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  • Community Alert: Boston Police Warn Against Scam

    The Boston Police Department has received information from concerned citizens in the Asian community regarding a scam. This scam appears to be targeting elderly victims.

    Police have received one report of an elderly victim being approached by Asian females in the Chinatown area and scammed into surrendering valuables to the suspects. Officers would like to take this opportunity to alert community members to be vigilant. Investigators have also received information that similar scams have occurred in other areas of the country including New York City.
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  • Quincy Launches Social Media Planning Game “Play the game. Plan the future.”

    By Metropolitan Area Planning Council

    Quincy – The City of Quincy, the Asian Community Development Corporation and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) are excited to announce the launch of Community PlanIt, an online game that involves citizens in planning and visioning for the North Quincy and Wollaston neighborhoods.
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  • Hard-core Red Sox Fan Works to Rekindle Taiwan’s Love of The Game

    (From chinapost.com.tw)

    Richard Wang (王雲慶) is a hard-core baseball fan.He grew up as a staunch fan of Taiwan’s professional Mercuries Tigers (三商虎) of the local Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) before the team’s disbandment in 1999.
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  • MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Selects Finalists for 2012 Innovation Showcase

    MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

    The 9th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium today announced ten companies for its 2012 Innovation Showcase which represent cutting edge B2B solutions that combine the strongest value and innovation to enterprise IT. The finalists will receive key exposure to many of the world’s most creative and influential IT executives at the Symposium on May 22, 2012.
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  • Results of The 21st Annual All-American Chinese Brush Painting and Calligraphy Competition

    The 21st Annual All-American Chinese Brush Painting and Calligraphy Competition
    (Sponsored and Organized by the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, April, 2012)
    Winners’ List 2012
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    The following 65 winners were chosen from a total of 337 entries (Brush Painting: 190, Calligraphy: 147) submitted by 26 different Chinese Schools, arts studios, and individuals from 8 states (MD, NJ, MA, MN, CA, NH, WA, TX)  The photos of the 65 winners will be posted on our website at: www.ChinesePerformingArts.net around May 30, 2012.  We have also listed the finalists from each groups, their works were excellent.  This project is funded in part by: “The Tan Family Culture Fund” and the donation from the general public. The names of the judges are listed at the end of this release. This competition will be repeated next year: deadline for submission is April 15, 2013, and the jury date will be Saturday, April 20, 2013.
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  • Nonstop Flight Brings Aisa Closer to New England

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    My first trip to Boston started just after New Year’s Day of 1996 in Hong Kong, still a British colony back then. I left the hotel in the morning, and grabbed a taxi on the street to go to the old Kai Tak Airport. My itinerary included stops in Tokyo and Detroit. Some 30 hours later, after delays in Detroit, I finally arrived amid a snowstorm in Logan Airport. And surprisingly, it snowed for the next three days after my arrival in Boston, which made me wondering if the snow would ever end in my hotel room on Beacon street.
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  • India BU Student Body to Arrive Soon

    (bbcnews.co.uk, March 23)

    The body of an Indian student who was shot dead in the US last week is likely to be flown back to India on Monday, family members say.
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  • Massachusetts Celebrates Fenway Park’s 100th Anniversary

    (BOSTON – Thursday, April 19, 2012) Governor Deval Patrick, Senate President Therese Murray, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and Massachusetts legislators this week celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Fenway Park. A banner commemorating this milestone currently hangs on the front of the Massachusetts State House. Fenway Park hosted its first professional baseball game on April 20, 1912.

    A banner celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Fenway Park hangs on the front of the Massachusetts State House. (Photo credit: Eric Haynes/Governor’s Office).
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  • COSCO Forms Strong Anchor for Boston Port

    (from chinadaily.com.cn)

    China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, or COSCO, the largest shipping group of China, has been recognized in Massachusetts for its contribution in helping the ailing US economy and job market.


    A fully laden COSCO container ship leaves Qingdao Port, Shandong province. Wei Jiafu, chairman of COSCO, said that Chinese companies need to seize opportunities in the US market. Yu Fangping / for China Daily
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  • Robo Granny to the Rescue

    (From China Daily)

    Baby boomers wired to their iPads and smart phones are giving US health experts some new ideas about ways to cut the soaring costs of medical care in graying America.

    Some of the ideas might sound like “Robo Granny”. An astronautical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made a skin-tight undersuit equipped with sensors that can constantly monitor the vital signs of its elderly wearer and feed the data into a computer that fires off health alerts. It was first designed for a landing on Mars.
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