April 25, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 8
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Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center Legal Workshop: Wills and Trusts

by guest

Have you ever been confused about how to properly distribute your estate to your family, or have you never thought about the distribution of property? Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age was honored to hold a legal workshop on “Wills and Trusts” on April 5th in Hong Lok House Activity Center, Boston’s Chinatown (25 Essex St., Boston, MA 02111). Senior lawyers were invited to help the elderly. The speakers were Peter Bellotti, Joe Markey and Julia Hogan from Bellotti Law Group. […]

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The Queen of Nuclear Physics: Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu

by Kristen Si

There aren’t many universal household names amongst the storied history of physicists since the early 20th century. Stephen Hawking distilled his ideas into A Brief History of Time, Albert Einstein cemented his role in history with his theory of relativity, and Guglielmo Marconi pioneered the means by which radio transmissions were transmitted. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi were two nuclear physicists who worked on the groundbreaking Manhattan Project which produced the first nuclear weapons. One name that’s conspicuously absent […]

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Meet Chulan Huang, Mayor Wu’s Chinatown Neighborhood Liaison

by Sampan Staff

Born in China, I was raised in Boston’s Chinatown. The Chinatown neighborhood has been my home all my life. With myself and my little sister both proud alumni of Boston Public Schools right from kindergarten to 12th grade, especially having Josiah Quincy Elementary School as part of this journey, the Chinatown community has become a part of me. My joys of growing up included playing basketball at the Castle Square courts and Wang YMCA, and exploring every corner of the […]

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Running For Community, Honor, and Culture: Asian Americans and the Boston Marathon

by Wanheng Jiang

Editor’s Note: In honor of AAPI Month, Sampan presents the first of two video essays produced by guest correspondents from Boston University. The second will appear in our May 26 issue. Meghan Irons, Sampan Guest Editor, provides the capsule summary below. Every year of the running of the Boston Marathon there are stories to tell — stories about the runners, their sacrifices, and the history of their journeys. But often one thing gets overshadowed — the Asian American legacy in […]

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Tufts Medical Center Dedicates Building to Dr. Deeb Salem

by Sonia Cavazos

After contributing 50 years of resounding leadership at Tufts Medical Center, Dr. Deeb Salem will be celebrated on Friday, May 19th with the dedication of The Salem Building at 35 Kneeland Street on the TMC campus. Sampan had the honor of interviewing with Dr. Salem on the eve of this lifetime recognition. “ I come from an immigrant family and grew up in Brooklyn. My parents had almost no education. My mother came from Syria and my father came from […]

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Mass. Mayors Sign Historic Compact Committing to Diversity in Real Estate

by Alec Loftus

Mayors from Cambridge, Lynn, Salem and Somerville joined with leaders from the City of Boston and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll on Monday, May 8 to sign the CommonWealth Development Compact, committing to historic 25 percent Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) evaluation criteria in public real estate development projects within their municipalities, as well as groundbreaking DEI considerations in private real estate projects. Minority-and women-owned businesses have been severely underrepresented in real estate development, comprising less than one percent of developers […]

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