University officials recently visited South Africa and Malawi. The delegation visited with representatives from the University of Pretoria, Stellenbosch University and the University of Johannesburg, as well as government officials, The News-Gazette reported. More...
This Korean-American logs more than 120 flights each year, spending about a third of his time in bleak Manchuria, a third in bleaker Pyongyang, and the last third globe-trotting to raise money and recruit professors for the two universities he spearheaded. More...
A U.S. dairy trade export group has partnered with a Chinese university to create a food science research center in the hope of bolstering relations and expanding dairy exports from the United States to China. More...
Over the last few years, the Islamic State (IS) terror group has shocked the world with its gruesome public spectacles. Especially abhorrent to our moral sensibilities is its overt use of children as frontline fighters, suicide bombers and propaganda tools.
From macabre hide-and-seek exercises, in which children hunt and kill enemy prisoners in specially constructed mazes, to the mass execution and decapitation of adult soldiers, young people living under IS have been indoctrinated and encouraged to engage in violence. More...
On March 22, the Trump administration lobbed its second volley in a planned escalation of punitive trade measures against America’s trading partners.Violent behaviour in schools happens everyday and figures suggest bullying is on the increase, too. In a report last year, UNESCO (the United Nations office for educational, scientific and cultural affairs) revealed that school violence affects 246m pupils worldwide, every year. More...
By Joshua Kim. This weekend my wife and I took our college-age daughters to the New York International Auto Show. In truth, we had not planned to attend the giant car extravaganza held annually at the Javits Center. We had planned a weekend in Manhattan as a spring break getaway, and ended up at the car show largely by happenstance. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. After two congressmen write to Texas A&M raising concerns that the Chinese-government backed Confucius Institutes are platforms for political propaganda and espionage, Texas A&M says it will close them. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Columbia and Trinity College start dual B.A. program modeled on an existing Columbia collaboration with France's Sciences Po. More...
A delegation from the University of Dubai recently visited the People’s Republic of China to discuss scientific and academic cooperation with Peking and Ningxia universities and the Confucius Institute, write Esraa Ismail and Rasha Abubaker for Emirates News Agency. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
