Chinatown News

We left China a month ago almost to the day and arrived in Honolulu three hours before we commenced travel.

To anyone with a satellite dish or Internet access, the name "Westminster" usually conjures images of dogs on display.

Falun Dafa practitioners participate in the 2012 Chinese New Year parade in Flushing, New York, on Saturday.

The Solano County Library Foundation Literary and Cultural Arts Tour is slated for New York from Sept.

New York,NY,USA - The Atlantic Cities, by Eric Jaffe -Jan 30, 2012: -- The intercity bus industry has Chinatown to thank for its remarkable revival.

The Better Chinatown Society President Steven Tin before the start of the Chinese New Parade in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Lion dancers converge along Mott Street during the Chinese Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown in New York, Sunday, Jan.

New Yorkers are preparing to celebrate the Year of the Dragon at the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade this afternoon.

Start spreading the news, the Solano County Library Foundation Literary and Cultural Arts Tour is headed to New York, Sept.

A Buddhism-inspired spiritual group suppressed in China says it's been barred from New York's Chinese New Year parade for years because organizers buckled under pressure from Chinese officials.

The Annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade & Festival usually winds throughout Chinatown along Mott, Canal, and Bayard streets, and along East Broadway.

Sure there are plenty of trendy restaurants in the neighborhood to choose from but if you want a taste of the traditional Lower East Side, check out some of these local favorites.

Hundreds of New Yorkers crowded Chinatown on Monday to celebrate the first day of Chinese New Year by detonating ear-splitting firecrackers.

JANUARY 23: A traditional dance troupe performs in Chinatown in celebration of the Chinese New Year on January 23, 2012 in New York City.

The Lunar New Year kicks off with a bang in New York's Chinatown neighborhood. Rough cut .

NEW YORKERS dressed up as dragons and even paraded them through streets Sunday, but 6-year-old Gabriella Clark was among the few who touched a real one to celebrate Chinese New Year.

What she said: "Our trip to New York was a perfect way to celebrate our 60th birthdays," Marie Catrabone said.

A postal worker walks through falling snow to deliver mail in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York on Saturday, Jan.

The Chinese New Year commences Monday, but some restaurants will jump-start their celebrations and offer special menus this weekend.

Mei Chen, 26, is expecting to welcome her first child, a boy, just after the Lunar New Year on Jan.