chinatown

www.economist.com — A band of newcomers are offering authentic food in London, some of it in Chinatown itself. The causes are straightforward: a growing number of mainland Chinese students and businessmen in London, and a growing number of British diners who have travelled around China and tasted the real thing.

www.huffingtonpost.com — NEW YORK -- At age 75, Mon Ling Ng is hard of hearing and often lonely – a resident of Manhattan's Chinatown who finds a way to fill his days: by gambling.

"I go almost every day; it's exciting, and I have company," said Ng, who takes a bus to a casino hours away.

www.nytimes.com — The judge and the juvenile had grown up on the same mean streets, 40 years apart. And in fall 1996, they faced each other in a New York court where children are prosecuted as adults, but sentenced like candidates for redemption. The teenager, a gifted student, was pleading guilty to a string of muggings committed at 15 with an eclectic crew in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

www.theglobeandmail.com — Though it is spoken by more than 70 million people worldwide, and is the third most-used language in Canada after English and French, Cantonese is in trouble here in not only Western Chinatowns but even in the city formerly known as Canton. In Guangzhou, however, Cantonese speakers are beginning to gently push back, hoping to preserve their mother tongue.