6 d. ago USC PhD student Weng Sizhe charged with multiple rapes and drugging women

A University of Southern California graduate student who police say is a serial sexual predator has been charged with drugging and raping multiple women as investigators look for additional victims, Los Angeles authorities said. Weng Sizhe, a 30-year-old Chinese national also known as Steven Weng, was arrested on August 28, though the district attorney and police just released statements about the case on Wednesday. Weng has pleaded not guilty to eight felony counts including forcible rape and...

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6 d. ago USC PhD student Weng Sizhe charged with drugging and raping multiple women

A University of Southern California graduate student who police have said was a serial sexual predator has been charged with drugging and raping multiple women as investigators look for additional victims, Los Angeles authorities said. Weng Sizhe, a 30-year-old Chinese national also known as Steven Weng, was arrested August 28, though the district attorney and police just released statements about the case on Wednesday. Weng has pleaded not guilty to eight felony counts including forcible rape...

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2 w. ago China's Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin

China's Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin  theunpopulist.net

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2 w. ago China’s Tsinghua University tops multiple global rankings for computer science

China’s Tsinghua University has emerged as the world’s top institution in computer science across multiple major global rankings, marking a symbolic shift in a field once dominated by American universities. For the first time, Tsinghua now leads lists ranging from the widely recognised US News Best Global Universities to CSRankings, a system seen as rigorously academic and historically US-centric within the research community. In the latest CSRankings results – which weigh institutions by...

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2 w. ago Focal Point The first Chinese student to graduate from an American university

Focal Point The first Chinese student to graduate from an American university  Yale News

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2 w. ago US records shed light on Western victims of Japan’s WWII human experiments

Sapphire Dingler was shaken as the dark past emerged before her. Dingler, a US master’s student in public history at Southern New Hampshire University, was sifting through newly digitised American archives when she stumbled upon testimony about a Japanese doctor’s grisly wartime experiments on Western prisoners in Tokyo. The doctor was Hisakichi Tokuda, a young and ambitious physician inspired by Unit 731, an imperial Japanese Army base in northern China infamous for biological warfare and...

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