By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Boston, June 13, 2015, — Boston is packed by Boston Pride paraders, Red Sox Fans and dragon boat racers of the 36th Boston Hong Kong Dragon Festival this afternoon. Peking Alumni Association finished the time trials with the best average time of 2:43.9 among the eight teams in the Alumni group.
Peking Alumni Association dragon boat team pose for a picture(file photo).
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Boston, June 12, 2015, — Arrived in Boston to peruse graduate studies in Oct. 1942, Prof. Shih-Ying Lee has stayed in the great Boston area for over 70 years. In the autobiography titled From Tsinghua to M.I.T. — My Journey from Education to Entrepreneurship, published by Boston Bilingual Media & Publishing Inc., Prof. Lee recalled his family history, his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing and in Kunming, and his life in the USA over past 100 years.
Prof. Chen (left) and Mr. and Mrs. Lee pose for a picture (file photo).
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Beijing, June 12, 2015, (ECNS) — Can you touch your belly button with your hand by reaching around the back of your body? The challenge has become an addictive trend on the Internet as women try hard to twist their bodies to complete the feat and show how slim they are, Nanjing-based Modern Express reported.
Chinese speed skating player Zhang Hong performs touching her belly button with her hand from around the back. (Photo/Sina Weibo)
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By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Newton, Mass., June 10, 2015, — If you are in the same business for over 30 years, you probably think there is not much new material to be excited about. This is certainly not the case for Mr. Neil Chyten, who founded Chyten Educational Services in 1984. Author of many SAT/ACT books, Neil Chyten is well known in the test prep business as “the SAT guy” who often stays up well past midnight to write these books.
Neil Chyten (right) and students of Chyten Educational Services (photo by Xinming Li).
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By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Boston, June 8, 2015, — Ms. Feng Chai is a member of Boston Chinese Photographers Association (BCPA). She shared her experiences and photos of traveling to Africa at the GBCCA Yiwen Club lecture in Newton in the evening of June 7.
National bird of Kenya: lilac-breasted roller (all photos by Feng Chai).
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Shanghai, June 7, 2015, /ecns.cn/ — Giant pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo, but the endangered species appears not to have evolved a gut microbiota to efficiently digest bamboo, a Chinese study found recently.
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Boston, June 5, 2015, — The annual conference of NECINA will be held on June 13 at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 93 Worcester St., Wellesley, MA 02481. This year’s conference will provide attendees with insight into the great opportunities provided in healthcare by sharing the expertise of leaders in investment, technology research, development and implementation, how to navigate the new laws and policies affecting the sector, and how to advance your career effectively with the best practices in business leadership.
NECINA President Ben Tao speaks at NECINA annual conference in June 2014(file photo).
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WASHINGTON, DC – The economy added 280,000 jobs in May—the strongest month of the year so far—as wages continued to rise and the participation rate ticked upward. We have now added 5.6 million jobs over the past two years, the best two-year job growth since 2000. Although the job market has made considerable progress throughout this recovery, challenges remain for our economy and there is more work to do. The President is committed to extending the positive underlying trends through a comprehensive agenda to boost employment and wages for the middle class, including opening new markets for U.S. goods and services through expanded trade, increasing investments in infrastructure, providing relief from the sequester, and raising the minimum wage.
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Guangzhou, China, June 4, 2015, /Xinhua/ — China’s first confirmed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patient was still in serious condition, the health and family planning commission of Guangdong Province said Thursday.
A man from the Republic of Korea (ROK) tested positive for MERS in Guangdong on May 29. He is being treated at Huizhou Municipal Central Hospital.
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Wuhan, China, June 2, 2015, /ecns.cn/ — Divers are now underwater and they can hear banging coming from within the ship, as the search and rescue operations continue after a passenger ship sank Monday night in central China’s Hubei province.
Rescuers work at the ship sinking site in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in central China (from ecns.cn).
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