Vancouver Chinatown festival returns a year after stabbing attack

The “Light Up Chinatown!” festival is returning to Vancouver this weekend, Aug. 24, a year after a man allegedly stabbed a married couple in...

Vancouver scammers steal nearly $6M from Chinese Canadian community

Vancouver authorities report that scammers targeted the city’s Chinese Canadian community members, stealing nearly $6 million since the begi...

Benson Flores, Canada’s first Filipino immigrant, finally receives gravestone

Benjamin “Benson” Flores, the first documented Filipino immigrant to Canada, is finally receiving a gravestone after years of being buried i...

Man accused of stabbing 3 people at Vancouver Chinatown festival pleads not guilty

A man accused of stabbing three individuals of Asian descent at a Vancouver Chinatown festival last year has pleaded not guilty.  Key points...

North Carolina city holds world’s largest Pokémon Regional Championship

Charlotte, North Carolina, held the world’s largest Pokémon Regional Championship at the Charlotte Convention Center in Uptown over th...

‘Beef’ star Young Mazino joins ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2

Korean American actor Young Mazino has been tapped to star in the second season of HBO’s “The Last of Us.” About his role: Mazino will be pl...

Alleged serial vandal charged over graffiti incidents in Vancouver’s Chinatown

According to the BC Prosecution Service. there has been a staggering 455% surge in reported graffiti in the historic neighborhood since 2019...

Vancouver Chinatown cafe puts in panic button after multiple break-ins, knife threat

In just one month, a Chinatown cafe in Vancouver, Canada, fell victim to two break-ins, three break-in attempts and one incident that saw a ...

Vancouver Chinatown stabbing suspect deemed ‘significant threat’ prior to release that led to violent incident

A review by the BC Review Board on April 13 determined that Donnelly continued to “meet the threshold of significant threat,” le...

Vancouver Chinatown stabbing suspect was on day release from psychiatric facility: police

All three victims are ethnically Asian, and investigators are probing whether the attack had any elements of hate or racism ...

Stabbing at Chinatown festival in Vancouver leaves 3 injured

“We will work each and every day to ensure Vancouver is a place where people can live, work and thrive in a safe environment,” s...

Canada’s biggest bubble tea festival returns this weekend

If you’re a boba fan in or near Metro Vancouver, mark your calendar — Canada’s biggest bubble tea festival is making a comeback this weekend...

Vancouver apologizes after low-income seniors kicked out of Chinatown mall during tai chi session

Vancouver city officials have apologized for kicking out a group of low-income seniors from a Chinatown mall during a tai chi session gather...

‘What are you?’: Vancouver’s ‘serial racist’ filmed in another anti-Chinese rant

A man now dubbed as Vancouver’s “serial racist” has been caught in yet another anti-Chinese rant, this time at a new dessert shop in the Can...

Suspect who broke 93-year-old man’s hip during attack in Vancouver’s Chinatown is arrested

The suspect who broke a 93-year-old man’s hip in an unprovoked attack in Vancouver’s Chinatown last year has been arrested. The senior was w...

Men in clown wigs splatter fake blood onto walls of Vancouver’s Chinese garden

A group of young men wearing clown wigs were spotted splattering fake blood onto the walls of a Chinese garden in Vancouver. The group was s...

Vancouver couple sentenced to probation for anti-Asian attack

Michel Jean-Jacque Berthiaume, 74, and Astrid Maria Secreve, 76, were each sentenced to 12 months of probation for attacking an Asian Canad...

Taiwanese Canadian Mountie fatally stabbed by homeless man while on duty in Vancouver

Const. Shaelyn Yang, a 31-year-old member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was fatally stabbed while on duty by a homeless man during ...

History is made as Vancouver elects its first-ever Asian mayor

Entrepreneur Ken Sim has been elected as mayor of Vancouver, Canada, marking the first time the office has been held by a person of Asian d...

93-year-old man suffers broken hip from unprovoked assault by stranger in Vancouver Chinatown

A 93-year-old man suffered a broken hip in an unprovoked attack in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Oct. 11. The Vancouver Police Department has r...

Career criminal who struck Asian student with a pole in Vancouver walks free after bail

Mohammed Majidpour, the 35-year-old career criminal charged with assault after hurling anti-Asian slurs and striking a 19-year-old Asian wo...

Vancouver police identify man accused of striking Asian student with a pole

Mohammed Majidpour, 35, is now wanted Canada-wide for allegedly attacking a 19-year-old Asian woman in downtown Vancouver on Sept. 27. The...

Student hit in the head with pole in apparent anti-Asian attack in Vancouver

A 19-year-old Asian student was hit on the back of her head with a pole by a man on Tuesday in what police are investigating as a racially ...

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...

Vancouver woman charged for throwing coffee at Asian shop manager begins trial

Astrid Maria Secreve is facing a mischief charge alongside her ex-husband Jean-Jacque Berthiaume for allegedly hurling coffee and racial sl...

Vancouver election chief asks court to ban names in Chinese, other non-Latin characters from ballots

Vancouver’s Chief Election Officer Rosemary Hagiwara filed a court application on Tuesday to keep 15 candidates from using names with non-L...

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...

‘Go back to China’: Vancouver restaurant owner yelled at, spat on by woman who let her dog pee on his door

Edward Hur, who has been running Nobu Sushi in North Vancouver, Canada, for 19 years, said he was yelled at and spat on during a woman’s an...

Woman arrested for ‘sickening assault’ of 89-year-old man out for a walk in Vancouver’s Chinatown

An 89-year-old man was walking in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Aug. 13 when he was approached by Patricia MacDonald, 58, who knocked him to the...

South Asians in Metro Vancouver fear racist backlash after police release image of 11 men deemed to pose public safety risk

South Asian community members in Metro Vancouver expressed their concern after British Columbia police released a composite picture of 11 m...

Historic Chinese garden in Vancouver’s Chinatown greeted by anti-Asian slurs first thing in the morning

An Asian staffer at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver’s Chinatown reportedly fell victim to an anti-Asian tirade before...

Man accused of attacking mother and toddler, kicking car in Vancouver Chinatown

Shakwan David Kelly, the 27-year-old man accused of assaulting a mother and her toddler on Pender Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown in Canada...

Vancouver transit officer who went viral for calmly handling an anti-masker is promoted

Constable Peter Kwok, a Metro Vancouver Transit Police officer who went viral for a video of his calm handling of an anti-masker on a SkyTr...

Vancouver Chinatown community ‘disheartened’ after mural is vandalized weeks after being created

“Fu Lu Shou Xi,” a mural in Vancouver’s Chinatown, was vandalized with bubble graffiti on Sunday morning. The artwork, located on the Ten ...

87-year-old man bear-sprayed in the face in Vancouver Chinatown racist attack

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is searching for a man who reportedly bear-sprayed an 84-year-old victim in Vancouver’s Chinatown on ...

Vancouver authorities seek help identifying suspect in unprovoked attack against teen girl

Canada’s Metro Vancouver Transit Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in an unprovoked attack against a 17-year-ol...