March 15, 2024 | Vol. 53, Issue 5

The only bilingual Chinese-English Newspaper in New England

community

The Warmth of Community Strength: How Organizations Are Helping Solve Boston’s Home Heating Oil Crisis

The worst kept secret for most homeowners, renters, or landlords today is that energy prices were on their way up well before Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s raised prices on everything from Uber rides to children’s toys. The current (as of March 21, 2022) price of oil at above $110 a barrel is down slightly from this month’s high of $130. Gas to run your automobile is precariously priced from a low of $4 a gallon to a high of $6 […]

National Asian Women’s Association Hits ‘Remarkable Milestone’

The National Asian Women’s Association celebrated its 16th anniversary at the Empire Garden in Boston’s Chinatown on Jan. 23, despite the surge in cases in the COVID-19 pandemic. Guests and volunteers donned surgical masks as they dined at big round tables decorated with glasses filled with styled carmine-colored napkins inside the favorite Chinatown restaurant that was once an old vaudeville theater house. The banquet also served as its traditional annual gathering to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year, with 200 […]

Cherish Chinatown Challenge

In response to these difficulties within the local AAPI community, student leaders from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine began an initiative called Cherish Chinatown.

Chinatown addresses relationship building with Tufts

Boston Chinatown community leaders addressed resilience among Chinese immigrants through difficult times in a webinar hosted by Tufts University faculty on Dec 4. The webinar, titled Voices from Chinatown: Resilience in the Time of COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Racism, also proposed suggestions for Chinatown to build a harmonious relationship as a host neighborhood with Tufts University. Like other Chinatowns in the U.S, the Boston Chinatown has had a long history of trauma — from the urban renewal projects displacing families and […]

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