Chief Justice Roberts, Vice President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Vice President Pence, distinguished guests, and my fellow Americans.
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Joe Biden Inauguration Speech Stresses National Unity
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Letter to MIT Chancellor Calls Arrest of Prof Chen “worst cases of academic racism”
Boston, Jan. 15, 2021, — FBI agents Prof. Gang Chen of MIT on Jan. 14, 2021, and charged that Prof Chen committed wire fraud, failed to file a foreign bank account report and made a false statement in a tax return. The letter titled “MIT and racism Re: A slippery road” below was written by Prof Yi Rao of Peking University.
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Happy Fourth Birthday, UCA!
Four years ago, about 400 Chinese Americans gathered in our nation’s capital, henceforth the birth of a civic movement and a new chapter in Chinese American history. The occasion was the first “Chinese American Convention,” the spiritual start of United Chinese Americans (UCA) movement!
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BCPA 2020 One Photo a Week by Guozhong Li
BCPA 2020 One Photo a Week 一周一拍
Boston Chinese Photographer Association (BCPA) “2020 One Photo a Week” aims to train its members to capture the unusual moments in daily lives. 活动目的在训练观察，主要在日常平凡的生活中发现并记录下不平凡的瞬间。只有新奇才能产生震撼 !
波士顿华人摄影协会（BCPA）2020年每周一拍活动 本项活动目的在训练观察，主要在日常平凡的生活中发现并记录下不平凡的瞬间。只有新奇才能产生震撼 !
The following 15 photos over 15 weeks were shot by Mr. Guozhong Li, who was president of BCPA in 2015. Mr. Li passed away on June 3, 2020 at age 57.
Week 1：12/30, New Year Just Started 新年伊始
Week 2：1/6, Everything with new colors 万象新颜
Week 3：1/13, Not too cold yet 三九寒冬－还没来
Week 4：1/20, Owl wishes Happy Chinese New Year of Rat 中国新年－猫给鼠拜年了
Week 5：1/27, Many colors 色彩斑斓
Week 6：2/3, My goddess 我的女神
我像胡杨等你3千年。。。
Week 7：2/10: Black holes 圆
俩个黑洞合并，产生了巨大引力波, 这引力波走了13亿光年来到了地球，被地球人类探测到了。
Week 8：2/17: handsome brother 帅哥
Week 9：2/24, Chasing light ans shadow 追光逐影
Week 10：3/2: Delicious 美味佳肴。烤全羊是不。。。
Week 11：3/9: Red 红
Week 12：3/16: You and Me 我与你
Week 13：3/23: Daily Upward 天天向上
Week 14：3/30: Outside Window 窗外
Week 15：4/6: Qingming Season 清明时节
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Funeral of WWII Hero Arthur Wong Held Today
May 1, 2020, — Mr. Arthur Wong of Boston Chinatown passed away on April 26, 2020 at age 96. The funeral of Mr. Wong was held today at Deware Funeral Home in Quincy, Mass.
Only eight people were allowed in the funeral home due to the COVID-19 pandemic related restrictions. Mr. Rich Wong, son of Arthur Wong, told bostonese.com that Arthur passed away Sunday night at his apartment in Chinatown with family members along side.
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BCMA Youth Orchestra Calls for Donations for Coronavirus Fight
Boston, Feb. 21, 2020, — The Boston Chinese Musicians Association Youth Orchestra (BCMA Youth Orchestra), a non-profit performance arts organization, was founded in January 2019. It is an extension of the Boston Chinese Musicians Association (BCMA), (link http://bcma.us/index.html ). Both groups are dedicated to promoting the long lost sounds of traditional Chinese instruments and vocals.
We are composed of 10 to 18 year old middle and high school students with musical training. Our orchestra is made up of both Chinese and Western musical instruments.
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BEA Releases First Official Release of Gross Domestic Product by County
BEA Graphic on Percent Change in Real GDP by County, 2018, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 2,375 counties, decreased in 717, and was unchanged in 21 in 2018, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The percentage change in real GDP ranged from 86.5 percent in Jackson County, WV, to -44.0 percent in Grant County, ND.
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The “Double Dealers” in “Legal Elites” behind the Hong Kong Riots
Hong Kong, Nov. 8, 2019, — On Oct. 14, the Hong Kong law society dropped huge news that Edwin Choy Wai-Bond, former chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association and a certified Senior Counsel, resigned from the bar association. He reprimanded the “shameful silence” the bar association had for rioters’ act of violence. He believes that it runs in the opposite direction with the principle of rule of law that the bar association took a political stand to target the police and indulge the rioters’ violent behaviors.
An editorial by Edwin Choy Wai-Bond on South China Morning Post.
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Directory Huang Speaks at Cambridge Public Library
By Victor Chen, bostonese.com
Boston, Sept. 6, 2019, — A good documentary film can bring a topic into focus by the public, and might also save a historical bookstore. On Tuesday this week, the Cambridge Public Library of Massachusetts invited Chinese international filmmaker and director Weiying Olivia Huang to hold a documentary film screening and discussion of “Grolier Poetry Book Shop: The Last Sacred Place of Poetry”. The symposium also invited a well-known poet of Massachusetts, Doug Holder, who is the founder of Ibbetson Street Press, to participate in a discussion with Director Huang after the screening.
Doug Holder(left) and director Huang(right) at the event.
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Photo Exhibition of US-China Relations in Past 40 Years Opens in Boston Common
Boston, June 23, 2019, — A photo exhibition marking the 40th Anniversary of US-China diplomatic relations opened this afternoon in Boston Common. State Senator Joe Bencore, Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, Deputy Consul General Qiu Jian of Chinese Consulate in New Year and hundreds of guests attended the opening ceremony.
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