Main Stories in today's BON News:

Stem Cell Research
The Parade Of 1949
Blog of the Day: China's Education System
Straight from the Street: Your Top Politician?
Net Check: NBC vs. CCTV
Feature: Stabbing In Qianmen
China's Most Prestigious Universities

A survey of the world’s top universities came out last week. The top ten was full of the usual suspects such as Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge.

But it was the rising performances of Asian universities that made a lot of the headlines. A number of schools from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland all made the top 400 and Mark sat down with a professor from Peking University to get his thoughts on the current state of China’s further education.

At the tender age of 74 years that puts him in the record books here at Peking University - the Harvard of China, Professor Kong Xian Duo is lining up to receive his PHD in genetics.

Professor Kong is the oldest PHD student at this prestigious university, and quite possibly the whole of China. Not that you'd know by talking to this humble veteran of learning.  “Students thought I was a professor but I said I'm just a student too!”

Booming Chinese-student enrollment in United States colleges and universities contributed nearly $5 billion to the US economy in the 2011-12 academic year, an education expert estimated.

Yesterday we looked at part one of BON reporter Hattie Zhao’s investigation into the prevalence of false credentials in China. We learned that on the street right next to the prestigious Renmin University in central Beijing, many women can be found openly selling fake degrees and other types of certification. We also found that most of these women have something in common- many are either pregnant or carrying an infant. According to Chinese law- a women with a baby cannot be detained even if found to be in violation of the law.