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AsiaOne
4 days ago
- Politics
- AsiaOne
Singaporean Harvard undergrads can take up places in local unis if they choose to return , Singapore News
SINGAPORE — Singaporean students who are currently undergraduates at Harvard University have been told that autonomous universities here can offer them placements if they wish to discontinue their studies in the US and return home, owing to recent developments. Lui Tuck Yew, the Republic's ambassador to the US, said this during a virtual town hall with the affected students on May 30, The Straits Times has learnt. In response to queries from ST, a Ministry of Education spokesperson said the Republic's autonomous universities "stand ready to support Singaporean students in Harvard if they wish to continue their studies in Singapore". The spokesperson added that this message was shared with affected students so they could consider returning to Singapore as a possible option to continue their studies. There are six autonomous universities here: National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design and Singapore Institute of Technology. University statistics show that there are currently 151 Singaporean students in Harvard. Among them are 12 Public Service Commission scholarship holders. The studies of foreign students at Harvard were thrown into limbo after US President Donald Trump's administration announced on May 22 that it had revoked Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Programme certification with immediate effect. The nearly 6,800 international students in the Ivy League college were given an ultimatum to either transfer to another institution, or face deportation. A federal judge later blocked the move, with the Trump administration rolling back its stance on May 29 and giving Harvard 30 days to submit evidence contesting the administration's plan to revoke the school's right to enrol international students. International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard's student body, but Trump said the university should cap its international intake at 15 per cent. The administration's targeting of Harvard is part of a wider crackdown on universities based on several allegations, including claims of anti-Semitism and anti-white bias, which have been used as leverage to pressure the schools into enacting policy changes. On June 4, Trump kept up the pressure on the world's wealthiest university by signing a proclamation targeting foreign students at Harvard. Besides suspending the entry of foreign nationals looking to study or take part in exchange programmes at Harvard, the order also directed the Secretary of State to consider revoking existing student visas for current Harvard students who "meet the proclamation's criteria". It does not apply to foreign nationals attending other US universities on student exchange programmes and also exempts those whose entry is deemed to be in the interest of the US. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) had said on May 27 that it is monitoring the impact on the academic prospects of Singaporean students, with the Singapore Embassy in Washington engaging the US State Department and Department of Homeland Security. The ministry had also set up support structures for affected students, including a group communication channel hosted by MFA's Consular Department and the Singapore Global Network. ST has contacted the Singapore Embassy in Washington for more information. Since the crackdown on Harvard, the Trump administration has also taken greater steps to stymie the intake of international students into the US. In an internal cable that was reported by Politico on May 27, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had directed all overseas missions to stop scheduling new appointments for student and exchange visa applicants. The State Department also plans to issue guidelines on "expanded social media vetting", with only visa appointments that have already been scheduled set to be honoured. The extent of the social media vetting, as well as a timeline for rolling it out, has not been disclosed yet. [[nid:718316]] This article was first published in The Straits Times . Permission required for reproduction.
Sky News AU
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Trump ‘not afraid' to challenge Ramaphosa on anti-white racism claims
Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power praises Donald Trump for confronting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa over claims of anti-white racism in the country, discussing the US President's 'battle' with the left-wing media.
