Five fraternity members from Baruch College in Manhattan will face murder charges in Pennsylvania for their involvement in the death of a freshman who was hazed during a rural retreat in 2013, officials said on Monday.
A grand jury in Monroe County, Pa., recently recommended that five people face third-degree murder charges and that a total of 37 would face a range of criminal charges, including assault, hindering apprehension and hazing in Chun Hsien Deng's death.

Pi Delta Psi's Baruch colony, founded in 2010, was designed to help Asian-American students — many of whom were the children of immigrants — find a place in the pecking order of a school buzzing with aspiring businesspeople.
The gantlet, called the Glass Ceiling, symbolized their burden as Asian-Americans trying to break into the mainstream. The backpack stood for the weight of their fraternity bonds, one member told the police, according to a grand jury report.
Mr. Deng, a freshman at Baruch College whose parents emigrated from China, did not fall into line.

Photographer Christian Rodriguez gets an inside look at the lives of circus performers in Vietnam.
During three trips from 2009 to 2012, I spent eight months in Vietnam. When I saw a circus in Hanoi, I was fascinated by its glamour. But as I got to know the performers personally, I felt compelled to show another aspect—to dignify their work and document their dedication. To win their confidence I had to go slowly. On my last trip I lived as they did then, taking up residence for four months in an abandoned theater in Hanoi, where the performers had to build their own rooms out of wood and plastic.

Theo thống kê của Bộ Y Tế Ðài Loan, hơn 5,700 dân địa phương được phát hiện bị ung thư miệng mỗi năm và 2,300 người trong số này bị bệnh chết. Tại đảo quốc này, chín trong mười người bị ung thư miệng đều là người thường hay ăn trầu cau.

“This is the place to understand how protest and love of country don’t merely coexist but inform each other, how men can proudly win the gold for their country but still insist on raising a black-gloved fist, how we can wear an ‘I can’t breathe’ T-shirt and still grieve for fallen police officers,” Obama said, addressing thousands of visitors who had gathered on the National Mall for the ribbon cutting ceremony, the culmination of a century of work aimed at commemorating the contributions of African Americans.

Sparkling red stars and bloody tales of military sacrifice accompanied 200 million Chinese children into the new school year this week, with the Education Ministry requiring them to watch a television show extolling the spirit of the Communist Red Army as it escaped its enemies on the Long March.

Nearly two centuries after Georgetown University profited from the sale of 272 slaves, it will embark on a series of steps to atone for the past, including awarding preferential status in the admissions process to descendants of the enslaved, officials said on Wednesday.

Sexual abuse of students at an elite prep school in Rhode Island was so rampant in the 1970s and 80s that it created a “private hell” for some students, investigators reported on Thursday, describing an atmosphere of terror in which some staff members committed assaults for years before being forced out.

Ý niệm về mẹ thường không thể tách rời ý niệm về tình thương. Mà tình thương là một chất liệu ngọt ngào, êm dịu và cố nhiên là ngon lành. Con trẻ thiếu tình thương thì không lớn lên được. Người lớn thiếu tình thương thì cũng không "lớn" lên được.

President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan offered a formal apology on Monday to aboriginal peoples for centuries of “pain and mistreatment,” and she promised to take concrete steps to rectify a history of injustice.