By Larry Ho, Gordon McKay Professor of Systems Engineering, Emeritus, Harvard University
The current problem facing Greece and the Eurozone has been dominating the news lately. The reports people sees in newspaper and broadcasts make the problem overly complex, difficult to understand and resolve. As a citizen of the US, this is my own simplified view:
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NEW YORK, July 7, 2015, /Xinhua/ — Chinese regulators’ response to the country’s stock market following a three-week losing streak has been encouraging and in line with what is needed to stabilize the market, US experts have said.
Shanghai SE Index dropped over 11% in past five trading days.
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Boston, July 1, 2015 – Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced the launch of Trash Day, a new web and mobile app that allows residents to easily access their trash and recycle collection schedules and sign up for reminders via text, email or phone.
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By Xinming Li, bostonese.com
Lexington, Mass., June 22, 2015, — Boston Bilingual Media and Publishing (BBMP) Inc. held a book release party at Yangtze River restaurant in Lexington on June 20. Over a dozen friends attended the party to congratulate Prof. Shih Ying Lee for releasing his auto-biography From Tsinghua to M.I.T. — My Journey from Education to Entrepreneurship, including Prof. Gang Chen, head of M.I.T. mechanical engineer department and Prof. Larry Ho of Harvard University.
Mr. and Mrs. Shih Ying Lee (2nd and 3rd from right, front row) at the book release party(photos by Yue Guan).
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Boston, June 23, 2015, — Tornado Watch 345 by National Weather Service (NWS) is in effect until 11:00 pm EDT For the following locations in this state.
Satellite image of Hurricane Sandy in 2012(file photo).
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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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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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I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
–Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
By Jun Chang, founder of eventdove.com
I can’t say what it was exactly that made me leave the computer engineering field—a field I had excelled in for over a decade. On paper, it seemed a foolhardy decision. Starting a company was a choice better left to 20-something-year-olds in Silicon Valley. Not a career path for a woman who had just turned 50.
Ms. Chang (2nd from left, front row) and her team in Nanjing, China(file photo).
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By Changhong Zhang, bostonese.com
Dr. Tea, founder of Mylovetea(www.mylovetea.com), will give a lecture at the end of May on “Dr. Teas in History,” a tea world that has been resonating to every corner on earth throughout ages, filled with many tea lovers like him. Poet Yu Li will also read a few of his poems at the same lecture. The lecture is orgnized by the Yiwen Club of Great Boston Chinese Culture Association(GBCCA).
Dr. Tea at Boston Tea Party celebration in Dec. 2014(file photo).
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By Wendy Wang, Contributing reporter of bostonese.com
2015 Chinese Finance Forum, as an essential activity of the Beijing International Technology Expo, was held in Beijing on May 12 – 13. In his opening speech, Zhiming Bai, the chairman of the board of Huayin Kailai, stressed the need of resource integration for financial innovations.
Mr. Bai delivers the opening speech at Chinese Fiance Forum(provided to bostonese.com).
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