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  • The First Lady’s Travel Journal: Visiting Ancient City Xi’an

    Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts atWhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.

    Xi’an, China, — March 24, 2014, — This morning we left Beijing and flew for about two hours to Xi’an, a city of more than 7 million people in central China.  If Xi’an were in America, it would be the second-largest city in the country – trailing only New York City – but in China, a nation of more than 1 billion people, Xi’an isn’t even in the top ten.

    First Lady Michelle Obama, Sasha, Malia and Marian Robinson tour the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi'an, China on March 24, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)
    First Lady Michelle Obama, Sasha, Malia and Marian Robinson tour the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi’an, China on March 24, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)

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  • At Least 17 People Injured in Beacon Street Nine-alarm Fire

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, March 26, 2013, — A nine-alarm file was reported this afternoon on Beacon Street between Fairfield and Exeter Streets tonight. Many users of WeChat shared the following news update on the popular mobile social media app just before the start of evening commute.
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  • NPR: The Internet Can Be ‘A Scary Place’ with Tech Outsourcing

    By Aarti Shahani for NPR News, aired on KQED station

    When you hear the word outsourcing, you might think of threats to American jobs. To cyber experts, there’s another threat: to our data.

    This week, thousands of the industry’s leading minds from around the world are discussing the Internet and security at their annual powwow in San Francisco at RSA Conference. These topics matter more and more to us non-experts, especially as people become the victims of cybercrime.
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  • Boston to Receive $18 Million Funding from FEMA

    Boston, March 21, 2014 — This week Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that Boston will receive $18 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, representing a 2.47% increase from last year’s funding award. The funds will be used to support ongoing and future homeland security initiatives through the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program.
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    Military personnel was deployed in Boston on April 15, 2013, after Marathon bombings (bostonese.com file photo).
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  • Chinese Dramas and the Need for Narrative Reinvention

    By Alyza Liu, bostonese.com

    In the waning months of 2013 and the waxing ones of 2014, the Korean television drama You Who Came from the Stars (also translated as My Love from the Star, Man from Another Star) made large waves in East and Southeast Asia. Its premise was offbeat – an alien who’s been living in relative anonymity on the Korean Peninsula for almost three centuries meets a Hallyu star – but its charm was undeniable, combining science fiction with romance and even police procedural. You Who Came from the Stars was one of the most popular South Korean dramas (colloquially known as ‘kdramas’) to have aired in China recently.
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  • Michelle Obama’s Journal from China: Meeting with Students at PKU

    Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts at WhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.

    This morning, I had the privilege of visiting Peking University and speaking with Chinese students and American students studying abroad here in China. Peking University was founded more than a hundred years ago, in 1898, and it is one of China’s best-known universities. The American students in the audience today came from a number of different universities, and by studying here in China, they get to experience daily life in this country firsthand, practice their Chinese, and form lifelong friendships with Chinese students.
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    First Lady Michelle Obama delivers a speech at Peking University (from twitter).
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  • Honoring Mandela, UN Celebrates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

    By Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General

    This year, the world commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for the first time following the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela. This sad reality is also a reminder of his courageous struggle against apartheid and his inspiring victory over the racist forces that had imprisoned him for 27 years.
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    Mandela speaks at UN General Assembly (file photo).
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  • Natural-product-based Inhibitor to Treat Parkinson Identified by Chinese Researchers

    By Wu Fang, Research Institute of Systems Biomedicine

    Shanghai, March 20, 2014, –A novel natural-product-based inhibitor for the treatment of Parkinson has been identified from the endemic plant in Xishuangbanna as a result of the interdisciplinary cooperation between biology and chemistry, led by Wu Fang research group, from Shanghai Jiaotong University(SJTU) Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, and Zhang Weidong research group, from School of Pharmacy. The findings have been published on the ACS Chemical Biology, a well-known periodical of American Chemical Society (ACS).
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  • The First Lady’s Journal from China: Our Official Visit Begins

    Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts at WhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.

    After a long flight from Washington, D.C. – one that took around 20 hours – my mother, my daughters, and I arrived in Beijing to begin our official visit to China.  Our first stop was at the Beijing Normal School, where we were hosted by Madam Peng Liyuan, the First Lady of China.
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  • Second ACGA Spring Go Expo Starts on March 29 at MIT

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass., — The American Collegiate Go Association (ACGA), in conjunction with the Ing Foundation, is hosting its second annual Spring Go Expo on March 29 at MIT. Mr. Ing Ming Hao, president of Ing Foundation, will lead a delegation from China to join this year’s Go Expo.
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    Group picture at first Spring Go Expo at Harvard University in March 2013 (photo by David Li).
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