VIDEO :: According to the New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health, Asian women commit suicide at a far greater rate than any other women in their age group. more>

A report by Citizen Action of New York found that whites were largely over-represented in jury participation. The organization’s director claims that the United States needs to maintain the diversity of its jurors to carry out justice and ensure all minorities are protected fairly by the law. more>

A Chinese real estate agent said that the proliferation of illegal subdivisions of Chinatown apartments has everything to do with high demand. Chinatown is considered to be the center for most Fujianese immigrants in the United States. Many of them, especially those who live in other states, see New York’s Chinatown as the focal point of businesses. more>

WFNY (93.3 Free FM), a radio station under CBS, had a show called Dog House Pranks with a segment called Chinese Food. It harassed the female and male hosts in a Chinese restaurant with insults, sexual slurs, and other provocations. Yesterday, the Fujianese community held a meeting to urge the victimized Chinese restaurant to come forward and use legal actions against the radio show. more>

Community members who were familiar with these gambling activities say that if the operation of these organized gambling activities are left unregulated, they will affect the image of the ethnic associations and new Chinese immigrants. more>

Firefighters said that should there be a fire in Chinatown, the consequences could be severe because Chinatown has highly flammable, old wooden buildings with little separation between units. Many residents also do not have a fire escape plan or the necessary preparation. more>

Lin-Qua Qu, director of a regional Chinese organization, expressed to Chief of Police Matthew Whelan at Flushing Precinct 109 that although the victim was Chinese, the crime should serve as a “red flag” for the safety of Flushing as a whole. more>

Come the Chinese New Year, Chinese immigrants, with or without legal status, wire money back home; however, due to a limit to how much money one can wire abroad and to identification requirements, many Chinese neighborhoods find themselves without enough legal Chinese immigrants who can help wire money for undocumented nationals. more>

The presiding judge, Pauline Mullings, who is African American, opined that a harsh punishment would serve as a deterrent and sentenced one of two Caucasian assailants, who beat up a couple of Chinese-American youths, to three-and-half years in prison with two years of probation. more>

The NYPD determined that the overall crime rate in the 5th Precinct of Chinatown went down by 6.17 percent in 2006. more>

The gradual dwindling of the garment industry over the past few years has forced many Chinese workers – mostly women – to seek work at nail salons. This shift, however, has brought an increase in the number of complaints about employers at nail salons exploiting their employees. more>

A new study conducted in public schools that have 30 percent or more Chinese-speaking students indicated that in Brooklyn, six out of seven of the parent coordinators do not speak Chinese. more>

Manhattan’s Chinatown may soon have sidewalk cafes like those in Little Italy. Presently, merchants in the area are forbidden from setting up sidewalk cafes, which they need to help their business grow. more>

Every morning, hundreds of Chinese residents make their way to the Queens Botanical Garden to exercise. But for them, the pleasures of the garden are not totally within reach; they can’t identify the beauty around them because there are no signs in Chinese. more>

Currently, more than half of the students in New York City’s public school system are immigrants. Yet, the newly formed Learning Support Centers, where parents and students can go to get their questions answered, do not provide easy translation services. This has immigrant parents in a bind. more>

The NYPD Bureau of Community Affairs is reorganizing its New Immigrant/Special Outreach Unit to reach out to different ethnic communities and establish relationships with activists and grassroots organizations. They aim is to reduce the distance between police and immigrants to help protect them from becoming victims of crime. more>

Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School is considered the most violent public school among the top ten most violent schools in New York City. After being victimized in school, Jin Ho used different channels to fight for his rights. more>

Recently, most of the bus companies operating in Manhattan’s Chinatown participated in a meeting with the 5th Precinct and the city and state departments of transportation over increased enforcement of traffic rules in the wake of a rash of crimes related to the industry. more>

The FBI confirmed that the bureau had a specialist scanning Chinese newspapers each day for ads and any clue related to any crime. more>

Should people who hold green cards, but not U.S. citizenship, have the right to vote? more>

The aftermath of September 11 forced the city to close many streets in Chinatown. Since then, all but one street—which links Chinatown to City Hall—have reopened. Now, a group of residents are fighting to have this street, which is vital to Chinatown’s fragile economy, reopened. more>

Many Fujianese women neglect routine health check ups, so a community center in New York decided to take action. They hired a Fujianese-speaking staff member to conduct outreach campaigns in garment factories and sign up workers for free health exams. But the campaign has been met with resistance from factory owners, and the women themselves. more>

Zhang Qua, undocumented but not a suspect in any crime, was handed over to Homeland Security by the police. Fingerpointing at Bloomberg Executive Order by Chinatown community. more>

On the afternoon of July 9th, nearly one hundred Chinese garment workers, mostly female, protested in front of Wild Cat Service Corp, an occupational training center. As victims of 9/11, they were qualified to get compensation from the September 11th Fund and receive one year of free health insurance, in addition to attending occupational training classes. On Monday, when they came to class on time, they were told that classes had ended, five weeks before schedule. more>

When Zhang Qua came to New York from Atlanta to attend a wedding, the police happened to be investigating a murder case in Chinatown. The police picked him up from the street because he seemed “suspicious.” Later, the police found him to be unrelated to the case but they sent him to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Now Zhang faces deportation back to mainland China. more>

Nearly 200 people, including city councilmen, educators, community leaders and Seward Park High School teachers and parents, protested in front of City Hall for the preservation of bilingual classes at Seward Park High School. more>

A vice-president of the City University of New York released a letter to all the schools requesting that any international student coming from areas affected by SARS only report to school 10 days after his/her arrival. All the students and staffs were encouraged not to travel to SARS-affected areas. This proposal created outrage and confusion among international students. more>

The GOP in New York will recommend, organize and recruit Chinese American candidates in three areas where most Chinese Americans reside. The Republican Party is trying to win the election using Chinese voters as the main support, instead of Hispanic voters. The first Chinese American city council member for Sunset Park could be put forth by the GOP. more>