By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, March 30, 2013, — You may have heard of high-frequency traders of Wall Street. But you may not know that how they are making billions of dollars at your expense. The new book Flash Boys by best-selling author Michael Lewis takes a close look of computerized high-frequency trading through the eyes of a former trader Brad Katsuyama.
Brad Katsuyama(second from left) and his RBC team in 2010.
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By David Li, bostonese.com (with contributions from members of SVCA)
San Francisco, March 27, 2014, — On the same day when state Senator Leland Yee was arrested by FBI, three Asian American candidates George Yang, Kansen Chu, Peter Kuo, and Barry Chang appeared on DingDing TV Wednesday night. Senator Leland Yee voted for Senate Constition Amendment 5(SCA-5) on Jan. 30 along with all Democratic senators on Jan. 30, 2014. But, he later requested the bill to be returned to the Senate after protests by Asian American residents erupted across the state.
Peter Kuo(second from left), George Yang(third from left), Kansen Chu(fourth from right) and Barry Chang(second from right) with host Diana Ding (right). (from SVCA’s Facebook page)
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By Tong Chen, bostonese.com
Boston, March 27, 2014, — Everyday after class, Baiyun Yao, a doctoral student at Boston University, goes to the gym to workout. Biking and jogging along the track, Yao is preparing for her first marathon race next month. While doing regular training, her presence is passionate but serious.
Baiyun Yao, who loves hiking, will run the 118th Boston Marathon on April 21 in honor of Lu Lingzi.
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By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, March 26, 2013, — A nine-alarm file was reported this afternoon on Beacon Street between Fairfield and Exeter Streets tonight. Many users of WeChat shared the following news update on the popular mobile social media app just before the start of evening commute.
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By Aarti Shahani for NPR News, aired on KQED station
When you hear the word outsourcing, you might think of threats to American jobs. To cyber experts, there’s another threat: to our data.
This week, thousands of the industry’s leading minds from around the world are discussing the Internet and security at their annual powwow in San Francisco at RSA Conference. These topics matter more and more to us non-experts, especially as people become the victims of cybercrime.
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Boston, March 21, 2014 — This week Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that Boston will receive $18 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, representing a 2.47% increase from last year’s funding award. The funds will be used to support ongoing and future homeland security initiatives through the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program.
Military personnel was deployed in Boston on April 15, 2013, after Marathon bombings (bostonese.com file photo).
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Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts at WhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.
This morning, I had the privilege of visiting Peking University and speaking with Chinese students and American students studying abroad here in China. Peking University was founded more than a hundred years ago, in 1898, and it is one of China’s best-known universities. The American students in the audience today came from a number of different universities, and by studying here in China, they get to experience daily life in this country firsthand, practice their Chinese, and form lifelong friendships with Chinese students.
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers a speech at Peking University (from twitter).
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By Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General
This year, the world commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for the first time following the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela. This sad reality is also a reminder of his courageous struggle against apartheid and his inspiring victory over the racist forces that had imprisoned him for 27 years.
Mandela speaks at UN General Assembly (file photo).
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By Wu Fang, Research Institute of Systems Biomedicine
Shanghai, March 20, 2014, –A novel natural-product-based inhibitor for the treatment of Parkinson has been identified from the endemic plant in Xishuangbanna as a result of the interdisciplinary cooperation between biology and chemistry, led by Wu Fang research group, from Shanghai Jiaotong University(SJTU) Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, and Zhang Weidong research group, from School of Pharmacy. The findings have been published on the ACS Chemical Biology, a well-known periodical of American Chemical Society (ACS).
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