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The romantic story behind the best chips in Chinatown

Noodle Alley is serving up stunning Szechuan cuisine

Manchester Evening News · Jul 6, 2023

Newly-built Asai Bangkok Sathorn blends into its neighbourhood

Though the Asai brand is well known in Bangkok, having opened in Chinatown during the pandemic in September 2020, the flagship is in a green lane on Sathon 12.

Bangkok Post · Jun 23, 2023

4 killed, 2 injured in fire sparked by lithium ion battery at NYC e-bike shop

NEW YORK — Four Chinatown residents died early Tuesday after a raging e-bike fire tore through a repair shop previously flagged for unsafe conditions, with scores of terrified survivors fleeing into the darkness outside their homes.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2023

Man injured in early morning attack as police cordon off road in Chinatown with forensics at scene

A 21-year-old man was taken to hospital

Manchester Evening News · May 24, 2023

‘Help her’: Passengers’ horror as teen trapped under tram

A 16-year-old girl has died after becoming trapped under a tram in Sydney's Chinatown.

The New Daily · May 10, 2023

Here's the latest list of the '11 Most Endangered Historic Places' in the U.S.

"It's very hard to narrow the list," says the Chief Preservation Officer of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The 2023 list includes a gas station, an artist studio and two Chinatowns.

WEKU · May 9, 2023

Fresh hopes New Chinatown development could move forward

The stalled project has been in the works for close to a decade with a number of previous schemes failing to come to fruition

Liverpool Echo · Apr 26, 2023

FBI arrests two New Yorkers accused of running covert Chinese police station

The station, in New York’s Chinatown, was allegedly run by Beijing’s ministry of public security to track Chinese dissidents

The Guardian - US · Apr 17, 2023

FBI arrests two for allegedly running secret Chinese police station in New York

Officials say the ‘undeclared police station’ in Manhattan’s Chinatown was shut down last year

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2023

Mixing rice and ice-cream for a TikTok taste hit

Vivien Wong grew up in the Nineties spending her weekends and school holidays in her parents’ bakery in Wembley, which sold desserts to Chinatown’s restaurants. She would help with local deliveries and packing boxes of traditional mochi — steamed rice flour balls — which she and her brother, Howard, loved…

Evening Standard · Apr 17, 2023