International Examiner

24/01/2025

📢 The International Examiner is seeking passionate and dedicated individuals to join our Board of Directors! 📢

As the Pacific Northwest's longest-running and largest nonprofit ANHPIA publication, we are looking for community leaders who can help guide our mission of promoting critical thinking, dialogue, and action by providing timely, accurate, and culturally sensitive coverage of relevant Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander matters.

We are particularly interested in candidates who bring:

- Experience in nonprofit management, journalism, or community organizing
- Strong connections to Seattle's diverse ANHPIA communities
- Skills in fundraising, financial management, or digital media
- Commitment to amplifying ANHPIA voices and perspectives

Board members will:

- Attend monthly board meetings and participate in strategic planning
- Serve as ambassadors for IE in the community
- Support fundraising initiatives and organizational sustainability
- Help preserve and advance IE's legacy of community journalism

This is a volunteer position with a two-year term commitment. To express interest or learn more, please contact [email protected]. Help us continue our vital mission of serving the ANHPIA community through authentic storytelling and journalism!

21/01/2025

Kaliane Bradley’s 'The Ministry of Time' evokes Asian American identity fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, romance novels, and spy mysteries. This is a wildly imagined high-concept work. It asks: Are all people both the alpha and the omega in their own lives and their choices in the fleeting present?

Are people capable of the foresight needed to anticipate history and to use that knowledge to change the past-present?

A young woman, half-Cambodian and half-Caucasian, works as a civil servant for the British government. She knows what it is like to be “othered”. She is used to seeing how people respond to her: “People say this to me a lot, and what they mean is: you look like one of the late-entering forms [...

17/01/2025

When the IE was last in touch with LED light artist Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn in 2020, he had recently installed the light display Gather at the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM). Since then, he has made a new home locally and finished a new installation in the Rainier Valley area.

When the IE was last in touch with LED light artist Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn in 2020, he had recently installed the light display Gather at the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM). Since then, he has made a new home locally and finished a new installation project in the Rainier Valley area. After 25 years...

16/01/2025

"I am like a salamander. You won’t find me east of the Cascades," writes Warner Lew in his essay on the largely unknown Chinese history of an unincorporated community in Okanogan County.

I am like a salamander. You won’t find me east of the Cascades. Biologists consider mountain ranges like the Cascades to be zoogeographical barriers. Departing Seattle on I-90, you pass through Bellevue, then Issaquah, before gradually gaining altitude in North Bend, the blocky profile of Mount Si...

15/01/2025

Some days, the high-pitched jackhammering construction noise from outside is so bad, Tara Tamaribuchi can’t work from her artist studio in the Inscape Arts Building on Seattle Boulevard. “There’s just something about that frequency,” she said. “It’s unbearable.”

This has been happening for the last five years, and Tamaribuchi believes it’s caused by construction of Sound Transit’s East Link Extension. Read the full story:

Some days, the high-pitched jackhammering construction noise from outside is so bad, Tara Tamaribuchi can’t work from her artist studio in the Inscape Arts Building on Seattle Boulevard. “There’s just something about that frequency,” she said. “It’s unbearable.” Every week, Tamaribuchi...

13/01/2025

Located in the George Tsutakawa Art Gallery of the Wing Luke Museum, Kamekichi Tokita, Kenjiro Nomura, and Takuichi Fujii’s paintings are memorialized from the 1930s in an exhibit called 'Side by Side,' curated by Barbara Johns, an expert on these artists.

Appropriately located in the George Tsutakawa Art Gallery of the Wing Luke Museum, Kamekichi Tokita, Kenjiro Nomura, and Takuichi Fujii’s paintings are memorialized from the 1930s in an exhibit called Side by Side, curated by Barbara Johns, an expert on these artists. The paintings in the exhibit ...

13/01/2025

Earlier today the Seattle City Clerk, on behalf of the City Council, posted the qualified applicant list of 20 candidates pursuant to City Charter requirements. Applicants were invited to submit a resume, cover letter, and completed financial interest statement form by last Thursday, Jan. 9. A lis...

