Boston, Oct. 9, 2014, — Mayor Martin J. Walsh today released “Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030,” the administration’s housing plan. The plan, which aims to create housing across demographics and neighborhoods, outlines the City’s strategies for housing an expected 91,000 new Bostonians by the year 2030, and calls for the creation of 53,000 new units of housing at a variety of income levels across the City.

Red Sox rolling parade passes in downtown Boston on Nov. 2, 2013(file photo).
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Boston Population to Top 700,000 by 2030
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One Hundred Year Old Cars Exhibited in 400-Year-Old Park
By Hongbin Ren, bostonese.com
Boston, Sept. 25, 2014, –The third annual Boston Cup Classic Car Show was held in the Boston Common on Sept. 21 near the Parkman Bandstand. This year, in addition to 100 classic collector cars, race cars and electric vehicles. Hundreds of tourists to Boston Common, which was initially established 380 years ago in 1634, were pleasantly surprised by seeing the beautiful cars in exhibition on a perfect early autumn day..

A 1983 race car March 83G(photos by Hongbin Ren).
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Joyce Chen Among Five Celebrity Chefs Honored on Forever Stamps
Chicago, Sept. 26, 2014, — The Postal Service cooked up a feast of 20 million Limited Edition Celebrity Chefs Forever stamps today. The sugar-free, fat-free, zero-calorie stamps will be on the menu of the nation’s Post Offices beginning today.

Joyce Chen (1917–1994) made Chinese food popular in Boston.
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Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai Draws 10,000 Attendees
Huawei Builds on Cloud-Centric IT Strategy at Huawei Cloud Congress
Launches future-oriented SD-DC² architecture, innovative cloud OS and converged storage systemShanghai, China, Sept. 16, 2014, –Huawei today underscored its ambition to maximize value for customers by simplifying IT systems and making businesses agile with more open, converged, and innovative technologies, at the Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC) 2014. At the annual event, Huawei will launch a series of innovative IT solutions – including data centers, converged storage, cloud operating systems (OS) and Big Data analytics platforms – that bring to life Huawei’s vision to “Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile.”

Eric Xu, Rotating CEO of Huawei, speaking at Huawei Cloud Congress 2014
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Mayor Walsh Announces the Neighborhood Innovation District Committee
Boston, Sept. 26, 2014, –Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the formation of a “Neighborhood Innovation District Committee” to expand innovation and entrepreneurship in the City of Boston today. The Neighborhood Innovation District Committee will seek to identify policies, practices, and infrastructure improvements to support the development of innovation districts throughout the City. The first meeting will be October 1 from 6:00PM to7:30PM at the Roxbury Community College at Roxbury Community College, Media Arts Room 1 (Room 301) at 1234 Columbus Avenue. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Gov. Patrick and Mayor Walsh tour Vertex Pharmaceuticals early this year (file photo).
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ZTE’s Innovative Spirit Makes It One of the Most Competitive Brands Globally
By Tong Chen, bostonese.com
Boston, Sept. 19, 2014, — At the “2014 Global Competitiveness Brands Top 10 from China” ceremony held by International Data Group on Sept. 17, ZTE Corporation won the Top 10 Brands title and the Most Innovative Award. The event was held together with the 2014 Sustainable Company Growth & Global Competitiveness Forum at Boston Convention and Conference Center.

Lixin Wang receives the award on behalf of ZTE (photo by Hao Wang).
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NAAAP Boston Awarded $10,000 MassMutual Fund
Boston, Sept. 16, 2014, –The National Association of Asian American Professionals Boston Chapter (NAAAP Boston) is excited to announce that MassMutual recently awarded $10,000 to NAAAP Boston’s Future Leader Scholarship, a premier annual scholarship for Asian American high school students in the Greater Boston area.

NAAAP Boston’s Future Leader Scholarship Gala in May 2013 (file photo).
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IBM Announces Watson Analytics
ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Making its biggest announcement in a decade as leader in analytics, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced Watson Analytics, a breakthrough natural language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. According to analysts, only a small fraction of business people use powerful analytics tools as part of their decision making today[1]. Watson Analytics is designed to make advanced and predictive analytics easy to acquire and use.

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ONEin3 Announces 2014 Impact Award Honorees of 20 Bostonians under 35
Twenty Bostonians under the age of 35 will be honored for their positive contributions to the community
Boston, Sept. 15, 2014, – The 2014 ONEin3 Mayor’s Council today announced the twenty honorees for the 2014 Impact Awards (#ONEin3Impact) to be celebrated at a ceremony Thursday, September 25 at 7:00pm at MassChallenge.

Dr. Melissa Wu of Seeding Labs is one of the award honorees.
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Anticipation of iPhone 6 Grows in China
By Zhu Shenshen (from shanghaidaily.com)
Shanghai, Sept. 15, 2014, –Chinese consumers and business were disappointed to learn that the mainland won’t be among the first markets for the global sales of new Apple products unveiled last week.
Still, the new iPhones and smartwatch are expected to exert great influence over the domestic market.

A sign for buying iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ at a smartphone shop in Hong Kong.
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