For a long time, the Duan Wu festival was one of few occasions in the year that poor Chinese allowed themselves the luxury of meat.
SIMONE ERASMUS-LAM
The mood is ugly as Chinese merchants marched through the streets, carrying pictures of their murdered women and empty coffins, demanding justice.
JOSHUA SAMUEL BROWN
On Chinese New Year, Tencent QQ (China’s most popular instant-messaging software provider, with over 600 million users) released this advertisement. It soon found its way onto Youku (the Chinese Youtube), and to date has almost 600,000 views.
The asia! team
Red is the new black, lo hei is the new high, and oranges are the only fruit. Welcome an age-old celebration that’s becoming funkier by the year.
CLARISSA TAN
Before you dismiss them as cautious, conservative, cliquey folks, read this article and think again.
ANDREW HONG
Sick of being the constant target of violence and robbery, the Chinese in Paris decide to stand up and make themselves heard.
ZHANG YAJUN
Perhaps one of the most bizarre examples of how confused “loyalty” is for the Chinese diaspora can be demonstrated by the work of a Chinese Canadian businessman, Michael Lo. A Hong Kong immigrant, Lo invested heavily in his private education empire in Vancouver, where he used to have a college and a university.
SUSANNA NG
In Canada, there is a 99% chance that you will not be a professional, you will not find employment, and you will not be in the place you feel you deserve.
SUSANNA NG
According to the Migration Policy Institute, a US-based think tank on international movement of people, there were an estimated 33 million ethnic Chinese living outside China, Taiwan and Hong Kong by early 2000.
SUSANNA NG
These are exciting times for Chinese immigrants in Canada as China rises in status on the world stage. But with great change comes great conflict.
SUSANNA NG