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Teacher of Mandarin Chinese honored to share treasures with Davis students

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 12:34am

LAYTON -- Walking into Xuemei Li's classroom is like stepping into another culture.

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Tourism to Utah by Chinese growing quickly

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 11:35am

BEIJING -- Utah officials are touting the state's natural beauty and recreation to a rapidly expanding Chinese tourism market.

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Chinese national Yupeng Deng, left, is brought into a Pomona, California, Superior court room for arraignment on charges of allegedly creating a phony U.S. Army special forces unit and recruiting other Chinese nationals by telling them it was a path to U.S. citizenship. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Lawyers for man accused of raising fake army say group was a charity

Ching-Ching Ni, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 10:15am

LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles-area man accused of preying on Chinese immigrants by charging them to join a fake U.S. Army unit is actually a charity-minded businessman who modeled his military group on the Salvation Army, according to his attorney.

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'Birthing tourism' center in L.A. community is shut down

Ching-Ching Ni, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, March 25, 2011 - 8:57am

LOS ANGELES -- From the outside, they looked like other recently built townhouses in the L.A. community of San Gabriel -- two stories, Spanish style, with roofs of red tile.

Inside they were maternity centers for Chinese women willing to pay handsomely to travel here to give birth to American citizens.

Southern California has become a hub of so-called birthing tourism. Operators of such centers tend to try to blend in, attracting as little attention as possible.

But on quiet, residential Palm Avenue, neighbors had noticed an unusual number of pregnant women going in and out, and some complained about noise.

On March 8, code enforcement officials shut down three identical four-bedroom townhouses functioning as an unlicensed birthing center.

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ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner
Davis Swanson holds up his illustrations of Chinese characters in Lan’jy Duke’s Mandarin Chinese class at Syracuse Junior High School. Swanson was recently invited to Washington D.C. to participate in an event with China’s President Hu Jintao and first lady Michelle Obama.

Mandarin moment: Interest in China earns student rare opportunity

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 7:36pm

SYRACUSE — Learning Chinese was certainly not on Davis Swanson’s mind two years ago, when he traveled with his parents to China to adopt another child.

Swanson became mesmerized by the country and culture so completely different than his in America, so when he returned home and found out Syracuse Junior High offered a Chinese language class, Swanson jumped at the chance.

Now in his second year of studying Chinese, Swanson recently received a rare opportunity. He was asked to attend a special invitation-only event in Washington D.C. at Howard University, where first lady Michelle Obama spoke to students about President Barack Obama’s “100,000 Strong Initiative,” a program aimed at increasing the number of students traveling to China for study abroad in upcoming years.

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