Teen’s Cause of Death in SF Plane Crash Disputed
The city of San Francisco has released a report which contradicts a coroner’s findings that...
Jan 31, 2014
The city of San Francisco has released a report which contradicts a coroner’s findings that...
Jan 15, 2014
On July 6, 2013, the crash of an Asiana Airlines flight landing in San Francisco killed three...
Jan 6, 2014
The Associated Press reports that the man arrested for an arson attack on the Chinese consulate in...
Jan 2, 2014
The FBI is investigating an arson attack on the Chinese consulate in San Francisco. From Sarah...
Aug 1, 2013
South China Morning Post’s Daniel Ren reports from a memorial service for three Chinese students killed in last month’s Asiana plane crash, amid questions over compensation and allegedly predatory behavior by U.S....
Jul 7, 2013
Saturday’s crash of a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport had two fatalities, both of whom were high school students from Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province. The girls were planning to study English in a camp in...
Dec 13, 2012
One of America’s largest property developers has secured $1.7 billion of financing from a Chinese bank to build two San Francisco housing projects, but on the condition that a Chinese state-owned construction company have...
Feb 16, 2012
The Chinese-American actress who appeared in a controversial Super Bowl ad for Michigan Republican Pete Hoekstra has apologised on Facebook for her participation, according to Politico: “I am deeply sorry for any pain that...
Jul 11, 2011
The heavily-traveled Bay Bridge, which connects San Francisco to the East Bay, is going to contain a section constructed in and shipped from China. The construction has now been completed and is currently being loaded onto a...
Apr 14, 2008
A Dispatches report from Alison Satake for PBS Frontline/World: It’s the night before the highly anticipated Olympic torch relay in San Francisco, and I am watching a training session for protestors led by Students for a...
Apr 10, 2008
Majora Carter, 41, the founder of Sustainable South Bronx and GreenforAll.org, was selected as an Olympic torch bearer by one of the relay’s international sponsors, the Coca-Cola Corporation. From the New York Sun: A New...
Apr 9, 2008
Update 2: From BBC: Confusion has marked the start of the only North American leg of the Olympic torch relay, as its route was diverted to avoid thousands of protesters. Crowds of pro-Tibetan and pro-Beijing demonstrators are on...
Apr 7, 2008
Three demonstrators with Students for a Free Tibet were arrested in San Francisco today after they climbed the Golden Gate Bridge and hung a protest banner that read, “”One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 08”....
Mar 30, 2008
Update 2 (March 30, 11:52pm, Pacific Time): After arriving encased in glass at the Beijing airport (see below), the Olympic flame was transported to Tian’anmen Square for an official torch lighting ceremony, attended by a...
Feb 23, 2008
One Chinese artist has paved the way into San Francisco’s contemporary art mainstream. Beijing artist, Zhan Wang’s rock sculptures currently can be seen at the Asian Art Museum and the Haines Gallery. At the Haines...
Apr 12, 2005
From AP, via the San Jose Mercury News: Chinese immigrant workers marched through the streets of downtown San Francisco on Tuesday, shouting slogans and waving signs to protest the loss of garment jobs they say are being outsourced to China. Former employees of San Francisco-based apparel maker Nova Knits Inc. claim they were laid off […]