Tri-Cities News

By Vancouver Sun | Mel Yip’s old home is being turned into a museum. Yip grew up on the sixth floor of a residential structure behind the Wing Sang building at 51 E. Pender St., the oldest building in Chinatown. The province purchased the 1889 building last year and is renovating it to house the […]

By Burnaby Now | In 2020, when the world was grappling with the coronavirus (COVID-19), there was another virus spreading: anti-Asian hate. Videos surfaced — of a 84-year-old woman being tripped in Metrotown and then of a 93-year-old man assaulted in Vancouver’s Chinatown — unfortunately, it didn’t end there. In the next couple of years, anti-Asian hate spiked. In 2021, Burnaby […]

By Vancouver Sun | In Philadelphia, community organizers Deborah Wei and Jenny Zhang are part of a growing opposition to a proposal for a new basketball arena for the 76ers NBA team that would sit next to the city’s Chinatown district. “We’ve been fighting for Chinatown for a long time and this is definitely the […]

By AMSSA | The Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of B.C. (AMSSA) celebrates and congratulates Minister Anne Kang and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs for significantly boosting funding for settlement services in British Columbia. The funding has been increased from $6 million to $25.6 million annually, marking a historic achievement in supporting newcomers […]

This week, B.C.’s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills released a new action plan that aims to help people gain skills for in-demand jobs. Part of the plan focuses on breaking down barriers that prevent those who are new to B.C. from finding a career in the field in which they are trained. CTV […]