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By Cliff_Li, New Asian Leaders
WASHINGTON, DC — New Asian Leaders (NAL), a non-profit Asian American leadership organization headquartered in Washington, DC, alerts that CBS News will air a story on 60 Minutes about Sherry Chen and Professor Xiaoxing Xi — two Chinese Americans who had been wrongfully accused of espionage by the U.S. Government and who are now trying to get restitution for their deeply affected lives.
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Boston, May 12, 2016, — Longtime community leader, and honorary Chairwomen of Chinese Progressive Association Suzanne Lee will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Massachusetts at UMass Boston’s spring commencement this year on May 26 at 3 PM at Clark Athletic Center on UMass Boston Campus.
Suzanne Lee(first from left) and other staffers of Chinatown Community Land Trust pose for a picture.
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Boston, May 11, 2016, — U.S. Secretary of Education John King recently announced the selection of William Wang of West Roxbury, MA and Zlatomir Fung, a resident of Westborough, MA as 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholars. Wang attends Boston Latin School in Boston, and Fung(pictured below), an accompanied cellist, attends Oak Meadow School from home.
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By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Cambridge, May 6, 2016, — The Surging Waves Symposium: 200 Years of Chinese American Identity was held at Tsai Auditorium in Harvard University on April 30. This event was hosted by Chinese American Citizens Alliance(CACA) Boston lodge, and sponsored by East Boston Savings Bank. About 150 attendees joined the discussions of history of Chinese immigration at the symposium.
(First row L to R) Greer Hsing Tan Swiston, Wing-kai To, Tunney F Lee, Van Amanda Le, Martin Gold, Beatrice Lee and with other panelists and organizers(photo by Ron Young).
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By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Boston, May 4, 2016, — The first-ever World Taichi and Qigong Day event was successfully held in Harvard Yard on April 30. Over 60 people joined the event led by Anlin Wang, World Champion in Taichi.
Mr. Anling Wang led partipates at World Taichi and Qigong Day event in Harvard Yead.
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Boston, May 2, 2016, — Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chin were honored at the 100th Anniversary celebration of Kwong Kow Chinese School(KKCS) at Marriott Hotel at Copley Place in Boston Back Bay on April 29. About 500 guests, including Gov. Baker and President of Boston City Council Michelle Wu, celebrated this special occasion.
(L to R)Michelle Wu presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Frank and Kathleen Chin.
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Beatrice Chao Lee (Chao Chung-Ying) was born in Nanjing, China. As a child, she lived with her military family in many cities in Mainland China until 1949, when her family moved to Taiwan where Beatrice finished high school. At the age of 19, Beatrice flew to America to attend the College of Mount St. Vincent in Riverdale, New York on a four year scholarship. On June 1, 1954 Beatrice received her B.A. in Social Studies with a minor in Fine Arts and two weeks later she married Raymond Lee, a chemical engineer from Shanghai whom she had dated for 3 years.
Beatrice Lee(middle) and Michelle Wu(left) at Chinese Golden Age Center in Brighton.
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Cambridge, April 28, 2016, On April 16 and April 24, North America’s first World Tea Day events were officially launched at Harvard and MIT. These events were organized by North American Chinese Tea Association and Mylovetea.com Dr. Tea, and was sponsored by YiLiuBang.
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By Chun-Fai Chan
(Mr. Chan was a Chinese-American former educator in Boston and is now graduate student in the Master’s of Public Administration program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.)
Dear Chinese Americans, We Need to Have a Talk About Race in America.
The recent Chinese American protests in support of Officer Peter Liang have made me uneasy about how little Chinese Americans know about the complicated issues of race in America. It is time that we as Chinese Americans start to have this conversation, because it is clearly not as simple as supporting Officer Liang because he is “one of us”. This premise actually dismisses all the complications of how race has shaped Chinese American lives in America and also dismisses the lives of the people who are the true victims of this tragedy, Akai Gurley and his family.
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Boston, April 14, 2016 — Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced the strategic rebranding of the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, formerly known as the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians, to help encompass the evolving needs of Boston’s immigrant community. As part of a concerted effort to empower immigrant residents and recognize their contributions to our city, Mayor Walsh also launched Immigrant Information Corners at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square and 24 neighborhood branches to provide information about resources and services available to help advance the well-being of the city’s immigrant residents.
Mayor Walsh and immigrant couple Mr. and Mrs. Tieyi Huang (bostonese.com file photo).
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