If students are learning Chinese in public schools, they could be using a curriculum shaped by the Chinese Communist Party. In 2004, Beijing began to establish Confucius Institutes on American university campuses, which in turn partnered with K-12 public schools to establish roughly 500 Confucius Classrooms. A backlash on Capitol Hill led to the closure of nearly all the Confucius Institutes, leading most to assume that the problem had been solved.But as the National Association of Scholars documented in a 2022 report, some of the institutes survived by changing their names or transferring their operations to third-party organizations with innocuous names. This is preserving…
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Life I was recently reminiscing with my daughters about great times we had shared as a family. More often than not, it was our trips, not our everyday lives, that were seared into their memories. Horseback riding in Canada, a safari in Tanzania, swimming with turtles in the Maldives. And as we talked, I found myself wondering why these moments and not the day-to-day interludes that made up the fabric of our lives together. The answer, it turns out, is written into the very architecture of how our brains work. We are wired for newness. Neverbefore seen environments, experiences, and…
Radio broadcasting group African Media Entertainment (AME) has reported double-digit growth in earnings, despite operating in a tough economic environment for traditional media players. This comes as several local media houses have announced retrenchments to cope with the loss of advertising revenue and troubles replacing print circulation revenue, particularly for legacy businesses, in recent years.South Africa’s broadcasters have had mixed fortunes. Entertainment group eMedia — which has interests in both television and radio businesses that include eNCA, OpenView and Yfm — recently reported that television advertising in South Africa was down 10% over the past year. Pay-TV business MultiChoice became…
Merve Aydogan30 May 2026•Update: 30 May 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that Canada and China are deepening ties following high-level talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.”Canada and China are building a more stable and constructive partnership,” Carney wrote on the US social media platform X.He said the talks built on progress during his visit to China earlier this year.”Building on the progress made during my visit to China earlier this year, Minister Wang Yi and I focused on creating new opportunities and greater prosperity on both sides of the Pacific,” he added.Wang arrived Thursday in Canada for…
.Research conducted by Australia’s tax authorities revealed that the first communication a new taxpayer receives affects their long-run compliance behaviour. photo: file HONG KONG: Hong Kong is considering waiving tax on fund managers’ performance bonuses in order to woo investment talent, say market participants and sources familiar with the plans. The reforms would make Hong Kong the first major financial centre in Asia to introduce tax breaks for individuals on performance bonuses, called “carried interest”, and could draw top wealth managers and star investors to set up in the city. “The industry has a lot of excitement over this,” said…
JAKARTA – Ms Pani, 64, has worked as a live-in domestic worker for the same family for 44 years.A native of Boyolali, Central Java, she came to Jakarta as a teenager after her brother sent a letter saying someone was looking for a domestic worker. She never left.“I decided to come because I heard that living in Jakarta was good,” she told The Straits Times.Her employer, Ms Tokiko Latuharhary, 75, needed help at home while she and her husband worked. Ms Pani, who goes by one name, became the primary caregiver of all three of the Latuharhary children, accompanying Ms…
There are bigger and more ambitious museums in Sharjah, but that doesn’t mean Bait Al Naboodah is any less fascinating. In fact, it’s the small scale, its intimacy, that makes it worth a visit.Step through the carved wooden doorway into its central courtyard and the noise of the city outside falls away. What remains is the quiet evidence of what Emirati family life used to be like among the wealthy, because this was a home before it was a museum, and it still feels like one.The house belonged to Obaid Al Naboodah, one of Sharjah’s most prominent pearl merchants, and…
Wondering if Eastman Chemical at around US$75.87 is offering real value or just fair pricing? This article walks through what the numbers say about the stock. The share price return sits at 2.4% over the past week, 7.7% over the past month, 17.9% year to date and 1.6% over the past year, against a longer-term picture that includes a 3.5% return over three years and a decline of 29.7% over five years. Recent coverage has focused on Eastman Chemical’s role as a diversified materials producer, with commentary often centering on how the business is positioned within broader chemicals and materials…
Source | Kineco Group India’s rail transformation is accelerating, with Kineco Group (Goa, India) announcing its consolidated order book has crossed ₹3,000 crore (≈$313,406 million), driven by the award of significant contracts from Indian Railways and multiple private train builders for the design, engineering and manufacture of interior systems across 100 Vande Bharat Sleeper trains. More than a revenue milestone, it is a statement about where Indian manufacturing capability now stands, Kineco Group notes — and where the company intends to take it. “The Vande Bharat Sleeper program is one of the most consequential rail infrastructure undertakings in India’s history,” says the company, “and…
Jarong Krohmo assaulted after going to funeral of victim to apolgise to family Jarong Krohmo holds a cloth over his mouth after being punched by a friend of the delivery rider who was killed in a crash involving Mr Jarong, who had gone to Wat Thung Khru in Bangkok to apologise and pay his respects on Friday afternoon. (Screengrab from video/Wassayos Ngamkham) Police have charged a senior executive of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) over a fatal drunk-driving crash that killed a delivery rider in Nonthaburi on Wednesday night.A friend who allegedly tried to falsely claim responsibility for the crash…