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Pacific Northwest News q Volume 27 Number 8 q April 17, 2017 q www.asianreporter.com
Elephants soak passers-by ahead of
boisterous Thai holiday of Songkran
SONGKRAN SOAKING. With assistance from mahouts, elephants blow water from their trunks at tourists on a motor-tricycle, or Tuk Tuk, at Songkran, or the ancient Thai New Year celebration, in Ayutthaya province, central
Thailand. The festival — which is also celebrated in neighboring Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos — falls at the hottest time of the year, when temperatures often creep above 104 degrees Fahrenheit. See story on page 4. Locally
in Portland, the third annual Cambodian/Lao/Thai/Burmese “New Year in the Park” takes place Saturday, April 29 from 9:30am to 6:00pm at Glenhaven Park in northeast Portland. See an event listing for the celebration on page
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Thriller Trivisa wins big at Hong Kong Film Awards
HONG KONG (AP) — Crime thriller Trivisa was the big winner at the Hong
Kong Film Awards, taking home five awards including the prize for best film.
The movie, which takes place on the eve of Hong Kong’s 1997 handover from
Britain, also took home awards for best director and best actor. News sites in
mainland China downplayed the coverage, which Hong Kong media speculated
was because one of its directors worked on 2016’s Ten Years, about Beijing’s
tightening grip on the semiautonomous city. Best actress went to Happiness star
Kara Hui. She won her fourth Hong Kong Film Award for playing a middle-aged
recluse suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Family-themed movie Mad World
was another big winner, receiving trophies for best supporting actor and actress
and best new director.
Coldplay vocalist visits sick fan in Manila hospital
MANILA, The Philippines (AP) — Coldplay’s lead vocalist visited a fan with
cancer hours before the group played a packed concert at Manila’s seaside Mall
of Asia Arena Concert Grounds. Chris Martin visited Ken Valiant Santiago in a
hospital where the medical student is battling cancer and spends much of the
time listening to favorite Coldplay songs. Concert organizer Rhiza Pascua
tweeted a picture of the meeting. “Chris Martin, you are an angel! Thank you for
making Ken very happy!!” she added. Santiago’s brother, Kheil, earlier posted
an appeal on Facebook for help in relaying a request to the band to say hello or
send a short message to his brother, who bought a ticket but could not make it to
the concert. He was diagnosed with advanced cancer in February, Kheil said. In
a tweet, Ken thanked Pascua for making Martin’s visit possible. “Words can’t
even begin to describe how thankful I am,” he said. “You’ve made my heart full of
joy. Thank you so much!”
Man who bought orangutan, leopard, and bear arrested
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say they saved a sun bear, a
clouded leopard, and a baby orangutan from the wildlife trade after receiving a
tip from conservationists who tracked the illegal activities through Instagram.
Jakarta police spokesman Prabowo Argo Yuwono said Abdul Malik was
arrested in a raid on his southern Jakarta house where the animals were found
caged. The 42-year-old Malik told police he arranged for the purchase of the
animals through Instagram messages and paid 25 million rupiah ($1,900) for
the orangutan, 15 million rupiah ($1,125) for the sun bear, and 60 million rupiah
($4,500) for the leopard. Yuwono said the police were helped by conservationists
who were tracking an Instagram account they believed to be a front for the
illegal trade in threatened species.
Construction starts on China-funded Cambodian stadium
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has begun construction of a new
$157 million football stadium funded by China, the Southeast Asian country’s
most important ally. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said at the
groundbreaking ceremony that China’s support for the stadium, to be used for
hosting the Southeast Asian Games in 2023, is evidence of the close cooperation
of the two countries. Beijing has provided millions of dollars in aid and
investment for Cambodia over the past decade, and in return has secured its
political support in international forums. The new stadium is six miles north of
Phnom Penh and will have a capacity of 60,000, second only to Phnom Penh’s
Olympic Stadium, constructed in 1964 to hold 70,000 spectators.
Poachers kill rare one-horned rhino in southern Nepal forest
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities are searching for poachers who
killed a rare one-horned rhinoceros in the forests of southern Nepal and cut off
its horn, according to officials. Forest officer Nurendra Aryal said it was the first
killing of a rhino in the Chitwan National Forest in nearly three years. Soldiers
and forest rangers were scouring the forests and nearby areas for the people who
shot the rhino. Aryal said the night the animal died was a stormy night, so forest
officers did not hear a gunshot or spot the poachers enter the area. The forest,
located about 100 miles south of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, and bordering
India, is protected by the government and guarded by armed soldiers. Nepal has
been working to increase the number of one-horned rhinos in Chitwan National
Forest, where the population has reached 605.
Bombs bring down scores of power poles in Thailand
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — Suspected Muslim insurgents set off dozens of
bombs in southern Thailand, bringing down power lines and setting tires on fire
to block roads. Security officials said there were no reports of deaths or injuries.
Most of the attacks occurred in Muslim-majority provinces in Buddhist-dominated Thailand’s deep south, where about 7,000 people have been killed in a
separatist insurgency that flared in 2004. Thai media speculated the actions
were in response to the ratification of Thailand’s new constitution, but officials
say no information connecting the events. Military spokesman Pramote Prom-in
said 52 electric poles were damaged by explosives in the provinces of Pattani,
Yala, Narathiwat, and Songkhla, causing scattered minor blackouts. He said
officials also discovered burnt tires and more explosives, but reported no injuries
or deaths. Men with grenade launchers and other heavy weapons attacked a
police checkpoint in Yala, injuring six officers. Three previous attacks killed an
army ranger and a policeman. Don Pathan, a security analyst specializing in
southern Thailand, said he believed the incidents were not related to the new
constitution but were meant to discredit the security apparatus in response to a
police shooting that killed two people whom friends said were unarmed.
METING OUT T.P. A man tries out a facial recognition toilet paper dispenser in a restroom at the Temple of Heaven
park in Beijing, China. At Beijing’s 600-year-old temple, administrators recognized the need to stock the public bathrooms
with toilet paper, a requirement for obtaining a top rating from the National Tourism Authority. But they needed a means of
preventing patrons from stripping them bare for personal use — hence the introduction of new technology that dispenses
just one two-foot section of paper every nine minutes following a face scan. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Using technology, China
continues its ‘toilet revolution’
By Zhang Weiqun
The Associated Press
B
EIJING — Fed up with the theft of
toilet paper from public bathrooms,
tourist authorities in China’s capital
have begun using facial recognition technology
to limit how much paper a person can take.
The unusual move — part of a “toilet
revolution” — is another step in China’s vast
upgrading of public facilities.
Bathrooms at tourist sites, notorious for
their primitive conditions and nasty odors, are
a special focus of the campaign, a response to a
vast expansion in domestic travel and
demands for better-quality facilities from a
more affluent public.
“Today in China, people are highly enthusiastic about tourism, and we have entered a
new era of public tourism,” said Zhan Dongmei, a researcher with the China Tourism
Academy. “The expectation of the public for
the toilet is becoming higher.”
At Beijing’s 600-year-old Temple of Heaven,
administrators recognized the need to stock
the public bathrooms with toilet paper, a requirement for obtaining a top rating from the
National Tourism Authority. But they needed
a means of preventing patrons from stripping
them bare for personal use — hence the
introduction of new technology that dispenses
just one two-foot section of paper every nine
minutes following a face scan.
“People take away the paper mostly because
they are worried they can’t find any when they
want to use it the next time. But if we can
provide it in every toilet, most people will not
do it anymore,” Zhan said.
Launched two years ago, the revolution calls
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for at least 34,000 new public bathrooms to be
constructed in Beijing and 23,000 renovated
by the end of this year. Authorities are also
encouraging the installation of western-style
sit-down commodes rather than the more
common squat toilets. Around $3.6 billion has
already been spent on the program, according
to the National Tourism Administration.
The ultimate target, Zhan said, “is to have a
sufficient amount of toilets which are clean
and odorless and free to use.”
At Happy Valley, the largest amusement
park in Beijing, around 4 million annual
visitors rely on 18 bathrooms, each of which is
assigned one or two cleaners who must make
their rounds every 10 minutes on busy days.
“People come here to have fun, but if the
toilets are disgusting, how can they have a
good time here?” said vice general manager Li
Xiangyang. “It is the least we should do to offer
a clean and tidy environment for tourists to
enjoy both the tour of the park and the
experience of using our toilets.”
Going a step further, the financial hub of
Shanghai even opened its first gender-neutral
public toilet in November in order to boost
convenience and efficiency.
“Women are stuck waiting in longer lines for
stalls than men, and it is fair for men and
women to wait in line together,” Shanghai
resident Zhu Jingyi said after using the
facility.
Zhan said the toilet revolution is about 90
percent complete, but warned that it has yet to
be won.
“We can’t accept the situation that a lot of
investments have been made to build toilets
and they turn out to be unsanitary and poorly
managed,” he said.
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Curiosity runs both ways for solo female traveller in India
By Kristi Eaton
The Associated Press
J
ODHPUR, India — The blue-tinted
dwellings
looked
like
they
continued on for miles. From high
above the ancient Indian city of Jodhpur, it
was easy to see how it became known as
the “Blue City.”
I caught a view of these sky-blue homes
while
visiting
the
15th-century
Mehrangarh Fort, which includes a
palace, temples, and garden at the end of a
winding road looking down on the city.
Though this was my first visit to India,
my perspective on a month-long trip there
was not entirely that of an ordinary
tourist. I was travelling from one side of
the country to the other, researching
issues facing women and girls. Jodhpur, in
Rajasthan State, was on my itinerary
because it is an area with high rates of
female illiteracy and child marriage, and a
preference for sons over daughters.
But in addition to my research,
interviews, and writing, I made time for
sightseeing and experiencing local culture.
At the Mehrangarh Fort, I stumbled on the
Turban Gallery, which tells of the history,
traditions, and variety of turbans found in
Rajasthan. And I happened to be in
Ahmedabad, in the west, where I’d entered
the country, in time for a wonderful annual
spectacle: the colorful International Kite
Festival.
In Jodhpur, I befriended a family who
invited me to an extravagant Hindu
wedding. I thoroughly enjoyed sampling
the food and observing the ceremonies and
elaborate outfits. But even though I stayed
near the family who invited me, being a
solo western woman at such an event
didn’t come without stares and looks of
befuddlement from other attendees.
I had come to India to look at gender
issues in this complex culture. Among
other things, I visited a school for
underprivileged
girls,
met
female
entrepreneurs, and looked at a program
that makes sanitary napkins available to
rural women. But sometimes, it seemed I
was as much an object of curiosity to locals
as their culture was to me.
Standing out from the crowd
One challenge for me was getting used to
standing out from the crowd.
In Ahmedabad, on one of my first few
days in India, I desperately wanted a cup
of coffee ahead of an interview. I was
waiting for another woman who would
help me translate at the interview and
decided to head to a street vendor for a
quick cup. I’d already drawn attention to
myself, walking up and down the street
looking for the translator, and now I found
myself the only woman among a throng of
men.
They seemed perplexed by my arrival,
but ended up helping me order the tiny
coffee and left me alone as I sipped on a
bench. I didn’t know Hindi or the local
Gujarat language, so I didn’t try to engage
in conversation. But that feeling of
MARKETING MAYHEM. Residents renting from bike-sharing company Ofo try to pedal through a sidewalk crowded with bicycles from the many bike-sharing companies in the city — including Ofo, Mobike, and
Bluegogo — near a bus stop in Beijing, China. As many as 2.2 million of the two-wheelers have been deployed
in China, which are available for rent for as little as seven U.S. cents per half-hour. China overtook the United
States in 2009 as the world’s biggest auto market, but authorities have encouraged bicycle use to reduce pollution and congestion. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Bike-sharing rivalry crowds Beijing’s sidewalks
BEIJING (AP) — The shiny bicycles in
bright orange, yellow, or blue are everywhere in China’s most prosperous cities,
even in places they probably shouldn’t be.
