Regional News Asia & Pacific AFGHANISTAN Occasional rifts in the Taliban regime have served to benefit the status of women in Afghanistan. The government recently permitted 10,000 girls in Kabul to attend schools in mosques and in private homes. Classes for the children…
Regional News Asia-Pacific AUSTRALIA Between July 1998 and April 1999, the Australian government granted visas to 95,000 international students. The largest contingent of foreign students receiving visas to attend Australian institutions of higher education came from Indonesia, according to Australian immigration statistics. Most of these…
REGIONAL NEWS Asia-Pacific SINGAPORE The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business recently announced plans to open a branch campus in Singapore that will feature an Asian international executive MBA program. This would make it the first American business school to set up…