Chinatown

A popular Vietnamese restaurant is set to open its new location in Honolulu's Kaimukī neighborhood next month. HPR's Cassie Ordonio spoke to the owner of The Pig and the Lady about his bittersweet goodbye to Chinatown.

Businessman Eddie Flores Jr. talks about the Chinatown Arch that he hopes to see rising soon at Kekaulike Mall and King Street in Honolulu.

Rural health advocate John Desfur talks about how transportation shapes health care in rural Hawaiʻi; Investigative reporter Guthrie Scrimgeour delves into Mark Zuckerberg's land holdings on Kauaʻi

Former University of Hawaiʻi Vice Chancellor and current urban planning professor Karl Kim and three of his graduate students discuss different scenarios of planning efforts for Downtown Honolulu.

HPR's DW Gibson spoke to Chu Lan Shubert-Kwock, founder and president of the Chinatown Business & Community Association, about how uncertainty around the tariffs has been affecting communities in the neighborhood.

Many will be observing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday, but Jan. 20 also marks the 125th anniversary of the Chinatown fires here on Oʻahu. The Conversation talked to Wing Tek Lum about his new book that acknowledges that time of history through poems.

A new exhibit in Chinatown spotlighting Swiss posters opens on Jan. 21. The Conversation talked to SHADE Institute Executive Director Dean Sakamoto about the new exhibit.

The state is grappling with the detection of avian flu and its potential jump from species to species. And about 125 years ago, the bubonic plague made its way into Honolulu. The Conversation talked to Karen Motosue, one of the co-founders of the Hawaiʻi Heritage Center in Chinatown.

It's been a year since The Conversation last focused on the impacts of COVID-19 in downtown Honolulu. HPR's Catherine Cruz took a tour with state leaders to check in on the improvements and changes.

Becoming an activist later in life was not on the radar of cookbook author Grace Young, but she proudly claimed that title as she talked to us from her apartment in New York City recently. Young is in Honolulu this week to work with students at the Leeward Community College Culinary Institute.