The two-wheelers are unlocked and
tracked using smartphone apps and can be
rented for as little as seven U.S. cents per
half-hour. They are the latest symbol of
heavy spending by venture capital firms in
China’s internet sector, where startups
are racing to attract more users, seemingly
regardless of the cost.
Around 2.2 million bicycles have been
deployed in China by companies that
include Ofo, Mobike, and Bluegogo, and
are most frequently used in cities such as
Beijing and Shanghai, according to
internet analyst Xue Yu at IDC China.
In their rivalry to be market leader in
bike-sharing, the companies have raised
hundreds of millions of dollars and are
offering discounts and free rides to attract
more users. It’s unclear if the business
model is sustainable or how it might
change if a winner emerges.
China was long known as the “bicycle
kingdom,” but that moniker has become
outdated as more and more Chinese buy
cars amid the country’s economic boom.
China overtook the United States in 2009
as the world’s biggest auto market, but
authorities have encouraged bicycle use to
reduce pollution and congestion.
Shared bicycles are now ubiquitous in
Beijing, where Xue estimates more than
200,000 have been deployed.
They’re pedalled on the roads by comContinued on page 4
standing out was something I had to get
used to.
Some days it was no big deal. Other days
— when I felt responsible for keeping up a
conversation, making sure I was safe, and
doing my best to be culturally aware while
exploring sensitive subjects around gender
inequality — it was exhausting.
Sheroes
Like many first-time visitors to India, I
went to Agra to see the Taj Mahal and also
stopped at the Agra Fort. Not far from
those attractions was another stop on my
itinerary: the Sheroes Hangout.
Sheroes Hangout is a café run by
survivors of acid attacks — women who
were scarred in assaults stemming from
family disputes, unrequited love, or other
conflicts. The café also features a small
library and handicraft and exhibit space.
Other Sheroes Hangouts are located in
Lucknow, in Uttar Pradesh, and in
INDIA IMPRESSIONS. A group of women prepare a dish called mahua laddoo to sell at a local market in Chatwal, India. An American woman travelling
alone across India came to the country to look at gender issues in the complex culture, but she often found
she was as much an object of curiosity to locals as
they were to her. (Kristi Eaton via AP)
Udaipur in Rajasthan — all with a goal of
empowering women who might otherwise
feel forced to hide their scars. I felt a bit shy
about engaging the women in conversation
on my first visit, but on my second, I
opened myself up and found they were
eager to share stories despite a language
barrier that kept the conversations basic.
Making safe choices
In the back of my mind, I couldn’t help
but think about some of the horrific
assaults on women in India — both locals
and tourists — that have made headlines.
So I made very deliberate choices about
my dress and behavior. I always wore
loose-fitting pants, a t-shirt, and often
times a shawl-like cover up. I only had
wine on one occasion and rarely stayed out
after dark unless I was with someone
whom I trusted. And rather than taking
long-haul trains on my own, I hired a
driver to take me from one destination to
the next. It was expensive, but worthwhile
for the ability to sleep, relax, and work
during the sometimes eight- to 12-hour
trips. Within cities, I used auto rickshaws,
cabs, and services like Uber.
I was never harassed, but I did regularly
receive stares — something that had not
happened during trips I’d taken to other
countries like Indonesia, Guatemala, and
Vietnam. In some small ways, my travels
here had allowed me to experience some of
the cultural attitudes toward gender that
I’d come to research.
Kristi Eaton spent a month in India as a fellow
with the International Reporting Project.
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United passenger’s removal
sparks outrage in China
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
B
PACHYDERM PARTY. A mahout paints elephants for Songkran, or the ancient Thai New Year celebration,
in Ayutthaya province, in central Thailand. The three-day festival took place April 13 to 16. (AP Photo/Sakchai
Lalit)
Elephants soak passers-by
ahead of boisterous Thai holiday
AYUTTHAYA, Thailand (AP) —
Trained elephants sprayed motorists and
passers-by with water in Thailand’s old
capital city of Ayutthaya to welcome the
Buddhist New Year, known as Songkran.
The jumbos from an elephant camp in
the old capital of Ayutthaya were brought
out to rake passing traffic, soak
passengers in open vehicles, and spray
anyone foolish or brave enough to venture
within range.
The holiday, the longest in the Thai
calendar, officially ran for three days.
Cities emptied out as workers headed
home to see family and celebrated by
cleansing images of the Buddha, washing
the hands and feet of elders, and throwing
water on each other in what is sometimes
called the world’s biggest waterfight.
The festival — which is also celebrated
in neighboring Myanmar, Cambodia, and
Laos — falls at the hottest time of the year,
when temperatures often creep above 104
degrees Fahrenheit.
Bike-sharing rivalry crowds Beijing’s sidewalks
Continued from page 3
muters getting from subway stops to their
workplaces, homes, or other destinations.
On weekends, tourists use them to wander
along traditional alleyways in the city’s
historic center, near the Forbidden City.
But as more and more bikes hit the
streets, they add to the urban chaos, as
riders leave them basically anywhere.
Rush-hour users park them in public
bus lanes, leaving them for street
attendants to pick up and move aside.
Rows of bikes, some of them toppled, crowd
the sidewalks, leaving pedestrians little
space to walk.
Vandalism has also become common and
repairs can be costly.
EIJING — Images of a bloodied
man being forcibly removed from a
United Airlines flight in Chicago
drew widespread condemnation in China,
where state media fuelled the public’s
anger with reports that noted the unidentified victim was an “Asian passenger.”
Video of the violent incident posted on
China’s popular Twitter-like microblogging service Weibo was viewed more
than 200 million times within days. Many
responded with outrage over perceived
bias against the passenger and some called
for a boycott of the U.S.-based airline.
“Rubbish!” writer Su Danqing posted on
Weibo. “When they were treating this
Asian man, they never thought of human
rights, otherwise they wouldn’t have done
it that way.”
“Damn it! This airline must be
boycotted!” said a posting from Liu Bing, a
telecommunications company worker.
United does considerable business with
Chinese passengers and a consumer
boycott could cause it serious pain. United
says it operates more nonstop U.S.-China
flights to more cities in China than any
other airline.
Rowdiness has long been associated
with air travel in China, including
passengers getting into fights with crew
members and a vicious assault last year in
which an enraged customer smashed an
airline check-in clerk in the head with a
brass plaque.
The United incident appeared to feed
into such customer frustrations — only
this time the tables were turned and the
passenger was cast as the victim.
United executives struggled to control
the public relations damage.
Airline CEO Oscar Munoz said the man
UNFRIENDLY SKIES. This image made from a
video provided by Audra D. Bridges shows a passenger being removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago. Video of police officers dragging the passenger
from an overbooked United Airlines flight sparked an
uproar on social media. (Audra D. Bridges via AP)
removed from the Chicago-to-Kentucky
flight — later identified as Dr. David Dao,
a Vietnamese American from Elizabethtown, Kentucky — had become “disruptive
and belligerent” after he was asked to
leave the plane to make room for several
employees of a partner airline who wanted
on the flight.
When the man refused, officers from the
Chicago Aviation Department came in and
first tried to reason with him before
pulling him from his seat by force and
dragging him away, according to a
passenger, Tyler Bridges, whose wife later
posted a video of the altercation on Facebook.
Associated Press news assistant
Yu Bing contributed to this report.
Toyota shows robotic leg brace to help paralyzed people walk
A LEG UP. A model demonstrates the Welwalk
WW-1000, a wearable robotic leg brace designed to
help partially paralyzed people walk, at Toyota Motor
Corp.’s headquarters in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene
Hoshiko)
By Yuri Kageyama
AP Business Writer
T
OKYO — Toyota is introducing a
wearable
robotic
leg
brace
designed to help partially paralyzed people walk.
The Welwalk WW-1000 system is made
of a motorized mechanical frame that fits
on a person’s leg from the knee down. The
patients can practice walking wearing the
robotic device on a special treadmill that
can support their weight.
Toyota Motor Corp. recently demonstrated the equipment for reporters at its
Tokyo headquarters.
One hundred such systems will be
rented to medical facilities in Japan later
this year, Toyota said. The service entails a
one-time initial charge of 1 million yen
($9,000) and a 350,000 yen ($3,200)
monthly fee.
The gadget is designed to be worn on one
leg at a time for patients severely paralyzed on one side of the body due to a stroke
or other ailments, Eiichi Saito, a medical
doctor and executive vice president at
Fujita Health University, explained.
The university joined with Toyota in
developing the device.
A person demonstrating it strapped the
brace to her thigh, knee, ankle, and foot
and then showed how it is used to practice
walking on the treadmill. Her body was
supported from above by a harness and the
motor helped to bend and straighten her
knee. Sensors in the device can monitor
the walking and adjust quickly to help out.
Medical staff control the system through a
touch panel screen.
Japanese automakers have been developing robotics both for manufacturing and
other uses. Honda Motor Co.’s Asimo
humanoid can run and dance, pour a
drink, and carry on simple conversations,
while Welwalk is more of a system that
uses robotics than a stand-alone robot.
Given how common paralysis due to
strokes is in fast-aging Japan, Toyota’s
device could be very helpful, Saito said. He
said patients using it can recover more
quickly as the sensitive robotic sensor in
Welwalk fine-tunes the level of support
better than a human therapist can.
“This helps just barely enough,” said
Saito, explaining that helping too much
can slow progress in rehabilitation.
The field of robotic aids for walking and
rehabilitation is growing quickly. A
battery-powered wearable exoskeleton
made by Israeli manufacturer ReWalk
Robotics enables people relying on a
wheelchair to stand upright and walk.
Such systems also can aid therapists in
monitoring a patient’s progress, Luke
Hares, chief technology officer at
Cambridge Medical Robotics in Britain,
said in a phone interview.
“They can be so much more precise,” he
said.
Previously, Toyota has shown robots
that play the violin and trumpet. It plans
to start sales in Japan of a tiny boy-like
Summer Run
robot for conversational companionship. It
is also investing in artificial intelligence
and developing self-driving vehicles.
Toshiyuki Isobe, Toyota’s chief officer
for research, said Welwalk reflects the
company’s desire to apply robotics in
medicine and other social-welfare areas,
not just entertainment. The company also
has an R2-D2-like machine, called the
Human Support Robot, whose mechanical
arm can help bed-ridden people pick
things up.
“Our vision is about trying to deliver
mobility for everybody,” said Isobe. “We
have been developing industrial robotics
for auto manufacturing, and we are trying
to figure out how we can use that
technology to fill social needs and help
people more.”
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a preserve for the giant panda that will be three times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S.
The Xinhua News Agency says the panda preserve will incorporate parts of three western provinces to provide
an unbroken range for the endangered animals in which they can meet and mate in the interests of enriching
their gene pool. (Chinatopix via AP, File)
China plans panda preserve three
times the size of Yellowstone park
harvesting and livestock grazing, Xinhua
said.
Preservation of the species is further
hindered by provincial borders between
Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi that
enforced different standards on protected
land.
The new preserve will merge 67 smaller
reserves for pandas and protect another
8,000 endangered animals and plants,
Xinhua said.
“Unlike nature reserves, the park does
not stand alone. China will formulate an
overall plan for the national park system.
It will be a haven for biodiversity and
provide protection for the whole ecological
system,” Hou Rong, director of the
Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda
Breeding in Sichuan province, was quoted
as saying.
The giant panda preserve will join eight
other existing national parks aimed at
protecting endangered species and the
ecology of land lying at the headwaters of
major rivers such as the Yellow and
Yangtze.