12/01/2025

10/01/2025

In November last year, King County Executive Dow Constantine announced he will not seek re-election, opening the door for a successor to run the highest elected office in County government. The three candidates in the race spoke with the International Examiner about how they would protect the Chinatown-ID and immigrant communities with the rise of Trump.

In November last year, King County Executive Dow Constantine announced he will not seek re-election, opening the door for a successor to run the highest elected office in County government. The King County executive oversees and proposes budgets for around a dozen county departments and can veto leg...

09/01/2025

Happy 2025, friends! 🐍

Our first issue of the year is out this week. In it, you'll find a calendar of Lunar New Year events in and around the CID, news on how the tenants of the Inscape Arts Building feel about the new light rail station, exclusive interviews with the three King County Executive candidates on how they'll protect the neighborhood and immigrant communities, and much more!

The beautiful cover art is by Felix Trần (He/Him). Felix is a Vietnamese-American graphic designer and illustrator. His playful and nostalgic work is inspired by all things animated and printed, such as anime, manga, cartoons, and comics!

On this special LNY cover art, Felix said:

"Inspired by the Bàn Thờ, a Vietnamese ancestral altar, this vibrant contemporary piece with bold colors conveys the excitement of celebrating and welcoming the New Year! This illustration design showcases how traditional customs can be celebrated in new and exciting ways, connecting both older and younger generations. I wanted to create a visually striking and fun cover for the IE's Lunar New Year 2025 issue!"

08/01/2025

Though in the 2024 election the Chinatown-International District went two-thirds for Kamala Harris, it cast the second highest percentage of votes for Trump among Seattle neighborhoods.

By Jadenne Radoc Cabahug/CascadePBS.org (This piece was originally published online in Cascade PBS on December 16 and is republished here with permission.) Juan Lu, 80, has lived in the Chinatown-International District for more than a dozen years. Originally from the Guandong province of China, Lu s...

07/01/2025

BREAKING: Seattle Police Department Interim Chief of Police Sue Rahr announced she'd fired SPD Officer Kevin Dave in an internal email Monday. The decision comes as the result of a January 2023 incident in which Dave struck and killed 23-year-old college student Jaahnavi Kandula while she was crossing a crosswalk. https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/01/06/79860624/seattle-police-department-fires-officer-kevin-dave-for-killing-of-jaahnavi-kandula

05/01/2025

The Navigation Center shelter in the Pearl Warren Building at 12th and Weller Street in Little Saigon is closing at the end of March, two months later than the original deadline of January announced last year. Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC), which operates the Navigation Center, is waiting for its new Stability Through Access and Resources (STAR) Center to opens at 3rd Avenue and Cherry Street in downtown Seattle so that the remaining guests at the Navigation Center have a place to move to.

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

03/01/2025

The popular Viet-Wah Asian Foods in Renton reopened one day after a fire, likely caused by an errant New Year’s firework explosion, damaged the store’s exterior.

The popular Viet-Wah Asian Foods in Renton reopened one day after a fire, likely caused by an errant New Year’s firework explosion, damaged the store’s exterior. The Viet-Wah Supermarket was founded in Seattle in 1981 by Duc Tran, a refugee from Vietnam who arrived in Seattle in 1976. The Seattl...

02/01/2025

Have a Lunar New Year event that you'd like included on our calendar next month? Email [email protected] by Jan. 3, 2024 with details.

19/12/2024

Lights being installed above King Street✨

16/12/2024

The inaugural Asian American Zine Fest, held on Dec. 1, 2024 in Chinatown International District (CID), brought together artists, activists, and newcomers to celebrate the transformative power of zines. Initially called the Super Secret Asian American Zine Fest, the event took on a life of its own.

The inaugural Asian American Zine Fest, held on December 1, 2024 in Chinatown International District (CID), brought together artists, activists, and newcomers to celebrate the transformative power of zines. Initially called the Super Secret Asian American Zine Fest, the event took on a life of its o...