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HPU Sets Record with Four Fulbright Recipients

HPU Sets Record with Four Fulbright Recipients

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 25, 2025 – Four High Point University graduates have been awarded scholarships from the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program to teach English and earn master’s degrees abroad. It marks the highest number of Fulbright...

Kyodo News Digest: June 21, 2025

Kyodo News Digest: June 21, 2025

Legoland Shanghai Resort is unveiled to the media in Shanghai on June 20, 2025, ahead of its public opening on July 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Japan to provide defense...

China's expanding visa-free policy enhances inclusive globalization

China's expanding visa-free policy enhances inclusive globalization

Illustration: Liu Rui/GT Editor's Note: Starting Monday, China began implementing a trial visa-free policy for ordinary passport holders from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain. With this expansion, China now offers unilateral visa-free entry...

Iran and us: Time for a feel

Iran and us: Time for a feel

I ran and us, separated by the Asian landmass, are tangled up in invisible knots first entwined in the mid-20th Century. Time now to give these unseen knots a good feel. Seventy years ago, Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was...

Roaming Charges: After Midnight

Roaming Charges: After Midnight

B-2 Stealth bomber flying at night. Photo: Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder / U.S. Air Force. After midnight We’re gonna let it all hang out We’re gonna cause talk and suspicion Give an exhibition Find out what it is all about – JJ Cale, After Midnight...

Why has Việt Nam’s ‘Blazing Furnace’ Campaign Failed?

Why has Việt Nam’s ‘Blazing Furnace’ Campaign Failed?

This article is the final installment of a special series on anti-corruption in Asia. It is based on research published in 2019 by scholars Edmund Malesky and Ngọc Phan of Duke University, using data available up to 2018. Trần Bình Thản wrote this...

Macau ASEAN Chamber of Commerce delegation visits Thailand amid growing regional collaboration

Macau ASEAN Chamber of Commerce delegation visits Thailand amid growing regional collaboration

Heads of MAICC delegation with Thai Deputy Prime Minister in Bangkok, Friday The Macao ASEAN International Chamber of Commerce (MAICC) has embarked on a five-day business mission to Thailand, with scheduled stops in Pattaya and Bangkok. The...

First Minister given a tradtional Timorese welcome on visit to region's most diverse primary school

First Minister Michelle O'Neill with children wjho gave her a traditional Timorese welcome, along with St Patrick's principal Seamus McCreesh First Minister Michelle O'Neill celebrated the diversity of St Patrick’s Primary School in Dungannon as...

Eleven candidates to run for IOC Athletes’ Commission election at Milano Cortina 2026

Eleven candidates to run for IOC Athletes’ Commission election at Milano Cortina 2026

26 June 2025 – Eleven athletes will stand for election to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission (AC) during the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. The list of candidates, approved today by the IOC Executive Board,...

The neighbour market

The neighbour market

I realised too late that the front door was open. I should have called out and let myself in. Instead, I rang the bell, forcing Kitione Waqanisau to labour his way up the hallway on crutches. Kiti, as he likes to be called, guided me to the lounge...

Europe Must Get Off the Sidelines in the Middle East

Europe Must Get Off the Sidelines in the Middle East

The European Union has rarely played more than an auxiliary role in helping resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in spite of its multifaceted presence in the region. Over the past two decades, European governments came to believe that...

Pakistan grouped with Saudi Arabia, Iraq in AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2026 qualifiers

Pakistan grouped with Saudi Arabia, Iraq in AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2026 qualifiers

Pakistan’s football team has been selected in Group D along with Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Chinese Taipei for the qualifiers of the upcoming AFC Futsal Asian Cup Indonesia 2026, the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) confirmed on Thursday. Thirty-one...

ASEAN SOMTC focuses on combating 10 cross-border crimes

ASEAN SOMTC focuses on combating 10 cross-border crimes

KUALA LUMPUR: The 25th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) concluded in Putrajaya after five days of intensive discussions aimed at combating 10 major cross-border crimes affecting the region. The meeting, hosted by...

First look at Pearl Expeditions’ new luxury expedition yacht Paspaley Pearl

First look at Pearl Expeditions’ new luxury expedition yacht Paspaley Pearl

Joining a new ship on a pre-inaugural cruise is one of the best things about being in the travel business. We are the guinea pigs for the ship’s first sailing before the first cruise with paying guests takes place – and things don’t always quite...

‘We are all Palestine Action’: Starmer represented me at the ECHR… Now he’d see me as a terrorist

‘We are all Palestine Action’: Starmer represented me at the ECHR… Now he’d see me as a terrorist

27 June 2025, 12:38 | Updated: 27 June 2025, 13:10 Keir Starmer represented a group of protesters in a ECHR case in the 1990s. Back row Andrea Needham in pink. Picture: supplied By Fraser Knight and Angela Wormald A veteran activist who was...

What is legal adoption: Expert debunks fears after Maguad case

What is legal adoption: Expert debunks fears after Maguad case

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Not all children in shelters are up for adoption. And not every adoption story is a tragedy waiting to happen. In the wake of sensationalized portrayals of adoption in films and high-profile criminal cases, child welfare...

Keir Starmer’s Palestine Action Ban Is a Threat to Democracy

Keir Starmer’s Palestine Action Ban Is a Threat to Democracy

On Monday of this week, the British home secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans to outlaw the campaigning group Palestine Action, placing it in the same legal category as ISIS and Boko Haram. Cooper intends to ram through the proscription...

BEN MORGAN: Iran. A win for the US?

Holy shit look at what NZDF could have been like: Detail structure and equipment for a NZ Defence Force in 2030 if military spending had been constant at 5% GDP since 2015 ChatGPT said: If New Zealand had maintained military spending at 5% of GDP...

'ASEAN visa' a reminder that an open door leads to prosperity

'ASEAN visa' a reminder that an open door leads to prosperity

An official guides Vietnamese tourists in filling out the entry application forms at a newly opened passage gate in Fangchenggang, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on May 29. ZHAI LIQIANG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE In an era marked by rising...

China will be able to navigate around restrictions imposed by others, emerge more resilient: PM Wong

China will be able to navigate around restrictions imposed by others, emerge more resilient: PM Wong

[BEIJING] Whatever restrictions it may face from other countries, China is likely to find a way around them by developing its own capabilities, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Wednesday (Jun 25). China’s response to increasing geopolitical...

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