BEIJING (AP) — China is planning to
create a preserve for the giant panda that
will be three times the size of Yellowstone
National Park in the western United
States.
The panda preserve will link parts of
three western provinces to provide an
unbroken range for the endangered
animals in which they can meet and mate
in the interests of enriching their gene
pool, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Xinhua said about 170,000 people will
have to be moved elsewhere to make way
for the 10,476-square-mile preserve.
Giant pandas are China’s unofficial national mascot and live mainly in the mountains of Sichuan, with some in neighboring
Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. An
estimated 1,864 live in the wild, where
they are threatened chiefly with habitat
loss, and another 200 in captivity.
Residents of the future park area will be
offered homes and jobs, some as guides.
Although they had lived in the area for
generations, they were disrupting the lives
of the pandas with their bamboo
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pril is a momentous time for Southeast countrysides of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
Asians, with New Year celebrations taking Those who know it firsthand are refugees who
place for the Lao and Cambodian communi- learned to live in a new country, building a vibrant
ties, among others. For Cambodians especially, it is community from coast to coast.
The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance
also a time to remember April 17, 1975 — the day
the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot, captured Act, which passed on May 23, 1975, permitted
Phnom Penh and the government surrendered. refugees from Cambodia and Vietnam to enter the
That’s when Cambodian citizens were rounded up U.S. It was amended in 1976 to include refugees
from
Laos.
Because
U.S.
and forced to work in the Killing
involvement in Southeast Asia left
Fields, which led to an estimated
vast numbers of people homeless,
1.7 million deaths between 1975
America responded with the
and 1979.
Refugee Act of 1980, which
For the Lao, Mien, and Hmong
formally defined a refugee as a
peoples, April of 1975 also meant
person with a “well-founded fear of
fleeing their country while much of
persecution.” The Refugee Act
Southeast Asia fell to communist
created a formal resettlement plan
forces. By December of that year,
for refugees and raised the ceiling
the monarchy of Laos was
on the number who could be
overthrown by the Pathet Lao
admitted into the United States.
movement, and the country became
Church and community groups
ruled by the Lao People’s
across the country rallied to help
Revolutionary party. Many feared Pictured is Mien-American refugee
refugees. In Portland, Lutheran
persecution and death because they Farm Yoon Lee, one of the elders reCommunity Services Northwest
had fought alongside the Central corded in Refugee Dreams Revisited
and Catholic Charities worked to
Intelligence Agency and the U.S. for Crossing East. (Photo courtesy of
MediaRites)
sponsor and place families.
military against the communists.
Portland Public Schools was one of the first to
For South Vietnamese people, April 30, 1975
became known as the Fall of Saigon. The day is also figure out how to work with Southeast Asian youth
now remembered as Reunification Day by some. For attending their schools. The 1.5 generation — those
others who had to flee, it’s called “Black April.” who came to the U.S. at a young age — learned
When the American war ended in Vietnam that quickly, mastering language and writing skills
year, thousands upon thousands of Vietnamese fled before their first-generation parents.
For the radio series, we spoke with many former
to the United States. Many who stayed in Vietnam
refugees in the Southeast Asian community who
ended up imprisoned in “re-education” camps.
Helping to recount this history for the Crossing came to America as children or young adults during
East radio series a decade ago was Dr. Linda Trinh the 1980s and ’90s. Now elders in their communiVo, a professor of Asian-American studies at the ties, many successfully seized the American Dream
and have made it their mission to give back to their
University of California, Irvine.
“Communist forces overtook the southern part of communities. A number had families who owned
Vietnam and wanted to replace the political power businesses or became language interpreters, like
… they imprisoned anyone who was a leader, Khantaly Thammovang. Others, including Kim
whether they were a military leader or a political Nguyen and Quy Nguyen, entered professions such
leader ... and replaced the form of government so as education. Still others became community
that the socialist form of government was being leaders, such as Kilong Ung, the founder of the
instituted in [the] country,” Vo said. “In the Golden Leaf Education Foundation, Sokhom Tauch,
aftermath, in both Laos and Cambodia, communist the former executive director of the Immigrant and
forces also were taking, fighting for power, and this Refugee Community Organization (IRCO), and Lee
internal struggle [led] to a lot of death, a lot of Po Cha, IRCO’s current executive director.
Now more than ever, we need to realize the
instability, and a lot of imprisonment and torture of
individuals. And also ethnic persecution of minority contributions refugees have made and continue to
make in our communities.
groups.”
For the 10th anniversary of Crossing East, MediaRites
Most Americans are aware of the impact of the
has worked with area youth to create a production to tell
Vietnam War on America but know little about the
Continued on page 7
horrors of war that took place in the cities and
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April 17, 2017
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U.S.A.
Filipino Bataan Death March survivors mark 75th anniversary
By Janie Har
The Associated Press
AP Photo/Eric Risberg
AP Photo/File
S
AN FRANCISCO — Ramon
Regalado was starving and sick
with malaria when he slipped away
from his Japanese captors during the
infamous 1942 Bataan Death March in the
Philippines, escaping a brutal trudge
through a steamy jungle that killed
hundreds of Americans and thousands of
Filipinos who fought for the U.S. during
World War II.
The former wartime machine-gun
operator joined a dwindling band of
veterans of the war in San Francisco’s
Presidio to honor the soldiers who died on
the march and those who made it to a
prisoner of war camp only to die there.
They commemorated the mostly Filipino
soldiers who held off Japanese forces in the
Philippines for three months without
supplies of food or ammunition before a
U.S. Army major general surrendered
75,000 troops to Japan on April 9, 1942.
Few Americans are aware of the
Filipinos who were starving as they
relentlessly fended off the more powerful
and well-supplied Japanese forces, said
Cecilia Gaerlan, executive director of the
Berkeley, California-based Bataan Legacy
Historical Society organizing the event at
the former military fort.
“Despite fighting without any air
support and without any reinforcement,
they disrupted the timetable of the
Imperial Japanese army,” she said. “That
was their major role, to perform a delaying
action. And they did that beyond expectations.”
More than 250,000 Filipino soldiers
served in World War II, when the Philippines was a U.S. territory. But after the
war ended, President Harry Truman
signed laws that stripped away promises
of benefits and citizenship for Filipino
veterans.
Only recently have they won back some
concessions and acknowledgment, including the nation’s highest civilian honor,
the Congressional Gold Medal. The
veterans also received lump-sum payments as part of the 2009 stimulus law.
An estimated 18,000 Filipino veterans of
World War II are still alive and living in
the U.S.
Tens of thousands of Filipino and U.S.
troops were forced on the 65-mile march
and Gaerlan said as many as 650
Americans and 10,000 Filipinos died in the
stifling heat and at the hands of Japanese
soldiers who shot, bayonetted, or beat
soldiers who fell or stopped for water.
More than 80 percent of those forced on
the march were Filipino.
After they arrived at a prison camp set
up at Camp O’Donnell, she said, an
additional 1,600 Americans and 20,000
Filipinos died from dysentery, starvation,
and disease.
Gaerlan grew up knowing that her
father, Luis Gaerlan Jr., had been in a
wartime march in which a lot of people had
died. But he rarely spoke about it or he
would re-enact it with rat-a-tat-tat sound
DEATH MARCH REMEMBRANCE. In this
1942 file photo (top), American and Filipino prisoners
of war captured by the Japanese are shown at the
start of the Bataan Death March after the surrender of
Bataan on April 9 during World War II, near Mariveles
in the Philippines. Hundreds of American soldiers and
thousands of Filipinos died along the way. In the bottom photo, survivor Ramon Regalado looks over a
map showing where he marched, with Cecilia Gaerlan
outside his home in El Cerrito, California. Survivors of
the infamous march marked the anniversary in San
Francisco with speeches and a 21-gun battery salute
to the thousands who died.
effects for the guns that made her laugh.
She started researching the march in
2011 and tried to elicit more details from
her father. He broke down crying, telling
her that some men were so desperate that
they killed themselves. Others wrote
goodbye letters to their relatives during
the march.
“And he said he was starting to write his
farewell letter, because a lot of men did
that, and I asked him, ‘Well, were you
going to take your own life?” she said. “And
he didn’t answer.”
Gaerlan’s father died in 2014 at age 94.
She successfully lobbied California last
year to mandate teaching details of the
battle and march in high schools.
She also collects march veterans’ stories
before they die, including the memories of
99-year-old Regalado, who lives in the San
Francisco suburb of El Cerrito.
When the war broke out, Regalado was a
member of the Philippine Scouts, a
military branch of the U.S. Army for
Filipino soldiers.
He and two other soldiers were assigned
to feed horses during the march and
slipped away when guards were not
watching them, Regalado said.
A farmer took in the three, even though
the penalty for doing so was death. All
were sick with malaria. Only Regalado
survived.
He went on to join a guerrilla resistance
movement against the Japanese and
moved in 1950 to the San Francisco Bay
Area to work for the U.S. military.
Regalado credits his survival and long
life to his high morale.
While being cared for by the farmer, he
recalls telling himself: “I’m not going to
die.”
Lawyer says dragged passenger lost two teeth and broke his nose
By Don Babwin and Sara Burnett
The Associated Press
C
HICAGO — The passenger dragged
from a United Airlines flight lost two
front teeth and suffered a broken nose
and a concussion, his lawyer said, accusing the
airline industry of having “bullied” its
customers for far too long.
“Are we going to continue to be treated like
cattle?” attorney Thomas Demetrio asked.
The passenger, Dr. David Dao, has been
released from a hospital but will need reconstructive surgery, Demetrio said at a news
conference, appearing alongside one of Dao’s
children. Dao was not there.
The 69-year-old physician from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was removed by police from
the United Express flight at Chicago’s O’Hare
Airport after refusing to give up his seat on the
full plane to make room for four airline
employees.
Cellphone video of him being pulled down the
aisle on his back and footage of his bloody face
have created a public-relations nightmare for
United.
One of Dao’s five children, Crystal Pepper,
said the family was “horrified, shocked, and
sickened” by what happened. She said it was
made worse by the fact that it was caught on
video.
For Dao, who came to the U.S. after fleeing
Vietnam by boat in 1975 when Saigon fell, being
dragged off the plane “was more horrifying and
harrowing than what he experienced in leaving
Vietnam,” Demetrio said.
Demetrio, who indicated Dao is going to sue,
said the industry has long “bullied” passengers
by overbooking flights and then bumping
people, and “it took something like this to get a
conversation going.”
“I hope he becomes a poster child for all of us.
Someone’s got to,” the lawyer said.
Early on, United CEO Oscar Munoz added to
the furor when he apologized for the incident
but accused Dao of being belligerent. Later,
Munoz offered a more emphatic mea culpa,
saying, “No one should ever be mistreated this
way.”
He promised to review the airline’s policies to
make sure something like that never happens
again, and said United will no longer use police
to remove bumped passengers. The airline also
said all passengers on the flight would get a
refund.
In a statement issued immediately after the
news conference, United insisted that Munoz
and the airline called Dao numerous times to
apologize. Munoz himself said he had left a
message for Dao.
But Demetrio said neither Dao nor his family
had heard from United.
Demetrio said his client accepts the apology.
But the attorney questioned its sincerity,
suggesting United acted because it was taking a
PR “beating.”
The attorney was unable to say precisely how
Dao was injured. Dao didn’t remember exactly
what occurred because of the concussion he
suffered, Demetrio said.
Pepper said her father and mother had been
travelling from California to Louisville,
Kentucky, and had caught a connecting flight at
O’Hare. After what happened, Dao “has no
interest in ever seeing an airplane” and will
probably be driven to Kentucky, Demetrio said.
