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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By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, June 9, 2014, — The annual meeting of New England Chinese Information & Networking Association（NECINA） was held at Two Financial Center in the morning of June 7. About 250 members and guests attended the annual meeting with the theme of “Technology Innovations and the Changing Face of Global Manufacturing Economies.”
Michael Wang and X2 Technology won the grand prize of NEW 2.0 at the annual meeting (photo by David Li).
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By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, June 9, 2014, –It was 16 years ago when I first came to know the Sharewood Project in the Fall of 1998. I gradated from a master’s program earlier that year, and was working part-time for Singtao Daily newspaper. I went to report the weekly clinic by Sharewood Project at the Church of All Nations in Boston Chinatown.
The Sharewood clinic was in this church back in 1998. It’s now in the First Church in Malden, Mass. (file photo).
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Cambridge, Mass., June 9, 2014, — Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association New England (SAPA-NE) annual conference will take place at MIT Sloan School of Management Tang Center on June 21, 2014 (8:00 am – 5:30 pm). This year the theme of the conference is “Open Innovation and Global Collaboration: Improve efficiency and productivity of pharmaceutical & Biotech Industries”.
Awards were handed out at 2013 SAPA-NE’s annual conference (file photo).
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Sharon, Mass., June 7, 2014, –This morning on Billings Street there was an animal seen that is believed to be a bobcat. Please read below for some tips on how to best deal with this.
The picture above was taken by a Sharon resident in her backyard.
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（CCTV news）June 6, 2014 was the 70th anniversary of the World War II invasion of Normandy, better known as D-Day. The event marked the beginning of the French liberation from Nazi Germany.
President Obama participated in a group photo of world leaders attending the D-Day 70th anniversary ceremonies at Château de Bénouville in Bénouville, France.
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Salt Lake City, June 6, 2014, — As 2014 World Cup is just seven days away, soccer is in focus by tens of millions of players and fans around the world.
Cam Cameron grew up in Ann Arbor Michigan as the youngest of seven children and fell in love with soccer from an early age. He understood early on that soccer can be an expensive sport for any family. Many players have experienced friends, family, and teammates who have been unable to continue to play due to cost prevention. He had a goal to play college soccer and nearly had this goal wiped away after suffering a broken leg in both his sophomore and junior seasons of high school. These are important years in college recruiting and after a standpoint senior season, Cam was recruited by Michigan and earned a scholarship while playing.
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A nice single family house in quiet area of Newton highland is on sale by owner before going onto market. It is about 2000SF plus 1000SF finished and walkout basement, 6000SF beautiful yard, walking distance to Contryside elementary school, couple mins drive to Brown middle school and NSHS, close to road 9, 95 and 90, with lots of upgrade recently. Ask for $600-700K.
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Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Omaha Beach
Normandy, France
11:16 A.M. CET
PRESIDENT OBAMA: President Hollande; to the people of France; friends; the family; our veterans:
If prayer were made of sound, the skies over England that night would have deafened the world.
Mr. Arthur Wong, a D-Day veteran, lives in Boston Chinatown (photo by David Li).
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New York City, June 5, 2014, –The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be ESPN’s eighth World Cup and most comprehensive presentation to date. ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will combine to air all 64 matches live and in high definition (June 12 – July 13). All ESPN and ESPN2 games will be available on WatchESPN, while ABC matches will be available on WATCH ABC. ESPN3, ESPN’s live multi-screen sports network available in more than 85 million homes, will present matches live in multiple languages (other than English and Spanish).
Biden(left) and Kerry applaud the arrival of World Cup Trophy in a April 2014 ceremony (from state.gov).
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