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  • Chinese Cultural Connection to Celebrate 30th Anniversary

    By Victor Chen, bostonese.com

    Malden, Mass., March 24, 2015, — Malden-based Chinese Cultural Connection (CCC) was founded in 1985. Over the past 30 years, CCC has served the growing number Asian population in the Greater Boston Area. CCC’s 30th Anniversary Celebration & 10th Annual Fundraising Gala will be held on April 11 at Hei La Moon Restaurant in Boston Chinatown.
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    Police chief Kevin Molis(left) and Mei Hung, director of CCC, introduce police system in the US at a CCC lecture in 2012 (file photo).
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  • Boston City Councilors File Paid Parental Leave Ordinance

    BOSTON – Boston City Councilors Michelle Wu (At-Large), Tim McCarthy (District 5), and Tito Jackson (District 7) will introduce an ordinance relative to paid parental leave at the Boston City Council Meeting on March 25th. This ordinance, filed today, has the full support of Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who collaborated with the Council on this policy.
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    Councilor Wu with her baby son at a recent event in Boston Chinatown(photo by Victor Chen, bostonese.com).
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  • Founding Father of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew Dies at 91

    Singapore, March 23, 2015, — Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has declared a period of National Mourning from Mar 23 to 29 (Monday to Sunday).
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  • Singapore — A National Prays for Lee Kuan Yew

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    Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote on Facebook when sharing the picture above:”Thank you all for your good wishes and prayers for my father. I am deeply touched by them. Have been looking at some old photos from our family collection. So many happy memories over a lifetime.”

    By Lim Ee Ling, Singapore

    Please recover and be the fighter like you always do. We cannot thank you enough for what you have done for the nation which has benefitted many many generations. I wish we can tell you personally how grateful we are to be Singaporean.
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  • Dr. Tea Attends Innovation Expo 2015 at Harvard Univeristy

    By Victor Chen, bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass., March 19, 2015, — The two-day Innovation Expo 2015 powered by PYMNTS comes to an end today at Science Center of Harvard University. The focus of this year’s Expo is the world-wide innovation made in the area of payments and commerce. It covers panel discussions, the Innovator Expo, the Thinkathon and 2015 Innovator Awards, and draws hundreds of innovators to Harvard despite of the cold weather.
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    Dr. Tea and other innovators at the Expo (provided to bostonese.com).
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  • Fudan University Featured in Nature Index 2014 China

    Shanghai, March 18, 2015, — The Nature Index 2014 China, published by Nature, surveyed the contribution of the main Chinese scientific institutes and universities to global scientific development, the top ten cities in scientific output, and the status of international scientific collaboration. In the Index, the chapter on Shanghai reports the outstanding contribution of Fudan University in the scientific field.
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    Prof. Xu Ningsheng was recently named President of Fudan University(file photo).
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  • LA Lakers and East West Bank Plant Trees at Local School

    The Lakers, East West Bank, TreePeople, community and state partners work to tear out 4,000 square feet of asphalt and plant 30 trees on school campus.

    Los Angeles, Calif.— Julius Randle, the Lakers Girls, and East West Bank will join with TreePeople staff, partners and over 100 volunteers on Saturday, March 14th, to transform 20th Street Elementary School’s urban campus. More than 4,000 square feet of impermeable asphalt has been removed to make way for a total of 30 Raywod Ash, Australian Willow and Crape Mertyle trees to grace the schoolyard and provide some needed shade and nature. The tree planting is part of the Lakers Trees for Threes eco-initiative. East West Bank has pledged to plant a tree in Los Angeles for every three pointer made by the Lakers team at STAPLES Center. The 30 trees planted on Saturday are just some of the trees earned by the Lakers this season.
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    Participates of the tree planting event pose for a picture (provided to bostonese.com).
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  • Nature Highlights Tsinghua’s Research on DNA Hydrogels 3D Printing

    Beijing, March 16, 2015, –Can organs of a living body be artificially 3D printed and replace the “original” organs one day? The cooperation research of “DNA hydrogel” by Prof. Liu Dongsheng’s group, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University and the group of Will Shu (Shu Wenmiao) from Watt University, UK is putting one step forward towards this dream.
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  • Harvard US-China Economic Forum 2015 To Be Held on March 21

    Cambridge, Mass., March 16, 2015, — At the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit, U.S. and China acknowledged that economic relation is at the core of the U.S.-China bilateral relationship. U.S. and China are committed to pursuing policies that promote more open and market-driven international trade and investment. Two countries are working together to address global economic challenges, deepen the cooperation under the framework of the G20, and strengthen the rules-based international economic system.
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  • Mass. Native Eric Lu Wins $75,000 at National Chopin Competition

    By Victor Chen, bostonese.com

    Boston, March 12, 2015, — It’s hard to imagine that two out of the top three finishers at the Ninth National Chopin Competition lived within five miles of each other west of Boston, and they even had the same teacher: Dorothy Shi. This is what happened earlier this month in Miami.
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    Eric Lu performs at the Ninth National Chopin Competition(from Chopin Foundation of the U.S. Facebook page).
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