Posted by DipNote Bloggers on Nov 20, 2009 - 03:22 PM
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Back home in the States, I might have been a casual Obama speech watcher, but when the President of the United States drops in on your study abroad locale, you take notice! Thus I found myself walking to campus, through the rain, to meet up with some friends to watch the President’s town hall held right here in Shanghai earlier this week. After managing to fall on my…
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Posted by Nicholas Papp on Nov 18, 2009 - 09:54 AM
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As the sun tried to break through the early morning mist in Putrajaya, Malaysia’s fantastic federal administrative center south of Kuala Lumpur, 3,000 of Southeast Asia’s most talented youth leaders began arriving in droves at the Youth Engagement Summit YES2009. Inspired by President Obama’s vision for hope and change, these active young leaders represent a rising generation working to build movements, catalyze change and transform lives in their communities, the region and beyond. World change icons including Twitter founder Biz Stone, Live8’s Bob Geldorf, chess champion Gary Kasparaov and…
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Posted by Athena Kwey on Nov 16, 2009 - 11:13 AM
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On November 13, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing launched pages on KaixinWang and QQ, two leading social networking portals in China. Our collaboration with these sites uses local platforms in Chinese to communicate directly with the Chinese people. We hope that this outreach will facilitate our ability to share information and promote a dialogue at the grassroots level. The launch is part of our comprehensive new media effort to support President Obama’s first visit to the region.
Our blog page on QQ will provide…
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Posted by Richard Buangan on Nov 16, 2009 - 09:22 AM
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Updated: Watch the President's town hall with Chinese youth on Whitehouse.gov.
The town hall meeting is at the core of grassroots American democracy. It is a tradition that brings together members of a community -- both leaders and ordinary citizens -- to discuss and shape the direction of their futures. On November 16, President Obama brought that tradition to China -- a country with thousands of years of history, but a land where political and social values are different from ours. In Shanghai, he held an historic town hall meeting with China’s youth to…
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Posted by DipNote Bloggers on Nov 15, 2009 - 03:52 PM
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Updated: Watch the President's town hall with Chinese youth on Whitehouse.gov.
President Obama will have a town hall meeting with Chinese youth in Shanghai, China. The event is planned to start Monday, November 16 at 12:45 p.m. local time in Shanghai, which means late Sunday night in Washington, DC at 11:45 p.m. EST.
The online community in China has been submitting questions on a variety of websites, including the U.S. Embassy in Beijing’s…
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