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  • HXGNY Hosts First Go Expo Showcasing the Surrounding Game

    By Dachun Yao, HXGNY

    This Sunday (06/09/13) afternoon, our beloved GO teacher Ms. Jie Tang (US North East GO tournament 5D Champion) held the Greater New York GO EXPO in Huaxia Chinese School Greater New York (HXGNY) with great success.
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    HXGNY students enjoy playing Go at the expo. (photos by Liang Wang and Chun Sun)
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  • Inaugural Ceremony of Chinese University Alumni Alliance To Be Held on June 8 in New York City

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    New York City, June 1, 2013, — Starting from early 1980s, tens of thousands graduates from Chinese Universities started to pursue graduate studies abroad with China’s Open Door policy. American universities were often their top choices. Many of them stayed in the US after gaining master’s and doctoral degrees, and became scientists, professors, engineers and entrepreneurs.
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  • NAAAP Boston Awards Scholarships as Boston Marks One Month Anniversary of the Marathon Bombings

    By Xinming Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, May 16, 2013, — The National Association of Asian American Professionals Boston chapter (NAAAP Boston) awarded Dan Minh Chu, Tuan Ho and Kasey Shen of the 2013 NAAAP Boston Future Leader Award. The three exceptional students received a total of $15,000 of scholarships at NAAAP Boston’s Scholarship Gala on May 15 at Hilton Boston Back Bay. The event was coincided with the one month anniversary of Boston bombings that happened just blocks away from the hotel. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was broadcasting live at the nearby Boston Bombing makeshift memorial when the award ceremony took place.
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    (Front row L to R)Tuan Ho, Kasey Shen and Dan Chu show off their awards with staff of NAAAP Boston.
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  • Q & A with Andrew Conning on China Education Policy

    By China Education Symposium

    Andrew Conning is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Graduate Student Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His research examines the structures of reasoning with which individuals across cultures make sense of international and interethnic issues. He is spending 2012-13 conducting research in China as a Fulbright scholar and Harvard Traveling Fellow.
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  • Xiaojie Li Cleared of Trespassing Charge in Nashua Apple Store Taser Arrest Incident

    By David Li, translated by Shuzhi Zhang, bostonese.com

    On Dec. 11, 2012, Xiaojie Li of Newton, Mass. was arrested by policemen with the help of Taser when she tried to purchase iPhone in the Apple store at Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH. Five months later, Ms. Li appeared in the circuit court of Nashua, facing trespassing and resisting arrest charges in the afternoon of May 10. The judge heard the testimonies from various witnesses and interrogation of witnesses by the attorneys of both sides. At end of the half-day trial, the judge dismissed the trespassing charge and upheld the resisting arrest charge, but declined to issue any penalty against Ms. Li. The record of resisting arrest will be removed if Ms. Li commits no new violation in the next three years, according to the ruling.
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    Ms. Li shows marks on he wrists from the arrest at Apple Store in Nashua, NH.
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  • E-Commerce China Dangdang’s Share Price Rose Sharply after Announcing 1Q 2013 Results

    BEIJING, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (“Dangdang” or the “Company”) (NYSE: DANG), a leading business-to-consumer e-commerce company in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013.

    First Quarter 2013 Highlights

    • Gross Margin in the first quarter of 2013 was 17.2%, the highest level since the second quarter of 2011, compared to 14.2% in the first quarter of 2012 and 13.4% in the fourth quarter of 2012.
    • Net Loss for the first quarter of 2013 was RMB72.7 million ($11.7 million), representing 5.5% of total revenues, as compared with a net loss ofRMB99.5 million in the first quarter of 2012 representing 9.2% of total revenues and a net loss of RMB122.1 million representing 7.6% of revenues in the fourth quarter of 2012.
    • Gross Merchants Value (“GMV”) of the marketplace in the first quarter of 2013 were RMB584.1million ($94.0 million), a 193% increase from the corresponding period in 2012.

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  • Pictures from 2013 GBCCA Chinese Music Ensembles Spring Concert

    By David Li, bostonese.com, photos by John Tsou 

    Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (GBCCA) Chinese Music Ensembles annual concert titled Spring was held at Casey Theatre, Regis College in Weston, Mass. on May 12. More than 400 Chinese music lovers enjoyed an evening of beautiful traditional and innovative Chinese music by talented young students and their teachers.
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  • “Think Asia, Think Hong Kong” Campaign Comes to New York City

    By Na Ma, bostonese.com

    New York City, May 14, 2013, — Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) hosted a “Think Asia, Think Hong Kong” press briefing at Del Posto Restaurant in New York City today. “Think Asia, Think Hong Kong” is the biggest business promotion the HKTDC has ever put on in the United States.
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    HKTDC Chairman Jack So speaks at the press briefing. (photo by Eric Wong, HKTDC)
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  • Dragon Dance, Mask Changing and Shaolin Kungfu, Highlights from 2013 Westwood Chinese Cultural Night

    Photos by John Tsou, Video by David Li, bostonese.com

    Westwood, Mass. — On May 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Westwood Chinese Culture Association and Westwood Chinese School hosted the 6th Annual Westwood Chinese Cultural Night in the Westwood High School auditorium. About 500 people packed the auditorium and enjoyed a night full of wonderful music, dance, opera, kungfu and other Chinese cultural performances.
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  • Ms. Xiaojie Li to Appear in Nashua Court Today after Taser Arrest

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, May 10, 2013, — It’s been exactly five months to the date when Ms. Xiaojie Li was arrested outside the Apple Store at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, N.H.. Ms. Li will appear in court to defend against resisting arrest and trespassing charges against her today in Nashua.
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