BOSTON, July 2, 2019 — A Malden grocery store and its president has paid $73,686 in restitution and penalties for state wage and hour law violations, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.
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Malden Supermarket Cited for Wage Violations, Retaliation
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Experts’ Letter to Trump: “China is not the enemy”
Washington, D.C., July 4, 2019, — Members of the scholarly, foreign policy, military, and business communities, overwhelmingly from the United States, including many who have focused on Asia throughout their professional careers, signed an open letter to US President Donald Trump and Congress, saying they are deeply concerned about the growing deterioration in US relations with China, which they believe does not serve American or global interests.
Screen shot from Washington Post’s website.
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Photo Exhibition of US-China Relations in Past 40 Years Opens in Boston Common
Boston, June 23, 2019, — A photo exhibition marking the 40th Anniversary of US-China diplomatic relations opened this afternoon in Boston Common. State Senator Joe Bencore, Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, Deputy Consul General Qiu Jian of Chinese Consulate in New Year and hundreds of guests attended the opening ceremony.
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Secretary Pompeo On the Centenary of the Founding of the International Labor Organization
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE
JUNE 21, 2019The United States today celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Labor Organization (ILO). The dignitaries that convened in Paris in 1919 to end the Great War knew that any lasting peace needed to be rooted in the protection of individual rights, including the rights of workers and employers to associate freely and bargain collectively. The United States proudly hosted the first International Labor Conference in 1919 and the war-time conference that enshrined the ILO’s enduring founding principles and aims in the Declaration of Philadelphia. As strong supporters of the ILO and its mission, we reflect on the important role played by Americans to create and sustain this organization, including David Morse, who served as ILO Director-General for 22 years, and under whose leadership the ILO won the Nobel Peace Prize.
First session of the International Labour Conference in Washington in 1919.
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Hong Kong Government Response to Public Procession
Dear friends of Hong Kong,
You may have seen the news about the public processions over the past two Sundays in Hong Kong on the proposed legislative amendments on the extradition laws. Having regard to the strong and different views in society, the Hong Kong Government issued a statement on June 16, saying that the Government has suspended the legislative amendment exercise on the extradition laws at the Legislative Council and there is no timetable for restarting the process.
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Maya Lin’s Speech at 2018 Yale SVA Commencement
New York City, — On Monday, May 7, 2018, Radio City Music Hall hosted the 2018 Yale School of Visual Arts Commencement Exercises. Proud parents, elated students —1,180 graduates receiving degrees—and seas of red graduation gowns filled the beautiful Art Deco space on this glorious day.
The centerpiece highlight, of course, was the keynote speech by designer and environmentalist Maya Lin, an artist “who interprets the natural world through science, history, politics and culture,” as so perfectly put by SVA Board of Directors member Joseph F. Patterson.
A recipient of both the National Medal of Arts (2009) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016), Lin was introduced to the art world in 1981, when as a 21-year-old undergraduate at Yale, she won a fierce competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which was completed in 1982 and redefined the concept of a monument, standing as one of the most powerful memorials in modern memory.
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Yingying Zhang Murder Trial: Full Transcript of Opening Statements
June 12, 2019, — An attorney for Brendt Christensen, who is charged with kidnapping and killing Chinese visiting scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017, told a federal court judge in Illinois on today that Christensen has admitted killing Zhang.
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AACE Urges the College Board to Halt Expansion of the SAT Adversity Score
Livingston, New Jersey, June 3, 2019, — Asian Coalition for Education (AACE) recently issued an official letter to Mr. David Coleman, CEO of College Board, urging the College Board to halt its hasty proposal of expanding the “S.A.T. Adversity Score” to 150 more colleges nationwide before conducting a thorough review with Asian American communities who has a high stake in this important change. Although AACE wholeheartedly welcomes the College Board’s benign direction of constructing a system of “Adversity Score” in place of racial preferences, we strongly believe that applying the system UNIVERSALLY with no transparency and no proven scientific evidence is imprudent and dangerous. If implemented, this practice of social engineering will result in grave harms to Asian-American children who are already punished by racial preferences in college admissions.
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China’s Position on the China-U.S. Economic and Trade Consultations
June 2019
The State Council Information Office of The People’s Republic of China
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德国总理默克尔在哈佛毕业典礼说了啥 / Merkel Speaks at Harvard Commencement
【波士顿双语网讯】哈佛大学第368届毕业典礼于2019年5月30日星期四举行。今年毕业典礼的主题是，移民创造了梦想，会让世界更美丽！德国总理安吉拉·默克尔(Angela Merkel)担任首席致辞嘉宾。默克尔曾经是量子化学家，在苏联控制的东德生活了35年。
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