Lee Lian Kong
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International students flocking to China's low-cost, high quality universities
NEWS on international students often focuses on how the People's Republic of China is the biggest sender of students to countries like the US, UK and Australia. The inverse doesn't get as much talk time, even though the number of foreigners attending Chinese universities has increased tenfold since 1995. → Read More
India’s aggressive push to regain its glory as the world’s top education hub
WHILE Indian students make up the bulk of international students worldwide, the same can hardly be said about the number of foreigners enrolling in India’s higher education institutes. Recently, however, the Indian government appears to be aggressively pushing to get those numbers up. It’s investing around US$22 → Read More
What are Asia's top ranked universities and how did they get there?
TIMES Higher Education (THE) released its Asia-Pacific (APAC) University Ranking 2018 earlier this month. In the respected league table, East Asian countries continue to dominate the region's higher education sector. → Read More
What Jack Ma can teach us about the value of learning English
IN 2015, former US President Barack Obama interviewed Alibaba co-founder and executive chairman Jack Ma at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit in Manila, the Philippines. → Read More
These are the most innovative universities in Asia
UNIVERSITIES in Japan, South Korea and China have been recognised as the leaders in Asia when it comes to pushing the envelope on innovation. → Read More
To be young, highly-qualified and poor in Malaysia
In Malaysia, university graduates drive Ubers and sell food in markets to make a living. Data shows more than half earn below RM2000 (US$500) per month. → Read More
No country for hijabs: SE Asian students in the UK live in fear of Islamophobia
ON Nov 9, 2016, Putri Viona Sari, a student at the University of Edinburgh went to a grocery store. It was like any other day for the PhD candidate originally from Bekasi, Indonesia. But in America, property-developer-turned-reality-star Donald Trump had just been elected as its 45th president. → Read More
The power women of Southeast Asia
It's a challenging world out there for Asean women in politics, who face hard choices about marriage, motherhood, and employment to get to the top. Yet, the trailblazers of the region give us hope that it can be done. → Read More
In wealthy Kuala Lumpur, the tragedy of child poverty in its public flats
As Malaysia boasts high-income status, all the children in the glitzy city's public flats are left behind. → Read More
Swiss ambassador calls out Malaysia’s terrible maid abuse record
The country's long and terrible history of domestic helper abuse was conspicuously missing from a report of human rights abuses in the country. → Read More
Why sexual harassment victims in Malaysia stay silent
One Malaysian woman's long, expensive and painful road to justice. → Read More
Singaporean minister lectures US about gun control
SINGAPORE'S Home Minister K Shanmugam has denounced the lack of gun control laws as the reason behind the proliferation of firearms and mass shootings in the US. → Read More
Indonesia, Philippines furious with treatment of workers overseas
LESS than three months after Asean signed a landmark document to protect migrant workers, a fresh slate of abuse cases on Indonesian and Filipino workers overseas are sparking new waves of outrage in their home countries → Read More
Asia does not have a single ‘fully democratic’ state – report
In the latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2017 Democracy Index, there are 19 "fully democratic" countries in the world. None of them is located in Asia. → Read More
Thousands of UK residents found to have bought fake degrees from Pakistan
A DIPLOMA mill in Pakistan has been making millions of pounds from UK buyers looking for fake degrees, a report by BBC Radio 4 File on Four programme has found. → Read More
Female journalists, male politicians and the epidemic of sexual harassment in Asean
SPEAKING to Asian Correspondent, female journalists in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines spoke of the same culture of unwanted sexual behaviour coming from the male politicians they interview, from innuendos and lewd texts to more overt forms of harassment, such as groping and forcible kissings. → Read More
Trump’s Jerusalem move reveals Malaysians’ ‘ignorance’ about Israel-Palestine conflict
Local academics believe Malaysians are still ‘ignorant’ about what the recent furor over Jerusalem and the Israel-Palestine conflict are all about, in yet another instance revealing the depth of its citizens’ knowledge about the conflict. → Read More
Refugees in Southeast Asia vulnerable due to lack of education, work rights
LACK of official legal frameworks to recognise and provide education to refugees is denying refugees who arrive and stay in Southeast Asia (SEA) access to formal education, an Indonesian think tank found. → Read More
Malaysian Muslim fans pay tribute to K-pop idol Jonghyun
NEARLY 200 devoted fans gathered in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday night to pay tribute to Kim Jong-hyun, the lead singer of top South Korean boy band SHINee who died this Monday in a possible suicide. → Read More
Malaysia offers iPhone X to entice study loan defaulters to pay up
One unit of Apple's iPhone X and 19 units of Huawei's P10 smartphones are up for grabs as prizes in a lucky draw held by Malaysia's National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) to get more defaulters to repay their study loans. → Read More