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Crime
Police arrest man who fell asleep in a park after attacking woman in Seattle’s Chinatown
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) has arrested a man who fell asleep in a park after attacking a woman on the way to work in the Chinatown...
Michelle De Pacina
Racism
Woman filmed going on racist tirade against Asian woman refuses to apologize, doubles down on ‘n-word’ claim
Ladonna Richie, the woman involved in a verbal altercation with a Taiwanese American TikTok user identified as Stephanie, has refused to ap...
Ryan General
Apparel
Dazzling diplomacy: Seattle Hanbok fashion show celebrates 140 years of Korea-US relations
The “Runway to Partnership” Hanbok performance and fashion show took place on Oct. 29 at the University of Washington to commemorate 140 ye...
Daniel Anderson
Seattle deli owner suffers broken hips, fractured wrist after confronting shoplifter
Young Kim, 76, was shoved to the ground when she tried to stop a shoplifter from leaving her Delridge Deli Mart at the Frye Commerce center...
Robber gives motive for stealing Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards on his way out of Seattle Chinatown store
Pink Gorilla Games, a 17-year-old video game store in Seattle’s Chinatown International District, fell victim to an armed robbery on Monday...
Carl Samson
Indian American lawmaker slams Seattle police for lack of probe on feces attacks
Kshama Sawant, a 49-year-old member of the Socialist Alternative party and Seattle City Council since 2014, called out the Seattle Police D...
Bryan Ke
News
Seattle’s first Asian mayor cuts anti-Asian hate crime fund by 50 percent
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has reportedly slashed nearly 50% of the city’s anti-Asian hate crime fund as a consequence of a $140 million d...
Plan to expand homeless shelter near Seattle’s Chinatown dropped after protests
Chinatown-International District residents cheered the Friday announcement that King County, Seattle, will no longer pursue the planned exp...
Seattle protesters clash with supporters of ‘homeless megaplex’ plan
Unhoused counter-protesters confronted over 100 Chinatown-International District residents protesting against the proposed “homeless megapl...
Man shot dead in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District
A 35-year-old man was shot dead at the intersection of 13th Ave. South and South Lane Street in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District ...
Dozens of protesters march against Seattle’s planned homeless shelter near International District
Approximately 100 protesters flocked to Seattle City Hall to express concerns that a planned homeless shelter in the SODO neighborhood will...
Seattle Chinatown community members angered over ‘flat out racist’ expansion of homeless shelter
Seattle’s International District community members expressed disappointment over the King County council’s homeless shelter expansion in a ...
Culture
A Washington state park dedicated to Chinese goddess Mazu is finally in progress after years of effort
The effort to build a Washington state park dedicated to the Chinese Goddess of the Sea, Mazu, took a step forward on Aug. 30 when King Cou...
Seattle Chinatown community ‘left in the dark’ about homeless shelter expansion
A recent major homeless shelter expansion in three Seattle neighborhoods – Chinatown-International District, SODO and Pioneer Square – has ...
William Yuk
Seattle man charged with assault, hate crime for attacks on 3 Asian women
Michael John Allen, 40, is facing hate crime and assault charges after allegedly attacking three Asian women in two separate incidents in d...
Seattle reporter covering homelessness crisis alleges Antifa is targeting Asian American journalists
Jonathan Choe, a Seattle-based Asian American journalist with KOMO News, has been on the receiving end of threatening tweets from alleged A...
Chinese woman suffers skull fractures after being struck with baseball bat from behind in Seattle
Shengnan Wang, an Amazon employee, was coming home from work when 31-year-old Wantez Jamel Tulloss allegedly struck the back of her head wi...
Longtime activist cites history of cooperation between Asians, Black Americans after being targeted in hate attack
Police brutality and social justice activist Rev. Harriett Walden was subject to an assault on Nov. 18 and has since spoken out about the in...
