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7 Min Read LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It began with suspicious looks on the street. Then visits by shoppers and diners dwindled. Now, a year since the coronavirus spread globally, many small business owners in Chinatowns around the world are shutting up shop. On the eve of Lunar New Year - traditionally her busiest trading season, Joanne Kwong is planning to close down Pearl River Mart’s flagship store in New York’s Chinatown half a century since it was established by her Taiwanese in-laws. “The revenue isn’t matching all of the costs we have to pay for and that have been p...

New York's Chinatown pulls together to brighten the Covid darkness Diana Hubbell Last spring, Patrick Mock, the manager of 46 Mott Bakery, stepped out of his shop and into darkness. Mott Street, in the middle of Manhattan’s Chinatown, would normally have been bustling: from the bars on Doyers Street to restaurants such as Wo Hop, a Cantonese stalwart opened in 1938. However, racism towards Asian Americans – driven by unfounded coronavirus fears – had devastated local businesses. Even the normally raucous Lunar New Year celebrations had seen less than half the usual crowd...

arrow Shu Cheung Lai, in the white hat, at his bakery Katherine Fung / WNYC Over the summer, Connie Lai was having dinner with her dad Shu Cheung Lai, the owner of Go Believe Bakery in Manhattan's Chinatown. The bakery had closed in the spring due to the pandemic, and sales were still down 75%.  "Are you doing anything to market the business?" she asked him. "Not really," he responded. So she revived the bakery's Instagram account she started and began posting photos of buns and mooncakes, and then jumped in to research potential online delivery services. Lai, who works in the ...