When Bruce Harrell takes office in January, he will be Seattle’s first Asian American elected mayor, and the city’s second African American mayor. Supporters believe his life experience – growing up in the Central District as the child of a Japanese American mother and an African American father…

Shortly after the Taliban marched on Kabul on August 15, taking over the western-backed government, Uyen Nguyen decided she had to do something. Videos of planes airlifting civilians away, while leaving many desperate people behind, tugged at her. “It was just so heartbreaking,” Nguyen said. “The ch…

When Aaron Verzosa and his wife opened Archipelago, a Filipino American fine-dining restaurant in Seattle’s Hillman City neighborhood, they took on a loan and a financial risk. Soon afterward, the COVID-19 pandemic exploded into the world, forcing small businesses and restaurants into survival mode. Verzosa recently joined other small business owners asking the state legislature […]