Taiwan dentist must repay mother for training fees
Taiwan's top court has ordered a man to pay his mother almost $1m (£710,000) for raising him and funding his dentistry training.
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South Korean leader welcomes North Korean Olympic participation
South Korean President Moon Jae-in welcomed Kim Jong Un's apparent willingness to enter into dialogue and called for swift measures to help North Korea participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday in Seoul.
Here’s how clean energy could help Puerto Rico navigate out of the dark
As Puerto Rico seeks to repair its decimated electricity system, experts are proposing ways the island can rebuild using better, stronger and cleaner technology that would cut costs, boost resilience and reduce reliance on oil to generate power.
UNH uses interactive software to match students to job openings
The University of New Haven is the first college in the country to implement interactive software that instantly matches students looking for job openings with the employers looking to fill them
Eluding the Endowment Tax
Despite unknowns, colleges and universities are looking at investment and spending strategies to dodge a new tax on net investment earnings.
Women ‘more likely to be pressured to add authors’ to papers
Female academics are much more likely to feel obliged to award authorship credit to other researchers even if they did not make a significant contribution to the paper, a new study reveals.
South Korea seizes ship it claims transferred oil to North Korea
South Korea has seized a Hong Kong-registered ship that allegedly transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in violation of United Nations sanctions.
The man who can’t face the internet
Earlier this month, Facebook announced it would be using facial recognition to let users know every time a photo of them had been uploaded to the site.
New Austrian government to bring in university tuition fees
Concerns raised over moves to ‘mute’ students’ union and potential for far-Right figures on university boards
Trump’s ambassador to Netherlands in ‘fake news’ blunder
The new US ambassador to the Netherlands has been caught out on Dutch television after a journalist quizzed him about comments he had made about Islamic extremism in the country.
