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  • Fourteen Researchers Honored at 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Research Symposium

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, April 22, 2013, — Harvard Medical School- Chinese Scholars and Scientists Association (HMS-CSSA) has selected twelve young investigators for 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Distinguished Research Award. The two-day Symposium was held on April 13 and 14 at Harvard Medical School, and attracted about 200 participants from Harvard Medical School and 17 affiliated institutions, major US medical and research institutions across the country, and Chinese medical science research community.
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    Speakers and organizers pose for a picture at 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Research Symposium. (photo by David Li)
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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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  • 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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  • Li Yuanchao, New VP of China, Once a Student at Harvard

    From cntv.cn

    In October 2007, Li was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, as well as appointed as a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
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    In this file photo taken on Aug. 26, 2011, Li Yuanchao (2nd R) holds a local child up
    during a visit in Kashi, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua)
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  • Sixteenth Harvard China Forum Opens for Registration and 2013 MIT-CHIEF Demo Day is on April 6

    At Harvard China Forum 2013, business leaders, academics and politicians to discuss key issues concerning the future of China

    The Harvard China Forum will hold its annual conference on April 13-­15, 2013 at Harvard University. The Forum this year is entitled “A New Decade“.

    Mr. Mao Zhenhua reflects on 20 years of entrepreneurship in China at 15th Harvard China Forum in April 2012.
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  • Called Ambassador of Go, Chang Hao Charmed Many at 2013 ACGA Spring Go Expo

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass. — When the world champion Go player Chang Hao (9p) showed up at the Student Organization Center at Harvard University on March 23, many Go fans couldn’t believe that they would get a chance to play Go with one of the best players in the world. Despite of jet lag, Chang Hao patiently played with six to seven fans simultaneously at a time, and explained to them how they could improve after each game in the two-day 2013 ACGA Spring Go Expo.
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    (from left)Eli White and Jieru Shi play with Chang Hao (right). (photo by David Li)
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  • Zigen Fund’s Harvard Charity Concert Features World-Class Opera Singers and Chorus

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    In the afternoon of March 3, 2013, Zigen Fund will present a Charity Concert at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University. This concert features award-winning opera singers Guang Yang and Jing Wei. Boston Eastern Heritage Chorus(BEHC) and its conductor Wanjun Qiao, the recent winners of 2012 World Choral Festival at Vienna’s Golden Hall of the Musikverein Concert, will also join this charity concert. Tickets for the concert can be ordered at: zigen2013.eventbrite.com.
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  • First “Bone” of the Milky Way Identified

    Long Beach, CA – Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy – a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap around its disk. Since we view the Milky Way from the inside, its exact structure is difficult to determine.
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  • New Study Links Lower Fertility Rates to Female Off-farm Employment in China

    Cambridge Mass. — Women in China’s workforce have significantly lower fertility rates than those who are not employed. That is one finding in a new Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Working Paper co-authored by HKS Professor Richard Zeckhauser.
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  • Enjoy Virtual Hug Brought to You by Joint MIT-Harvard Course

    (from cntv.cn)

    If virtual shooting is too violent for you, how about a virtual hug? From London to Singapore, one science project is taking the world by storm. It’s the virtual “Like-a-Hug” class assignment, produced by a joint MIT-Harvard course last year.

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