Boston, July 18, 2016, — An international cast of students will perform the influential music of Leehom Wang, the best-selling Mandarin-language musician of his generation on Nov. 13 at Boston Symphony Hall. At the concert, Leehom will receive an honorary doctor of music degree and join the Berklee musicians in performance.
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Leehom Wang to Receive Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from Berklee
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Please help me save my husband Danny Wu!
Dearest friends:
Please help me save my husband Danny Ximing Wu!
Ximing Wu was recently diagnosed with end stage liver cancer and I would like to ask for your help. Aside from being a wonderful, loving father and husband, Ximing is a 35-year-old postdoc at the Massachusetts General Hospital Transplant Science Center.
Danny Wu and his wife Lynn Lin at MGH(photos by Li Qiang).
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5G Opens Doors for New Market Leaders
Boston, July 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — 5G will usher in a new era with new players disrupting the current service provider landscape, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Operator Strategies service, “Mobile Service Evolution on the Road to 5G.” These new players will compete with traditional service providers to offer new “as a service” business models and network slicing for dynamic on-demand, service specific network provisioning to address the needs of particular use cases and services.
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2016 Miss Earth China (Boston) Calls for Sponsors
On behalf of the organizing committee of 2016 Miss Earth China (Boston), I sincerely appreciate your consideration to be a sponsor of our upcoming Miss Earth China (Boston) to be held in August, 2016. This year, the competition will upgrade its scale, and the entire process will be highly focused and tracked by multiple medias.
Jing Xu (front) and the Miss Earth China (Boston) team.
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Pianist Andrew Li — A Rising Star
By Li Qiang, bostonese.com
Boston, July 12, 2016, — Just days before leaving for the Cooper Competition, Andrew Li gave an amazing recital at M Steinert and Sons in downtown Boston. About 80 music fans packed the small hall on the third floor of 162 Boylston St., right across Boston Common. They were treated with a night of beautiful music from one the of the rising stars in classic music in Boston.
Andrew (right) and George pose for a picture before the recital (photos by Li Qiang).
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Feng Zhang, 34, among Five Faculty Members Granted Tenure at MIT School of Science
(Original title: Five School of Science faculty members granted tenure. From MIT News)
Cambridge, Mass., — The School of Science recently announced that five of its faculty members have been granted tenure by MIT.
Clockwise from top left: Oliver Jagoutz, Markus Klute, Elizabeth Nolan, Philippe Rigollet, Feng Zhang.
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Asian American Youth: Black Lives Matter to Us, Too
(This is a crowd-sourced letter written and edited by hundreds of Asian-Americans who felt the need to speak earnestly and honestly with their parents about race in America. Although it was created in the aftermath of the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the letters takes aim at the long-standing and complex issues of racism, anti-Blackness and police violence in Asian-American communities and families.)
Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother:
We need to talk.
You may not have grown up around people who are Black, but I have. Black people are a fundamental part of my life: they are my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family. Today, I’m scared for them.
Asian Americans demand justice for Akai Gurley.
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QARI’s Survival English Class Visits Star Market
Quincy, Mass., July 7, 2016, — Quincy Asian Resources’ (QARI) wonderful volunteer teacher, Kim Chan, recently led the seniors of our Mandarin Survival English class to a fun field trip to a supermarket to master some new English vocabularies.
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BCNC and CPA Graduate First Retail Skills Training Class of the Year
Boston, July 5, 2016, — The Retail Skills Training graduated its first class of five students today. The class was provided by the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) and the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA). The program is supported by the Neighborhoods Jobs Trust of the City of Boston.
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Michael Contompasis Appointed as Interim Head Master of Boston Latin School
June 28, 2016 – Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang announced today that he has selected celebrated educational leader Michael Contompasis as the interim head master of Boston Latin School and longtime BPS educator Jerry Howland as the associate head master.
Dr. Chang and BLS senior Phillip Sossou, who created portraits of all BLS seniors.
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