A university in central China has introduced a specialized diploma program dedicated entirely to barbecue, aiming to professionalize popular street-food trade and train the next generation of highly skilled grill masters.
A new analysis finds that graduates in liberal arts and education fields earn the lowest salaries within five years of finishing college, while engineering majors report much higher early-career pay.
Seoul's subway ticket kiosks begin accepting overseas-issued payment cards starting Tuesday, a major step aimed at addressing a long-standing inconvenience faced by foreign visitors navigating the city's public transport system.
With more than 88,000 people per square kilometer, this is the most crowded ward in Vietnam, with a density over 10 times higher than in Singapore, the most densely populated country in Southeast Asia.
A gang of nearly two dozen robbers broke into a jewelry store in northern California, stealing approximately US$1.7 million worth of merchandise in just about 70 seconds.
The Canadian government has announced new measures to help rural employers address labor shortages by making it easier to hire workers through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).
Singapore and Malaysia dominate a pilot Southeast Asia university ranking by Times Higher Education (THE), with Singapore taking the top two spots and Malaysian institutions occupying most positions in the top 10.
More than half of foreign workers in South Korea holding so-called "professional" visas earn more than 3 million won (US$2,038) per month, according to government data.
This country has had a city serving as its de facto capital since 1868, but no statute, law, or constitutional provision formally designates it as the nation's capital.
Immigration New Zealand has announced plans to introduce a new Short Term Graduate Work Visa and expand eligibility for the Post Study Work Visa, aiming to better align international graduate pathways with the country's labor demand.
Eleven Vietnamese universities have been included in the first Southeast Asia university ranking released by Times Higher Education (THE), with the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City placing among the top 13.
Australia has tightened regulations for the Training visa, introducing stricter application procedures to prevent foreign workers from using the program to prolong their temporary stays.
A foreign man was caught on camera kicking a spa owner's small dog in Da Nang in central Vietnam, breaking three of its ribs and sparking widespread outrage online.
According to the latest results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), students in this country performed the best among 81 participating economies, representing roughly 29 million 15-year-olds worldwide.
A delivery driver who was assigned to transport a S$1,500 (US$1,100) Asian arowana left the fish to die after a delivery app order was canceled, then threw it in the trash without informing either the seller or the buyer.
South Korea plans to expand eligibility for its "top-tier visa" for highly skilled foreign professionals and introduce new visa programs for technicians and sector-specific workers, part of broader efforts to address the country's low birth rate and rapidly aging population.
Despite holding a PhD and having work experience in the United States, a 33-year-old environmental chemistry graduate has remained unemployed after submitting 100 job applications since August last year, a situation attributed to an unoptimized résumé and ineffective networking.
Nearly a third of the world's top universities are now headed by women, marking a record high and reflecting gradual progress toward gender equality in higher education, according to data from Times Higher Education.
