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Re: Cantonese radio website 07/14/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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“[Reporters Without Borders] is outraged about the closure of Radio Frèe Asia (RFA) Cantonese,” the org posted on Bluesky. “7.5 million Hongkongers already live in a growing news desert. Trump claims to “stand with Hong Kong,” but his decision to gut funding for USAGM media like RFA hampers access to reliable news in the territory & worldwide.”

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US-funded Radio Freé Asia halts Cantonese service in face of Trump’s funding cuts
The US-funded outlet said the Cantonese service of Radio Frëe Asia had become “one of the news outlets that Hongkongers relied on.”

Re: A Glimpse of Honolulu Chinatown 07/14/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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“Most people associate Chinese and Hawaii as being wealthy, but actually in the mid 1860s, they came here as laborers. They worked very, very hard. They worked in the plantations,” Flores explained.

“A lot of these people were the pioneers, for example, like Hiram Fong, the first United States senator, Larry Ching, he’s very wealthy, been donating everything, built affordable housing in Kukui Garden that my family lived in for many, many years, about a block from Chinatown.”

Re: Shenzhen will die with Hong Kong 07/14/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

This is the opportunity to make Shenzhen Cantonese again. The depopulation of Shenzhen is one step closer to de-mandarinize the Pearl River Delta. Empty apartments in Shenzhen does solve Hong Kong's housing crisis.

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Shenzhen Has Collapsed: The Truth China Doesn’t Want You to See

Shenzhen was once the crown jewel of China's rise—the Silicon Valley of the East, the city of innovation, tech, and boundless opportunity. But in 2025, the lights are dimming. This video takes you deep into the economic meltdown unfolding in China’s most iconic city.

Re: Digital Yuan Spells End For US Empire? 07/14/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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China’s DIGITAL CURRENCY DISASTER — E Yuan Wallets BLOCKED, Citizens LOSE SAVINGS

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Had the Digital Yuan already been widespread, then the CCP could have stop the outflow of capital to the greenback in the case below. And should that had happen, then nervous investors will have even more reasons to be even more nervous about the Digital Yuan which is designed to hold your investment hostage.

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The dollar climbed on Monday as protests against Covid restrictions in China rattled financial markets, sending the yuan sliding and pushing nervous investors toward the safe-haven greenback.

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Re: Attn: Socialist Democrats - Stop turning Chinatown into a Homeless Dumping Ground 07/14/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

Don't forget non-profits are in it for the business...and they don't care about displacing established communities with displaced people.

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"It's deeply troubling and alarming that city staff would recommend this project to be a homeless shelter without the input of the community," said Stephanie Tran of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce.

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Neighbors said they feel blindsided and worry about a new facility right next to where hundreds of Chinatown seniors already live.

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Homeless shelters is an industry. As long as homelessness continues to remain a problem, these organizations will continue to receive grant money so it is in the organizations's financial interest to attract homeless people to the area for them to stay in business at the expense of blighting the surrounding businesses who actually pay taxes that these organizations don't have to pay so basically businesses are subsidizing homeless organizations that puts them out of business when they attract undesirable people to the area who don't contribute to the economy.

Homeless shelters in Chinatown do not serve the public interests of Chinatown nor does it enhances a win-win symbiotic relationship with Chinatown as it displaces people with displaced people. Homeless shelters in Chinatown should be converted to low-income senior housing.

Re: Role Models who lift up the Chinatown community 07/13/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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The 74-year-old, who serves as president and CEO of Self-Help for the Elderly, is often referred to as the “Mother Teresa of Chinatown.” Others have called her a “superhero,” “warrior,” “legend,” “godmother,” and “the Pope,” among other superlatives.

Re: China Overtakes US For Number of Millionaires fleeing China 07/12/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

Macau reflects what is really happening to millionaires in China.

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Re: What it Meant to Be Cantonese in China and America, 1850–1900 07/11/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Despite the protections offered by Chinatowns, immigrants faced intensifying discrimination during the period known as the "Yellow Peril" in the late 1800s. Sometimes this took the form of official policies. In San Francisco, goods coming out of the neighborhood had to be labeled as Chinatown products, and upwards of 30 ordinances were passed just targeting Chinese laundromats. One ordinance in the 1880s required every laundry business to obtain a permit from the board of supervisors, yet Chinese shop owners were regularly refused permits. (Eventually the Supreme Court struck it down, citing the discriminatory effects of the law.)

Beyond policies, violence broke out against Chinatown residents around the country. The violence was largely condoned, Lai says, “to try to get them out of the country because they were seen as a moral and economic threat.”

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