SAN FRANCISCO — A 22-year-old young man preparing to cross a busy intersection in San Francisco's Chinatown in broad daylight on March 5 was stabbed in the back and critically injured. The 38-year-old suspect, known to the Chinatown community for a decade due to his past criminal record and mental illness, was arrested minutes after the stabbing. Both the victim and the suspect are Chinese Americans. 

SAN FRANCISCO — As the Asian population has continued to grow in the southwest sector of San Francisco in recent decades, the Ocean Avenue portion within the Ingleside and Oceanview neighborhoods has become an emerging major business corridor for the Asian community. Asian merchants and residents citywide have overwhelmingly spoken out against the K-Ingleside Rapid Project in which red-transit-only lanes in both directions along that Ocean Avenue corridor would be added.

Thirty years ago, I immigrated from Taiwan to San Francisco’s Sunset District. My husband and I bought a home on 26th Avenue and Irving Street near Sunset Super and raised our two children there. We are both public school teachers and have always believed that settling in the Sunset was a wise decision — close to retail and the park, relatively quiet, somewhat affordable, and surrounded by families.

SAN FRANCISCO — Recent data indicates a significant surge in influenza (flu) cases this season and continues to rise nationwide with test positivity reaching high levels in the San Francisco Bay Area and very high levels in Central California. Healthcare experts have recommended that everyone aged 6 months and older receives the flu vaccines every year. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Newly-appointed District 4 (D4) Supervisor Alan Wong joined six Supervisors to vote for the Family Zoning Plan in his first Board of Supervisors meeting. The plan was proposed by Mayor Daniel Luire to modify the current city's zoning rules in compliance with California State's requirements and reach a goal of expanding housing affordability and availability for more families by allowing increased density.

SAN FRANCISCO — Trump administration has recently and quietly moved to implement a new law restricting federal government services for non-citizen immigrants. Effective March 1, 2026, the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has restricted loans to businesses that must be 100% owned by U.S. citizens or U.S. nationals residing in the United States.

What you need to know about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: The 2025 reconciliation bill, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is now law. It changes eligibility rules for important programs like Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), and health plans through the Affordable Care Act.

SAN FRANCISCO — Rita F. Lin has always believed in the U.S. legal system for justice. She has had vast experience in both criminal and civil practice on federal and state levels. But she didn't expect herself one day to become the first Chinese American woman judge in the 175-year history of the U.S. District Court in Northern California.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Chinatown has a profound history as the oldest Chinatown in North America, the oldest Chinese school for teaching Chinese languages in North America was also established in San Francisco Chinatown in 1888.

SAN FRANCISCO — The pedestrian bridge connected the Hilton Hotel to Portsmouth Square has been an icon and landmark of San Francisco Chinatown for over five decades. It also has had a profound Chinese American history of fighting for representation, providing a peaceful and safe open space for children and seniors, and good Feng Shui bringing in well-being to Chinatown. Leaders and members of the Chinese community have been trying hard to save the bridge from being removed by the city under the approved plan of Portsmouth Square renovation.