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Rotarians Headed The Red Cross
Rotarians Headed The Red Cross In Hong Kong / In Macao / In Mongolia 25 December 2020 In the District 3450 of Rotary International, there have been 3 prominent Rotarians served as the top leaders of the Red Cross in their respective countries. They were, in the chronological order of their years: (1) The British…
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Dr. The Honourable Sir Run Run Shaw (Kowloon) 邵逸夫爵士 (九龍)
The Rotarian Shaw Brothers Runme (邵仁枚) and Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫) By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 March 2014 Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫 ) Runme Shaw (邵仁枚 ) Sir Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫爵士), Kt, GBM, CBE, HonD (Zhejiang), HonLLD (Oxford), HonDBA (PolyHK), HonDLitt (HKBC), HonDHum (SUNY), HonDSc (CityPolyHK), HonDLitt (Sussex), HonDSocSc (East…
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Hong Kong-Macao Rotarians served Rotary International Officers – 前任國際扶輪職員的香港-澳門扶輪社員
前任國際扶輪職員的香港/澳門扶輪社員 Hong Kong / Macao Rotarians served Rotary International Officers 1 July 2014 Dr. Chengting Thomas Wang 王正廷博士 HonLLD (Peking), HonLLD (St. John’s), M.A. (Yale), B.A. (Yale) (Hong Kong) Hong Kong Rotary Club (香港)香港扶輪社 (1950 – 1961.5.21) 1934.7.1 – 1935.9.30 RI Honorary Commissioner 國際扶輪名譽專員 1935.10.1 – 1936.7.31 81st District Governor 第81地區總監 1942.7.1 – 1946.6.30 RI…
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The Birth of Shanghai West Rotary Club (滬西扶輪社) in 1948 and its final months
South or West “The Birth of Shanghai West Rotary Club (滬西扶輪社)” 1948 1 September 2014 Proposal of a Chinese-Speaking Shanghai South Rotary Club Soon after Dr. Chengting T. Wang (王正廷博士) was instrumental in establishing the 81st District in 1935, there were already plans to extend more new clubs in the nearby cities along with the…
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Communist China nominated an American Rotarian for the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize
Communist China nominated an American Rotarian for the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize 11 July 2017 The title of this article sounds somewhat fantastic. But, it is a true story in history. Since the late 1970s, Dr. Jordan M. Phillips, M.D., a member of the Rotary Club of Downey, California, U.S.A., had been sending medical books…
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‘I was a Prisoner of the Chinese Reds’ by Rotarian Dr. Arthur Stewart Allen
I was a Prisoner of the Chinese Reds By Dr. Arthur Stewart Allen, M.D., 15 April 1952 Note by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 7 July 2017:– Dr. Arthur Stewart Allen (梁正倫醫師), M.D., of Montreal, Canada, was the last president of the Chungking Rotary Club (重慶扶輪社) in 1949-1950. He was the superintendent of…
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Chungking Rotarians Launch School for Deaf Children
Chungking Rotary Club – 重慶扶輪社 – This was the 24th Rotary Club formed in the Republic of China, sponsored by Hankow Rotary Club (漢口扶輪社). The Club was organized in the Szechwan (Sichuan) Province (四川省) on 3 June 1937, and was admitted to Rotary International on 18 November 1937, Charter #4471, with 30 charter members of…
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Dr. Herman C. E. Liu – The Shanghai Rotarian assassinated by Imperial Japan’s Agents – 被日本帝國特工暗殺的上海扶輪社員–劉湛恩博士
中文版在第 20-29 頁 被日本帝國特工暗殺的上海扶輪社員–劉湛恩博士 Dr. Herman C. E. Liu The Shanghai Rotarian assassinated by Imperial Japan’s agents 1 December 2016 Dr. Herman C. E. Liu (劉湛恩博士), President of the Shanghai University (滬江大學), was assassinated by Imperial Japan’s agents in 1938. This is in the Rotary China History that a Rotarian educator, even not a politician…
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Chungking & Changsha Rotary Clubs under Japanese Bombing
Chungking & Changsha Rotary Clubs under Japanese Bombing 7 July 2017 A photograph taken by Imperial Japanese Army reporters on 16 June 1940 showing bombs from heavy bombers exploding on Yu Chung Peninsula, Chungking (重慶渝中半島) The Great Bombing of Chungking in 1938-1944 Today is the 80th year after the skirmishing between Japanese and Chinese troops…
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Chicago street named after Chinese Rotarian Dr. Wang Gung-Hsing ~ 華裔扶輪社員王恭行博士 ~ 留名芝加哥一條街
