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COVID-19 Crisis is Exerting a Mental Health Toll On All Of Us
During these precarious times, all of us need to be more vigilant about our mental health and we must take adequate care of ourselves because that is the only aspect of life over which we have control.
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QUARANTINED in the Year of the Rat: How a New Year’s trip to China turned into nightmare for Md. family
For the Chinese New Year in January, Howard Community College language professor William Lowe was in Wuhan and Hubei province, the center of the outbreak of the coronavirus, with his wife Xiaoli and their daughter Weiya. They wound up quarantined there and then were able to be evacuated by the U.S. embassy back to the United States. They were quarantined again at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Tex. They got back to Maryland just after midnight last Friday, Feb. 21.
Here is a slightly edited version of the powerful journal professor Lowe kept of his family’s six-week ordeal. Fortunately, none of them got sick.
Asian Sister State programs honor First Lady Yumi Hogan
Maryland’s Asian Sister States program, along with representatives of the ambassadors of China, Korea and Japan, honored First Lady Yumi Hogan at a welcome reception Thursday hosted by UMBC’s Asian Studies Program. Mrs. Hogan, a native of South Korea, is the first Asian American to serve as a state’s first lady in the country.
Read MoreMaryland businesses bring home the goods from Asia
O’Malley and businesses report on results of 10-day three-country economic trip to Asia. University president hopes to bring Terps basketball to China.
Read MoreChinese carry-out: O’Malley comes away with deliverables
When U.S. leaders go overseas, the ideal scenario is to come away with “deliverables,” concrete accomplishments for the trip to show it was more than a junket. That’s what Gov. Martin O’Malley did Thursday in Shanghai when he announced that a Chinese pharmaceutical company, Tasly Group, would invest $40 million in Montgomery County.
Read MoreO’Malley’s Asian trip can build important relationships, experts say
Marylanders familiar with Asian cultural dynamics all agree: Gov. Martin O’Malley’s 10-day trade mission to China, South Korea and Vietnam that begins next Tuesday will be worth the time, effort and money spent, because the trip will reap both economic rewards and “guan-xi.” “In simple terms, ‘guan-xi’ means relationships, but it’s more than that,” TowsonGlobal Business Incubator Director Clay HicksonHickson said. “It means reciprocal relationships. Not relationships made on the fly, but made over time. That’s what it’s all about.”
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