When Bobby Wong was a teenager, he wanted to help out with his family’s restaurant, the Kowloon, so he took on some part-time work there. Now, as an adult and a co-owner of the iconic Saugus ...

These are all words that respondents to the statewide survey “Making Waves,” released just last month, used to describe the Asian American Pacific Islander art ecosystem they observed in their own ...

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At a time when immigrants and refugees in the U.S. are increasingly coming under threat of detention, deportation and having their legal status swiped away, a public art installation in Boston will ...

The day before the Sampan had a scheduled interview with State Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven, her district was suddenly under an international spotlight. Thousands of people had come out to rally in the city ...

Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024—the first writer from South Korea to be awarded this prize. Yet, she has “declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the ...

Her research lays the foundation for developing some of the first female-specific treatments for depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. In an interview with Sampan, Chen discusses ...

That is the undeniable takeaway from a report published earlier this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Kids age one to 19 are overall dying at a faster rate than they have been ...

Secretary of Labor, Julie Su, spoke at a conference in honor of Asian American Heritage Month on May 13, reflecting on her family’s own path to the U.S., including her mother’s union job and trip to ...

I watched the first season of Expats on Amazon Prime and was sorely disappointed by the quality of the six-episode offering. Directed by Lulu Wang (Posthumous 2014, The Farewell 2019) the show is ...

Aime Bantz: My mom is an immigrant from South Korea, and my dad is white. Most of my artwork has to do with exploring my biracial identity and being a Korean American growing up in the States. A lot ...

Food insecurity is currently one of the biggest problems for America’s poor. According to the USDA Economic Research Service, an astonishing 12.8% of U.S households were food insecure in 2022, meaning ...