中文版在第 9-11 頁 華裔扶輪社員王恭行博士—留名芝加哥一條街 Chicago street named after Chinese Rotarian Dr. Wang Gung-Hsing 1 October 2016 2004 年美國芝加哥市議會命名一條街道為『王恭行街』(紅色招牌)，以永久紀念他為社區重建的功績。 2004 – The Chicago City Council adopted a decision to name a street after Wang Gung-Hsing (red sign). A street in Chicago City, United States, is named after Dr. Wang Gung-Hsing (王恭行博士) as “G. H. Wang Street”…
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Rotary under the Communist Guns – a Taipei Rotary Club outpost of mercy thrives
中文版在第 11-14 頁 Rotary under the Communist Guns –- a Taipei Rotary Club outpost of mercy thrives In the January 1965 Issue of《The Rotarian》magazine, there was a report from an American newspaper columnist Tom Dammann with such a title: “Rotary Under the Communist Guns – on Matsu within artillery range of the Communist China, a…
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Peking–Peiping–Peking – A Rotary Club under 3 different National Flags
Peking – Peiping – Peking A Rotary Club under 3 different National Flags 10 October 2016 In 1947 Peiping, a large portrait of Chiang Kai-Shek was displayed above Tiananmen Gate. This is the story about Peking Rotary Club (北京扶輪社) or Peiping Rotary Club (北平扶輪社). The English name “Peking” for the Chinese city “北京”(today known as…
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Calmly Facing Socialist Transformation – Kweiyang Rotary Club (貴陽扶輪社) Celebrated United Nations Week in October 1949
Kweiyang Rotary Club (貴陽扶輪社) Celebrated United Nations Week in October 1949 1 October 2014 Rotary International and the United Nations “The invitation to Rotary International to participate in the United Nations conference as consultant to the United States delegation was not merely a gesture of goodwill toward a great organization. It was a simple recognition…
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The Story of Lanchow Rotary Club (蘭州扶輪社)
The Story of Lanchow Rotary Club (蘭州扶輪社) the Club that had been Provisional for Seven Years 1 October 2016 Street scene of Lanchow in 1946 《The Good Samaritans at Lanchow, China》was an article published in the July 1947 Issue of 《The Rotarian》magazine (see the full text attached below on Pages 11-12). This two-page report gives…
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扶輪一詞在中國並沒有特許專利
`Fú lún’yī cí zài zhōngguó bìng méiyǒu tèxǔ zhuānlì zhōnghuá fú lún shǐ yánjiùyuán liújìnghéng 2013 nián 10 yuè 1 rì `fú lún yī cí zài zhōngguó bìng méiyǒu tèxǔ zhuānlì’, zhè shì zhǐ, gēnjù guójì fú lún de xìnxī, jiézhì běnwéndìnggǎo dāngrì, zài zhōnghuárénmín gònghéguójìngnèi (bù bāokuò xiānggǎng, àomén liǎng gè tèbié xíngzhèngqū) bìng…
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Yōsuke Matsuoka – From Rotarian to War Criminal
Yōsuke Matsuoka – From Rotarian to War Criminal 3 September 2015 Yōsuke Matsuoka 松岡洋右 Today is the 70th anniversary of the war victory day. As the final official unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japan (日本帝國) was accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945, concluding the Second World War, the…
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The Wartime Rotary Club of Kunming (昆明扶輪社)
1 April 2016 Kunming (昆明) was the capital city of Yun Nan Fu (雲南府) in the Republic of China (中華民國). Kunming played a major role during the World War II. Before the Imperial Japan invaded the British Burma, the capital city of Yunnan was the terminus of the “Burma Road” that was used by the…
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Shanghai Concert Hall – Wartime Hub of Shanghai Rotary Club
Shanghai Concert Hall Wartime Hub of Shanghai Rotary Club by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 November 2016 Shanghai Concert Hall (上海音樂廳) Beaux-Arts Architecture Shanghai Concert Hall (上海音樂廳) is located on the intersection of Yan’an Road and South Tibet Road of Huangpu District, Shanghai (上海市黃浦區延安路/西藏南路). The fabric structure of the Shanghai Concert Hall,…
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The 2 Rotary Mobile Clinics operated by Shanghai Rotarians
The 2 Rotary Mobile Clinics operated by Shanghai Rotarians 1 December 2015 December is “Disease Prevention and Treatment Month” designated by Rotary International to arouse the global Rotary clubs’ attention of service action with special focus on disease prevention and treatment in the communities. Rotary’s top priority is certainly the eradication of polio, but the…
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《The Mandarin》- Tientsin Rotary Club – 1938 May 12
