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· Carl Samson
High School Students and Teacher Killed By Deadly Avalanche in Japan
Seven students and one teacher were killed by an avalanche in a Japanese town of Nasu on Monday. The disaster occurred during a climbing event at Nasuonsen Family Ski Resort in Tochigi prefecture, about 160 kilometers ( 99 miles) north of Tokyo. It was around 8:30 in the morning.
· Ryan General
Private School in India Holds Students Hostage For Not Paying Tuition Fees
A private school in India is being investigated for allegedly locking up 19 students who were not able to pay their school fees on time. The children, aged 5-14, were reportedly held against their will for two hours inside a classroom in Saritha Vidya Niketan, Hayathnagar. They…
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Over 50% of Students Accepted to NYC’s Elite High Schools This Year Were Asian
The first round of acceptance letters from New York City’s top high schools have been sent to 5,078 eighth-graders this week with 52.5% of those accepted being Asian. A total of 27,853 students applied for admission into NYC’s eight elite high schools for the upcoming academic…
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Chinese-American Author Mocked at Texas High School, Calls Students Out Online
Highland Park High School administrators have issued an apology to best-selling author Jamie Ford after the student assembly suddenly burst into applause while he spoke about Japanese internment camps. Ford, author of “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” visited the high…
· King Malleta
Majority of Japanese Students Failed The Country’s English Comprehension Exam This Year
It has been quite a disappointing week for Japanese junior high school students after exam reports revealed that very few had passed the English proficiency exam. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology in Japan recently conducted a test to determine…
· King Malleta
Primary School in China has Unusual 28 Sets of Twins as Students
It’s hard enough for a school teacher to keep up with one set of twin students, but imagine having to deal with multiple sets of twins and triplets. A primary school in Hubei, China reportedly has 28 sets of twins and the school is just as baffled as everyone else. To make…
· King Malleta
The ‘MIT of China’ is Under Fire For Allegedly Favoring Foreign Students
A top Chinese university is in hot water for allegedly lowering admissions standards for foreign students. Students who wish to gain admission to a prestigious university need to go through a rigorous screening process. Oftentimes, it will include admission exams, grade…
· King Malleta
Chinese Students Find Creative Way to Fight Racism at Columbia University
Asian Students at Columbia University are hoping to fight indifference through a two-minute video that reveals the meaning behind their Chinese names. For anyone from the West, Asian names can oftentimes be confusing and more often than not, unrelatable. In the most deplorable…
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FIJI Frat Bro’s Racist ‘VietPong’ Game Sparks Outrage Among Asian Students at UPenn
Asian students at the University of Pennsylvania are upset after Phi Gamma Delta fraternity member and his date on Saturday night called their beer pong team “VietPong.” Photos of the couple at the frat’s FIJI date night, wearing military camouflage with war paint on their…
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Asian Students Targeted in Dorm Room Vandalism at Columbia University
Columbia University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs received reports that a vandal ripped off name plates from dormitory doors of students who have non-western Asian names. Name tags were torn down in Schapiro, East Campus and Furnald residential halls, according to BWOG…
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Russian Students May Have to Learn Mandarin For College Entrance Exams By 2020
Russia’s Federal Service for the Supervision of Education and Science plans to make Mandarin Chinese a mandatory foreign language in state testing across the nation by the year 2020. In 2018, 9th graders in Russia will be given the option of taking Chinese on their final exams…
· Carl Samson
Chinese School Lets Students ‘Borrow Scores’ For Better Grades to Reduce Stress
A school in eastern China has set up what other academic institutions may never have or even imagine: a fully-operational “grades bank.” Nanjing Number One High School established the system back in November as a way of helping students reduce stress. Parents who were banking…
· Editorial Staff
School in China Gives the Saddest Gift Ever to Students Who Ace Their Exams
When they say “bring home the bacon,” a Henan primary school in China took it quite literally. Just before the Spring Festival kicks off this weekend, a primary school from Henan Province handed out bags full of pork as a reward to students who aced their exams. This must have…
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Perverted Chinese Professor Allegedly Accepts Female Students Based on ‘Breasts, Face, Ass And Legs’
Qiao Mu, a news broadcasting professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, is taking heat for a blog post he published about how he accepts female students who want to take his class based on looks. “We interviewers are people too, you know. I didn’t know if she was…
· Carl Samson
Vietnamese Exchange Students Sexually Assaulted by Host Father in Florida
Two Vietnamese exchange students alleged that they were sexually assaulted by their host father in Orlando, Florida. According to investigators, the encounters took place at the Valencia Forest Apartments on Valencia Town Trail.
· King Malleta
Chinese School Finds Unique Way to Stop Students From Cheating During Exams
An unusual anti-cheating method from a school in China received mixed reactions from netizens. In order to stop their students from cheating while taking their exams, a school in Anhui province in China came up with an idea. The “hat trick” — using newspaper with a skull-size…
· King Malleta
Young Chinese Students in New Zealand are Being Lured into Sex Work
More and more young Chinese women who are on temporary visas in New Zealand are being lured to work in the sex industry, according to the New Zealand Herald. Older sex workers use bilingual work information leaflets which are produced by the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective in…
· King Malleta
Why Foreign Students Struggle to Find Work in the U.S. After Graduation
Getting a job nowadays is hard, but it is made more difficult for foreign students who are hoping to get hired after graduating from a university in the U.S. According to Market Place, many foreign graduates face a lot of challenges once they get out of the university. A report…
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Singaporean Students Invent ‘Risk Watch’ to Save Drivers Who Fall Asleep on the Road
Five first-year students at the Singapore University of Technology and Design have invented the Risk Watch, which consists of a watch and ring that monitors a driver’s heart rate. The device stimulates the driver as an alarm if they begin to nod off while on the road, according…
· Ryan General
Taiwanese High School Under Fire After Students March Parade in Full Nazi Uniforms
A school-sanctioned event at a Taiwanese high school was strongly denounced by the Israeli government after several students marched in a parade wearing Nazi uniforms. Hsinchu’s Kuangfu Senior High School students from the sophomore media and design class not only sported Nazi…