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Updated: 2014-10-17 11:34

(China Daily USA)

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Richmond

HOLDING COURT

From left: Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai, Virginia's First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Director Alex Nyerges pose in front of a Chinese imperial court setting that is part of the exhibition titled Forbidden City: Imperial Treasures from the Palace Museum, Beijing, during the exhibition's reception in Richmond on Tuesday. Two hundred pieces of artwork from the Palace Museum are on display. Cai Chunying / China Daily

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Richmond

ACROBATS NOT FORBIDDEN

An acrobat performs during the opening reception of the exhibition titled Forbidden City: Imperial Treasures from the Palace Museum, Beijing, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on Tuesday. The exhibition is a collaborative project between the two museum and fi rst of its kind between China and the US. Nearly 600 guests attended the reception. Cai Chunying / China Daily

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Houston

ELECTRIC TRANSPORT

BYD Motors kicks off the 2014 American Public Transportation Association Expo in Houston on Monday with a new product: a 60-foot electric bus. From left: Lancaster Vice-Mayor Marvin Crist; Ara James Najarian, councilman of City Hall of Glendale, California; Stella Li, president of BYD Motors Inc; Lancaster City Manager Mark Bozigen; Antelope Valley Transit Authority Board Chairman Norm Hickling and AVS Consulting Inc Manager Arthur V. Sohikian. Provided to China Daily

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United Nations

ASIA GAME CHANGERS GALA

Josette Sheeran (first from left on front row), president of the Asia Society, takes a group photo with awardees of Asia Society's Asia Game Changers during the celebration gala at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday. Jack Ma (fourth from left on front row), founder and executive chairman of China's e-commerce fi rm Alibaba, and Zhang Minxuan (second from left on second row), an educator from Shanghai, were two awardees from China. Provided to China Daily

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Miami

ARTIST INTERACTS

Chinese artist Simon Ma with his interactive painting that is 20 meters long. It features contributions from children who survived the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and children from Shanghai and Hong Kong, at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, on Oct 14. JC Fernandez / For China Daily

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Cambridge, MA

AN ENTREPRENEURIAL BRIDGE

Massachusetts State Rep Tackey Chan delivers his opening remarks at the US-China Diaspora Entrepreneurship Forum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Oct 13. The United Cultures Innovation Center for International Cooperation (UCIC) and the Harvard US-China Economic Interaction Council (HUCEIC) co-organized the forum as part of Global Diaspora Week, which was initiated in 2011. Provided to China Daily

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New York

SHORT FILM FUN

Quan Zhongyu, curator of the Shenzhen International Short Film Festival, delivers remarks at the festival's opening at UN headquarters in New York on Oct 14. Amy He / China Daily

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New York

FINGERPAINTING

Viewers look at the exhibition of the renowned Chinese fingerprint and palm print artist, Zhang Baohua, on Oct 16 at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea, New York. The exhibition runs through Oct 31. Provided to China Daily

(China Daily USA 10/17/2014 page12)

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