HEALTH
By Andrea K. Walker and By Andrea K. Walker | March 5, 2013
Johns Hopkins will train China's next generation of doctors, researchers and hospital administrators under a new agreement with Sun Yat-sen University. The agreement was signed this week in the city of Guangzhou, where the university has affiliated hospitals, officials with Johns Hopkins Medicine International said. China's health system is growing rapidly and officials there hope Hopkins' expertise will help them develop a strong foundation for medical care. Under the agreement, Hopkins researchers will teach courses at Sun Yat-sen.
NEWS
By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun | January 26, 2013
More than 150 Baltimore County firefighters tackled a fire in a Rosedale strip mall Saturday afternoon, which appeared to have started in Jackie Chen's Chinese Restaurant, officials said. At least six stores were involved in the three-alarm fire in the 8400 block of Philadelphia Blvd., officials said. Firefighters, who were dispatched around 12:40 p.m., got it under control around 3:05 p.m. No injuries have been reported, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
NEWS
By Michael Justin Lee | December 20, 2012
In a few weeks, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will be reinaugurated with great fanfare in Washington. Shortly after that, in Beijing, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang will ascend to the presidency and premiership of China. (China's premier is the second-highest office but unlike the American vice president is more like the country's chief operating officer, with the president as chief executive officer.) If our political leaders would play their cards right, the concomitant inaugurations could be prelude to a brilliant new start for our relationship with China.
NEWS
By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun | November 29, 2012
When you enter Julie Chang's world languages class at Waverly Elementary School in Ellicott City, you leave English at the door. Then, if you know the answer to a question and are told to " qing ju shou ," you raise your hand. If you're told, " bu shou hua ," then you must keep quiet. And if someone asks about the weather and it's sunny outside, you say, " yin tian . " Chang teaches Chinese, one of two languages offered in the Howard County school system's world languages pilot, which is in its second year at Laurel Woods and Waverly elementary schools.
NEWS
By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | November 28, 2012
A Chinese national selling plastic bags, restaurant supplies and other merchandise from China out of a warehouse in Baltimore was sentenced to 16 months in prison Wednesday for dodging customs duties on the imported products, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office. Jin Qing Huang, 57, was president of Woncity Inc., which kept a warehouse in the 2800 block of Annapolis Road in Baltimore and another in Northeast Washington and imported large quantities of Chinese products.
SPORTS
By Eduardo A. Encina and The Baltimore Sun | November 9, 2012
Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen is leaning toward not pitching for his native Taiwan in this spring's World Baseball Classic in March, according to an industry source. Taiwan, which competes internationally as Chinese Taipei, is playing in a World Baseball Classic qualifier next week in Taiwan against the Philippines, New Zealand and Thailand. Chen, who pitched for Chinese Taipei in the 2008 Beijing Olympics - he was 1-0 in two starts - and was a member of the team in the 2004 Athens Olympics, was 12-11 during his rookie campaign with the Orioles and was the winning pitcher in Game 2 of the American League Division Series.