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On the Street: Fields Corner

Fields Corner, a Vietnamese enclave, boasts locally owned businesses. But as development continues, rising costs threaten to displace residents. (Shelby Lum/Globe Staf)

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

Residents have come to know Dorchester’s Fields Corner as a place where newcomers can find a home. From Vietnamese to Haitian Creole to Spanish to Portuguese, signs in the store windows and chatter on the street reflect a neighborhood like few others in Boston.

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A Vietnamese enclave faces growing pressure

As new developments spring up around Fields Corner, the same displacement challenges facing Vietnamese residents also face its business owners.

Creating small-scale solutions to a big housing crunch

Experiments in a different sort of affordable housing are cropping up in Fields Corner as local developers grapple with rising demand to live in a neighborhood where the median income is 50 percent lower than the city as a whole.

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Cuomo set to earn $5M from book on COVID-19 crisis

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo disclosed Monday that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last year and under his publishing contract will make another $2 million on the memoir over the next two years.

Apple censors apps, stores data locally in China, NYT says

Apple Inc. stores data from its Chinese customers in servers owned by a Chinese state-owned company, potentially making it easy for the government to gain access to the information, the New York Times reported.

Eastern Bank Foundation to commit $2 million more to pandemic causes

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A satellite image provided by CNES and Airbus shows the Apple data center in Guiyang, China. Apple planned to store the personal data of its Chinese customers there on computer servers run by a state-owned Chinese firm.

Censorship, surveillance, and profits: A hard bargain for Apple in China

Apple built the world’s most valuable business on top of China. Now it has to answer to the Chinese government.

AT&T, in abrupt turn, will shed media business in deal with Discovery

The new company will join together two of the largest media businesses in the country. AT&T’s WarnerMedia group includes the sports-heavy cable networks TNT and TBS. In addition to Discovery’s strong lineup of reality-based cable channels, the company has a large international sports business.

Diners enjoyed a meal at Piattini on Newbury Street on Monday. Soon, restaurants will be allowed to operate at full capacity indoors.

‘Massachusetts is open for business’: Lifting of pandemic restrictions brings surprise, elation

As of May 29, Massachusetts businesses will be able to reopen at full capacity, and mask regulations that have been in effect since April of last year will be limited to just a handful of higher-risk locations.

Bidens release tax returns, revealing 25.9 percent rate and $607,336 in earnings

President Biden on Monday revived the long-standing presidential tradition of releasing his tax filings, in yet another contrast to his predecessor, Donald Trump.

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A demonstrator carried a Black Lives Matter flag before a march in Texas. A new study of diversity in the technology industry found companies that made statements of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement had 20 percent fewer Black employees on average than those that didn’t.

Companies that made #BlackLivesMatter pledges have fewer Black employees

After the murder of George Floyd last year prompted widespread protests, dozens of companies released public pledges to promote racial justice. However, their support of the Black community wasn’t reflected in the demographics of their workforces. 5:04 p.m.

Dana-Farber donors Karen Hale (left), her husband Robert T. Hale, Jr., and his mother Judith B. Hale.

Dana-Farber launches $2 billion fund-raising drive

Michael Eisenson, a Dana-Farber trustee who is leading the campaign, said the money will help recruit and retain doctors and scientists and advance work in early detection of cancer and immunotherapy and other treatments. 4:56 p.m.

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Charles River Labs buys Maryland firm for $292m

The Wilmington-based drug research company is acquiring Vigene Biosciences, a gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization. 4:50 p.m.

New Jersey residents will pay most in taxes over a lifetime

Residents of New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut will face the highest tax burdens over a lifetime, according to a new study. 4:39 p.m.

CDC deputy director set to retire in second high-profile exit

“I’ll be leaving the agency for a retirement that I hope will allow more time for creative passions,” CDC principal deputy director Anne Schuchat said Monday in a statement. 4:28 p.m.