Quincy, Mass., Sept. 29, 2014, – The Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center(BCNC) is pleased to announce that Granite Telecommunications, LLC, a provider of communications solutions to businesses, contributed $3,583 to BCNC Quincy through Jeans Day, a Granite initiative where employees can wear casual dress in exchange for contributing to a designated non-profit organization. BCNC Quincy, the recipient of the September 5 Jeans Day, provides youth programs, family services, and adult education programs to residents from Quincy and the surrounding South Shore communities.
Russell Fenton(left), Director of Programs and Operations, BCNC Quincy, accepts the check from Eric Diaz, Regional Account Manager at Granite Telecommunications (photo provided to bostonese.com).
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Granite Employees Support Quincy Asian Community
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Joyce Chen Among Five Celebrity Chefs Honored on Forever Stamps
Chicago, Sept. 26, 2014, — The Postal Service cooked up a feast of 20 million Limited Edition Celebrity Chefs Forever stamps today. The sugar-free, fat-free, zero-calorie stamps will be on the menu of the nation’s Post Offices beginning today.
Joyce Chen (1917–1994) made Chinese food popular in Boston.
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New England Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Confucius Institute
Kingston, R.I., Sept. 28, 2014, –Five Confucius Institutes at the New England area of US Saturday held a Chinese Culture Night in Providence, Rhode Island, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the first overseas Confucius Institute.
Confucius Institute Day celebration at Sandwich, Mass. High School (file photo).
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Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai Draws 10,000 Attendees
Huawei Builds on Cloud-Centric IT Strategy at Huawei Cloud Congress
Launches future-oriented SD-DC² architecture, innovative cloud OS and converged storage systemShanghai, China, Sept. 16, 2014, –Huawei today underscored its ambition to maximize value for customers by simplifying IT systems and making businesses agile with more open, converged, and innovative technologies, at the Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC) 2014. At the annual event, Huawei will launch a series of innovative IT solutions – including data centers, converged storage, cloud operating systems (OS) and Big Data analytics platforms – that bring to life Huawei’s vision to “Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile.”
Eric Xu, Rotating CEO of Huawei, speaking at Huawei Cloud Congress 2014
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Moore Police Statement on Fired Empolyee Beheading Coworker Case
9-26-2014
Sgt. Jeremy Lewis, Moore, OK, Police DepartmentMoore Police received a 911 call from 216 NE 12th (Vaughn Foods) in reference to a subject attacking employees inside the business. As officers responded the caller advised someone had been stabbed then gunshots were fired inside the business. Officers entered the business treating it as an active shooter incident.
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Mayor Walsh Announces the Neighborhood Innovation District Committee
Boston, Sept. 26, 2014, –Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the formation of a “Neighborhood Innovation District Committee” to expand innovation and entrepreneurship in the City of Boston today. The Neighborhood Innovation District Committee will seek to identify policies, practices, and infrastructure improvements to support the development of innovation districts throughout the City. The first meeting will be October 1 from 6:00PM to7:30PM at the Roxbury Community College at Roxbury Community College, Media Arts Room 1 (Room 301) at 1234 Columbus Avenue. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Gov. Patrick and Mayor Walsh tour Vertex Pharmaceuticals early this year (file photo).
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“The Almost Effect” Traditional Chinese Medicine Forum to Be Held at Harvard Medical School
“The Almost Effect” and Integrative Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine Forum-HMS
Date and Time: 1:30 pm to 5:30pm Saturday, Oct 18th, 2014
Location: Shapiro 10 Conference Room, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA
Group picture from Traditional Chinese Medicine Forum in July 2013 (photo by David Li).
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Learning Chinese and Chasing My Dreams
By Victor Liang, Recipient of the Noreen Chung Scholarship
To be able to write, read, and speak Cantonese are the necessary requirements to receive the Chung Scholarship, so what better way to express my ability in Chinese than to write an application essay in Chinese?
In Fall of 2013, I became the first recipient of the Chung Scholarship and felt very honored to receive this award. I never knew that my hard work throughout my life would finally pay off. A quick summary of my background, I am Victor Liang, 19, and currently at Northeastern University studying Computer Engineering.
Victor Liang (left) receives the Chung Scholarship at CHSNE’s annual meeting on Spet. 24, 2014.
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2014 CHSNE Annual Report and Sojourner Award
By Sherry Dong, president of Chinese History Society of New England (CHSNE), on Sept. 24, 2014
Halfway through the week, we hope we can help you ease into the weekend with the Chinese Historical Society of New England’s annual banquet. Thank you Susan Chinsen for introducing tonight’s program.
Last year we were pleased to welcome Susan as our managing director. As you’ll see in more depth in our Chronicle, in this past year, Susan and CHSNE have been very busy programming, offering a range of lectures, field trips, tours, films, theatre and other activities to reach out to the broader community and fulfill our mission. We hope you were able to join us for some of those offerings and plan to participate in more this coming program year.
(R to L)Susan Chinsen and Sherry Dong present Sojourner Award to Peter Lew, Leslie Swartz and Nancy Sato who founded Boston Dragon Boat Festival 35 years ago (photos by David Li).
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World Leaders Reflect on “a terrible year” at United Nations
New York City, Sept. 24, 2014, — WORLD LEADERS AT START OF ANNUAL DEBATE TO ‘FIND AND NURTURE SEEDS OF HOPE’
The world’s fasten seat belt light is illuminated, with turbulence testing the multilateral system, national institutions and people’s lives, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today as he opened the sixty-ninth session’s general debate.
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