Business
SAN FRANCISCO —
SAN FRANCISCO — Asian food businesses urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to diversify its marketing and contracting programs to include food and crops from the Asian community who make up 15.5% of the population in California and 7.2% across the nation.
(SAN FRANCISCO) The popular Sunset Night Market created by Supervisor Joel Engardio in 2023 will return in 2024 with three night events on August 30, September 21 and 27. The Irving Street venue will be kept for two night markets and expanded to seven blocks aiming to accommodate 125 to 150 vendors.
(SAN FRANCISCO) After 40 years in business, Lee’s Deli fast food restaurant closed all of its 14 locations in San Francisco downtown starting 2023 and ending in February 2024. The restaurant also owed wages from its workers. 17 of them were not able to recover their unpaid wages until recently through the advocacy of the Chinese Progressive Association and a group of workers rights organizations.
- Opinion: Joel Engardio betrayed District 4
- Local organizations co-host “Sunset After Dark” on September 26 filling in for Sunset Night Market
- An eyewitness account: Asian American women’s fear of hate violence in San Francisco
- A new wave of anti-Asian assaults in San Francisco targets young Asian women who were dragged by their hair
- 2025 winning artworks in Children’s Art Contest to celebrate Asian heritage in public view at Portsmouth Square Garage Gallery
- Opinion: Being “nice” isn’t enough — the Sunset deserves real leadership
- Asian American police leaders promoted under reorganization by SFPD Interim Chief Yep
- Opinion: Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge has been a valuable, precious and enormous open space for Chinatown for over 50 years
