Tsinghua Professor Removed From Lecture After Student Calls Police Over Criticism of China’s Economy

Dongguk University professor dismissed over sexual harassment allegations

A professor at Dongguk University has been dismissed over allegations that he repeatedly made sexually inappropriate remarks and engaged in unwanted physical contact with students during drinking gatherings, the university said. According to Dongguk University, its faculty disciplinary committee voted on June 16 to dismiss the professor from the Department of Cultural Heritage Studies. The dismissal took effect Sunday. The case first came to public attention in November, when the department’s st

Outrage as viral video shows Kwara Polytechnic lecturer flogging students during exam; school takes action

Kwara Polytechnic confirms suspension of a lecturer seen flogging students in a viral exam video while investigation into the incident continues.

China’s Transnational Repression Is Being Met With a Deafening Silence

Here is what we know about how U.S. citizen Min Zin ended up in a Chinese detention cell: He accepted an invitation to attend an academic conference in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province in southwestern China. This was nothing unusual, as Min Zin is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, who has spent years writing about the politics of Myanmar—where he is from—and the country’s thorny relationship with China. The think tank he co-founded in 2016, ISP-Myanmar, has regular contact with Chinese academic institutions. He had traveled to China multiple times without incident. None of that [...] The post China’s Transnational Repression Is Being Met With a Deafening Silence appeared first on World Politics Review.

Why a Mongolian computer engineering student is leaving Korea for China

Why a Mongolian computer engineering student is leaving Korea for China

Tsinghua Professor Removed From Lecture After Student Reports Comments Critical of China’s Economy

Videos of the incident caused debate over academic freedom as Zheng Yuhuang argued that China's economic problems stem largely from domestic policies rather than foreign pressure