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China Daily USA | Updated: 2014-06-09 10:12

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Landover, Md.

BASKETBALL HISTORY REVISITED

Lee-you Zha (left), counsellor of the Chinese Embassy, meets with Albrette Ransom (right), director of Women in Sports Diplomacy, on June 7 at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex, Landover, Md, to attend a recognition ceremony that marks the historical anniversary on Nov 28, 1974 when Women's National Basketball Team played against Ransom's Federal City College Pantherettes. Liu Chang / China Daily

New York

VICTORY LAP

The champions of the Chinese University Alumni Alliance (CUAA) Basketball Tournament pose for a photo after receiving their medals on Sunday in New York. The CUAA, a group of 57 Chinese universities, hosted the event at Madison Square Garden - home of the New York Knicks. Jack Freifelder / China Daily

New York

HOLIDAY TRADITION

Families learn the art of paper cutting to make dragon-inspired crowns. The Museum of Chinese Americans hosted a Dragon Boat Family Festival on June 7. The festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. The festival included many workshops and performances, including a demonstration for children to learn the art of paper cutting, to make paper dragon boats and the tradition of eating zongzi, a traditional Chinese rice dumpling wrapped with palm leaves. Adelina Zhang / For China Daily

New York

BON VOYAGE

A boat from Qingdao, Shandong province, leaves port on Saturday at the North Marina Cove in New York to start the fi nal legs of the 2013-2014 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Vicky Song, one of the crewmembers on the boat, is poised to become the first Chinese woman to circumnavigate the globe. Jack Freifelder / China Daily

New York

SOCIAL MEDIA TALK

Panelists discuss social media in China at NY China Forum 2014 on Sunday at Columbia University. From Left: Moderator Gloria; Jing Huang, vice-president of Renren SNS; Gang Wu, deputy editor-in-chief of New Media Department of China National Radio; Mi Li, marketing manager of the Financial Times; New York-based independent filmmaker and new media artist Sha Huang. NY China Forum is a business exchange forum organized by the Committee of the New York China Forum. Li Ang / For China Daily

New York

CHINA NIGHTS

Wang Wei (second from right), secretary general of Haidian Creative Enterprises Association of Beijing, poses for a photo with Match Film Society co-founder Sha Hongxi (left) and Jin Xinyu (right) at the New York City International Film Festival's presentation of the Night of China on June 5. Provided to China Daily

(China Daily USA 06/09/2014 page7)