The Hualien-based Tzu Chi University says it will be fully sponsoring the
studies of 30 Ukrainian students and scholars on its campus.
According to university president Ingrid Liu, the school hads set up a
special program to offer a safe study environment and it is now welcoming
applications from Ukrainian citizens with bachelor's and postgraduate status.
Under the program, the university will cover the cost of airfare, tuition
(學費), accommodation, and living expenses for the students.
Liu says the first group is scheduled to arrive in Taiwan later this month.
The university's Office of International Affairs says it has been
interviewing Ukrainian candidates online since April 6.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday lauded Nigerian
authorities' ongoing reintegration of defectors (叛離者) from the jihadi Boko
Haram group, which has waged a decade-long insurgency, as ``the best thing we
can do for peace.''
He also called for funding from the international community to assist victims
of Islamist extremism that has destroyed lives and livelihoods in northeast
Nigeria.
The UN chief also met with former militants and internally displaced persons
staying in a camp in Maiduguri, capital of the Borno state where the
insurgency is centered.
Boko Haram launched an insurgency in 2009 to fight against western education
and to establish Islamic Shariah law in Nigeria.
The extremists drew international condemnation in 2014 when they abducted 276
schoolgirls in Chibok village, more than 100 of whom are still missing.
Police in San Francisco have arrested an anti-abortion activist who climbed
the city's tallest building while posting about it on Instagram.
The arrest comes with tensions high in the US over leaked documents showing
the Supreme Court may soon overturn (顛覆、廢除) women's constitutional right
to safe abortion access.
Ira Spitzer has more from San Francisco.