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Culture
San Francisco’s Chinatown to introduce multilingual parking pay stations
San Francisco’s Chinatown can expect a new multilingual upgrade to their parking pay stations next week. On Feb. 2, the San Francisco...
Iris Jung
‘We here and we rappin’: Bay Area seniors welcome Year of the Rabbit with rap music video
The Grant Avenue Follies, a dance troupe of seniors from San Francisco’s Chinatown, kicked off the Lunar New Year with a rap song and ...
Michelle De Pacina
Rich Ting ready to ‘widen the doors’ opened by Michelle Yeoh, Daniel Wu as SF Chinese New Year Parade grand marshal
Actor Rich Ting talked with NextShark ahead of leading San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade on Feb. 4 as grand marshal. Ting is known for...
Daniel Anderson
Crime
Man accused of punching two Asian American women in the face in Boston’s Chinatown
Before you read: Asian American woman, 70, punched in the face in unprovoked Boston Chinatown attack A 53-year-old Cambridge man is set to a...
Philadelphia Chinatown organizations announce coalition opposing 76ers arena
Before you read: Sixers’ $1.3 billion arena proposal gets fierce pushback from Philadelphia Chinatown community Coalition warns Philadelphia...
Honolulu mayor announces $647,000 funding to revitalize Chinatown
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi announced a $647,000 fund for revitalizing Oahu’s Chinatown. The city previously launched a Chinatown Task Fo...
Viral TikTok shows white host in Chinese outfit interviewing strangers to see if they are offended
A viral TikTok video from PragerU shows its non-Chinese host interviewing strangers in order to find out the answer to “Who’s go...
Police arrest man who fell asleep in a park after attacking woman in Seattle’s Chinatown
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) has arrested a man who fell asleep in a park after attacking a woman on the way to work in the Chinatown...
News
Jewish community stands in solidarity with Philadelphia Chinatown residents protesting arena plan
Before you read: Philadelphia community protests construction of 76ers stadium near city’s Chinatown Coalition warns Philadelphia 76ers’ new...
Celebrity-backed nonprofit shuts down after being sued for helping release serial offender who shot Las Vegas waiter 11 times
Before you read: ‘Loyal’ Chinese restaurant worker shot multiple times trying to protect business from armed robber No bail for Las Vegas ma...
Carl Samson
Elaine Chao declines to comment on Trump’s ‘Coco Chow’ attack
Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has refused to talk about former President Donald Trump’s “Coco Chow” attack, according to repo...
Chicago
Man wanted for shooting teenager near Chinatown in Chicago
Police are searching for a man who shot a 16-year-old boy on the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Red Line near Chinatown in Chicago. The uni...
Feature
Sixers’ $1.3 billion arena proposal gets fierce pushback from Philadelphia Chinatown community
Isa Peralta
Las Vegas man sentenced for shooting Chinatown waiter 11 times
Rashawn Gaston-Anderson, 24, was sentenced on Monday to seven-to-18 years in prison for shooting Las Vegas Chinatown restaurant worker Chen...
Business
Coalition warns Philadelphia 76ers’ new arena plan could spell ‘the demise of Chinatown’
A Sixers arena will be built at the nearby Philadelphia Fashion District at 10th and Market Streets in Chinatown and is scheduled to open i...
Canada
Montreal community demands answers after police shoot man during mental health call
About 150 people gathered at a march at Sun-Yat-Sen Park in Montreal on Sunday to demand justice for the death of Ronny Kay, a Chinese man ...
Bryan Ke
2 men charged in deadly shooting at Houston Chinatown restaurant
A pair of men have been charged with capital murder in connection with a fatal shooting of two other men at an Asian restaurant in Houston l...
Film & TV
‘Big Fight in Little Chinatown’ documentary reveals devastating effects of gentrification
The trailer for “Big Fight in Little Chinatown,” which documents the story of Chinatowns across North America, was released on Tuesday. Dire...
Apparel
Nike pays homage to San Francisco’s Chinatown with Air Force 1 colorway
Nike is set to release an Air Force 1 Low that pays homage to San Francisco’s historic Chinatown community. In celebration of the iconic s...
William Yuk
Robber gives motive for stealing Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards on his way out of Seattle Chinatown store
Pink Gorilla Games, a 17-year-old video game store in Seattle’s Chinatown International District, fell victim to an armed robbery on Monday...
Plan to expand homeless shelter near Seattle’s Chinatown dropped after protests
Chinatown-International District residents cheered the Friday announcement that King County, Seattle, will no longer pursue the planned exp...
Ryan General
Police call on public’s help for missing pregnant woman from Chicago Chinatown
Chicago police have called on the public’s help in locating Bilian Fang, a missing pregnant woman from Chinatown. Fang, 40, is of Asian de...
New York
Displaced residents of fire-damaged NYC Chinatown apartment building frustrated by delayed repairs
A fire that started in a building owned by Eighty Mulberry Realty Corp. on Mulberry Street in New York City’s Chinatown back in April left ...
‘Why should we fear for our life?’: Chicago Chinatown residents demand justice after recent crimes
Leaders, neighborhood organizations and residents in Chicago’s Chinatown held a rally to protest against crime in the neighborhood on Satur...
NYPD asks for help after man follows woman into Chinatown apartment building and sexually assaults her
Surveillance footage showed a man sexually assaulting a woman in her New York City Chinatown apartment building. The attacker followed the...
Khier Casino
Seattle protesters clash with supporters of ‘homeless megaplex’ plan
Unhoused counter-protesters confronted over 100 Chinatown-International District residents protesting against the proposed “homeless megapl...
Teen denied bail in attempted murder of Chicago Chinatown chef
Termaine Patterson, 18, has been charged with eight felonies in connection with a brutal carjacking in Chicago’s Chinatown on April 7. Jin...
Man shot dead in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District
A 35-year-old man was shot dead at the intersection of 13th Ave. South and South Lane Street in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District ...
Man arrested for unprovoked attack on Asian woman in San Francisco Chinatown
Alejandro Garcia, 30, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly shoving a 53-year-old Asian woman in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The victim, ...
Suspect who stabbed Afghan refugee in Vancouver’s Chinatown charged in 2nd attack on stranger
Dennis Prasad, the suspect arrested and charged for stabbing an Afghan refugee in Vancouver’s Chinatown, has been charged in a second unpro...
Man shot in the chest with arrow in Honolulu Chinatown
A man in his 50s was reportedly shot in the chest “with some kind of arrow” on Wednesday in Honolulu’s Chinatown. The victim was transport...
Dozens of protesters march against Seattle’s planned homeless shelter near International District
Approximately 100 protesters flocked to Seattle City Hall to express concerns that a planned homeless shelter in the SODO neighborhood will...
Afghan refugee stabbed in the throat in unprovoked attack in Vancouver’s Chinatown
An Afghan refugee was stabbed in the throat and chest in an unprovoked attack in Vancouver’s Chinatown. The 22-year-old victim was locking ...
Man charged for threatening 70-year-old man with a knife in Honolulu Chinatown
Ernantes K. Moses, 35, was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening for allegedly threatening a 70-year-old man with a knife in Ho...
Wife of security guard attacked in Vancouver’s Chinatown challenges the mayor to walk its streets
Harold Johnson, a 64-year-old security guard, was previously attacked on Aug. 12 by a stranger, identified as 44-year-old Kevin Aaron Hibba...
Seattle Chinatown community members angered over ‘flat out racist’ expansion of homeless shelter
Seattle’s International District community members expressed disappointment over the King County council’s homeless shelter expansion in a ...