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  • Nonstop Flight between Boston and China to Bring Golden Opportunities

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, June 17, 2014, — As the launch of nonstop flight between Boston and Beijing is only three days away, local travel agencies are preparing for the increasing number of tourists from China with the nonstop flights. China has become the No. 1 country in the world in terms of tourists traveling abroad. Sunshine Travel shared the following photo on Weibo, a popular social media platform in Chinese language.
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    Hainan Airlines to provide free shuttle bus service from downtown Boston to Logan Airport to celebrate the launching of the nonstop flight.
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  • Boston Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Meets Father’s Day

    By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist

    Medford, Mass., June 16, 2014, –I went by public transportation at noon time yesterday, taking bus and subway to Harvard Square. And then I walked to the bank of Charles River to join the festivity.
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  • Chris Yen — Boston Native Turned Movie Star

    By Jean Lukitsh

    If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to live in one of those classic kung fu movies – you know, the kind where everyone around you, up to and including your Grandma is an ace martial artist? Then ask Chris Yen. Daughter of legendary master Bow Sim Mark and kid sister of Asia’s superstar Donnie Yen, Chris grew up in her mom’s kung fu school in Boston, getting the kind of total immersion training that is seldom seen anymore outside of the movies!
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    Chris Yen trains with her mother and brother in Boston (file photo).
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  • Brief History Chinese Americans in World War II

    From chineseamericanheroes.org

    World War II didn’t start on December 7, 1941, the “Day of Infamy” with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It didn’t even start on September 1, 1939 with the German invasion of Poland. The seeds of World War II started in the immediate aftermath of World War I, both in Europe and in Asia. China had entered that war on the side of the Allies, fully expecting that the Allied Powers would support the return of Germany’s Chinese colonies to the Chinese people after the war. President Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” declaration that national self- determination should decide the future fate of colonized peoples gave hope to many around the world but the final terms of the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I betrayed all of them. British and French colonies simply expanded around the world while giving the Allied blessing to Japanese colonial expansion in China.
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    Arthur Wong joined US Army in 1943 in Boston (file photo).
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  • Wu Dengming, A Green Fighter/ “绿林好汉”吴登明

    Wu Dengming, environmental activist, died on July 19, 2013 at age 73.
    吴登明，环保运动者，7月19日逝世，享年73岁。

    IN THE main room of the small, old-fashioned house, stacked full of books, an old fan scarcely moved the stuffy air around. Wu Dengming’s daughter kept pleading for air-conditioning. Elsewhere in Chongqing, China’s fastest-growing inland city, where 10m people lived in a battery of skyscrapers, almost everyone had it. Mr Wu would not hear of it. It was expensive, and was not green. He had a dream of making everyone in the city turn their coolers to 26ºC, and no lower. Why not? He had managed to organise Chongqing’s first no-car day, in 2006, and as a result—perhaps—you could sometimes glimpse blue sky through the smog that blanketed the place.
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  • Jannie Mark Receives Visionary Award at QARI Community Banquet

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Quincy, Mass., June 9, 2014, — The seventh Quincy Asian Resources Inc. community banquet were held on May 30 at China Pearl in Quincy. Close to 600 guests, including candidate for governor State Treasurer Steve Grossman, candidate for Lt. Governor Cambridge City Councilor Leland Cheung, participated in the banquet.
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    Jannie Mark (second from right) honored at the banquet (photo by David Li).
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  • A Hockey Relationship between Father and Son

    By Christopher Kerrigan, Boston College

    Some people believe that a father and his children can strengthen their relationship by participating in sporting activities together. Based on my experiences while growing up, this theory is precisely accurate. Of course the love my father has for my older sister, my older brother, and me is equally deep; however, I feel as though the relationship I have with my father is very special. We not only love each other, but we also share a love for ice hockey.
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  • President Obama Speaks at Weston Fundraising Event

    REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT A DSCC EVENT

    Private Residence
    Weston, Massachusetts
    June 11, 2014
    7:29 P.M. EDT

    THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Well, it is wonderful to see Paul and Joanne really have been there from the get-go. And I’ve had the pleasure of their friendship and support — when people couldn’t pronounce my name in a lot of places — (laughter) — and I so appreciate the risk they took with me. And it means so much to be in their home today.
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    President Obama arrives in Logain Airport in June 2013 (file photo).
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  • Nanjing Massacre and “Comfort Women” Might Be Listed as “Memory of World”

    Beijing, June 11 (Xinhua) — China on Wednesday rejected Japan’s call for it to withdraw an application to register records of Japan’s wartime sex slaves with UNESCO.

    “We will not accept Japan’s unreasonable protest, and will not drop our application,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing.
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    China asks UNESCO to list archives of Nanjing Massacre & comfort women as “Memory of World”.
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  • Bill to Change NYC Specialized High School Admissions Draws Concerns

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    New York City, June 10, 2014, — There are nine specialized high schools in New York City. They were established to serve the needs of academically and artistically gifted students by Department of Education of the city.

    N.Y. Senate bill S7738 made front page news on today’s World Journal, one of the largest Chinese daily newspapers in North America. The following is a picture of the front page story.
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