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Employment took a huge beating during the recent recession. Many people were left jobless for months together when the recession hit the global market. While it’s nothing new talking about online jobs, it is during the recent recession that these jobs suddenly boomed as they provided instant financial relief to many. The improvement in the global [...]

China is observed to be suffering from amnesia regarding the massacre that occurred at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. Some attribute this to state-enforced erasure of collective memory. The communist regime in China ‘tolerates no mention of the massacre.’ On June 3 and 4, 1989, students and mostly Chinese elite and intellectuals filled [...]

There is a new breed of dissidents in China today as the country ‘tolerates a safer wave of protests’ 20 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. The ordinary Chinese are much more critical of human rights now and some of them have been keen to defend such rights. On June 3 and 4, 1989, a military crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s [...]

A still unidentified man, possibly of Georgian origin, shot and killed at least 13 people and wounded 18 others after opening fire on students and faculty of the Azerbaijan’s State Oil Academy in Baku, the capital of the oil-rich country. The school building was immediately surrounded by the police who promptly set up roadblocks in the area. Several [...]

The root causes of cheating are deeply entrenched in the culture of the people. Thus, for ethics in an academic environment to be a prevailing trend and practice, there should be formal and institutionalized controls on the part of the academe to ensure the conditions of honesty and integrity. The factors that academicians should focus on are the ways [...]