United had selected Dao and three other
passengers at random for removal from the
plane after unsuccessfully offering $800 in
travel vouchers and a hotel stay to customers
willing to give up their seats.
The three officers who removed Dao have
been suspended from their jobs at the Chicago
Aviation Department.
At a city council committee hearing,
aldermen ripped into officials from United and
the department about the episode.
“There are no excuses,” alderman Michael
Zalewski said.
John Slater, a United vice president, said
that bumping passengers to accommodate
airline employees happens infrequently, and
that federal guidelines requiring rest for crew
members made it necessary to get the
employees on the flight to Louisville.
The Aviation Department’s roughly 300
officers guard the city’s two main airports but
are not part of the regular Chicago police force,
receive less training, and cannot carry guns
inside the terminals.
“To be quite frank, Chicago employees should
not be doing the dirty work for the friendly skies
airline,” said alderman Ed Burke, who played
video of Dao being removed.
Aviation commissioner Ginger Evans told the
committee that the officers had the authority to
board the flight but that what happened on the
plane is being investigated.
My Turn:
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Continued from page 6
these stories with the portrayals
of the original interviews
performed by teen actors. Each
performance is followed by a
panel discussion with former
refugees. In collaboration with
Sophorn Cheang of the IRCO Asian
Family Center and Coi Vu of the
Multnomah County Library,
Refugee Dreams Revisited is being
featured at three Multnomah
County libraries. The shows take
place at 2:00pm on May 28 at the
North Portland Library, at 4:00pm
on June 11 at the Central Library,
and at 4:00pm on June 17 at
Midland Library. The project
closes June 24 at 2:00pm with
a celebration at IRCO, located at
10301 N.E. Glisan Street in
Portland. To learn more
about the events, visit
<www.mediarites.org>.
TALKING STORY IN
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U.S.A. / SPORTS
Asians in American sports w Asian Americans in world sports
Depleted squads from Japan & South Korea fall short at WBC
WORLD-CLASS BASEBALL. Tetsuto Yamada
(top photo) of Japan bunts during the eighth inning
of a semifinal game against the United States held as
part of the World Baseball Classic, in Los Angeles. In
the bottom photo, Norichika Aoki bats during the first
inning of the same semifinal match. (AP Photos/Chris
Carlson)
By Mike Street
Special to The Asian Reporter
F
or Asian athletes, the World
Baseball Classic (WBC) has fallen
victim to its own success. The
Japanese and South Korean players who
rose to international prominence at the
tournament are now too focused on their
success in the U.S., which drained talent
from their national teams. As a result,
South Korea was eliminated early from
this year’s tournament while Japan lost a
squeaker in the semifinal against Team
USA, the eventual champion.
Since its inception in 2006, the
tournament has provided international
exposure for players in other professional
leagues, most notably the Korean Baseball
Organization (KBO) and Japan’s Nippon
Professional Baseball (NPB). As those
stars signed contracts with Major League
Baseball (MLB) teams, however, the
demands of the MLB season have taken
them out of the WBC tournament.
MLB players Shin Soo Choo, Hyun Soo
Kim, and Jung Ho Kang had anchored
South Korea’s team in the past. However,
Kim opted out this year to focus on
improving from a shaky rookie season,
while the Texas Rangers held Choo out of
the WBC due to his injury history. Unable
to secure a U.S. work visa due to his DUI
conviction in South Korea, Kang has
bigger things than baseball on his mind.
For its part, Japan was without the
aging Ichiro Suzuki, whose best years are
behind him, with journeyman Norichika
Aoki as their sole MLB representative.
And the pitching staff was missing all its
MLB talent, as Masahiro Tanaka, Kenta
Maeda, and Yu Darvish all opted out.
Because of an ankle injury, the team was
also without the NPB’s top talent, 2016
Pacific League MVP Shohei Ohtani. In
four seasons, the 22-year-old Ohtani has
amassed a 39-13 record with a 2.49 ERA on
the mound, logging more than a strikeout
per inning. On the days he’s not pitching,
Ohtani plays as a designated hitter, where
he averaged .322 last season with 22 home
runs.
Despite these talent deficits, both teams
had plenty of other native talent to draw
on, resulting in mixed outcomes at the
2017 WBC.
South Korea finished the inaugural
WBC tournament in third place, lost to
Japan in the 2009 finals, then failed to
advance out of the first round in 2013. In
2017, South Korea hosted Pool A, giving
them a leg up in a tough group.
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before surrendering the winning run on an
infield grounder in the 10th inning.
Against the Netherlands, South Korea fell
behind early as the Dutch scored three
runs in the first two innings, eventually
winning 5-0. Even lowly Chinese Taipei
proved a hard matchup, as South Korea
needed 10 innings to secure its only win.
For its second straight tournament, South
Korea did not escape the first round.
Japan fared much better in its early
games on home turf in Tokyo. They
crushed Cuba, 11-6, in their opening
match, came back against Australia to win
4-1, then jumped on China early before
winning 7-1.
Japan faced its toughest second-round
challenge against the Netherlands. Each
team scored one run in the second inning,
followed by four runs in the third, three of
Japan’s coming from a homer by first
baseman Sho Nakata. Japan took a
one-run lead in the fifth, but the
Netherlands tied the score in the bottom of
the ninth. In the 11th, Nakata came
through again, driving home two runs on a
line-drive single for the win.
Next, Japan faced Cuba, a rematch of
their opening game with a similar result.
This time, the teams traded leads
throughout the game until Japan scored
three in the bottom of the eighth and went
on to an 8-5 win.
Facing surprising powerhouse Israel
next, Japan seemed to have met their
match, as the game remained scoreless
through five innings. But then Japan
broke open the game with five runs in the
sixth and three more in the eighth, so the
three runs Israel scored in the top of the
ninth didn’t matter.
Japan headed to the WBC semifinal to
face a U.S. team that had experienced
some early-round problems. Although
they advanced from both brackets, the
U.S. dropped a game in each, losing 5-7 to
the Dominican Republic and 5-6 to Puerto
Rico.
But Japan’s vaunted defense fell flat at
precisely the wrong time in the semifinal
game. In the fourth inning, second
baseman Ryosuke Kikuchi bobbled a hard
ground ball, allowing Christian Yelich to
reach second. Yelich would later score on
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Foreign adoptions to U.S. families continue long decline
By David Crary
AP National Writer
N
EW YORK — The number of
foreign children adopted by
U.S. parents dropped almost
five percent last year, continuing a
steady decline that’s now extended
for 12 years, according to new State
Department figures.
However, department officials say
they have been working closely with
numerous countries to strengthen
international adoption procedures,
and they suggested the numbers
could rise if the U.S. adoption
community helped to address some of
the concerns of the countries about
ethics and oversight.
The department’s report for the
2016 fiscal year shows 5,372
adoptions from abroad, down from
5,648 in 2015 and more than 76
percent below the high of 22,884 in
2004. The number has fallen every
year since then.
China, as is customary, accounted
for the most children adopted in the
U.S. Its total of 2,231 was down
slightly from 2015 and far below a
peak of 7,903 in 2005.
Congo was second on the list with
359 adoptions. Many of those were
adoptions that had been delayed for
several years during a suspension —
now lifted — that the Congo govern-
ment imposed out of concerns over
adoption fraud.
Ukraine was third on the list with
303 adoptions, followed by South
Korea, Bulgaria, India, Uganda,
Ethiopia, Haiti, and the Philippines.
As adoptions from various countries have declined in recent years,
adoption advocates — and the State
Department — have cited Africa as
an area where adoptions may increase. However, Susan Jacobs, the
department’s special adviser for
children’s issues, said this can present unique challenges because some
African birth parents may incorrectly
believe that adopted children would
return home to care for them after
living abroad temporarily to get a
good education.
For a second straight year, there
were no adoptions from Russia, which
once accounted for hundreds of U.S.
adoptions each year, but imposed a
ban that fully took effect in 2014. The
ban served as retaliation for a U.S.
law targeting alleged Russian
human-rights violators.
The last time there were fewer
foreign adoptions to the U.S. overall
was in 1981, when, according to U.S.
immigration figures, there were
4,868 adoptions from abroad.
The State Department, in its new
report, said it had identified three
concerns that were causing some
foreign countries to be wary of
international adoption:
w Illegal or unethical practices by
some U.S. adoption agencies or
adoption
facilitators
operating
abroad. One Ohio-based agency was
recently barred by the State Department from engaging in international
adoption for three years because of
extensive improprieties.
w Lack of comprehensive, nationwide laws that prevent adoptive
parents from transferring custody of
adopted children to another family
without official authorization. This
practice, known as re-homing, has
often involved children adopted from
abroad who prove more challenging
to raise than the adoptive family had
anticipated.
w The failure of some U.S. families
to complete required post-adoption
reports. Trish Maskew, chief of the
State Department’s adoption division, said Kazakhstan and Guatemala were potentially interested in
resuming long-suspended international adoptions to the U.S., but only
if several hundred overdue reports
were completed by parents who
adopted
children
from
those
countries in past years.
Chuck Johnson, CEO of the
National Council of Adoption and a
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Portland Arbor Day Festival
This issue’s
Community
Calendar
is brought
to you by:
Apr 22, 10am-3pm, Mt. Scott Park (SE 72nd Ave & SE Harold
St, Portland). Attend the Portland Arbor Day Festival, a free,
family-friendly festival of “forest-y” fun. The multicultural event
features local food vendors, music, bucket-truck rides, an
ecological scavenger hunt, botanical printmaking, face painting,
a tree climbing demonstration, tree seedling giveaways, the Bill
Naito Community Trees Awards ceremony, and more. For info,
call (503) 823-PLAY (7529) or visit <www.portlandparks.org>.
College financial aid workshop
Distracted Driving Awareness Month
Through Apr 30. Clackamas County is inviting all drivers to
pledge to always drive free of distractions. The campaign to join
the pledge is taking place during Distracted Driving Awareness
Month. People who drive are encouraged to focus on the three
primary tasks of driving — visually (keeping your eyes on the
road), manually (keeping your hands on the steering wheel), and
cognitively (keeping your mind focused on driving). During April,
readers are able to watch a short video about the dangers of
distracted driving at movie theaters in Oregon City and Happy
Valley and view a poster that was turned into a billboard,
“Texting Equals Driving Blind,” created by Sandy High School
student Alyssa Bigelow. Driver distraction is related to 80
percent of car crashes and the top source of inattention is
cellphones. To learn more, call (503) 742-4661 or visit
<www.clackamas.us/drivetozero/saferdriver.html>.
“Uprooted: Japanese American Farm
Labor Camps During World War II”
Through May 25 (Tue-Sat), 10am-4pm, Lane County Historical Museum (740 W 13th Ave, Eugene, Ore.). View “Uprooted:
Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II,”
an exhibit that tells the story of Japanese Americans who worked
as seasonal farm laborers, many in the sugar beet industry,
during World War II. The display features images from federal
photographer Russell Lee’s documentation of JapaneseAmerican farm labor camps near the towns of Nyssa in Oregon
and Rupert, Shelley, and Twin Falls in Idaho; interpretative text
panels; and a short documentary film featuring firsthand
accounts about life in the camps. For info, call (541) 682-4242, or
visit <www.lchm.org> or <www.uprootedexhibit.com>.
“Art of the Brick”
Through May 29 (Tue-Sun), 9:30am-5:30pm, Oregon Museum
of Science & Industry (1945 SE Water Ave, Portland). View “Art
of the Brick,” a 12,000-square-foot exhibit featuring large-scale
sculptures created exclusively out of LEGO toy building blocks by
artist Nathan Sawaya. The display also includes hands-on
activities, demonstrations, challenges, and more. For info, call
(503) 797-4000 or visit <www.omsi.edu>.