Sky News AU
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
WATCH: Trump brutally exposes South African President's lies
US President Donald Trump has confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa over claims of anti-white racism in the country.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's ‘white genocide' claims ignore the reality of life and crime in South Africa
It was an ambush crafted straight from a reality-TV playbook. The Oval Office meeting with South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, started with exchanges of pleasantries, before Donald Trump said 'turn the lights down' and a video was played to support his false claims that white South African farmers are being murdered for their race. Ramaphosa came prepared with champion white South African golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, whom the golf-mad Trump referred to as 'friends', as well as South Africa's richest person, Johann Rupert. Ramaphosa, who led the African National Congress (ANC) party's delegation in the talks that ended apartheid white-minority rule three decades ago, needed to play his strongest cards. In February, Trump signed an executive order cutting aid to South Africa, accusing it of 'unjust racial discrimination' against the white Afrikaner minority, which ruled the country during apartheid. The order criticised a South African law allowing land expropriation in limited circumstances and set up a program to bring Afrikaners to the US as refugees. The first group arrived earlier this month. Related: Trump ambushes South African president with video and false claims of anti-white racism South African media had speculated about whether Ramaphosa was walking into a televised trap, like Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had just a few months before. The White House video was likely a surprise for the South Africans. It spliced together clips of Julius Malema, the leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) opposition party, saying 'We are going to occupy land' and 'We must never be scared to kill', before singing the controversial Kill the Boer song ('Boer' is another name for Afrikaners and means 'farmer' in Afrikaans). Malema, whose populism is designed to shock – and whose EFF won just 9.5% of the vote in South Africa's 2024 election – will probably be thrilled with the attention, after being buoyed up by South African courts ruling that Kill the Boer is not meant to be taken literally. Former South African president Jacob Zuma, now leading his own opposition party, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), also featured in the video, singing in Zulu: 'We are going to shoot them. They are going to run.' The video ended with a drone shot of white crosses lining a road where vehicles were queued. Trump said they were paying respects to more than 1,000 murdered white farmers. Ramaphosa said he had never seen the video, which South African-born billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk reshared after it was posted on X in March. Trump then whipped out a sheaf of printed-out news articles, intoning 'death … death … death' before handing it over to Ramaphosa. It was not immediately clear where the white crosses had been filmed or even whether the footage was real. The Whitkruis Monument is a memorial to dead South African farmers, but the crosses are clustered on a hillside on private land. While there have been farm murders involving horrific violence, killers interviewed in jail told Rudolph Zinn, a University of Limpopo professor, that they targeted victims of all races for cash and valuables. In the last quarter of 2024, South African police recorded 12 murders on farms, including Black-owned smallholder plots, out of almost 7,000 murders across the country. South Africa's agriculture minister, John Steenhuisen, the Afrikaner leader of the ANC's main rival, the Democratic Alliance – which gets the bulk of its support from white South Africans – said most farmers wanted to stay in South Africa. He also defended the DA's coalition with the ANC to keep out the 'rabble' EFF and MK parties. The two golfers' words were perhaps less helpful. Els was cryptic: 'Two wrongs don't make a right.' Goosen spoke of his brother's 'constant battle' with people trying to burn down and take away his farm. However, their presence could snap Trump out of attack mode. 'I respect champions,' he said. 'I think the country is very lucky. They really wanted to be here, these two. They could have been on a beautiful fairway.' South Africa's most potent defender was Rupert, whose luxury goods conglomerate Richemont owns Cartier. Referring to Malema and Zuma, he said: 'I'm their No 1 target.' Rupert pointed out that all South Africans are targets of crime. He said how much his wife loved JD Vance's autobiography and begged for Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service at police stations. It remains to be seen, though, whether a fellow billionaire and a few rounds with South Africa's finest golfers will be enough to mollify Trump and persuade him to attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg in November.
NDTV
29-04-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
Trump Admin Probes "Race-Based Discrimination" At Harvard University
Washington: US President Donald Trump's administration said it has launched an investigation into Harvard University and Harvard Law Review for "race-based discrimination" after receiving reports about the prestigious legal journal's selection process for articles. The probe comes as Trump cracks down on US universities on several fronts, alleging widespread anti-Semitism, anti-white bias, and the promotion of "gender ideology" by protecting transgender students. Harvard, which has seen billions in federal funding frozen after it rejected wide-ranging government oversight, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration last week. On Monday, the civil rights offices of the Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had received information about Harvard Law Review's "policies and practices for journal membership and article selection that may violate" the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Title VI bans recipients of federal funds -- such as Harvard -- "from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin in the recipient's programs or activities," the agencies said in a joint statement. "Harvard Law Review's article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race," said Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights in the education department. He added that the Trump administration "will not allow Harvard... to trample on anyone's civil rights." Founded in 1887, Harvard Law Review is a student-run journal that publishes articles by legal scholars and practitioners. It counts former US president Barack Obama -- appointed in 1990 as the first Black head -- as among its leaders. A spokesperson with Harvard Law School said in a statement to AFP that it was "committed to ensuring that the programs and activities it oversees are in compliance with all applicable laws and to investigating any credibly alleged violations." He also said Harvard Law Review is "legally independent from the law school," adding that a 2018 claim of a similar nature "was dismissed."
