The controversy is so compelling, and the bewilderment of many of my non-Chinese friends so complete, that it brought me to Great Eastern, one of Chinatown's best-known seafood restaurants, to eat ...

Worldwide, eleven thousand (11,000) sharks will be killed within the next 60 minutes. That’s 180 sharks per minute; it’s a bloody affair. One hundred million (100,000,000) are killed per year, mostly ...

Conservationists slammed Disney on Monday for its plans to serve dishes such as shark fin soup, sea cucumber and abalone in its hotel restaurants when it opens a new theme park in Hong Kong in ...

Activists in Hong Kong are threatening to boycott entertainment giant Disney after it announced plans to serve shark's fin soup at a new theme park, according to the BBC. Hong Kong Disneyland, which ...

Shark fin soup is considered by the Chinese to be a symbol of prosperity and a conferrer of health benefits, the sine qua non of luxury dining. But it also happens to drive the shark fin trade, which ...

On Monday (May 30), the California Assembly overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban the possession and sale of shark fins — the key ingredient of shark fin soup, an ancient and prized Chinese ...

Adeline Chan's nose crinkles at the market's pungent, briny smell. She and her mother were once regulars at Hong Kong's Dried Seafood Market, where endless stalls display plastic bins stuffed to the ...

The Chinatown Neighborhood Association announced Wednesday that it intends to file a lawsuit seeking to overturn a California law banning the possession, sale and distribution of shark fins. Last ...