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· Ryan General
Vietnamese UCLA Professor Gives Students Stuffed Animals Every Week to Show He Cares
A Vietnamese professor at UCLA has been getting massive love on social media after one of his students “exposed” his unique teaching routine online. Quyen Di Chuc Bui, who leads the Vietnamese language program at the university, regularly lets his students know that he loves…
· Ryan General
Teen Gunman Who Fatally Shot Fellow Students at Santa Clarita High School Has Died
Nathaniel Berhow, the 16-year-old student who killed two classmates and injured three others at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita on Thursday morning, has died from the gunshot wound he inflicted on himself. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Berhow shot…
· Bryan Ke
Chinese University Offers Video Game Course for Students Interested in Esports
A university in north-eastern China is now offering a course for its students who want to become better at video games and eventually get into esports. The Shenyang University in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China is offering a course that teaches students how to play, produce,…
· Bryan Ke
American College Students Want to Learn Korean More Than Ever Because of K-Pop
The number of students learning Korean in universities throughout the United States has increased almost exponentially over the past 10 years, and it’s most likely due to the incredible popularity of K-pop. According to the U.S. Modern Language Association, the number of…
· Bryan Ke
University of Rochester Cancels Music School Tour After China Shuns Korean Students
Eastman, University of Rochester’s music school in upstate New York, initially announced they will continue with their China tour, but had to ultimately cancel amid backlash. The news of the cancellation came after Jamal Rossi, dean of the Eastman School of Music, received…
· Carl Samson
Why Students Are Forced to Take the SAT to Go to College
Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang called for a reduced emphasis on standardized testing. He particularly took a jab at the SAT, which has long been used to assess students’ readiness for collegiate studies. “We came up with the SAT during World War II to…
· Carl Samson
Genius College Students Create a ‘Boba Watch’ App to Track Milk Tea Expenses
A trio of college students developed and designed a program that allows people to track how much they are spending on boba milk tea. Boba Watch, now available for iOS and Android, emerged from a Facebook group called Subtle Asian Traits (SAT), where it has gone viral and has…
· Ryan General
43% of White Harvard Students Got Accepted Because of Privilege Loopholes, Study Says
As it turns out, the multicultural images plastered in pamphlets, ads, and social media accounts from Harvard University are all but a facade as majority of its population is still, as it has always been, wealthy, white, and straight. Most of them hailing from the country’s…
· Bryan Ke
Asian Students Scored the Best on the 2019 SAT While Everyone Else Scored Lower
The average SAT score reportedly declined slightly for the class of 2019, but Asian students remain top performers. According to non-profit organization and the administrator of the test, College Board, this year’s number of students that took the college admissions test has…
· Carl Samson
Australian University Uses ‘Racist’ Rule To Allegedly Stop Chinese Students From Controlling Student Union
International students at one of Australia’s leading universities had been banned from running in campus elections, a pre-emptive strike that reportedly thwarted political ambitions of Chinese students. Ahead of next week’s elections, student leaders at Monash University’s…
· Ryan General
9 Chinese Exchange Students Denied Entry to the U.S., Sent Back to China
Nine exchange students returning to Arizona State University from China were stopped and temporarily detained by Customs and Border Protection at Los Angeles International Airport. University officials said in a statement on Friday that the Chinese students were “denied…
· Bryan Ke
‘YingYing’s Fund’ Started at University of Illinois to Help International Students in Times of Need
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has set up a fund in honor of Chinese visiting scholar Yingying Zhang, who was abducted and murdered in 2017. “Yingying’s Fund” will provide financial support to international students enrolled at the university as well as their…
· Carl Samson
China Praises Students for Alleged Assault on Hong Kong Supporters at Auckland University
China praised a group of mainland students who clashed with Hong Kong students protesting against the city’s controversial extradition bill at the University of Auckland in New Zealand on Monday. The scuffle, which resulted in one Hong Kong student falling to the ground, took…
· Ryan General
Pro-Hong Kong Students in Australia Allegedly Attacked By Pro-China Students During Protest
Two groups of students with opposing views on Chinese politics in Hong Kong clashed inside the campus of the University of Queensland on Wednesday. Police were reportedly called to the campus after a violent clash between the two groups broke out at around 1 p.m., reports…
· Ryan General
Hong Kong’s Richest Man Pays $120,000 for Students’ Trip to Japan After Meeting at the Airport
A dance group composed of 45 children from Shanghai received a generous treat from billionaire Li Ka-Shing after bumping into him at an airport in Japan. Members of the Little Pigeon Dancing Group and their teachers were on their way to a dance competition when they met Hong…
· Bryan Ke
High School Students Perform Epic Japanese Version Of ‘Friend Like Me’ from ‘Aladdin’
The live-action adaptation of the popular Disney movie ‘Aladdin’ has become such a hit in Japan that the company organized a Japanese version and music video for the hit song “Friend Like Me” in the most spectacular way.
· Carl Samson
University of Illinois Chicago Accused of Denying Over 450 International Students Voting Rights
Hundreds of international students were robbed of their right to vote in a recent student election at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), an investigation revealed. According to the university’s Student Justice Coalition (SJC), at least 450 students failed to cast their…
· Khier Casino
Photographer Shows Off Shirtless Chinese Students at the Shanghai University of Sport
A series of photos featuring Asian men wearing nothing but their underwear in what appears to be a college dormitory has gone viral on Chinese social media for obvious reasons. The photos, shot by Shanghai-based photographer JQvision, depict a dorm room the Shanghai University…
· Jin Hyun
Hong Kong Students Caught Studying During Massive Protests
Organizers have estimated nearly two million people to have participated in the mass protests taking place in Hong Kong against the controversial extradition bill. Despite the videos showing massive crowds, the police have maintained that there were no more than 338,000 people…
· Bryan Ke
Hong Kong’s Richest Man Donates $57.6 Million to University So Students Get Free Tuition for 4 Years
Li Ka-shing, one of the world’s top billionaires and Hong Kong’s richest man, just announced that the foundation named after himself is set to make generous annual donations that will cover students’ tuition fees over the next four years. In a Weibo post on Sunday, Shantou…