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  • BU Student Lingzi Lu Still Missing after Watching 2013 Boston Marathon, Team BCNC Safe Home

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, April 16, 2013, — A warm and breezy spring afternoon turned into nightmare for two international students from China. Both female students are from Boston University, and wanted to cheer on the runners as they crossing the finish line. One of the students was seriously injuried by one of the bombs yesterday afternoon near Boston Marathon finish line, and is currently being treated at a local hospital. Lingzi Lu (pictured below) is still missing as of 10:36 AM today.
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    Her friend shared this picture of Lingzi Lu on Facebook.
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  • Two Bombs Rock 117th Boston Marathon

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, April 15, 2013, — Around 2:50 PM this afternoon, just near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, there were two big explosions interrupted the 117th running of the world-famous marathon race. According to preliminary reports, there were at least three people dead and over 100 people injured, many seriously.
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    Heavy police and military personnel at Boston Common.
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  • Visions for the New Decade — Opening Speech at 16th Harvard China Forum

    By Yueran Ma and David Pickerell, delivered on April 13, 2013 at Charles Hotel in Harvard Square

    In the scope of China’s five-thousand-year history, one decade is all but transitory, comparable to less than two months in a typical person’s life. However, a decade in the span of our less-than-one-hundred-year journey in this world is rather significant, long enough to shape the direction of our trajectory. If you take a moment to recall where you were and what you were doing ten years ago, chances are the difference between now and then will be more than striking.
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  • Asian Women Were Targeted in Two Robbery & Larceny Incidents in Boston Chinatown

    Boston Police District A-1 Advisory

    Robbery & Larceny in Chinatown (two incidents)


    		 On Tuesday, 04/02/2013, Boston Police District A-1 Police Officers filed a police report for the victim who is a middle aged Asian woman who speaks only Mandarin. The victim stated that she was approached by three Asian female suspects who stated that they needed money to help the victim’s sick daughter. The victim believed the suspects. She went to the bank and withdrew an undisclosed amount of money and gave the money to the suspects. The victim then became disoriented as the suspects left the area. All three Asian female suspects were described as being from early to late thirties in age, black hair, brown eyes, five feet to five feet 2 inches tall with slim builds. There was no clothing description given.
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  • “Music For Food” Concert on April 15 Features Menuhin International Violin Competition Winner Angelo Yu

    Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts supports

    Music for Food Boston

    Kim Kashkashian, Artistic Director

    www.musicforfoodboston.org

     

    Don’t miss Music for Food’s Season Finale

    Monday, 4/15/2013, 8 pm

    NEC’s Brown Hall

    290 Huntington Ave. Boston

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    Angelo Yu performs at 2010 Menuhin International Violin Competition in Norway.
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  • Petition Drive Started Urging IOC Not to Select Tokyo to Host the 2020 Summer Olympics

    By Don Tow

    During WWII, more than 200,000 women and girls were forced into sexual slavery (so-called “comfort women”) by the Japanese Imperial Army. During approximately a six-week period starting on December 13, 1937, about 300,000 Chinese (including many women and children) were slaughtered and about 20,000 women and girls were raped in the city of Nanking alone. During WWII, thousands of chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction were deployed in more than a dozen provinces in China killing more than hundreds of thousands of Chinese, and permanently maiming many more.
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  • Pictures from Last Week of 2012-2013 BCTC Winter Tennis League

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    In the evening of April 5, 2013, 40 players of the BCTC Winter Doubles Tennis League played their 20th week of games for the winter season at Woburn Racquet Club (WRC). Like in the past, some single matches were played from L1 to L10 for the last week. A end-of-season party was held in the club house of the WRC.
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    Group picture at the season-end party.
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  • 2013 Harvard Extension Business Conference to Focus on “The New Waves of Entrepreneurship”

    2013 Harvard Extension Business Conference will be held on April 27 at the Northwest Building of Harvard University. The conference is one of the highlights of the academic year, and focuses on Harvard Extension Business Society’s (HEBS) core values of innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, and creating a bridge between the academic and professional community.
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  • Save the Date — 6th Annual Westwood Chinese Cultural Night on May 11

    By Kimberly Huang, Westwood Chinese Cultural Association

    On May 11, 2013 at 7:30 pm, Westwood Chinese Culture Association is hosting the 6th Annual Westwood Chinese Cultural Night in the Westwood High School auditorium. As this year is our six year, and my last year in Westwood High, we have striven to present internationally distinguished performers who have mastered skills that many people have never seen before. Briefly, these acts include:
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  • British Former PM Margaret Thatcher Dies After Stroke

    (from cntv.cn)

    Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the combative “Iron Lady”, has died of a stroke at the age of 87.

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