Corruption in Vietnamese Education: Major Issues
Attempting to enhance its education system, Vietnam had set several goals for 2006 and 2010 through at the Higher Education Reform Agenda. The event set several aims for the country’s tertiary system, such as increasing the participation…
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MIR Meets EP 2: Marie-Hélène Gyorog
Meet Marie-Hélène Gyorog! A native of Geneva, Switzerland, Marie-Hélène has a strong interest in global migration patterns and processes of social integration. Her latest article for MIR, “Uganda’s Refugee Paradise,” contextualizes the…
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Explainer: How Do the Kurds Relate to the Arab World, Palestine, and Israel?
On September 25th, Iraqi Kurds voted overwhelmingly in an independence referendum to separate from Iraq and become an independent state. Immediately thereafter, the Iraqi government called for the result of the vote to be annulled and began…
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Review’s Radio: Dr. Angel Hsu (Yale University) on China’s Soil Pollution Epidemic
In China today, as much as 16% of soil is contaminated by toxic pollutants. Anica Lanzi speaks with Dr. Angel Hsu, assistant professor at Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, to discuss this mounting public…
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Imprisoning the Artist But Not the Art: The Persecution of Zehra Doğan
In July 2016, Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan was imprisoned for her problematic art and social media posts that were harshly critical of the Turkish government and the abuse it has inflicted against the Kurdish population. The…
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The Sound of Shattered Glass: Contextualizing Jacinda Ardern’s Victory
Just about two years after gender parity at the Cabinet level was first achieved in Canadian federal politics, a similarly impressive result came to pass in another Westminster parliamentary democracy this past September: a young, unmarried…
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US Announces Military Withdrawal from Myanmar: Another American Foreign Policy Quagmire?
The US State Department has announced that it will be withdrawing military support from Myanmar in the coming weeks as well as suspending all travel waivers for Myanmar military officials, amid the ongoing infighting between the Rohingya…
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War On Words Across American College Campuses: The Muddling of Free Speech
Student protest in America is as old as college itself. The earliest evidence of student rebellion was in 1766, when Harvard hosted the ‘Butter Rebellion’. As the story goes, the butter served on campus was so bad that one Harvard man cried…
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The JFK Files: The Build-Up and Let-Down
On Thursday October 26th, the United States National Archives released thousands of pertaining to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. These were set to be released a quarter of a century after they were formally sealed in…
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Closing the Gap: Indigenous Injustice Parallels in Australia and Canada
It’s strange that the country ranked second-best in the world for quality of life is, at the same time, becoming infamous for the justice gap between its non-Indigenous and Indigenous populations. Life for Australia’s Indigenous peoples is…
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