“Terracotta Warriors
of the First Emperor”
Through Sep 4, 10am-5pm (Mon-Fri), 10am-6pm (Sat-Sun),
Pacific Science Center (200 Second Ave N, Seattle). View
“Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor,” an exhibit that
includes 10 original life-size statues from the terracotta army —
created 2,200 years ago and consisting of 6,000 life-sized soldiers,
horses, chariots, bowmen, and archers standing guard at the
tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuang in a 20-square-mile burial
compound — and more than 100 original objects and artifacts
from the first imperial dynasty of China, on loan from the
People’s Republic of China. In addition to original objects, the
exhibit features hands-on science learning through a series of
interactive and immersive experiences. For info, call (206)
443-2001 or visit <www.pacificsciencecenter.org>.
“We Are the Ocean: An Indigenous
Response to Climate Change”
Through Nov 12 (Tue-Sun), 10am-5pm, Wing Luke Museum
of the Asian Pacific American Experience (719 S King St,
Seattle). View “We Are the Ocean: An Indigenous Response to
Climate Change” and explore how indigenous communities are
responding to the ways climate change is affecting their waters
and lives: temperatures rising, islands gradually disappearing
due to rising waters, coral reefs slowly dying, storms increasing
both in frequency and strength, and more. The stories represent
people who live in Guam, Pohnpei, Yap, Tonga, Hawai‘i, Alaska,
and elsewhere. For info, call (206) 623-5124 or visit <www.
wingluke.org>.
“Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner”
Through Feb 11 (Tue-Sun), 10am-5pm, Wing Luke Museum of
the Asian Pacific American Experience (719 S King St, Seattle).
View “Year of Remembrance: Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner,”
an exhibit featuring poems by Lawrence Matsuda and artwork by
Roger Shimomura that recognizes the 75th anniversary of
Executive Order 9066 and explores historic and contemporary
issues of racism, discrimination, and human rights. For info, call
(206) 623-5124 or visit <www.wingluke.org>.
“A Will Is Not Enough in Oregon”
Apr 17 & 26; Apr 17, 6:30-8pm, Kenton Library (8226 N
Denver Ave, Portland); Apr 26, 6-7:30pm, Midland Library (805
SE 122nd Ave, Portland). Attend “A Will Is Not Enough in
Oregon,” a free workshop led by attorney and author Richard
Schneider focused on safeguarding family assets. The session
offers basic information on wills, living trusts, powers of attorney,
and healthcare directives. For info, or to register (required), call
(503) 988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
Who We Be: The Colorization
of America book discussion
Apr 18, 6:15-7:45pm, North Portland Library (512 N Killingsworth St, Portland). Engage in conversation about literature at a
Pageturners discussion sponsored by Friends of the Library. The
book for discussion is Jeff Chang’s Who We Be: The Colorization of
America, a literary work that remixes comic strips and
contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing
campaigns, and Martin Luther King Jr. and Trayvon Martin, into
a timely cultural history of the idea of racial progress. For info,
call (503) 988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
April 17, 2017
COMPELLED TO RESIST. The 2017 DisOrient Asian American
Film Festival, held April 21 through 23 at the Bijou Art Cinemas in Eugene,
Oregon, highlights 13 Asian-American feature films and 23 shorts. Among
the films featured is Resistance at Tule Lake, which includes intimate
first-hand stories of Japanese-American men and women who were incarcerated during World War II. The documentary conveys the emotions,
values, and family bonds that compelled them to resist, to protest their incarceration, and to salvage a livable future for their families. (Image courtesy of Resistance at Tule Lake)
Free cancer screenings
Apr 19, 9am-5pm, Providence Cancer Center, Jill Lematta
Learning Center (4805 NE Glisan St, Portland). Receive free oral,
head, and neck cancer screenings at the Providence Cancer
Center. Screenings take only a few minutes. For info, or to
register (recommended), call (503) 574-6595.
PSU Center for Japanese Studies lecture
Apr 20, 6pm, Portland State University (PSU), Smith
Memorial Student Union, Rooms 327/328/329 (1825 SW
Broadway, Portland). Attend “A Japanese-American Origin of
Japanese Studies in the United States: Intersections of Minority
Ethnic Politics and State-Sponsored Academic Propaganda,” a
free talk by University of Pennsylvania professor Eiichiro Azuma
about the pre-World-War-II development of Japanese
(“Oriental”) Studies at institutions of higher education in the
western United States. For info, call (503) 725-8577 or visit
<www.pdx.edu/cjs>.
Earth Day at CCC
Apr 20-22, Clackamas Community College (19600 S Molalla
Ave, Oregon City, Ore.). Attend an Earth Day celebration at
Clackamas Community College (CCC). The English Department
kicks off festivities April 20 from noon to 1:00pm in the
Environmental Learning Center’s (ELC) Lakeside Hall with a
free open-mic event. Later that day, an Earth Day music
performance technology concert is held at 7:30pm in the
Niemeyer Center. The celebration continues April 22 from
10:00am to 1:00pm at the ELC with a display of Willamette
Valley turtles, a birds of prey exhibit courtesy of the Audubon
Society, information about the human impact on the watershed
from Clackamas River Water Providers, choral music, an art
project, and more. For info, or to obtain a schedule of events, call
Renee at (503) 594-3015, e-mail <[email protected]>, or
visit <www.clackamas.edu>.
Permit planning for
residential homeowners
Apr 20 & 27, 5-8pm, City of Portland, Bureau of Development
Services (1900 SW Fourth Ave, Portland). Homeowners in
Portland are invited to attend an evening focused on permit
planning for residential homeowners only. The event features
staff from the Bureau of Development Services answering
questions about the permitting process, helping homeowners
understand which project plans and documents are required, and
identifying the necessary permits for a successful project. For
info, call (503) 823-7300, e-mail <[email protected]>, or
visit <www.portlandoregon.gov/BDS/ResidentialPermitNight>.
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival
Apr 21-23, Bijou Art Cinemas (492 E 13th Ave, Eugene, Ore).
View portrayals of the Asian-American experience and support
Asian-American artists at the 2017 DisOrient Asian American
Film Festival. This year’s festival highlights 13 feature films and
23 shorts, including Mele Murals, Never Forget, Avenues of
Escape, Blasian Narratives, Mixed Match, Resistance at Tule
Lake, Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice,
Vampariah, All Our Father’s Relations, and more. The festival
also features question-and-answer sessions with several
filmmakers. For info, or to obtain a schedule of events, call (541)
954-1798 or visit <www.disorientfilm.org>.
Friends of the Library book sale
Apr 21-24, 6-9pm (Fri, members only), 9am-9pm (Sat),
11am-5pm (Sun), 9am-3pm (Mon), Doubletree Hotel & Executive
Meeting Center - Lloyd Center (1000 NE Multnomah St,
Portland). Attend a used book sale presented by Friends of the
Multnomah County Library. Asian-language books are available
along with comic books, CDs, DVDs, LPs, sheet music,
audiobooks, and more. Many books are $2 and children’s items
start at 50 cents. For info, call (503) 224-9176, or visit
<www.friends-library.org> or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
“Transforming Pain into Power”
Apr 22, 10am-3pm, Highland Christian Center (7600 NE
Glisan St, Portland). Attend “Transforming Pain into Power,” a
free community forum hosted by Oregon Health & Science
University and Portland State University to provide a safe venue
to collaborate on ideas to reduce gun violence and address the
social and societal conditions that contribute to gun violence
across Oregon, southwest Washington, and beyond. The event
features keynote presentations, small-group breakout sessions,
entertainment, and on-site resources. Lunch is provided and
childcare is available on request. For info, or to request childcare,
call (503) 494-8811 or visit <www.ohsu.edu>.
Apr 22, 10:30am-noon, Midland Library (805 SE 122nd Ave,
Portland). Teens and adults are invited to attend a workshop to
learn about applying for financial aid for college with representatives from Mt. Hood Community College. The event offers
information about and help with completing the Free Application
for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) — a document that determines
eligibility for grants, loans, work study, and some scholarships —
and the Oregon Student Aid Application (ORSAA), a document
that accesses state aid and is a source of college funding for those
who are not eligible to fill out the FAFSA. For info, call (503)
988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
API Pride hiking trip
Apr 23, 10am, Horsetail Falls (Historic Columbia River Hwy,
Cascade Locks, Ore.). Join API Pride for a spring hike at
Horsetail Falls. The four-mile trip takes place rain or shine. API
Pride supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer
people of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) descent in Oregon. For
info, or to register, call (503) 877-9379, e-mail <api.pride@gmail.
com>, or visit <www.facebook.com/APIPRide>.
PPS budget forum
Apr 25 & May 9, 5-6pm, Blanchard Education Service Center
(501 N Dixon St, Portland). Attend a budget forum for Portland
Public Schools (PPS) to give voice to opinions and hear comments
of others on the proposed budget dictating how the district should
allocate funds in the coming year. For info, or to sign up in
advance to speak at the forum, call (503) 916-3741. To send
comments electronically, e-mail <[email protected]>.
NET volunteer training
Apr 29, 8am-5pm, Benson High School (546 NE 12th Ave,
Portland). Attend a session to become a Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) volunteer. NET members are trained to provide
emergency disaster assistance to their families and neighbors
and work within an emergency response team to save lives and
property in their neighborhood. The free class is available to any
person who lives or works in Portland. Childcare is provided. Part
one of the training is held April 29. For info, or to sign up, call
(503) 823-4375 or visit <www.portlandoregon.gov/pbem>.
Plant sale
Apr 29, 8:30am-5pm, Washington County Fair Complex, East
Entrance near Cornell Road (873 NE 34th Ave, Hillsboro, Ore.).
Attend the Tualatin Valley Garden Club’s 54th annual plant sale.
The sale features numerous vendors selling vegetables, herbs,
landscape plants, garden-related materials, and more. For info,
call Joy at (503) 647-9980 or Dave at (503) 648-4236, or visit
<www.tualatinvalleygardenclub.org>.
Spring cleaning & recycling
Apr 29, May 6, 13 & 20, 9am-1pm; Apr 29, Holley Park (1000 E
Fourth St, La Center, Wash.); May 6 & 13, Washougal Transfer
Station (4020 S Grant St, Washougal); May 20, Battle Ground
High School (300 W Main St, Battle Ground, Wash.). Clark
County residents are invited to bring unwanted block foam,
electronic equipment, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners,
scrap metal, and up to five tires without rims to a spring cleaning
and recycling event. Business waste and household hazardous
waste are not accepted. For info, call (360) 397-2121, ext. 4352, or
visit <www.clark.wa.gov/hhw> or <www.recyclingA-Z.com>.
Smoke alarm installation events
Apr 29 & June 3, Cities in Metropolitan Portland. Residents in
the Portland metropolitan area are invited to help increase home
safety by scheduling an appointment with trained Red Cross
volunteers who install free in-home smoke alarms, review
fire-safety and home-hazard checklists, and provide information
about creating a fire-escape plan. To schedule an appointment,
call (503) 528-5783, e-mail <[email protected]>, or visit
<www.redcross.org/CascadesHomeFire>.
“We Are What We Eat:
Connecting Food and Citizenship”
Apr 30, noon-1:30pm, Sellwood-Moreland Library (7860 SE
13th Ave, Portland). Reflect on how your relationship to food
production, preparation, and consumption might help create
self-sufficiency and empowered citizenship at “We Are What We
Eat: Connecting Food and Citizenship,” a gathering facilitated by
poet and essayist Wendy Willis. For info, or to register (required),
call (503) 988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
“Race and Place”
May 3, 5:30-7:30pm, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (75
NW Couch St, Portland). Attend part two of “Race and Place: Old
Town’s Chinatown and Japantown Through Chinese-American
and Nikkei Eyes,” a free public conversation by a panel of
Chinese- and Japanese-American community elders who share
their stories about growing up, living, and working in adjoining
quarters, in what was called New Chinatown and Japantown
between the 1920s and 1960, and is now known as Old Town
Chinatown. For info, call (503) 224-0008 or visit <www.portland
chinatown.org>.
