Northwest Asian Weekly
Encyclopedia
The Northwest Asian Weekly is a weekly Asian American
newspaper
based in Seattle, Washington
's International District
. Distributed free, it was founded in 1982 by Assunta Ng, founder of the Seattle Chinese Post
. It has a circulation of 16,000.
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
based in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
's International District
International District, Seattle, Washington
The Chinatown-International District of Seattle, Washington is an ethnic enclave neighborhood and is the center of Seattle's Asian American community. The neighborhood is multiethnic, consisting mainly of people who are of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino ethnicity...
. Distributed free, it was founded in 1982 by Assunta Ng, founder of the Seattle Chinese Post
Seattle Chinese Post
The Seattle Chinese Post is a weekly Chinese-language newspaper based in Seattle, Washington's International District. It was founded in 1982 by Assunta Ng, founder of the Northwest Asian Weekly, and has a circulation of 10,000....
. It has a circulation of 16,000.