BEIJING, Dec. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Wanda Sports Holdings Co. signed a cooperation agreement with the Xiamen Municipal Government on December 24. Under the agreement, Xiamen will become the first city to host Ironman events in China.
Wang Jianlin, CEO of Wanda Group, lectures at Harvard University.
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Xiamen to Host First Ironman Event in China
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Chinese Consulate Hosts 2016 New Year Reception in Boston
By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Boston, Dec. 29, 2015, — Close to 300 guests attended 2016 New Year Reception at Boston Harbor Hotel hosted by Chinese Consulate General in New York yesterday evening. Ambassador Zhang Qiyue, Consul General of the Chinese Consulate, delivered a speech that highlighted the achievements in Sino-US relations over the past year. Representatives of Gov. Baker and Mayor Walsh along with elected officials attended the reception.
Ambassador Zhang(3rd from right, front row) and members of Chinese Progressive Association pose for a picture (photos by Xinming Li).
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Rising Star — Wellesley College Wushu Team
By Li Qiang, translated by Cecille Yang
Located in the western Boston suburbs, Wellesley College is the famed alma mater of notable female Chinese figures like Soong Mei-Ling and Bing Xing and US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Recently, the Wellesley Wushu Team attended the 2015 Cultural Day event on campus, featuring a 9-minute wushu performance with demonstrations on all sorts of Chinese weapons： straight sword, broadsword, three-section cudgel and staff. Their performances garnered enthusiastic cheering from about a thousand audience members composed of distinguished professors and students alike.
Group picture of Wellesley College Wushu Team （photos provided to bostonese.com).
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Pictures from Singtao Meiya Book Club Xmas Lecture
Photos by Fenfang Mei
The first lecture of Singtao Meiya Book Club was held on Dec. 19, 2015 at Singtao Daily office in Boston Chinatown. Ms. Shuping Yao, Mr. Bin Liu and Mr. Tianhan Guo were the three speakers for this event. This is the first ever lecture by the Singtao Meiya Book Club.
Please check out some pictures by photographer Fenfang Mei below.
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Tsinghua Graduate Introduces Healthy Chinese Food in the US
New York City, Dec. 23, 2015, (xinhua) — “The Chinese food is popular in the United States. There are more than 43,000 establishments, and with an annual sales of over 25 billion dollars, it is the secondly most popular takeout cuisine in America,” said Wang Rui, a co-founder of Cuckoo Kitchen.
Screen shot of Cuckoo’s website on Dec. 23, 2015.
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Near 100 People Missing after Landslide in Shenzhen, China
Shenzhen, China, Dec. 21, 2015,（Xinhua） — Seventy-eight excavators and 1,200 rescuers have been added to the operation searching for the 91 people missing after Sunday’s landslide in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
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Register Now: 2016 Chinese New Year Indoor Soccer Tournament
Boston, Dec. 17, 2015, — Youth soccer players, a long snowy winter is cancelling good chances of playing soccer outdoors. Do you have a strong hunger for footballing due to inclement weather conditions? Stronger than ever?
Soccer players clear a field after a blizzard in early 2015.
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World Internet Conference — ‘White-hat’ Hackers Key Force in Cyber Security
Wuzhen, China, Dec. 17, 2015 (source: China Daily, Cao Yin) — A very small office near the Sixth Ring Road in Beijing houses a very big dream, one that’s shared by thousands of Internet security enthusiasts across China.
Internet security enthusiasts participate in a session related to the prevention of telecommunications fraud during a forum organized by Wooyun, China’s largest online “white-hat” hacker community, held in Beijing in July. (Photo/China Daily)
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195 Nations Set Path to Keep Temperature Rise Below 2 Degrees Celsius
Paris, 12 December 2015 – An historic agreement to combat climate change and unleash actions and investment towards a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future was agreed by 195 nations in Paris today.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second left); Christiana Figueres (right), Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); Laurent Fabius (second right), Minister for Foreign Affairs of France and President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) and Franois Hollande (right), President of France celebrate reaching the historic agreement.
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U.S. Mayors Report Highlights a Decade of Global Climate Leadership
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As part of the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP 21, in Paris, leaders of The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) released a report from the organization’s Mayors Climate Protection Center calling attention to how U.S. mayors have been global climate leaders over the last decade. Titled U.S. Mayors Report on a Decade of Global Climate Leadership, the report was released during the Climate Change Conference’s signature event for American mayors at the residence of U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second left); Christiana Figueres (right), Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); Laurent Fabius (second right), Minister for Foreign Affairs of France and President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) and Franois Hollande (right), President of France celebrate
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