By David Li, bostonese.com
Cambridge, Mass., August 12, 2014, — Harvard Yard was full of visitors during summer vacation. A group of close to 30 Chinese students in Rainbow Bridge T-Shirt sat in a circle not far from the stature of John Harvard.
A Harvard student(right) introduces history of Harvard to Chinese students(photo by David Li).
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New York City, August 12, 2014, — New York Chinese Opera Society (NYCOS) will host the First Annual Showcase Concert of Classic Peking Opera Shows by Excellent Amateurs in Eastern U.S. on August 23. The concert will feature esteemed amateurs from Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and the New York area, as well as the Youth Troupe of NYCOS.
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By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist
Medford, August 11, 2014, — Some of you didn’t make “THE” party of the year by Boston Beijing Operation Association(BBOA) on Sunday. It’s your loss. Sorry to say that. We had a wonderful time eating(stuff to our faces), chatting(no one was listening to others), singing(wild) and performing(wonderful and astonishing).
Group picture at the party (photo by Bo Yang).
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REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT A DSCC EVENT
Private Residence
Tisbury, Massachusetts
6:05 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Thank you. (Applause.) Well, first of all, can we all thank Roger and Linda for this unbelievable setting? (Applause.) This is absolutely gorgeous. And I understand that we also have some outstanding young musicians from the Berkeley School. So let’s give them a big round of applause. (Applause.) Thank you very much.
President Barack Obama receives a NSS briefing in the Oval Office, Aug. 8, 2014. Clockwise from the President’s left are National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice; Tony Blinken, Deputy National Security Advisor; Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to the Vice President; and Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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By David Li, bostonese.com, photos by John Tsou
Boston, August 8, 2014, — The fourth Asian American Festival arts gala was held at the Fenway Center in the evening of August 2, 2014. Close to 300 in the audience enjoyed a night of beautiful music and dance that celebrated the rich cultures and long history of Asian countries.
Saxophone solo Jasmine by Hongwei Gao from Asian American Arts Group (photo by John Tsou).
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Beijing, August 8, 2014, — The Chinese media have been overwhelmed by a pop song, Little Apple, by the Chopstick Brothers. Called “brainwashing pop song” by many, Little Apple has become popular overnight in China like Gangnam Style or Tante (Perturbed) in the recent past.
Police officers perform the square dance Little Apple in Jilin city of northeast China’s Jilin province on July 29, 2014. Chinese pop duo Chopsticks Brothers’ new song Little Apple has become an internet sensation after being remixed and re-edited by fans across China since it was released in May. [Photo/Cang Yan]
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New York City, August 7, 2014, (xinhuanet.com) — China Southern Airlines, the country’s largest air carrier by fleet size, launched non-stop flights between Guangzhou and New York on Wednesday.
Si Xianmin (second from left), president of the China Southern Air Holding Company and chairman of China Southern Airlines Company Limited attends a ceremony in New York, the United States, on Aug 6, 2014. (Photo/Xinhua)
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By Ching-Yu Hsieh, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism
The government has actively opened the restriction on the number of tourists from Mainland China to Taiwan since 2008, and lead to the number of group tourists from Mainland China redoubling, and it has replaced Japanese tourists and becomes a large amount of tourists enter Taiwan. It has great importance that the issue on servicing the tourists from Mainland China to Taiwan by professional Chinese speaking tour guides.
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By Tong Zhang, bostonese.com
Cambridge, Mass., August 4, 2014, — If you want to get latest updates on global innovation, there is no better place than the classroom of MIT. Lecturers from Harvard University, MIT and Tsinghua University delivered insightful speeches on Innovation and Entrepreneurship yesterday at MIT Sloan School of Management, a few blocks away from Kendall Square subway station. About 80 members of MIT-CHIEF, delegation of Tsinghua educational management to USA, scholars and students from Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Beijing Normal University attended the seminar.
Speakers and organizers pose for a group picture (photo by Tong Zhang).
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August 4, 2014, — The White House on Sunday offered condolences over loss of lives in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, where a strong earthquake befell earlier in the day, saying the United States was ready to help.
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