“The New Civil Rights & Global Justice”
May 4, 7pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (1037 SW Broadway, Portland). Attend “The New Civil Rights & Global Justice,”
a talk by journalist and civil-rights activist Shaun King held as
part of the World Affairs Council of Oregon’s 2017 International
Speaker Series. The subject of the next lecture in the series is
“Understanding China” (June 6). For info, call (503) 306-5252 or
visit <www.worldoregon.org>. To buy tickets, call (503) 248-4335
or visit <www.portland5.com>.
Community
April 17, 2017
THE ASIAN REPORTER n Page 11
Commitment to social issues defines Wilson’s Rose Festival princess
By Maileen Hamto
The Asian Reporter
W
ilson High School’s Maggie Beutler is driven by
the need to achieve “the next great accomplishment.” Vying for the 2017 Portland Rose
Festival crown, Maggie was motivated to win the
opportunity to represent her high school in one of
Portland’s most iconic institutions.
“I wanted to know I could do something not everyone
could. When the Rose Court came along, I knew I had to
push myself to say, ‘I can and will do this,’” she said.
Academically gifted, Maggie has been on Wilson High’s
Honor Roll since freshman year and is a proud member of
the National Honor Society. She also participates in Mock
Trial, the women’s tennis team, the Feminist Union, and
Asian Pacific Islanders. Despite the hard work and
commitment she devoted to accumulating these honors,
Maggie considers the journey that has taken her thus far
as her most important accomplishment.
“The thing I am most proud of isn’t my grades or
awards, but the wonderful group of friends I have found
and the community which surrounds me,” she said. “My
ability to develop over the past four years may have taken
me a bit of time. I am proud of the friends I have kept, the
temptation I have refused, and the person I have become.”
As an adopted Chinese daughter, Maggie said she is
honored to have an opportunity to explore her cultural
roots. Her family celebrates the Lunar New Year and she
is motivated to continue learning about myriad Chinese
traditions.
At 10 years old, Beutler returned to Guixi, China with
her parents — an eye-opening experience that continues
to teach lessons to this day.
“I saw the orphanage where I lived the first year of my
life,” Maggie said of her visit. “I did not grasp the full
gravity of the situation at the time; I know now the issue
surrounding children in foster care is one that should not
be ignored.”
Maturity that comes from teachable life experiences is
remarkably well-developed in Maggie’s cultural
self-awareness, as she navigates her teenage years with
eyes wide open. “I have had my fair share of
microagressions, and even dealt with some very unkind
racism. Therefore, I know that while I do not always see
my color, other people always do,” she said.
Reconciling the intersectionality of cultural identities
has inspired Maggie to become part of Wilson’s feminist
club. She is eager to learn from and lead her peers in
deepening their collective understanding of gender
dynamics and the different ways gender identity can
Foreign adoptions to U.S.
families continue long decline
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critic of State Department
adoption policy, acknowledged that lapses related to
all three issues were “a
black eye on adoption.”
However, he said the State
Department should have
been providing more leadership in addressing the
problems.
“These negative results
are not the experiences of
the great majority of
internationally
adopted
children nor of their
adoptive families; neither
are the actions of a few
providers indicative of the
majority of accredited U.S.
adoption
providers,”
Johnson said in an e-mail.
Adoption officials in the
State Department “have a
history of either personally
opposing
intercountry
adoption
outright
or
endorsing it in lukewarm
fashion,” Johnson wrote.
As long as the department
“is allowed to continue
down this path, children
suffer and die.”
Susan Jacobs urged the
department’s critics in the
adoption community to
consider what steps they
could take to ensure that
international adoption is
ethical and transparent.
“We are committed to
intercountry adoption. We
want this to be available in
every country in the
world,” said Jacobs. “But
we can’t do this without the
cooperation of everybody
involved in the process. We
want this to be a practice
that everyone can be proud
of.”
ASTHMA
IS
ON
THE RISE.
impact experiences.
“I will defend myself and the rights of others in the
name of equality. Because I believe that in this world, the
act of living should never be threatened, questioned, or
judged because of someone’s gender.”
With her ever-growing awareness of social issues, it’s no
wonder that writing and photography — two of Maggie’s
favorite things — require thoughtfulness and empathy,
the ability to step inside someone else’s reality. With her
interest and skills in photography, Maggie relishes her
newfound role as a paid senior photographer. She
considers portrait photography as both challenging and
edifying.
“The kind of satisfaction that comes with helping
someone to realize their own individual beauty cannot be
described. And I am deeply humbled whenever I am able
to help someone love themselves a little bit more,” she
said.
THOUGHTFUL & EMPATHETIC. Maggie Beutler (left photo)
is seen with friends Gracie (right photo, left) and Clodagh (right photo,
right). Beutler is representing Wilson High School as its 2017 Rose Festival princess. The Portland Rose Festival’s Queen’s Coronation takes place
Saturday, June 10 at Portland’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum. (Photos
courtesy of Maggie Beutler)
Leveraging her gift in the written word, Maggie is
interested in pursuing a writing career in film or
television, particularly for “Saturday Night Live.” She
said she has been drawn to work in satire for some time.
“Comedy is a way to evoke conversation and call to
question, ‘if we cannot laugh in hard times, what can we
do?’” Maggie explained. “Satire can bring both joy and call
attention to some very important issues.”
When asked about her soon-to-start stint on the court,
Maggie said she is excitedly looking forward to the
different events and ceremonies while learning more
about the City of Portland along the way.
“I am both honored and humbled by the opportunity to
give back to the community, all it has given me. And in
many ways I feel as though the Rose Court has shined a
light on both me and my school,” Maggie said. “I am very
excited to represent my school, my city, and my culture.”
A Rose Festival princess represents her school and acts as the “face of
the Rose Festival” at many events in the community, including parades,
volunteer activities, luncheons with community and business leaders,
and more. The Portland Rose Festival Foundation awards each court
member a $3,500 scholarship, courtesy of The Randall Group.
To qualify for the Rose Festival Court, a candidate must be a full-time
junior or senior at a 4A, 5A, or 6A high school in Multnomah,
Washington, or Clackamas county and have a minimum cumulative
grade point average of 3.0. Potential princesses are evaluated on
citizenship, scholastic achievement, school activities, civic involvement,
volunteer projects, communication skills, and overall impression.
The Portland Rose Festival Queen is chosen from all of
the court members at Portland’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum
on Saturday, June 10 from 8:30am to 9:30am. To learn more,
call (503) 227-2681 or visit <www.rosefestival.org>.
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Community, school pride fuels Franklin Rose Festival princess
By Maileen Hamto
The Asian Reporter
T
hriving in Franklin High School’s
diverse and vibrant community,
Portland Rose Festival princess
Keely Nguyen is proud and excited to
represent the east side in the 2017 Rose
Festival court.
“I refuse to believe the claim that, ‘west
side is the best side’ because people
underestimate the variation of cultures
displayed on the streets,” Keely said. “I am
prideful to admit that the districts of east
Portland possess the liberality and tranquility that derive from the inclusiveness
and uniqueness of the community
members.”
Franklin’s close-knit and supportive
culture ensures that every student has a
place to belong, Keely said. “Even though
our community is small, we have so much
to offer. We gather as a collective group to
support and secure each other. No one
should ever feel isolated. There are so
many clubs and groups that we should
never feel lonely because whether it’s a
peer or a staff member, somebody is
always there.”
Keely honed her leadership skills early
at Franklin. She was only a sophomore
when she led a penny drive during a
“Franklin High School Gives Back”
fundraiser that collected more than $3,000
for the Franklin community.
“I was skeptical of my abilities as a
leader before raising those funds. I didn’t
think we’d collect that much,” she said. “I
was overjoyed with the results because I
was doubtful I’d be able to handle the
responsibilities
of
collecting
bins,
assigning jobs, and making sure things
were running smoothly.”
Beyond school pride, Keely also is a
passionate cheerleader for east Portland’s
community gems. If given the chance, she
PROUD PRINCESS. Keely Nguyen is seen with her family (left photo, from left — Keely, grandma Muoi,
father Hoang, mother Kathy, and sister Kathleen) during a vacation in Mexico and with fellow teammates on the
varsity tennis squad (right photo, from left — Taylor, Keely, Trinity, and Kathy). Nguyen is representing Franklin
High School as its 2017 Rose Festival princess. The Portland Rose Festival’s Queen’s Coronation takes place
Saturday, June 10 at Portland’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum. (Photos courtesy of Keely Nguyen)
said she would take the entire Rose
Festival Court to the Hawthorne District
to experience unique foodie, cultural, and
shopping experiences.
“Hawthorne is a welcoming neighborhood with a lively spirit; this energetic vibe
will make anyone feel youthful again,” she
said. “From the collection of cute
boutiques, vintage stores, and delicious
restaurants and food carts, there is a wide
range of entertainment and eateries. In
the summer, people can truly celebrate
and explore the local pizzazz through the
Hawthorne Street Fair.”
Closer to home, Keely is equally
enthusiastic about sharing pride in her
Asian-American upbringing. Growing up
in a mixed Chinese and Vietnamese home,
Keely is entrenched in the traditions from
both sides of her family. She speaks fondly
of family traditions during the Lunar New
Year and other cultural celebrations and
also relishes time spent at Buddhist
temples all over Portland.
“Our traditions primarily emphasize the
importance of respecting our elders and
limiting self-interests. My dad cooks a
variety of vegan food as sacrifices to our
ancestors. We kneel, pray, and bow for
hours … veneration of our deceased
relatives will ensure our prosperity and
health,” she said.
“On Chinese New Year, we leave the
house wearing new red clothes to provide
an auspicious future. These celebrations
are festive and exhilarating: people are
dancing, eating, and socializing.”
Bringing her full self to the Rose
Festival court, the aspiring pediatrician is
thrilled about the opportunity to share the
unique experience of serving as a court
princess with her peers from Portlandarea high schools.
“I think this experience will allow me to
mature and learn more about the
important aspects of my community and
explore Portland culture more,” Keely
said. “I believe this will deepen my values
of how I feel about others so I can have a
firmer hold on who I am as a person.”
A Rose Festival princess represents her school and
acts as the “face of the Rose Festival” at many events
in the community, including parades, volunteer
activities, luncheons with community and business
leaders, and more. The Portland Rose Festival
Foundation awards each court member a $3,500
scholarship, courtesy of The Randall Group.
To qualify for the Rose Festival Court, a candidate
must be a full-time junior or senior at a 4A, 5A,
or 6A high school in Multnomah, Washington, or
Clackamas county and have a minimum cumulative
grade point average of 3.0. Potential princesses are
evaluated on citizenship, scholastic achievement,
school activities, civic involvement, volunteer projects,
communication skills, and overall impression.
The Portland Rose Festival Queen is chosen from
all of the court members at Portland’s Veterans
Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, June 10 from
8:30am to 9:30am. To learn more, call (503)
227-2681 or visit <www.rosefestival.org>.
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Arts Culture & Entertainment
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Carnatic vocal concert
“New Year in the Park”
Apr 30, 4pm, Rasika School of Music & Arts
(2110 NW Alocleck Dr, Suite 615, Hillsboro,
Ore.). Attend a free carnatic vocal concert
featuring S. Aishwarya accompanied by
Kaushik Sivaramakrishnan on violin and Sri.
