• Washington celebrates Lunar New Year with festive shows and parade Washington welcomes the Year of the Pig with lion dancers and music through Chinatown's annual Lunar New Year parade.
  • Washington DC’s changing Chinatown Americans of Chinese descent are now better educated and also enjoy more resources than in the past. These social changes have resulted in a trend where more of them are starting to move away from the country's traditional Chinatowns.
  • Cubans marks the Lunar New Year with Chinese touring company gala show Cuba is marking the Chinese Lunar New Year. This year, for the first time, a Chinese touring company came to Havana to put on a gala show. CGTN’s Michael Voss reports. Havana used to have one of the largest Chinatown’s in Latin America. Their traditions still live on, and each year there are festivities to […]
  • Archway in DC Chinatown symbol of east meeting west Every year, hundreds of people, Chinese and American, parade through the Chinatown Friendship Archway. The arch is designed by Chinese American architect Alfred H. Liu, as a token of friendship between Beijing and Washington when they first established the sister city program.
  • Havana Cuba’s Chinatown celebrates Spring Festival Another kind of party is underway in Cuba. Chinatown in Havana is partying for the Lunar New Year with a range of cultural activities.
  • Touring the world’s oldest Chinatown in the Philippines Chinatown in cities across the globe have been celebrating the Lunar New Year.
  • D.C.’s Chinatown in name only? The stores in Washington D.C.’s Chinatown may bear Chinese names — along with their more-popularly known English names — but the downtown neighborhood is actually becoming far less Chinese due to increased development and high rents.
  • NY Chinatown residents reflect on Xi’s US visit President Xi is slated for several events at the U.N., including a Global Leaders’ meeting on gender equality before his speech on Monday to the General Assembly.<!–more–> He’ll be staying at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria hotel, but at the bottom of Manhattan in Chinatown, Chinese-Americans have been reflecting on just what his visit means. CCTV’s […]
  • London’s Chinatown gears up to welcome Xi Chinese President Xi Jinping headed to his official state visit to the U.K. on Monday. For the past few weeks London has been anxiously gearing up to welcome the president.