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Harvard Chinese student's graduation speech strikes a chord as Trump leads crackdown
Published on 02/06/2025
» A Chinese student's graduation speech at Harvard University emphasising "shared humanity" and calling for global unity has gone viral, days after the Trump administration pledged to "aggressively" revoke the visas of students from China.
Trump ends foreign students' legal status
Reuters, Published on 17/04/2025
» BOSTON — International students are rushing to ask US judges to block immigration officials from deporting them after President Donald Trump's administration began revoking the rights of thousands of student visa holders to remain in the United States.
Pro-Palestinian protests briefly disrupt University of Michigan graduation
Reuters, Published on 05/05/2024
» Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly disrupted a commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan on Saturday while demonstrators faced off with police at the University of Virginia as U.S. colleges braced for more turmoil during graduation festivities.
Rebel fire and China's ire: Inside Myanmar's anti-junta offensive
Reuters, Published on 15/12/2023
» YANGON - Generals from Myanmar's junta held peace talks in June near the border with China with representatives of three powerful ethnic armies. They sat across a wide table covered with blue cloth and decorated with elaborate bouquets.
Bangkok Prep students celebrate graduation in style
Published on 18/07/2022
» Bangkok Prep students celebrated their graduation among their families and friends on Thursday 7th July. Tana Pothikamjorn of KASIKORN LINE was the guest speaker and presenter of diplomas to 83 Year 13 students from the Class of 2022.
Cartoons and summer
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 15/06/2022
» While interpreting the theme of "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?" exhibition, eight illustrators and cartoonists expressed their relationships with the hot season through cartoon characters.
Patriots or pretenders? Students navigate Hong Kong classroom crackdown
AFP, Published on 17/12/2021
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong teenager Sum says he lives a double life.
Bouquet, brickbats for political hopeful
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 22/11/2021
» Parit "Itim" Wacharasindhu has stepped out of obscurity to chart his own destiny in politics.
Against status quo
Guru, Suthivas Tanphaibul, Published on 12/11/2021
» Art is a powerful tool for self-expression and statement-making. In recent years, more and more young artists in Thailand have used their artworks as a way to question or critique the status quo -- politically, socially and culturally. They ask whether what's considered normal in Thai culture should be accepted as the norm. Guru speaks to a few with ongoing exhibitions that push the limits.
Tributes pour in for Colin Powell, dead at 84
AFP, Published on 18/10/2021
» WASHINGTON: Colin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state who saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, has died from complications from Covid-19. He was 84.