Huiyu Lai for World Journal, Author at City Limits

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The measure says employees at hair salons should go through a similar license process as those working at clinics and nursing homes in order to protect consumer rights.

ByHuiyu Lai for World Journal 5 minRead time

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Jul 2020

Housing and Homelessness Justice

Hotel-Turned-Shelter for Released Rikers Detainees Faces Backlash in Fresh Meadows

Chinese residents and businesses in the neighborhood collected more than 10,000 signatures on a petition against the arrangement, arguing the city should have notified the community of the plan.

ByHuiyu Lai for World Journal

ByCity Limits 5 minRead time

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May 2020

Uncategorized

In Chinese Community, Increased Competition for Pandemic Grocery Delivery Workers

The pandemic triggered a new business model in the Chinese community: customers ordering via ad hoc WeChat groups from self-designated delivery workers, who would go out to buy and deliver…

ByHuiyu Lai for World Journal 4 minRead time

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Feb 2020

Education

Chinese Community Group Seeks to Debunk Coronavirus Confusion

A local parents group is trying to knock down a false rumor circulating among Chinese parents that students couldn’t wear face masks to school.

ByHuiyu Lai for World Journal 3 minRead time

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Jan 2020

Economy

Coronavirus Fears Scaring Off Customers in Flushing, Business Owners Say

Though no cases have been diagnosed in New York, businesses in the city’s Chinese-concentrated neighborhoods are already feeling the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.

ByHuiyu Lai for World Journal 4 minRead time

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Jan 2020

Government

Fearing ‘Demise of a Nation’ Young Taiwanese in NY Flew Home to Vote

The uprisings in Hong Kong – triggered by the proposed extradition law – and a deteriorating relationship between Taiwan and Beijing in the months before Taiwan’s presidential election prompted the…

ByHuiyu Lai for World Journal 4 minRead time

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Dec 2019

Economy

Flushing’s Chinese-Run Dollar Stores Struggling Amid Rising Rents and U.S.-China Trade War

Once ubiquitous in the immigrant neighborhood, Flushing’s Chinese-run discount shops are now struggling thanks to the competition from newly-arrived chain stores, a scorching trade war, rising rents and demographic changes…

ByHuiyu Lai for World Journal 5 minRead time

Huiyu Lai for World Journal

Assembly Bill Requiring License for Shampoo Assistants Adds Woe to Hair Salons

Hotel-Turned-Shelter for Released Rikers Detainees Faces Backlash in Fresh Meadows

In Chinese Community, Increased Competition for Pandemic Grocery Delivery Workers

Chinese Community Group Seeks to Debunk Coronavirus Confusion

Coronavirus Fears Scaring Off Customers in Flushing, Business Owners Say

Fearing ‘Demise of a Nation’ Young Taiwanese in NY Flew Home to Vote

Flushing’s Chinese-Run Dollar Stores Struggling Amid Rising Rents and U.S.-China Trade War

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Huiyu Lai for World Journal

Assembly Bill Requiring License for Shampoo Assistants Adds Woe to Hair Salons

Hotel-Turned-Shelter for Released Rikers Detainees Faces Backlash in Fresh Meadows

In Chinese Community, Increased Competition for Pandemic Grocery Delivery Workers

Chinese Community Group Seeks to Debunk Coronavirus Confusion

Coronavirus Fears Scaring Off Customers in Flushing, Business Owners Say

Fearing ‘Demise of a Nation’ Young Taiwanese in NY Flew Home to Vote

Flushing’s Chinese-Run Dollar Stores Struggling Amid Rising Rents and U.S.-China Trade War

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