Shanghai, June 7, 2015, /ecns.cn/ — Giant pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo, but the endangered species appears not to have evolved a gut microbiota to efficiently digest bamboo, a Chinese study found recently.
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Study: Evolution Didn’t Help Giant Pandas Digest Bamboo
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Studying at M.I.T. During WWII
(Note: Prof. Lee graduated from Tsinghua University in 1940. Tsinghua University was relocated to Kunming in Southern China after Japanese troops started full-scale invasion to China on July 7, 1937. In the summer of 1942, he flow from Kunming to India with the help of the Flying Tigers, and then took a long boat ride to New York City. After completing his master’s and PhD studies in just two and half years, Prof. Lee later became a full professor at M.I.T. and started two companies successfully. This article is from his autobiography From Tsinghua to M.I.T., soon to be published by Boston Bilingual Media and Publishing Inc.)
By Shih-Ying Lee
I arrived in Cambridge in early October 1942 and immediately registered at M.I.T. Since I was rather late to register, there was no space in the dormitories for graduate students. Most of my classmates were foreign students from South America, Turkey, China and other countries. Most American students below age 30 were drafted to fight in WWII.
M.I.T. Chinese Students Club, 1942. Prof. Lee was in the front row, 2nd from left.
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2015 NECINA Annual Conference To Focus on Digital Health
Boston, June 5, 2015, — The annual conference of NECINA will be held on June 13 at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 93 Worcester St., Wellesley, MA 02481. This year’s conference will provide attendees with insight into the great opportunities provided in healthcare by sharing the expertise of leaders in investment, technology research, development and implementation, how to navigate the new laws and policies affecting the sector, and how to advance your career effectively with the best practices in business leadership.
NECINA President Ben Tao speaks at NECINA annual conference in June 2014(file photo).
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U.S. Jobs Report Shows Strong Job Creation and Rising Labor Participation Rate
WASHINGTON, DC – The economy added 280,000 jobs in May—the strongest month of the year so far—as wages continued to rise and the participation rate ticked upward. We have now added 5.6 million jobs over the past two years, the best two-year job growth since 2000. Although the job market has made considerable progress throughout this recovery, challenges remain for our economy and there is more work to do. The President is committed to extending the positive underlying trends through a comprehensive agenda to boost employment and wages for the middle class, including opening new markets for U.S. goods and services through expanded trade, increasing investments in infrastructure, providing relief from the sequester, and raising the minimum wage.
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China’s First MERS Patient in Critical Condition
Guangzhou, China, June 4, 2015, /Xinhua/ — China’s first confirmed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patient was still in serious condition, the health and family planning commission of Guangdong Province said Thursday.
A man from the Republic of Korea (ROK) tested positive for MERS in Guangdong on May 29. He is being treated at Huizhou Municipal Central Hospital.
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Massive Rescue Underway as Boat Carrying 458 Capsizes in Yangtze River
Wuhan, China, June 2, 2015, /ecns.cn/ — Divers are now underwater and they can hear banging coming from within the ship, as the search and rescue operations continue after a passenger ship sank Monday night in central China’s Hubei province.
Rescuers work at the ship sinking site in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in central China (from ecns.cn).
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Students from Hangzhou to Perform Chinese Tea Art at UMass Boston
Boston, June 1, 2015, — Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejing province, China, and also a sister city of Boston. A team of talented students from Hangzhou will perform traditinal Chinese Tea Art at UMass Boston tomorrow.
Students of Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University perform Chinese tea art (file photo).
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Nobel Laureate Brian Kobilka Lectures at Tongji Medical Forum
By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Boston, May 29, 2015, — Prof. Brian Kobilka, 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, recently attended Tongji Medical Forum in Wuhan, China. As an Honorary Professor at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), Prof. Kobilka delivered a lecture on his groundbreaking research on G-protein-coupled receptors to hundreds in the audience.
Prof. Laureate (left) receives Honorary Professor certificate at Tongji Medical College (provided to bostonese.com).
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BZM Innovation Technology’s Grand Opening in Manhattan Marks New Beginning
By Wendy Wang, contributing reporter for bostonese.com
New York City, May 29, 2015, — BZM Innovation Technology Inc.’s founding ceremony was successfully held in Manhattan on May 21. Top Chinese bankers and entrepreneurs who work in New York, attended the ceremony. Zhiming Bai, chairman of the board of Huaying Group and the founder of BZM Innovation Technology Inc., and Yanxia Kong, CEO of Huaying Group, flew from Beijing, China to New York to attend the ceremony with dozens of local business leaders.
Attendees of the opening ceremony pose for a picture (provided to bostonese.com).
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8,000 Chinese Students Expelled in the US Last Year
BEIJING: At least 8,000 Chinese students studying in the US have been dismissed from schools last year. A majority 57 per cent were asked to leave because of poor academic performance, according to research done by an US agency that helps students to obtain admission in schools.
31% all international students in the US are from China(file photo).
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