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25 Chinese universities join to list of Asia-Pacific’s most innovative

25 Chinese higher learning institutes have made it onto Reuters’ annual rankings of the 75 most innovative universities in the Asia-Pacific region.

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25 Chinese universities join to list of Asia-Pacific’s most innovative

25ChinesehigherlearninginstituteshavemadeitontoReuters’annualrankingsofthe75mostinnovativeuniversitiesintheAsia-Pacificregion.Thelist,whichisnowinitssecondyear,

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The battle for Mosul nears end: what next?

IraqiforcesareconfidenttheywillbeabletopushISILoutofMosulwithindays.Butthemilitantgroupisnotgoingdownwithoutafight,strikingbackatIraqiforcesonthecuspofretakingt

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TCM's popularity growing abroad

Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine is cooperating with foreign institutions and training students to share traditional Chinese medicine-one of the world's most ancient therapies-with the world.

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TCM's popularity growing abroad

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Oxford graduate sues university for S$1.8 million after failing to get first-class degree

One of the world's top universities is facing a lawsuit that alleges it was responsible for "appallingly bad" and "boring tuition" that cost a graduate his first-class degree.

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Prosecutors raid university over influence-peddling scandal

​Prosecutors on Tuesday raided a local university suspected of having given unlawful favors to the daughter of President Park Geun-hye's close friend who is at the center of an influence-peddling scandal roiling the country.

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Australians mourn tree that "failed" university students

​The sudden collapse of the University of Sydney's famed jacaranda tree has triggered a wave of grief in Australia, with staff and alumni mourning a key piece of campus folklore.

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Colombian FM sums up country's record as secretary of Ibero-American Summit

Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin on Friday delivered the results of Colombia's two-year administration to a meeting of foreign ministers during the 25th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, being held in Colombia on Oct. 28-29.

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China to build Japanese war trial database

​A Chinese university has announced an ambitious plan to build the largest database in Asia on the Japanese war criminal trials that followed World War II.

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Kabul American university attack kills 16, heart of Afghan liberal learning hitted

As many as 16 people were killed after militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, officials said Thursday (Aug 25), in a nearly 10-hour raid that prompted anguished pleas for help from trapped students.

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Afghan forces kill two gunmen to end American University attack

Twelve people, including seven students, were killed in an attack on the American University in Kabul that sent hundreds of students fleeing in panic, police said early on Thursday, before the assault ended when two gunmen were shot dead.

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Apology called from university for withhelding diplomas of being out lesbian couple

An international LGBT group has submitted a petition asking a Guangdong-based university to apologize to a Guangzhou lesbian student couple for not issuing them diplomas as punishment for their highly publicized marriage proposal, according to the Global Times.

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University of Hong Kong no longer in top three Asian universities

National University of Singapore takes the top spot in the Times Higher Education Asian University Rankings 2016.

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What happens in a university run by IS?

Almost exactly two years ago, Iraq's second biggest city, Mosul, was overrun by the forces of so-called Islamic State (IS).But since then, the city's university, has remained open most of the time.

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Cup of China's Ming Dynasty found in British university fetches 4.6 mln USD at auction

A rare Chinese cup, dating back to the Ming Dynasty and found covered in dust at an English university, sold at an auction in Hong Kong Tuesday for more than 4.6 million U.S.dollars, the university said.

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Chinese protests over university quotas spread to third province

Residents demonstrate in Zhengzhou over education ministry’s demand that more than a dozen provinces admit a greater number of non-local college students