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China: Tibetan students banned from religious activities

Jul 24, 2018

An official Chinese Communist Party newspaper says Tibetan children have been banned from taking part in religious activities over the summer holidays

Chinese professor suspended following misconduct complaints

Jul 12, 2018

A leading Chinese university has suspended a prominent primatologist in a victory for China's slow-building #MeToo movement

Annie Lennox made honorary chancellor at Scottish university

Jul 2, 2018

Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox has been made chancellor of Scotland's Glasgow Caledonian University, becoming the first woman to occupy the ceremonial post

Chinese court hands US football coach 4-year prison sentence

Jun 28, 2018

A Chinese court sentenced former American football player Wendell Brown to four years in prison for a bar fight, a punishment his lawyer and an activist called excessive

Man kills policeman, guard in attacks near school in Japan

Jun 26, 2018

Police say a knife-wielding man slashed and killed an officer in a local police station, took the man's gun and fatally shot a security guard at the entrance to a nearby elementary school in northern Japan

Japan to check concrete walls after Osaka quake deaths

Jun 19, 2018

Japan's government has ordered nationwide inspection of school walls after two of the four deaths in Monday's earthquake in Osaka were caused by falling concrete walls

College football coach in Japan to quit over ugly tackle

May 19, 2018

The head coach of a Japanese college football team says he will quit after a dangerous tackle by one of his players that left an opponent in hospital

Arsenal suspends 2 coaches after allegations of bullying

May 11, 2018

Arsenal has suspended two of the club's academy coaches pending an investigation into allegations of bullying

Death toll rises to 9 in China school stabbing attack

Apr 28, 2018

The death toll has risen to nine in a stabbing attack outside a middle school in northwestern China

Chinese vice-dean accused of 'inappropriate' behavior

Apr 26, 2018

A faculty member at a prestigious university in China says one of the vice-deans at the institution's media school has had his title revoked due to "inappropriate" behavior toward female students