Jiselle Lee
Politics
Bruce Harrell makes history as Seattle’s first Asian and second Black mayor
Bruce Harrell has become the second Black and first Asian mayor in Seattle’s history. Election Day results: Harrell, 63, won by about 65% of...
Suspect Arrested for Stealing Purses From More Than a DOZEN Asian Women
A man suspected of stealing bags and purses from more than a dozen women across neighborhoods in Seattle was arrested on Tuesday. The allega...
16-Year-Old Shot, Killed After Answering Door in Seattle Family Home
A 16-year-old Filipino American boy was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman after answering the door in their Rainier Beach home in Se...
‘F— China’ and Other Hate Speech Left Near Multiple Seattle Churches
Two churches in the Pinecrest neighborhood of North Seattle have recently been targeted with racist messages. “F— China” and “You will...
Grace Kim
Suspect Arrested After High School Teacher’s Nose, Teeth Damaged in Seattle Chinatown Attack
A suspect who is accused of hitting a Japanese high school teacher in the face with a hard object inside a sock in Seattle Chinatown has bee...
Khier Casino
High School Teacher’s Nose and Teeth Damaged After Being Attacked With a ‘Rock’ in Seattle Chinatown
A Japanese American woman ended up with a fractured nose and chipped teeth after she was struck with a hard object in Seattle’s Chinatown-In...
Doctor Resigns After 20 Years Over Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Alleged Use of the N-Word, Japs
A doctor quit his post in protest due to the alleged racism at Seattle Children’s Hospital, the establishment that oversees the clinic he on...
Sushi Restaurant Manager Fired for Calling Black Woman the N-Word, Punching Her on Video
A sushi restaurant in Seattle fired its general manager for calling a Black woman the N-word. The incident, which was caught on video, took ...
Seattle Restaurant Vandalized by Racists Weeks Ago Gets Burglarized During Protests
After getting vandalized in March from apparent anti-Chinese racism due to the COVID-19 outbreak and later attacked by online trolls, a Chin...
NBC Reporter Nearly Hit By Tear Gas Canister on Live TV at Seattle Protests
NBC News correspondent Jo Ling Kent was hit by what appears to be a tear gas canister while covering the Black Lives Matter protest in Seatt...
Family-Owned Chinese Restaurant Vandalized, Attacked By Online Trolls in Seattle
As if dealing with the economic impact of COVID-19 is not stressful enough, a family-owned restaurant in Seattle, Washington must deal with ...
‘It’s All Your Fault’: Asian Couple Attacked by Man in Seattle, Police Search for Suspect
The Seattle Police Department is asking for the public’s help to identify a man who attacked an Asian couple in downtown Seattle over the we...
Seattle Cop, Home Depot Allegedly Ignore Racial Abuse on Asian Man in Store
A police officer in Seattle is under investigation by the Office of Police Accountability for allegedly being dismissive of a victim’s compl...
White Supremacists Tag Seattle’s Chinatown With Hateful Stickers
Investigators are looking into three unidentified men who were seen plastering white nationalist stickers on several Asian American-owned bu...
Hawaiian Restaurant Owner and Her Husband Die of COVID-19 Just Days Apart
Patrons of a popular Hawaiian restaurant are grieving the recent passing of its restaurateur and her husband due to the novel coronavirus (C...
Seattle Police Arrest Suspect in Vicious Robbery of Asian Grandmother
Officers from the Seattle Police Department have arrested the suspect of a vicious robbery on a 68-year-old Asian grandmother earlier this m...
Tough Asian Grandma Fights Off Robber in Seattle
One tough grandmother was captured on surveillance camera fighting off a male thief who viciously attacked her in Seattle in broad daylight....
Instagram
Woman Desperately Searches for Stranger She Thinks is ‘the One’ After 10-Hour Flight
For a 21-year-old Seattle-based, Filipino business student, Jomaica Alfiler, love is in the air — quite literally. After sharing a mom...
Jin Hyun