B.S. Anand on mridangam. For info, call (503)
531-7266 or visit <www.rasika.org>.
ONGOING EVENTS
“Roboyat”
Tetsunori Tawaraya
May 2, 6-8pm, Floating World Comics (400
NW Couch St, Portland). Attend a book release
event for punk musician and underground
Japanese
artist
Tetsunori
Tawaraya’s
Telescope. The evening also features an exhibit
of original artwork and other eclectic items. For
info, call (503) 241-0227 or visit <www.floating
worldcomics.com>.
Through Apr 29 (Tue-Sat), 11am-5pm,
Blackfish Gallery (420 NW Ninth Ave,
Portland). View “Roboyat Omar Khayyam’s
‘Rubaiyat’ Reimagined,” Merridawn and
Geordie Duckler’s cacophonous installation
which is informed by the structure of
Khayyam’s famous 11th-century poem, “The
Rubaiyat.” The display, which is a meditation
on the art and artifacts in our world as
envisioned by the imagined future, includes a
collection of 500 robots ranging in size from tiny
to looming. For info, call (503) 224-2634 or visit
<www.blackfish.com>.
Yoonhee Choi &
Roya Motamedi
AR Photo/Jan Landis
“Poetry Month” at Lan Su
Through Apr 30 (daily), 10am-7pm, Lan Su
Chinese Garden (239 NW Everett St, Portland).
Attend events held during “Poetry Month” at
the Lan Su Chinese Garden. Special features
include poetry workshops (Wednesdays at
3:00pm), poetry tours (Thursdays at 2:00pm),
the Peach Blossom Poetry Series (Saturdays at
3:00pm), and a couplet poetry activity (Wednesdays and Saturdays from 2:00pm to 4:00pm).
For info, or to obtain a complete schedule of
activities, call (503) 228-8131 or visit
<www.lansugarden.org>.
Nadeshiko
Through May 7, Seattle Center (305
Harrison St, Seattle). Watch Nadeshiko, a play
by Keiko Green that tells the stories of two
generations of Asian women who are reclaiming
their power from idealized perceptions of
beauty. The cast includes Maile Wong, Mi Kang,
Ina Chang, Josh Kenji, and Greg Lyle-Newton.
For info, showtimes, or to buy tickets, call (206)
856-5520 or visit <www.soundtheatrecompany.
org>.
“Homeless Not Hopeless”
Through May 16, 10am-6pm (Sun), 9am8pm (Mon-Thu), 10am-6pm (Fri-Sat), Vancouver Community Library (901 C St, Vancouver,
Wash.). View “Homeless Not Hopeless,” an exhibit of works by artists who have experienced
homelessness, yet continue to bring joy and
hope to others through the visual arts. For info,
call (360) 906-5106 or visit <www.fvrl.org>.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Jersey Boys
Apr 18-23, 7:30pm (Tue-Sat), 2pm (Sat), 1pm
& 6:30pm (Sun), Keller Auditorium (222 SW
Clay St, Portland). Watch Jersey Boys, a performance held as part of the Broadway in Portland
series. The musical follows the story of Frankie
Valli and The Four Seasons and how the group
of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the
tracks became one of the biggest American popmusic sensations of all time. For info, or to buy
tickets, call (503) 248-4335 or visit <www.port
land5.com>.
Seattle Cherry Blossom &
Japanese Cultural Festival
Apr 21-23, 10am-5:30pm (Fri), 10am-6pm
(Sat-Sun), Seattle Center (305 Harrison St,
Seattle). Celebrate the beauty of spring at the
Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural
Festival presented by Seattle Center Festál.
The event includes taiko drumming, Japanese
food, artisan demonstrations, games, hands-on
activities, live performances, visual arts, the
creation of a 100-foot-long sushi roll, and more.
For info, call (206) 684-7200 or visit <www.
seattlecenter.com>.
“Ceramic Showcase”
Apr 21-23, 10am-7pm (Fri), 10am-5pm (Sat),
10am-4pm (Sun), Oregon Convention Center,
Exhibit Hall A1 (777 NE Martin Luther King Jr
Blvd, Portland). Admire and buy handmade
clay art from more than 150 ceramic artists from
around the Pacific Northwest at the annual
“Ceramic Showcase.” The event also features
acoustic performances, drawings for gift certificates, a clay exploration area open to all ages,
pottery demonstrations, a high school ceramic
art gallery, and more. For info, call (503) 2220533, e-mail <[email protected]>, or
visit <www.ceramicshowcase.com> or <www.
oregonpotters.org>.
May 2-27 (Tue-Sat), 11am-5pm; May 4,
6-9pm (reception); May 20, 2pm (artist talk);
Blackfish Gallery (420 NW Ninth Ave,
Portland). View Yoonhee Choi’s “Sift” and Roya
Motamedi’s “Aptitude of Kindness” during the
month of May. Choi’s installation explores the
easily neglected and immediately abandoned
detritus of a consumer society, while
Motamedi’s collages of fabric and birch on paper
are concerned with pattern, repetition, and
interconnectivity to family. For info, call (503)
224-2634 or visit <www.blackfish.com>.
April 29, 9:30am to 6:00pm
Glenhaven Park, N.E. 82nd Avenue & Siskiyou Street, Portland
Attend the third annual “New Year in the Park,” a celebration of Cambodian,
Thai, Lao, and Burmese cultures. The free daylong celebration features performances by the Cambodian-American Community of Oregon, Khana Luke Larn
Lao, the Thai Association of Oregon, the Burmese Community of Oregon, and
others, in addition to Asian cuisine, sports, arts and crafts, vendors, and more. For
more information, or to sponsor the festival, call (503) 823-PLAY (7529) or visit
<www.portlandoregon.gov/parks>. To volunteer, e-mail Vieng at <vbounnam@
yahoo.com> or Kathy at <[email protected]>.
Kathy Liao
Band; Lloyd “Have Mercy” Jones; Shoehorn;
Mad as Hell Doctors, Nurses & Interns; and
others. For info, call (503) 206-6709 or visit
<www.hcao.org>. To buy advance tickets, visit
<www.tickettomato.com>.
performance is an adventurous program of
contemporary chamber music featuring Czech
composers and traditional Persian instruments.
For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 223-5939 or
visit <www.portlandyouthphil.org>.
Young Artists
Competition concert
Free “Classical Up
Close” concerts
Apr 22-23, 3pm (Sat), 7pm (Sun), Skyview
High School Concert Hall (1300 NW 139th St,
Vancouver, Wash.). Attend a performance by
the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra featuring
the winners of the annual Young Artists Competition, including Ashley Teng on flute, Symphony Koss on violin, and Trevor Natiuk on
piano. For info, or to buy tickets, call (360) 7357278 or visit <www.vancouversymphony.org>.
Apr 25, 27-28, May 3-4 & 6, 7:30pm; Apr 25,
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (147 NW 19th Ave,
Portland); Apr 27, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
(5415 SE Powell Blvd, Portland); Apr 28, Oak
Hills Church (2800 NW 153rd Ave, Beaverton,
Ore.); May 3, Rose City Park Presbyterian
Church (1907 NE 45th Ave, Portland); May 4,
Nordia House (8800 SW Oleson Rd, Portland);
May 6, Milwaukie Lutheran Church (3810 SE
Lake Rd, Milwaukie, Ore.). Attend “Classical
Up Close,” free chamber music performances
produced and performed by Oregon Symphony
musicians. The festival includes six informal,
full-length concerts at which audiences are encouraged to enjoy the concert, use social media,
ask questions, and applaud freely. For info, or to
obtain a full schedule of concerts, call (503)
228-1353 or visit <www.classicalupclose.org>.
Butoh performance
Apr 22 & 29, 8pm, The Headwaters (55 NE
Farragut St, Suite 4, Portland). Attend the
“Butoh College Performance Series,” a show
presented by Water in the Desert that celebrates and exposes the enigmatic, ever-evolving
dance-theatre koan that is butoh. For info, or to
buy tickets, call (503) 404-2350 or visit <www.
witd.org/headwaters>.
“Classical Up Close”
blitz performances
Apr 22, 24-26 & 29, May 2-3; Apr 22, noon,
Powell’s City of Books (1005 W Burnside St,
Portland); Apr 24, 12:30pm, Oregon Symphony,
Ticket Office (909 SW Washington St,
Portland); Apr 25, noon, Terwilliger Plaza (2545
SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland); Apr 26, 9am,
Henry Higgins Boiled Bagels (6420 SE Foster
Rd, Portland); Apr 29, 1pm, Hollywood Senior
Center (1820 NE 40th Ave, Portland); May 2,
11:45am, Bob’s Red Mill Whole Grain Store &
Restaurant (5000 SE International Way,
Milwaukie, Ore.); May 3, 10am, Symposium
Coffee (12345 SW Main St, Tigard, Ore.). Attend
30-minute “blitz” performances designed for
children and families as part of the “Classical
Up Close” series of free chamber music concerts
organized and performed by Oregon Symphony
musicians. The series, which centers around six
informal, full-length concerts, begins April 22
and ends May 7. For info, or to obtain a full
schedule of concerts, call (503) 228-1353 or visit
<www.classicalupclose.org>.
Ikebana presentation
Apr 23, 1-3pm, Nagomi Tea House (519
Sixth Ave S, Seattle). Attend “Ikebana: A Contemporary Approach,” a presentation by ceramic artist Thomas Batty. The event includes
demonstrations and images of Batty’s floral
arrangements. For info, or to register, call (206)
522-5438 or visit <www.friendsofasianart.org>.
Inner City Blues Festival
“Music in the Pearl”
Apr 22, 5pm-midnight, Eagle’s Lodge (7611
N Exeter Ave, Portland). Attend the sixth
annual Inner City Blues Festival, a fundraising
event benefitting Healthcare for All Oregon.
Titled “Healing the Healthcare Blues,” the show
features Bloco Alegria; the Norman Sylvester
Apr 23, 2pm, Wieden + Kennedy (224 NW
13th Ave, Portland). Attend “Music in the
Pearl,” a concert by the chamber orchestra of the
Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) —
Camerata PYP — with special guests Hossein
and Bobak Salehi of ArtMax Academy. The
Kalakendra concert
Apr 28, 7:30pm, First Baptist Church (909
SW 11th Ave, Portland). Attend a concert
featuring Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt on guitar
and Pt. Subhen Chatterjee on tabla. The
performance is presented by Kalakendra. For
info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 308-1050 or visit
<www.kalakendra.org>.
May 4-July 1 (Tue-Sat), 10am-5:30pm; May
4, 6-8pm (reception); Prographica/KDR Gallery
(313 Occidental Ave S, Seattle). View
“Lingering Presence,” an exhibit by narrative
painter Kathy Liao featuring mixed-media
works that form a record of an experience or a
feeling made from observations, layered with
sharp and hazy memories and recorded
snapshot photos. For info, call (206) 999-0849 or
visit <www.prographicagallery.com>.
Oregon Symphony
May 5, 7:30pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert
Hall (1037 SW Broadway, Portland). Attend
“Disney in Concert: A Dream is a Wish” to relive
some favorite Disney moments from The Little
Mermaid, The Lion King, Frozen, Aladdin,
Pocahontas, and more, with original film
footage, singers, and sweeping scores performed
by the Oregon Symphony orchestra under the
direction of Norman Huynh. For info, or to buy
tickets, call (503) 228-1353 or visit <www.
orsymphony.org>.
