Education
China: High School Students Study More: Survey
Chinese high school students have the longest study hours compared to their peers in Japan, the U.S. and the Republic of Korea, a survey conducted by the four countries said.
Sex education: a tangled Web
MANY Shanghai students in the crucial 12-19 age range have a sex educator answering the most difficult and delicate questions 24 hours a day.
Police warn of scams targeting students
ALARMED by the rising number of scams targeting high school graduates and their parents, Shanghai police sounded a warning yesterday against fake admission information, the Youth Daily reported.
Hu highlights China's progress, "large gap" in sci-tech developmen
BEIJING, June 23 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao on Monday hailed the country's remarkable science and technology achievements since the launch of its 1978 Reform and Opening-up Drive, but he also admitted that there is "still a large gap" with th...
Landlord to sell five sites to aid quake victims
A philanthropist has pledged to donate up to HK$100 million of the estimated HK$1.3 billion he expects to raise from the sale of five sites in Kowloon Tong to rebuild schools for Sichuan earthquake victims.
China reopens more schools in quake zone
CHENGDU, China - More schools reopened Wednesday in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province, but rain and a lack of tents underscored the massive task facing the government in sheltering millions left homeless.
Back to school for orphans of Sichuan
Makeshift classes set up to help survivors as national mourning period starts
Ancient language is slowly updated
THE Tibetan vocabulary is growing as more modern words find a place in the 1,300-year-old language of the ethnic group that mainly lives on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Run Run leads way as hearts and wallets open to disaster victims
Entertainment tycoon Sir Run Run Shaw yesterday became the most generous individual Hong Kong donor to relief efforts in earthquake-devastated Sichuan when he pledged HK$100 million for rebuilding schools in the province.