A copy editor and writer with China Daily USA in New York, Chris Davis is a graduate of the University of Virginia and served two years as a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Kenya.
Tuesday morning — June 16 — began with the usual chaos around the Dongfeng team base in Lorient, France, as the battered, exhausted but still "completely psyched" crew got on board and set off on the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15.
It's little wonder that the giant panda is the darling of China and considered a national treasure.
MERS - Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - was first reported on the Arabian Peninsula in 2012. Since then, there have been 1,154 confirmed cases of MERS worldwide leading to 431 deaths.
Most recently it was American Airlines last week launching daily Dallas-to-Beijing service, giving Dallas/Fort Worth airport, in the space of one year, what the CAPA Centre for Aviation in Sydney calls "the trifecta of Greater China destinations": Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
The letter accused the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of questioning the "established history" of the comfort women system and trying to eliminate references to it in school textbooks.
Dave Pomerantz, 58, manages a software development group outside of Boston. He has a bachelor's in computer science from Princeton and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After painstaking number crunching and deep calculation, Huang Jinzi, a PhD candidate at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, has determined that it takes 1,000 licks to finish off a lollipop that's 1 centimeter in diameter.
China's 1989 Law on the Protection of Wildlife — which is now online in English and available for the world to see — was created, it says, for the purpose of "protecting and saving the species of wildlife which are rare or near extinction; protecting, developing and rationally utilizing wildlife resources, and maintaining ecological balances."
An editor and writer at China Daily USA in New York, William Hennelly is a print and digital media veteran. He previously was managing editor of TheStreet.com financial news website in New York, and has worked at daily newspapers in New Jersey. Hennelly is a journalism graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
General manager of China Daily USA's San Francisco bureau. Based in the Bay Area, she covers a wide range of topics including corporate news, Silicon Valley innovation, US-China cooperation in various forms and profiles of interesting personalities, as well as overseeing office operations.
Chen Weihua is the Chief Washington Correspondent of China Daily and Deputy Editor of China Daily USA. He is also a columnist, with a particular focus on US politics and US-China relations.
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