Chinatown

A good Samaritan is being called a hero after he held a suspect until police could arrive in an attack against an elderly man in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Ryan Kath and Shira Stoll joined Maria Sansone on The Hub Today to share details about this original NBC10 Boston documentary.

The man who found the lone survivor of the 1991 shooting shares his story for the first time — what he saw is still ingrained in his memory three decades later.

In 1991, three armed men came into a Chinatown social club and shot six people execution style. Five of the victims died, but one survived and was able to identify the shooters. In this NBC10 Boston original documentary, a witness shares his story for the first time, community leaders react to the shooting and the FBI explain why they are...

A car crashed into a dirt bike Thursday afternoon in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood, sending the rider flying and seriously injuring him.

At 180 Cafe in Boston’s Chinatown, owner Liang Chen says he thought about closing down for good at the height of the pandemic. Through a Chinese translator, Chen said he persevered, but business is still down 40% from pre-pandemic levels. He’s taking a big hit from the number of downtown workers not yet returning to the office. Chen’s story...

While businesses are reopening and hoping to get back to normal, many in Boston’s Chinatown say the struggle continues.

The Chinatown walking tour in San Francisco is re-emerging after a year due to the coronavirus pandemic and organizers are excited to tell the neighborhood’s stories.

Hanna Zhang is the owner of ICafe in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and she has weathered both the pandemic and the loss of her business partner.

U.S. Bank delivered 3,000 safety kits to its branch in San Francisco’s Chinatown to help keep customers safe after the recent increase of violence against Asian Americans.

After several attacks on members of the Asian-American community in the Bay Area, a rally was held in Oakland to promote multicultural healing Saturday.

As people celebrate the Lunar New Year, businesses in Boston’s Chinatown are feeling the impact of COVID-19.

A recent wave of attacks against older Asians has stoked fear in some big city Chinatowns, NBC News reports. A 84-year-old Thai American, Vicha Ratanapakdee, was pushed to the ground by a 19-year-old assailant and died of his injuries a few days later. A 64-year-old woman was attacked and robbed in San Jose, California. A 70-year-old woman was shoved and...

[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] A beloved restaurant in the Chinatown section of Boston is shutting down, though it might open back up in another space According to a source, China King on Beach Street is closing its doors after business hours on Dec. 31, with owner Doris Huang indicating in a boston.com article that the COVID-19…

Red Circle Ice Cream in Houston, Texas, was known for its bubble waffles and churros before it became the subject of coronavirus-related rumors. Owner Nickey Ngo turned to social media to discuss the fear that the Asian American community felt at the onset of the pandemic due to rumors circulating in Chinatown.

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but Boston’s Chinatown has been struggling since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. We spoke to local business leaders about its future.

Boston officials are encouraging people to visit Chinatown after restaurants there reported a decline in business amid fears over the coronavirus.   As part of the efforts, City Councilors Michelle Wu and Ed Flynn were set to hold a dim sum brunch at the China Pearl restaurant starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. “I’ve heard from business owner after business...

Some 85,000 artifacts that tell the story of the Chinese migration to the United States may have been lost in a fire that struck a building in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown, a museum official said Friday. The president of the Museum of Chinese in America told The New York Times that most of the thousands of historic and artistic items...

Nearly a dozen people were hurt, most of them firefighters with minor injuries, after raging flames broke out at a historic building in Chinatown that has been home to a senior center and other nonprofits for decades. Flames could be seen shooting out of the fourth and fifth floor windows of the New York City-owned building at 70 Mulberry St….