Filmed by Bike
May 5-7, Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE
Sandy Blvd, Portland). Watch an array of
international, bicycle-themed short films at the
15th annual Filmed by Bike festival. The event
features 80 films from 18 countries by 74
filmmakers, including India, Japan, Russia,
and elsewhere. Asian-interest short films
include Giro d’Italia — Ciao Bambino, On Your
Mind, The World Naked Bike Ride, Teppei
Nasty Iwabuchi Fukuoka, La Vuelta, Mr Right
Bike, The Gaman Spirit: Why Cycling Works in
Tokyo, The Bicycle Maker, and others. For info,
or to obtain a schedule of screenings, call (971)
221-7228 or visit <www.filmedbybike.org>.
Asian-Pacific Islander
Heritage Month Celebration
Apr 29, 1pm, Providence Park (SW 18th Ave
& SW Morrison St, Portland). Watch Portland
Thorns FC take on the Chicago Red Stars as
part of the National Women’s Soccer League’s
fifth season. The Thorns FC squad features
Mana Shim, Nadia Nadim, Kendall Johnson,
and others. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503)
553-5555 or visit <www.portlandthorns.com>.
May 7, 11:45am-5pm, Seattle Center (305
Harrison St, Seattle). Join the festivities at
Seattle Center Festál’s Asian-Pacific Islander
Heritage Month Celebration. The free event
includes cultural dance groups, youth drill
teams, art, hands-on activities, games, a lively
marketplace, and more. Scheduled performers
include the Filipino Youth Activities Drill Team
(12:15pm), the OBG Band (2:30pm), Seattle
Thai Dancers (3:15pm), Kaze Daiko (4:15pm),
and many others. For info, call (206) 684-7200 or
visit <www.seattlecenter.com>.
The White Balloon
PYP concert
Apr 29, 4:30pm, Portland Art Museum,
Northwest Film Center, Whitsell Auditorium
(1219 SW Park Ave, Portland). Watch Jafar
Panahi’s The White Balloon, a film about the
quest of two children to return home from the
open markets of Tehran with the right fish with
which to ring in the Iranian New Year. (Iran,
1995, Jafar Panahi, 85 mins.) For info, call (503)
221-1156 or visit <www.nwfilm.org>.
May 7, 4pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
(1037 SW Broadway, Portland). Attend the
Portland Youth Philharmonic’s (PYP) end-ofthe-season concert. The program, which includes works by Elgar and Dvorak, also features
a solo by 15-year-old cellist Annie Zhang, winner of the 2016-2017 PYP Concerto Competition. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 2235939 or visit <www.portlandyouthphil.org>.
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BIDS, SUB-BIDS & PUBLIC NOTICES
BUILDING INSPECTOR II
The City of Portland’s Bureau of Development
Services is seeking a Building Inspector II to perform
inspections of structures to ensure compliance with
building related codes and ordinances covering new
construction or alteration and repair of existing
structures. For details and to apply visit <www.
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EDUCATION
SPECIALIST (.7 FTE)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Metro is an Affirmative Action /
Equal Opportunity Employer
20 TH ANNUAL
Tuesday
April 25, 2017
11am to 3pm
PCC Cascade Campus
Gymnasium
Metro runs the Oregon Zoo, Oregon
Convention Center, Portland Expo Center, and
Portland’5 Centers for the Arts and provides
services that cross city limits and county lines
including land use and transportation planning, parks
and nature programs, and garbage and recycling
systems.
Visit <www.oregonmetro.gov/jobs> for current
openings and a link to our online hiring center.
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<www.clark.edu/jobs>. Clark College Human
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WA 98663, (360) 992-2105. AA/EO employer.
OUTREACH OPEN HOUSE:
April 20, from 9 to 11am: MCIP, 2808 NE Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite K, Portland 97212
Interested bidders are encouraged to attend an
open house session to learn more about the project.
Bremik Construction invites you to submit a proposal
for the construction of a 12 story, 93 unit of affordable
housing with associated amenity spaces & on-grade
parking. MEPFS & Sheetmetal scopes have been
awarded.
Project Requirements:
· Workforce Training · Earth Advantage Gold
· Goal of 10% Section 3 Business Utilization
· Goal of 30% DMWESB
· BOLI & Davis-Bacon Prevailing Wage Rates
Bid Documents:
https://bremik.sharefile.com/i/i1501a4c8e4b41bb8
PH: (503) 688-1000 | FAX: (503) 688-1005
Bremik Construction, Inc. is an equal opportunity
employer & requests sub-bids from all interested
firms including Minority & Women Owned, Emerging
Small Business & Disadvantaged enterprises.
CCB#160383
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
AND INFORMATION
REPRESENTATIVE - EQUITY
Closing Date/Time:
Fri., 04/28/2017, 4:30pm Pacific Time
Salary: $5,033.00 - $6,709.00 Monthly
The Representative will advance the bureau's
outreach to and engagement with traditionally
underserved groups. These groups include
low-income communities, communities of color,
immigrant communities and disabled communities.
The Representative will design and implement
inclusive public involvement initiatives using
culturally competent communications and outreach
practices. For more information or to apply, please
visit <www.portlandoregon.gov/jobs>.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
COMMUNITY CONSTRUCTION
TRAINING PROGRAM –
MULTNOMAH COUNTY
Clark College is currently
accepting applications for
the following positions:
NW 14TH & RALEIGH
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Questions due by 4/21 to Paul:
<[email protected]>
Bids due by 4/28 to Trang: <[email protected]>
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SUB-BIDS REQUESTED
Bids Due: 4/28/2017 at 2:00pm
The Regional Arts & Culture Council seeks an
Education Specialist to collaborate with teacher
teams on school-wide arts integration and coordinate
services to support arts teachers. 5 years teaching
focused on ELA. $45,000 to $53,000 + benefits. See
<http://bit.ly/EdSpecialistJob> for full job announcement. Deadline: May 17, 2017 at 5:00pm.
Metro is seeking an Executive Director at the
Oregon Convention Center. The OCC Executive
Director will bring exceptional leadership in the
management of public facilities, a solid business
background, sales and marketing expertise,
entrepreneurial experience, a passion for sustainable
operations, a commitment to advancing equity
through leadership and management practices and
proven performance as a motivator and team player
to Metro’s visitor venue management team.
Deadline to apply is April 26, 2017 by 5:00pm.
Salary is $123,806 to $185,709 annually. Visit <www.
oregonmetro.gov/jobs> for current openings and a
link to our online hiring center.
April 17, 2017
On behalf of the Construction Manager/General
Contractors for the Multnomah County Central
Courthouse and Health Department Headquarters
projects, we are seeking proposals from qualified and
experienced Pre-Apprenticeship Training Programs
with a strong history of serving disadvantaged and
under-represented people, including people of color,
women, and low income people, to provide foundational construction training and employment services
to targeted populations for the purpose of growing
the region’s diverse registered apprenticeship pool.
The RFP will be posted on Worksystems’ website at
<www.worksystems.org>. Proposals are due no
later than noon on Monday, May 8, 2017. Worksystems is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon
request to individuals with disabilities. To place a free
relay, call in Oregon dial 711.
REQUEST FOR BIDS
METRO
INSTALLATION OF
THEATRICAL LIGHTING
AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission
(MERC), an appointed commission of Metro, is
requesting bids for Installation of Theatrical Lighting
and Control Systems for the Newmark and Delores
Winningstad Theaters.
A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled
for all potential prime and sub-contractors on April 20,
2017 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm at Hatfield Hall, 1111
SW Broadway, Portland OR 97205. Interested
sub-contractors are also invited.
Sealed bids must be enclosed in a sealed envelope
and mailed or delivered to Metro, 600 NE Grand
Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232-2736, no later than
May 4, 2017 at 2:00pm PST, and will be publicly
opened and read at that time in Room 274.
Proposals can be viewed and downloaded from
the Oregon Procurement Information Network
(ORPIN), at <http://orpin.oregon.gov/open.dll>.
Metro may accept or reject any or all proposals, in
whole or in part, or waive irregularities not affecting
substantial rights if such action is deemed in the
public interest.
Metro extends equal opportunity to all persons and
specifically encourages minority, women-owned and
emerging small businesses to access and participate
in this and all Metro projects, programs and services.
Metro and its contractors will not discriminate
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At 85, Nepali aims to regain title of oldest Everest climber
PEAKED INTEREST. Nepalese mountain
climber Min Bahadur Sherchan does his morning
yoga at his residence in Kathmandu, Nepal. The
85-year-old climber who was once the oldest person
to scale the world’s highest mountain is heading back
to Mount Everest in hopes of scaling the peak and regaining the title. Sherchan is aiming to climb Everest
next month when there is a window of favorable
weather on the summit. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
By Binaj Gurubacharya
The Associated Press
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ATHMANDU, Nepal — A Nepali
who was once the oldest climber
to scale Mount Everest is attempting to regain that title, at age 85,
with hopes that the feat will help him
spread a message of peace.
Min Bahadur Sherchan plans to climb
the 29,035-foot peak next month during a
window of favorable weather on the
summit.
“I want to be the oldest person to scale
Everest again to be an inspiration for
humankind, a boost for the elderly people
and an encouragement for youths,”
Sherchan said at his home in Kathmandu.
“It will be a message for everyone that age
is no obstacle to achieving their dreams.”
The grandfather of 17 and greatgrandfather of six first scaled Everest in
May 2008, when he was 76, but his record
was broken by then 80-year-old Japanese
climber Yuichiro Miura in 2013.
Sherchan’s attempt to climb Everest in
2013 was cut short because of financial
problems and delays in getting the
climbing permit. Another try in 2015 was
cancelled because an avalanche triggered
by a devastating earthquake swept the
base camp, killing 19 people just a day
before he reached the site.
“I am confident that I will succeed this
time. I have no problems that could stop
me from climbing Everest and the only
problem could be weather,” Sherchan said.
He added that he has no respiratory
problems and his blood pressure is normal.
Being born in the mountains, he has one
big advantage over most climbers: He is
used to the altitude. High-altitude
sickness can be fatal for people who are not
acclimated to the thin air and low oxygen
levels. He said he is worried only about the
11 pounds he gained in the last few
months.
“I am not scared of climbing, but the only
part I fear is the part between base camp
and Camp 1, which is very dangerous,”
Sherchan said.
Depleted squads from Japan & South Korea fall short at WBC
Continued from page 8
an Andrew McCutchen single for the
game’s first run.
Kikuchi made up for his error in the
sixth inning by tying the game with a solo
shot, and the score stayed knotted until
the eighth when bad luck struck once
again for Japan. With runners on second
and third, Adam Jones hit a hard grounder
to third baseman Nobuhiro Matsuda, who
misplayed the ball, allowing the runner on
third to scamper home with the go-ahead
run. Japan had its chances to respond, but
came up empty, falling short of the final
game by a single run.
It comes as some consolation that the
U.S. won the 2017 WBC final, blanking
Puerto Rico 8-0. So Japan not only held the
U.S. to its lowest run output of the
tournament, it also gave the champs their
closest victory.
More importantly, the third-place finish
highlighted the strength of Team Japan,
who played without any of its top-flight
MLB players or Ohtani. While future WBC
tournaments may hold more disappointments for Team Japan, that may be a sign
of more top-notch Japanese talent, not
less. And no fan of Asian sports could ask
for more than that.
That stretch includes the dreaded
Khumbu Icefall, where climbers use
aluminum ladders and ropes to navigate
around deep crevasses amid tall ice blocks.
Sherchan’s love of mountaineering
began in 1960 when he was assigned by the
Nepalese government as a liaison officer
for the Swiss team climbing Mount
Dhaulagiri.
He later became an apple farmer and
constructed roads and dams before
settling down to run hotels in Kathmandu.
He and his team of six guides and
helpers includes team leader Shiva
Bahadur Sapkota, who has scaled Everest
twice.
He said that if he regains his record, he
plans to campaign for world peace by
travelling to conflict areas like Syria.
“After I become the oldest Everest
climber, people will listen to my campaign
for world peace,” he said.
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