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Chinese universities dominate THE BRICS & Emerging Economies University Rankings 2017

Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday reveals its BRICS & Emerging Economies University Rankings 2017. China's institutions dominate, taking seven of the top 10 places, led by Peking University (1st) and Tsinghua University (2nd), and 77 in the ranking overall.

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Hong Kong universities urged to look beyond mainland to boost paltry foreign student numbers

Official auditor finds that 76 per cent of non-local students in the city come from mainland China and also expresses concern over meeting expenses claimed

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14 Chinese universities make into THE global university employability ranking

Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday published the sixth annual Global University Employability Ranking, revealing that 14 Chinese universities make into the ranking.

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Scholars refute Falungong's organ rumor

Experts from China and abroad have refuted claims made by the Falungong cult that the nation harvests organs from its practitioners.

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First New Zealand university to offer degrees in China next year

​New Zealand's Waikato University announced Thursday that it is the country's first university approved to teach and award degrees in China.

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"Peking University butcher" restarts pork business after 12-year hiatus

Lu Buxuan, a Chinese language major from Peking University, gained some notoriety in 2003 after it was reported that the top-level gradudate chose to sell pork despite his educational pedigree.

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Times university rankings: HK records greatest number in Asia, mainland and Singapore ends up higher

Hong Kong has the greatest number of universities in Asia to make it to the top 200 in a prominent global ranking system, but top mainland Chinese and Singapore institutions ended up higher.

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When East meets West on the stage: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu

William Shakespeare, the renowned British playwright whose dramas are known across the world; and Tang Xianzu, the famed ancient Chinese opera writer with his works passed on through generations. What happens when the masterpieces of these two are put together?

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China's leading economists debate value of state intervention in industrial policy

Experts disagree on whether preferential policies help or hinder country’s commercial development and economic growth

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China's universities move to educate students about telecom fraud

Universities are taking various measures to warn new entrants about telecom fraud following a recent tragedy in which a college-bound student died after being cheated out of tuition fees which her family had spent months raising.

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Researchers reach important milestone in quantum computer development

The University of Oxford Monday announced that its researchers had achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9 percent precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum computer.

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Distinctive college admission letters impress Chinese students

Instead of the usual formal acceptance letters, future college students across China have been impressed by what they have received this summer: delicately designed, hand-crafted admission letters.

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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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Chinese universities dominate new top universities in Asia ranking

124 universities from China including 82 from the Chinese mainland, 7 from Hong Kong, 34 from Taiwan and 1 from Macao have entered into the list of "QS University Rankings: Asia 2016" – a ranking of the 350 top universities in Asia.

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Giant of Neo-Confucian study dies in Taiwan at age 82

Liu Shu-hsien, a giant in the study of Neo-Confucianism and a researcher at the prestigious Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica in Taiwan as well as a former Chinese University lecturer, died in Taipei on Monday at the age of 82.

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Things you need to know about gaokao

Gaokao is no ordinary test in China. From praying parents accidentally burning down trees, to forking out a 100,000 yuan to prepare for the career-defining exam, the most important time in a Chinese student's schooling is eventful, to say the least.