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  • Prof. Guoping Zhang Deliveres Keynote Speech at Global Corporate Governance Symposium in Harvard University

    By Wendy Wang, contributing reporter for bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass., May 6, 2015, — Global Corporate Governance Forum：Finance Risk and Social Governance was held at Science Center, Harvard University on April 26, 2015. This is the symposium and seminar on the theme of corporate governance hosted and supported by CACG (China Association for Corporate Governance). Professor Guoping Zhang, CEO of China Association for Corporate Governance (CACG), Wertheim Fellow and visiting scholar at Harvard University and NBER, served as chairman of the Global Corporate Governance Symposium and delivered a keynote speech.
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    President of Global Corporate Governance Forum-Guoping Zhang-CACG （photos by Wendy Wang and Cynthia Kim）.
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  • Two Malden Students Win $10K Scholarship from NAAAP Boston

    Malend, Mass., May 7, 2015, — Mayor Gary Christenson recently attended the National Association of Asian American Professionals Boston Chapter (NAAAP Boston) 2015 Celebration for Future Leaders Gala and congratulated two Malden students for winning significant scholarships.
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    (Frim left)Emily Luu, Mayor Christenson and Eugine Szeto pose for a picture(provided to bostonese.com)
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  • Displaced Tenants Hold Tent City in Quincy Center

    Quincy, Mass., May 6, 2015, — Displaced tenants and their supporters set up tents in Quincy Center Tuesday afternoon to protest the actions of First Suffolk LLC, a development company based in the law offices of Matera Vopat Matera & Johnson in Quincy Center.
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    Karen Chen, Co-Director of the Chinese Progressive Association, translates for Luan Jiao Lin, 101 Hudson St. tenant.
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  • Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus Becomes the First Woman to Receive IEEE Medal of Honor

    Boston, May 4, 2015, — Information letter from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to its member Dr. Xingcai Zhang (who got five degrees in STEM, and is also known as Dr. Tea, the Founder of www.mylovetea.com) says: “This June, when the IEEE confers its highest accolade, the IEEE Medal of Honor, upon Mildred Dresselhaus, that will break a nearly century-long streak during which the award was given only to men.
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    Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, Prof. Jing Kong (MIT), Prof Yingying Zhang(Tsinghua University) and Dr.Xingcai Zhang(Dr. Tea , Founder of My Love Tea) were speakers and they posed at 2010 MSNT conference (provided to bostonese.com)
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  • Three MA Students Named 2015 U.S. Presidential Scholars

    Boston, May 4, 2015, — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the 51st class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, recognizing 141 high school seniors for their accomplishments in academics or the arts. Local students Andrea Ning of Bedford High School, Andrew S. Metz of Longmeadow High School, and Claire E. Dickson of Dickson Home School received this prestigious honor.
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    Andrea Ning is on BHS’s honor roll(file photo).
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  • Martin Meehan Named Next Persident of UMass System

    Boston, May 1, 2015, — Martin T. Meehan, a former US congressman who became chancellor of his alma mater, UMass Lowell, and transformed it into a highly ranked national research university, was unanimously elected today as the next president of the five-campus UMass system.
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    Mr. Meehan resigned from US House of Repsentatives to become Chancellor of UMass Lowell eight years ago(file photo).
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  • Cathay Pacific Launches Hong Kong to Boston Nonstop Flight Today with Boeing 777-300ER

    Boston, May 3, 2015, — Boeing and Cathay Pacific celebrated delivery of 50th Boeing 777-300ER (Extented Range) in the fleet of the airline of Hong Kong on Thursday, April 30. Cathay also opened its new service to Boston today.
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  • WWII Veteran Henry Oi Remembered at Late Glory Book Release Party

    By Victor Chen, bostonese.com

    Boston, April 30, 2015, — “He was my best friend. He flew fighter plane in Southern France when I landed on Omaha Beach on D Day,” recalled Mr. Arthur Wong at a book release party for biography Late Glory at Empire Garden on April 24. Mr. Wong was speaking of his long-time friend and fellow WWII veteran Henry Oi.
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    Mr. Arthur Wong(2nd from right, front row) and friends at the book release party(photo by Victor Chen).
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  • MIT Asian Economic Conference Attracts Business Leaders

    By Jing Xia, bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass., April 28, 2015, — The MIT fifth annual Asian Economic Conference was recently held the MIT Media Lab, which was organized by the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sohu, Yamah and other famous Asian corporate sponsors. Alibaba, MassMutual Holding and more than 20-well-known business executives were invited as guest speakers, with over 500 attendees.
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  • The tranSMART Platform Wins Three Awards at Bio-IT 2015

    Open-Source Knowledge Management Platform Wins Best-of-Show Award and Used on Winning Projects of the Best Practices and Best Poster Awards


    Wakefield, Massachusetts – April 28, 2015 – ThetranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced that its platform won three awards at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo April 21-23, 2015 in Boston, Mass., including Best-of-Show, Best Practices and Best Poster Awards.
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    Ken Kubota, Director of Data Science at the Michael J. Fox Foundation with Keith Elliston, CEO of The tranSMART Foundation (provided to bostonese.com).
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