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  • White House Petition Response: Happy Lunar New Year!

    The White House
    Happy Lunar New Year!

    Thanks for your petition! We hope that you’re enjoying the Year of the Snake.

    As a kid, President Obama knew what it meant to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Growing up in Hawaii, he was surrounded by friends and neighbors who marked the Lunar New Year with parties and parades.

    And he’s not alone. Americans stretching back generations have observed the Lunar New Year. In San Francisco, the city’s famous parade through Chinatown has been a tradition since the Gold Rush. It regularly draws around 1 million spectators, and it’s widely considered to be the biggest event like it outside of Asia.

    Marking the Lunar New Year this year, President Obama said, “Here in America and around the world, people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent will welcome the Year of the Snake. In Chinese tradition, the snake represents wisdom, and a thoughtful approach to tackling the challenges before us – principles that I hope will continue to guide us as we perfect our union and create a more just and equal future for every American.”

    That’s a statement Secretary of State John Kerry echoed. “On behalf of the American people,” he said, “I am delighted to send my heartfelt wishes for good health, good fortune, happiness, and prosperity to all those around the world celebrating the arrival of the Lunar New Year this February 10.”

    And even though it would take an act of Congress to make the Lunar New Year a federal holiday, we’re happy to speak out to ensure that this important celebration is widely recognized and treated with respect. Just like Rosh Hashanah, Easter, or Eid al-Adha, it’s an occasion that makes us richer as a culture and stronger as a people — even without it being a federal holiday.

    Tell us what you think about this response and We the People.

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  • Life of Pi Earlier Winner at 85th Academy Awards

    (xinhuanet)In the evening of Feb. 24, 2013, best picture nominee Best of Pi took home two earlier awards: Cinematography and Visual Effects. With many more awards still in contention, it will be an exciting evening for director Ang Lee and all crew of Life of Pi.
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    Indian actor Suraj Sharma (R) playing the character Pi, stands near a tiger named Richard Parker in a lifeboat, one of the props used in the new film “Life of Pi” by director Ang Lee, in this undated publicity photograph from the film released to Reuters November 16, 2012. [Photo/Agencies]
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  • “Voice of Boston” and “Meet Your Right One” Add Appeal to 2013 Lunar New Year Gala

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    In the day-long New England Chinese Professionals 2013 Lunar New Year Gala & Community Enrichment Forum, two new segments attracted many new attendees. Despite of more than 30 inches of snow from Blizzard Nemo in many parts of New England, most participates of “Voice of Boston” and “Meet Your Right One” still showed up on time in the afternoon of Feb. 10, the Chinese New Year day of 2013.
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    （Front row L to R）Jie Wang, Sophia Luo, Wanjun Qiao, Ru Zheng, Jian Ni, Jie Zhao with Long Li(fourth from left in second row) and other contestants.
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  • ACLS Marks Ten Year Anniversary with Day-long Celebrations

    By David Li, bostonese.com, photos by Chun Sun

    Acton, Mass., Feb. 20, 2013, — With memories of the extraordinary 2012 Acton Chinese Music Night still fresh in people’s mind, Acton residents were treated with another wonderful show put together by Acton Chinese Language School (ACLS) on Feb. 16. This time, the occasion is celebrating 10th birthday of ACLS and also the beginning of Chinese New Year.
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  • New England Chinese Professionals Coming Together for the Lunar New Year Gala as Blizzard Nemo Leaves Town

    By David Li and Na Ma, bostonese.com

    February 10, 2013 is the New Year Day for the Lunar New Year of the snake, when Boston just began to clean up the piles of snow brought by blizzard Nemo. More than 500 Chinese professionals and guests in the New England region still converged on Newtow Marriotte hotel as scheduled, to participate in the Lunar New Year Gala and Community Enrichment Forum. Zhiyong Yang, one of the co-chairs of the event, said people’s enthusiasm melted away the ice and snow.
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    (from third on left)Ling Huang, Boston City Council candidate Michelle Wu, Treasurer Steve Grossman, Jeff Yang and other attendees post for a picture. (photo by Jie Yan of Boston Chinese Photographers Association, BCPA)
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  • Best Documentary Winner Lost Years Takes on Diplomatic Mission

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, Feb. 20, 2013, — I received the DVD of Lost Years on Feb. 16, the same day when Lost Years won the Best Feature Documentary Award at Asians on Film Festival Premiere in Los Angeles (North Hollywood). It was a wonderful Chinese New Year gift from my friend Canadian director Kenda Gee. The film was also recently nominated for Best Original Music, Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto on Feb. 27.
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    Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel presents a copy of Lost Years to Mr. Jiang Kun, Secretary General of the China Literature and Art Foundation in Beijing, January 7, 2013 (Photo: City of Edmonton)
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  • Song Zuying’s Radio City Music Hall Concert — Picture Perfect

    New York City, Feb. 17, 2013 –In the evening of Feb. 16, 2013, “Cultures of China, Festival of Spring” Song Zuying USA Spectacular was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Despite of a cold windy night, over 6000 fans attended the concert. Together with American Symphony Orchestra and Collegiate Chorale Singers Chorus and two guest performers Tsewang Dorjei and Sha Baoliang, Song Zuying wowed her fans with her beautiful voice and four splendid costumes. One of the costumes was the traditional dress from the Miao ethnicity which Song Zuying is a member of.

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    Song Zuying passes flowers to conductor Xia Xiaotang at end of the concert. (photo provided by Metro Images)
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  • Construction Starts on Tufts Tuberculosis Research Lab, Asian Women for Health Awarded Grant by The Lenny Zakim Fund

    Construction Starts on Tufts Tuberculosis Research Lab

    BOSTON (Feb. 15, 2013) – Construction has started on Tufts University’s planned tuberculosis research laboratory. The Arnold 8 Biosafety Laboratory is slated to be built within Tufts’ existing medical research building at 136 Harrison Avenue.
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  • NYU Student Leah Li Wins 56th Miss Chinatown USA Pageant

    (Xinhuanet) — Leah Li, junior from New York University, won the 56th Miss Chinatown USA Pageant in San Francisco Saturday, under the theme of “Homage to Women.”

    Leah Li wins the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2013 in San Francisco, the United States, Feb. 16, 2013. The Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2013 closed on Feb. 16. (Xinhua/Liu Yilin)
    Leah Li wins the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2013 in San Francisco, the United States, Feb. 16, 2013. The Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2013 closed on Feb. 16. (Xinhua/Liu Yilin)

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  • Malden Beats: Teen Enrichment Center Receives $2,500 Donation, Amira Market Grand Opening


    		 Malden, Mass. -- Friends and Family of Frank “Frankie” DeCandia presented a $2,500 check to the Malden Teen Enrichment Center on behalf of the “Frank Says Hi Scholarship Foundation”, a non-profit organization founded in 2010 in the memory of Frank DeCandia, a 22 year old Malden resident who lost his courageous battle with leukemia in 2008. Frank, a lifelong Malden resident, was a student at Suffolk University studying journalism when he was diagnosed with leukemia.
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