No apology is sincere until delivered in-person. On Saturday, I covered Multnomah County’s commissioners reading the apology for the county’s past desecration of Chinese graves at Lone Fir Cemetery, on site for the first time. A scoop I got after requesting for more info from Metro regional govt.
Many thanks to OPB’s Oregon Experience team for this opportunity for me to tell this story about a Cantonese opera group that’s been around in Portland Chinatown for more than 80 years.
Super grateful for getting nominated for an industry award since landing in the U.S. almost three years ago. Yat Sing Music Club was something I pitched not long after I joined OPB. It took more than a year to reach out to the club, arrange videography and produce/edit this mini-documentary.
Uprooting life in their home country for migrating to a new country — only to be killed there. Nothing is more sad than that. RIP Abel.
We talked to two local artists to learn about how they’re envisioning an installation art as part of a memorial, to be complete next spring, to honour the Chinese ancestors.
But in the 60s, the Multnomah County repurposed the site to build its maintenance facility and parking lot. Both structures were removed in 2007.
“This is not an empty field,” and it never was. In January, Lillian Karabaic and I visited the Lone Fir Cemetery’s Block 14, which was historically the area where thousands of early Chinese immigration Portland were buried.
Amid the time when the administration launches wars on not only foreign countries but also on its own people, this story about Minidoka can’t be more relevant.
I asked some of them for their thoughts on the fact that the 25th anniversary of the Minidoka historic site coincides with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
It’s a coincidence that this story came out today just two hours before the news of US attack on Iran broke. Over the past two weeks I spoke to artists and incarcerees’ descendants before the opening of a new art exhibition at JAMO, with which I’ve collaborated on several stories before.
Chinese stocks in Hong Kong rallied after the US Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s emergency tariffs, putting China among the countries set to face lower duties on shipments to the US
We found the Trump administration kept about 300 kids at the Dilley detention center for more than a month, despite a long-standing legal settlement that generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days.
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was found guilty of leading an insurrection and sentenced to life in prison over his 2024 martial law declaration
I’m glad we finally found a time hook to push this story out (thanks to the school’s anniversary party) and let more people in Portland and Southwest Washington know about this beloved school among Taiwanese Americans.
Happy Year of the Horse. Tomorrow marks the first day of Lunar New Year, of a zodiac that I share (which means you can guess my age!) I’ve been chasing Portland Chinese School almost since I began working with OPB, and I even attended their open day in April 2024.
While the American right wing media cesspool demonizes the shooter’s sexual identity, the public broadcaster’s calm and multifaceted coverage helps unite the nation in the moment of mourning and healing. That’s why I’m still proud of having been part of CBC.
Shoutout to my CBC colleagues for their journalism with great care when covering the deadliest shooting incident in Canada’s recent history.
Journalism is more than chasing the SEO game — it’s about connecting with and building communities. This spirit keeps me in an industry that generally doesn’t pay individual contributors well, and I’m glad @leahsottile.bsky.social captured this spirit in this essay, and I look forward to more Hush.
It’s been hard to get off my chest to my Canadian colleagues something that’s been in my mind over the past year in America, but @ryanjhaas.bsky.social recent essay on the current state of OPB nicely captures that. www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...
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"They're also two young men who are terrified of being their fullest selves. And we live in an increasingly dangerous, divided and intolerant world and the hard-fought rights of the 2SLGBTQ+ community are under threat," Carney said.
Truly, shows like this can only made in Canada. It has ticked in Canada, but without HBO picking it up, it wouldn’t have gained the level of popularity it has gained across Smeriva and beyond.
A colour photograph of a young boy wearing a red hockey helmet and blue jersey, holding a powdered Timbit near his mouth. In front of him is a large piled plate of Timbits in assorted coatings, including powdered sugar and plain. The background is a solid yellow colour.
This year, the Timbit turns 50 years old.
It is estimated that Canadians have eaten enough Timbits to go to the Moon and back five times over the past half century.
But what is the history of the Timbit?
This is the story.
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CBC On The Coast guest host Jodie Martinson (alum of Boise State Public Radio) spoke to Teresa Wat this afternoon. This was the show where OPB’s Troy Brynelson and Conrad Wilson debriefed British Columbia’s audience on National Guard, ICE and protests in Portland. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Thanks to my CBC colleagues for accepting my pitch to run this story this morning, including my pitch to speak to Teresa Wat, BC Conservative MLA representing the Richmond- Bridgeport riding. She was Ming Pao’s assignment editor in the ‘90s.
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I wish my old colleagues in Ming Pao all the best while they’re still figuring out the amount of severance pay after the layoff.
I am grateful for the journalistic skills that I learned while working with Ming Pao, where I was honoured to cover big stories such as the trials of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and Li Zhao, who killed North Vancouver millionaire Gang Yuan and chopped him into pieces.
It’s one of the two major Chinese language newspapers in the country, and is the last of the two that has a print edition (until Jan. 16).