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Yingjie Wang
Stories by Yingjie Wang
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Despite skepticism in the U.S. around herbal remedies and traditional Chinese medicine in general, many people swear by them.
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Chinese herbal remedies claiming to strengthen immunity or treat fever and sore throat symptoms are flying off the shelves.
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"It's the first step to prohibit the sale of living creatures for human consumption in the city of Los Angeles."
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Also known as live animal markets, they fill a need for thousands of residents. City officials want to ban them but first, they need to figure out what "wet markets" are.
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An LAist analysis of recent coroner data reveals some surprising numbers about Asian at-home deaths during the pandemic.
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COVID-19 has hurt people in niche industries and workers that many of us didn’t know existed, like personal shoppers for overseas customers.
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Nicole Zhang, a U.S.-based personal shopper who supplies clients in China, said that since the pandemic hit, she's lost 60% to 70% of her customers.
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Sissy Trinh and fellow Southeast Asian Community Alliance board members set aside about $10,000 of their budget for pandemic relief.
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This Chinatown nonprofit has delivered 490 packages of supplies -- everything from soap to rice -- to seniors in need.
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There are hundreds of these places, where newly arrived Chinese immigrants are packed into apartments, condos, and garage conversions — and by many, we mean 10, 15, even more.
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Chinese immigrant "boarding houses" or "family motels" are all over the San Gabriel Valley, especially in Monterey Park. And they're packed.
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When I came to the U.S. to study journalism, it didn’t take long for me to learn about the overcrowded, squalid, dangerous and illegal boarding houses that so many of my countrymen live in.