“It’s just a very long distance from not having anything, to get to this point,” says Ne Dao, co-owner of Ha Tien Grocery Store (353 University Avenue West, St. Paul). While Dao means as business ...

Son and Ne Dao stand for a portrait inside the second Ha Tien Market in east St. Paul earlier this month. The couple opened their second store in November 2016 inside a building formerly home to a ...

Ha Tien, the Asian market on University Avenue in St. Paul, has purchased the former Byerly’s grocery store on St. Paul’s East Side and will open a second location there. The 49,000-square-foot store ...

[Editor’s note: This is part of a series on businesses along the Green Line, one year after opening. We profiled the Ha Tien Market and other University Avenue businesses in 2014 as part of a ...

Pirate Island, now a peaceful, gorgeous isle covered in lush vegetation and with clear blue waters, once had a long history of pirate attacks. Every year, thousands of tourists visit the small town ...

In the shell of a former Lunds & Byerlys on St. Paul's East Side, Ne and Son Dao have quietly opened their second Ha Tien grocery, a makeover that's emblematic of the city's shifting demographics.