For decades, Cheng Chui Ping smuggled thousands of people from China to the United States. She created a lucrative business and a robust network that brought immigrants through treacherous routes.

Cheng Chui Ping, who operated a notorious Chinese human smuggling operation from her base in New York City’s Chinatown during the 1980s and 1990s, has died in federal prison in Texas, according to a ...

Big Sister Ping is coming home. The woman accused of smuggling thousands of Chinese immigrants into Chinatown and orchestrating the ill-fated Golden Venture voyage is expected to land in New York ...

Work hard, and you can be anything you want to be. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and take advantage of the Land of Opportunity. Slogans like these have become the tired parlance of political ...

A procession of 80 cars and two buses -- something not seen in a Chinatown funeral since the 1994 death of tong boss Benny Ong -- took Sister Ping, one of the city's most notorious human smugglers, to ...

A former New York City shopkeeper wanted by the FBI on charges of smuggling thousands of Chinese immigrants through a brutal gang network will be extradited, Hong Kong officials said Wednesday. Cheng ...

This was Ping's Hester Street store in Chinatown. For decades, Cheng Chui Ping smuggled thousands of people from China to the United States. She created a lucrative business and a robust network that ...