China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge
China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death ...
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How do you spell Singapore without “LKY”?
They crammed into an art cafe in Singapore and pulled no punches, deriding authoritarian officials who ruled with an "iron fist" and complaining that government ministers with million-dollar salaries were out of touch.
Space harpoon plan to nail orbital garbage
What do you do with 6,000 tons of space junk traveling at thousands of miles an hour? Harpoon it of course.
US ‘turns blind eye to human rights’
China slammed the human rights record of the United States on Sunday in response to a Washington report, saying the US turned a blind eye to its own woeful situation while posing as "the world judge of human rights".
Colleges as country clubs
Today's plush campuses ply students with absurdly lavish goods and services. No wonder it's so hard for them to pay their bills when they get out in the real world.
US Graduate schools stung by drop in Chinese applications
Slowing graduate-school enrollments, including a 5 percent decline in applications from China for fall 2013, are hurting the revenues of many U.S. universities ...
Boston bombing suspects showed few radical signs
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are ethnic Chechen brothers who spent much of their lives away from the breakaway Russian republic ...
Illegal loggers continue to threaten Amazonian tribe
Campaigners say the Brazilian government is failing to protect one of the world's most endangered tribes.
Erasmus budget could be cut by 15%
The European Commission is considering a fifteen per cent cut to its budget for the Erasmus exchange programme from 2014 to 2020, in the face of demands for austerity cuts among member states ...
Will global coal boom go bust as climate concerns increase?
The surge in global coal consumption, driven largely by China and India, has climate scientists deeply worried.
