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Chinese netizens launched an attack on Chinese intellectuals for participating in a Japanese government-funded exchange program.

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images 9 Jun 2021 Chinese social media users launched an online attack on 144 Chinese intellectuals last week after learning they participated in a Japanese government-funded cultural exchange program in Japan from 2008-2016, Reuters reported Wednesday. “Two netizens, operating under the pseudonyms Diguaxiong Laoliu and Guyan Muchan, who each have more than six million followers on their Twitter-like Weibo accounts, accused the intellectuals of currying favour with Japan for financial gain,” Reuters reported June 9. “They joined an online ‘name and sha...

UMass Dartmouth Professor Bridget A. Teboh (History) has been awarded a 2020-2021 fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP). The fellowship will enable her to travel to Nigeria to work with Benue State University Makurdi (BSUM) and Professor Msugh Moses KEMBE (Vice Chancellor) on Curriculum Co-development, Graduate Students Teaching/Mentoring, and Collaborative Research, thereby transforming Africa’s “Brain Drain” into “Brain Circulation,” one of the Core goals of Carnegie ADFP. This is the third time Teboh has been awarded the prestigious fellowship. �...

ASSE International Student Exchange Programs, in cooperation with area high schools is looking for local families to host boys and girls ages 15–18 for the next academic year. Students from all over the world – places like Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Ukraine, to name a few – have already received scholarships to study in the USA; all they need now is a place to call home. Loving and caring host families are the cornerstone of the exchange program and vital to its mission of bridging the gap between people, cultures and nations. By generously opening your home to a young pe...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Vice President Kamala Harris and Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin Join CIEE in Congratulating the 2021 Frederick Douglass Global Fellows March 17, 2021 GMT The 2021 Frederick Douglass Global Fellows WASHINGTON, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- At an online St. Patrick’s Day roundtable today, Vice President Kamala Harris and Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin joined Nettie Washington Douglass, the great-great-granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, and representatives from the...