This year our honouree is Winnie Cheung, educator, community-builder, and co-founder of The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration (PCHC - MoM) Society. Her leadership in community engagement and contributions to fostering multiculturalism have been recognized by Rotary International, the University of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, the City of Burnaby, and the Provincial Government of British Columbia. 

The evening will highlight Winnie's contributions to the Chinese Canadian community and include amazing food, stories and a silent auction to raise funds to support our educational programming.

Ticket Prices:
CCHSBC Members: $85 per person
Non-Members: $95 per person
Table of 10: $850

 
They unpack China‘s role in global peace efforts, the evolving relationship between China and Canada, and the complexities of China-US relations. Plus, they share insights on the Ukraine crisis and discuss what it takes to create a fair and balanced business environment in today‘s world. Don‘t miss this eye-opening conversation!

Geopolitics is complicated. China‘s retaliatory tariffs against Canada, which took effect on Thursday, exacerbate the American-wrought trade crisis facing this country. Paradoxically, the Chinese tariffs also hint at a solution, a path for further engagement between Ottawa and Beijing, that could benefit not only Canada but the entire world.

Of course, Canada will first need to reconcile an internal values-based conflict to achieve this outcome, especially as news this week of China‘s execution of Canadians over drug offences has shocked and disappointed us. The Canadian government has a policy of seeking clemency for citizens facing capital punishment abroad, reflecting our deeply held values on the sanctity of life. China‘s unwillingness to show mercy here will stain the public‘s already-stained opinion on a country with which we have long had friction..

After a 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook Myanmar on Friday, killing more than 2,800 people, international rescuers rushed into the devastated Southeast Asian country.

The most ubiquitous among them have been Chinese relief workers, whose blue and orange uniforms appear across videos circulating on social media.

The reaction marks a change in the negative reception China often receives on Myanmar's social media because of its support for the unpopular military junta.

America's chief geopolitical rival has so far pledged to deliver 100 million yuan ($13.76 million) worth of supplies. The first batch of aid, including tents, blankets and first aid kits arrived in Yangon on Monday, Beijing has said.
The United States, which was until recently the world's top humanitarian donor, has offered a relatively modest $2 million.

Washington also said it would send a three-member assessment team, though their arrival has been delayed by problems obtaining visas from the military regime

China's Vice Minister of Finance Liao Min co-chaired the 16th China-EU Financial Dialogue with EU officials in Brussels, Belgium on Monday, according to a statement on China's Ministry of Finance on Wednesday. The two sides had in-depth discussion on topics including macroeconomic situation and policies of China and the EU, cooperation under the G20 framework, as well as collaborations on audit supervision and government procurement.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the EU. The dialogue, adding to several recent visits by European officials to China, signals EU's proactive attitude in seeking to ease tensions, expand bilateral consensus and enhance cooperation with the Chinese side, analysts said. 

China‘s failure to meet a key carbon emissions target has raised concerns about its ability to achieve carbon neutrality, a potentially decisive factor in global efforts to avert the worst effects of climate change.

China‘s carbon intensity – a measurement of carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) – fell 3.4 percent in 2024, missing Beijing‘s official target of 3.9 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

China‘s progress is being closely watched around the world due to its paradoxical position as the world‘s top polluter – responsible for about 30 percent of global emissions – and the world‘s leader in renewable energy investment.

The country‘s success or failure to meet its emissions targets will have major implications for the international community‘s efforts to keep average temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, a benchmark set by the United Nations to avert “catastrophic” effects of climate change.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too.

A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike in hopes of alleviating a transplant shortage. Two initial xenotransplants in the U.S. — two pig hearts and two pig kidneys – were short-lived. But two additional pig kidney recipients so far are thriving – an Alabama woman transplanted in November and a New Hampshire man transplanted in January. A U.S. clinical trial is about to begin.

Chinese Americans trace back for generations in the Lone Star State. Their story may not be as well known as that of their counterparts in California or New York City, but it is just as intertwined with America's history.

At Rice University, the Houston Asian American Archive, or HAAA, is keeping their stories alive and sharing them with new generations. Launched in 2009, the archive now contains the oral histories of some 500 people in its database, providing a crucial window to the past.

"Oral history gives you a sense of immediacy and maybe more informality. And it's also unfiltered," said Anne Chao, HAAA co-founder and program manager.

The archive also preserves memorabilia and artifacts from Asian Americans in Houston — a city known for its oil and gas industry. It is also known for space exploration and is home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia.

The Quina method of making stone tools had previously been found in Europe but never in East Asia.

The Middle Stone Age is also linked to the origin and evolution of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, in Africa as well as the development of archaic human groups like Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Now, though, scientists have found the Quina technology at an archaeological site in southwestern China dated to between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, challenging this assumption.

“This is a big upset to the way we think about that part of the world in that period of time,” said Ben Marwick, a co-author of the study from the University of Washington.

“It really raises the question of, what else were people doing during this period that we haven't found yet?”

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