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Despite the concerns around crime, the statistics point to a safer Chinatown — and city — over recent years. According to Sampan’s analysis of BPD data, total reported crime in the Chinatown neighborhood, as defined by the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s boundaries, decreased by 15% between 2021 and 2025. The homicide count was zero in that 5-year period.

Bow Sim Mark’s legacy lives on 50 years after founding Chinese Wushu Research Institute

NECINA celebrates 30 years of networking for Chinese-American tech workers.

As list of challenged books grows, new state measure could protect libraries from censors. But what's behind the ban movement?

For nearly 40 years, the Asian Community Development Corp. has been developing housing -- and a sense of community -- in Chinatown and beyond.

Meet Asian American Ballet Project dancer Amane Takaishi.

Two years after China ended international adoption, families wait in grief and hope.

How Chinatown’s Woo Ching White Crane Helps Students Stand Ground

A review of Dorothy A. Brown's Getting to Reparations: How Building Different America Requires A Reckoning With Our Past.

A look at affordable housing projects underway in the Greater Boston area.

Immigration and Customers Enforcement has just released long-awaited data on arrests, detentions and releases of immigrants, and the numbers are staggeringly high, according to analysis by an immigration data expert and researcher at Syracuse University.

A look at how a zine tells what the statistics don't: The human toll of the Hub's housing crisis.

A nurse strike at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the first of its kind at the Boston hospital and the largest in Massachusetts history, is bringing Asian American nurses out, some for the first time.

Free speech and expression have been under attack in the U.S. And now, our children have become the latest victims of the wannabe speech suppressors.

Teso Life, a Japanese lifestyle store, opened its first New England location in Downtown Boston on June 26. Spanning three floors — one each for toys, snacks, and beauty products — the store’s imported goods come from numerous parts of Asia.

Asian American Ballet Project Taps Into World of Imagination, Storytelling

Is being born in the U.S. important to being “truly American”? What about being “white”? Half of American adults say yes to the first question, and a concerning 13% of U.S. adults yes to the second question, a report released by The Asian American Foundation finds.

Quincy Public Schools will recognize Lunar New Year as a holiday starting in 2027, a decision that parents, students and community members have advocated for years.

The National Asian Pacific American Museum Commission concluded its cross-country listening tour in Boston on June 30 at the Cyclorama, where commission members gathering ideas for what a future museum dedicated to Asian American and Pacific Islander history could look like.

Sampan talks with housing expert Luc Schuster on the housing crisis in Greater Boston.