https://www.afinalwarning.com/490192.html (Natural News) Despite Angela Merkel’s difficult relationship with President Trump, the German Chancellor made it clear that she is outraged over the decision by Twitter, Facebook, and Google to collectively banish the president from the Internet in the final week of his term.
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But Merkel’s statement, which attracted much attention in the U.S., was far from the only statement by a world leader recognizing the enormous power grab made by Big Tech, and the need to reverse that power grab with new regulations, new laws, or even entirely new online platforms. Leaders from all over the world joined in to express the same sentiments, and Revolver has compiled many of them into a list below. But keep in mind: No doubt even more leaders are thinking the same thing, and have only stayed quiet to avoid irritating the incoming
Lingnan University
Lingnan University in Hong Kong (LU) has won three awards in The 22nd Qi Yue Recitation Arts Festival and National College Students Recitation Conference. LU is the only winning team from Hong Kong this year, and also the first local university to have received awards in this competition. Lee Wenxin, a second-year undergraduate student of the LEO Dr David P. Chan Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Data Science Programme of the Faculty of Business, won the “Young Talent Special Award” with her work “Jia Wen”; Dr Zhou Bo, Senior Lecturer of the Chinese Language Education and Assessment Centre (CLEAC) received the “Teaching Excellence Award”. LU also won the “Outstanding Organisation Award”.
Colleges told to stagger winter breaks
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The Ministry of Education had asked local education authorities and universities to adjust winter vacation schedules to make sure students at different universities leave campus in different time slots. Local education authorities should also make sure universities stagger the opening dates for the spring semester and make sure they do not coincide with the Spring Festival travel rush for migrant workers, the ministry said.
Zhou Jiaxin, a graduate student at Communication University of China in Beijing, said the university had an early start to its winter vacation last Friday, and all students must leave the campus by this Friday. Students at the university will have a two-month winter vacation this year, longer than the approximately 40 days in previous years, she said. Spring semester will start on 28 February.
Will 2021 be better for us all? A group of expats and experts in China recently discussed this million-dollar question and shared their unique experiences from last year.
The guests in this panel were Jessica Luo, marketing director at Beijing Ca Del Grevino California Wine, who is from the United States; David Blair, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization, also from the United States; Donatien Niyonzima from Rwanda who is a PhD candidate at the Communication University of China; and Wang Yiwei, Jean Monnet chair professor at the Renmin University of China.
Jessica Luo: I had moved to the United States after being in China for about nine years in December 2019. I thought I was prepared to start my American life, and for the first three months, it went very well. But once the coronavirus hit, it kind of fell apart. The dream of living in America did not work out. For me, it was hard to find jobs, especially in that climate with the coronavirus, but also
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BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Will 2021 be better for us all? A group of expats and experts in China recently discussed this million-dollar question and shared their unique experiences from last year.
The guests in this panel were Jessica Luo, marketing director at Beijing Ca Del Grevino California Wine, who is from the United States; David Blair, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization, also from the United States; Donatien Niyonzima from Rwanda who is a PhD candidate at the Communication University of China; and Wang Yiwei, Jean Monnet chair professor at the Renmin University of China.