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From Facebook Chinese Australian-born fashion influencer Margaret Zhang will be Vogue China’s new editor-in-chief, ending the 16-year tenure of founding editor-in-chief Angelica Cheung, Vogue reports. At 27, Zhang is Vogue’s youngest editor-in-chief. Born in Sydney, Zhang represents a generational change as Vogue adapts to a digital fashion landscape. “I am so...

A Brooklyn man stripped and brutally beaten by around a dozen suspects in New York Chinatown Friday may be a member of the notorious Mac Ballers Brim gang. Sources tell the New York Post he has 43 arrests on his record, including 17 felonies. Authorities say the suspects waited...

Photo of Steve Bannon from Wikimedia Creative Commons by Elekes Andor A fake study that China created COVID-19 in a lab has been linked to Steve Bannon, a former Trump strategist who has aligned himself with the alt right and White supremacists. The Daily Beast reports the widely maligned report is...

(Editor's note: This post has been updated to include more information about the donation to Asian American Advancing Justice-AAJC. Some have questioned why we didn't make Scott's photo the featured photo. The only non-copyrighted photo we could find of her was a thumbnail which would have been distorted as...

By Raymond Douglas Chong (Zhang Weiming), AsAmNews Staff Writer Across a vast America, dozens of lost Chinatowns dot the American cityscape. These ethnic enclaves have sadly faded in people's memories . Only archival stories, vintage photos, and unique films remain inside dusty bins. Old Chinatown at Santa Barbara In...

Zoom admitted suspending the accounts of three Chinese human rights activists after they held an online meeting to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. On May 31st, a U.S. non profit group, Humanitarian China used Zoom to host a forum about Beijing's pro-democracy demonstrations 31 years ago. The South China...

By Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola, AsAmNews Staff Writer When Karlin Chan saw reports of hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided to step in. "I actually started 'patrolling' with three friends and posted live video on social media platforms, which friends in Chinatown area saw and expressed interest...

By Shirley Ng, AsAmNews Staff Writer I had no idea that when I snapped a photo of Kwok Chuen on September 23 that it would be the last photo of him alive.  See photos from of the Chinatown vigil, wake and burial here. Kwok was one the four homeless men...

By Richard Lee A revolution is taking place in Taishan, Guangdong, China. Taishan’s Taicheng district’s Old Town is being remodeled brick by brick back to the 1880’s. They are tearing apart their wiring, cables, wifi, and plumbing and putting them behind walls, hiding them in the ground, or covering...

By Olivia Wolf, AsAmNews Staff Writer  About five months ago I arrived in Jishou, China to begin my Princeton in Asia fellowship teaching English at Jishou Teachers’ College. I am now back in Portland, Oregon for five weeks, while my students prepare to celebrate the New Year with their families. With most experiences, there...

Streets and parking lots flooded in Los Angeles Chinatown Wednesday night after a water main break. A 24-inch main broke and impacted several businesses, including the parking lots of Jack in the Box restaurant and CVS Pharmacy, according to the Daily News. The impact, however, was mostly to traffic...

  Some Chinese Americans are expressing fear they are being profiled as spies for China as tensions with the U.S. rise amidst the tariff war being waged by the Trump administration.   The Huff Post reports Rep Francis Rooney (R-Fl) has introduced the Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act.   Rooney explicitly pointed...

  By Olivia Wolf AsAmNews Staff Writer (Editor's Note: Over the next months Olivia Wolf will be sending dispatches from China about her adventures as an expat in the Princeton in Asia program)   I’ve only been living in Jishou, China for two weeks, but it feels like half a lifetime...

By Louis Chan AsAmNews National Correspondent One of the Philadelphia Eagle cheerleaders who will be on the sidelines during the Super Bowl today is a former Miss San Francisco Chinatown   from 2012. The cheerleader who goes only by her first name of Snow is a physician assistant who graduated with a...

By Brittney Le AsAmNews Staff Writer Angry Chinatown tenants walked out of their apartment Saturday morning in Los Angeles accusing their landlords of illegal rent increases of as high as 50 percent and unfair treatment. The building at 651 Broadway is owned by Elaine, Howard and Robert Chan. Accompanied by members of...

  By Louis Chan AsAmNews National Correspondent 300 people packed the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco Friday night to stand up to White supremacy. In cold winds and under dark skies, they made the brief walk from CCC to the Portsmouth Square Bridge where they lit the night with hope for a...

Members of dozens of neighborhood organizations protested outside city hall and accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of not working to preserve low income housing in Chinatown and the Lower East Side, reported DNA Info. The Chinatown Working Group, a coalition of 52 organizations, demanded that de Blasio resign and held...

By Ed Diokno   While Chinatowns across the country struggle to maintain their identity, the Chinatown in Chicago is thriving and growing. The Windy City's ethnic enclave may be a model for the survival of Chinatowns across America. "Between 2000 and 2010, Chinatown's population increased 24 percent and its Asian population increased...

By Shirley N Lew AsAmNews New York Correspondent Chinatown Fair, a fixture in New York for five decades, proved to be more than just a video arcade. Irene Chin and Kurt Vincent were in New York City’s Chinatown in 2011. They waited for their friend in Chinatown Fair late one evening and...

By Demi Guo The scene has changed gradually over the last 20 years - the two story Duane Reade pharmacy on the corner of Roosevelt was once upon a time an Old Navy, the red bowl on the roof of the Red Bowl restaurant has a new pair of chopsticks,...