I recently heard from a friend of mine who lives in Beijing that he did not have to go to school. Monday night, Beijing city officials finally issued its first red alert on the air quality and schools and construction sites were closed. The air quality index (... More »
Finals are approaching and people start to care more about their GPAs. It becomes very conspicuous by this time every year that people care about their grades all of a sudden despite the irony that each summative and the final exam do not differ very much from... More »
Turkey had a deal with the EU to take some of the Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees in return for 3 billion Euros and political concessions. This year, there have been more than 720,000 refugees who escaped to Europe via the Greek shores. A majority of the Eur... More »
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, strongly denounced Turkey for shooting down a Russian Su-24 returning from its operation in Syria with F-16s in Turkey-Syria border area. Turkey claims that as they detected two unidentifiable flying objects over the to... More »
U.S. air strikes on Islamic State (IS) in northeast Syria killed four civilians and 238 oil trucks. Following Russia and France, the US decided to air-raid IS. The first air strike in 20th November killed four civilians, but as the air strike was on IS checkpo... More »
Are you employing any methods to live efficaciously? If so, what are some ways to save time or spend time to acquire maximum efficiency? Such questions could elicit various responses, but what is the definition of time spent well? Starting from the fundamental... More »
Six abominable terrorist attacks all over in Paris put France in terror. At 00:45 while French people were watching a football match against Germany there was an explosion. At 3:36 in Bataclan, a music venue in Paris, there were gunshots that continued for ten... More »
Until last October, the Republican candidate polls showed business tycoon Donald Trump dominating the polls and people called this Trump magic. However, as Ben Carson caught up on a recent poll, Trump started to employ the criticising-other-candidates techni... More »
Newly packed with trench coat choruses and more interesting characters, the AISG 2015 high school musical Adrift in Macao is ready to dazzle both Rams and invited guests. Adrift in Macao is a satirical musical that makes fun of typical movie clichés. If you ... More »
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this article are not those of AISG or The Beacon, nor are they necessarily those of the writer, who is merely presenting the other side of the coin with regards to Donald Trump so as to present a contrast with a similar art... More »
[by Jiwon L] Under the irregularly impeccable sky of Beijing, Chinese President Xi and his guests celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War with a military parade at the Forbidden Palace. After Japan’s formal surrender on 2nd Sep. 1945... More »
[by Jiwon L] “Not everyone will be able to participate in both MUNs, although it would be most ideal.” A phenomenal number of more than forty applicants during lunch gathered in Room 324 on the 20th of August, a Thursday, to have a brief meeting concerning MUN... More »