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An estimated 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets in the Hungarian capital, Budapest on June 5, 2021, to protest against the construction of a satellite campus for Shanghai’s Fudan University. The site was originally designated for building affordable housing for 12,000 students. Budapest mayor Gergely Karacsony…
A video widely circulating online shows the moment a school bus crashed into two other vehicles in Hong Kong on June 4. The incident, on Tai Chung Kiu Road near Belair Gardens in Sha Tin, left 24 people injured. 22 were children. The vehicle was carrying 55 primary school pupils and a nanny. An initial investigation…
China has announced the relaxation of its two-child policy, allowing couples to now have three children. But many factors continue to deter couples from giving birth to more, including the high cost of raising a child. Critics say the success of the new policy will depend on stronger incentives for persuading couple…
An electric bus burst into flames, engulfing three vehicles next to it on a university campus in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. No one was hurt in the incident as firefighters quickly put out the fire within 20 minutes.
The Indonesian all-female band Voice of Baceprot, or “Noisy Voice” in English, is gaining international attention. Formed in 2014 by three teenage girls, the heavy metal band, also known as VoB, is popular for its rebellious songs. One of the band’s biggest hits, School Revolution, criticises the country’s strict ed…
Malaysian teenager Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam has unwittingly sparked a #MeToo movement in school and beyond, after exposing a teacher’s rape joke in the classroom. The teacher allegedly joked about rape during a PE class in April at her school in Puncak Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur. The 17-year-old called out the incid…
China will allow couples to have up to three children, shifting away from its previous two-child limit. But critics say that without incentives and support for families, the policy change will do little to cope with the nation’s ageing population. Many people say the high cost of living and other pressures deter the…
The FT’s 2026 Masters in Finance Ranking. Plus: tough jobs market drives applications; ‘near-peer’ mentoring; skills for the AI era; calls for more private markets teaching; why soft skills matter in hard times; studying full- or part-time
After more than 26.9 million cases and 307,00 deaths, India’s infection rate is showing signs of easing. But the country still has a long battle ahead to contain this second wave. Unicef India representative Dr Yasmin Ali Haque says that Covid-19 is posing a child-rights crisis that risks having a lasting impact. Ac…
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Amid a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, some martial arts schools in New York City are seeing a surge of interest in self-defence classes. Students are hoping to learn skills they need to fend off attacks.
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At least 192 residents died of Covid-19, with more than 1,000 people infected, at Vancouver-area care homes where the declaration of coronavirus outbreaks was delayed as part of an official policy, a South China Morning Post investigation has found. Under the strategy, care home outbreaks were deliberately not decla…
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A one-armed college student stunned the crowd by winning a 100m race in southwestern China’s Chongqing. He completed the sprint in 11.26 seconds, a time that would’ve placed him among the top 8 at the 2016 Paralympics for his classification.
No matter how hard he tried, Jonatan Garcia said, he couldn’t find steady work in Guatemala. He dabbled in construction, and on some days picked beans, after losing his sales job at a TV station a few weeks after the pandemic shuttered businesses and further stifled employment in his country.
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As China’s Communist Party marks the 100th year of its founding in July 2021, thousands of tourists have been flocking to Yanan, a western Chinese city that bills itself as a "Red Holy Land". Large family and tour groups arranged by employers and schools have been visiting the city where Chairman Mao Zedong and his …
Ruqia Bakhshi was wounded by one of several bombs that detonated in front of her school in Kabul on May 8, 2021. The attack on the Sayed Al-Shuhada girls’ school in a Shia neighbourhood of the Afghan capital killed at least 85 people and left another 147 injured. The school is a high school for girls and boys, who s…
India is grappling with the world's worst Covid-19 outbreak, with nearly 370,000 new infections and over 3,700 deaths on May 10, 2021. More than 30 per cent of those caught up in India’s Covid-19 crisis are under the age of 30. Sanghamitra Acharya, professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health at J…
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Explosions outside a school in Afghanistan's capital Kabul have killed at least 68 people and wounded at least 165 others, many of them teenage girls. A government spokesman said a car bomb detonated in the afternoon of May 8, 2021, as schoolgirls were leaving class and that two more bombs exploded afterwards as mor…
China’s top economic planner said on May 6, 2021, said Beijing had “indefinitely suspended” high-level economic dialogue with Australia. The announcement was made following Australia’s move last month to revoke participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative by the state of Victoria, after deeming its agreements w…
An all-robot band named MOJA took centre stage at Beijing’s Tsinghua University to perform using traditional Chinese instruments. The robotic group performed on the Chinese harp, bamboo flute and paigu drums for the April 27, 2021, performance called Phantom of the MOJA. The robots were created by students, professo…
Myanmar's military junta has announced plans for schools across the country to reopen on the annual back-to-school day on June 1, 2021. Schools and universities have been closed since August 2020 because of the pandemic. But on May 5, students in the cities of Yangon and Dawei protested against the reopening orders,…
A school in Beijing is teaching a skill that is increasingly in high demand across China: being able to differentiate bona fide luxury goods from bogus items. China is the world's second-biggest market for luxury goods after the US, and home to the only luxury market in the world that posted growth during the pandem…
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Hong Kong opposition activists washed the Pillar of Shame sculpture located at the University of Hong Kong on May 2, 2021, marking the start of a series of annual events to commemorate victims of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It was the first such memorial in the city since China’s central gover…
Roshan the camel has been travelling through the desert to deliver books to children in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Launched in August 2020, the Camel Library project has continued well into 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic has kept schoolchildren at home. Raheema Jalal is the founder of the mobile library proj…
Japan entered its third state of emergency on April 25, 2021, in an effort to bring the country's largest spike in Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations since January under control. New restrictions were imposed in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures from April 25 to May 11. Large shops, establishments serving a…
Trade is only one aspect of the current dispute between China and Australia, according to Bryan Mercurio, a professor of law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who is a specialist in international economic law. Mercurio, who has legal expertise related to the World Trade Organization (WTO), tells the SCMP's poli…
A video of a 20-year-old man playing basketball in an apron outside a grocery store has gone viral on the country’s social media. Shi Xuenian is a college student majoring in physical education who aspires to be a professional player. Since he was 10, he has followed his idol Kobe Bryant’s training routine, waking u…
The Penny’s Bay Quarantine Centre will become a venue of Hong Kong’s university entrance exams for candidates who are undergoing mandatory quarantine. The Diploma of Secondary Education Examination is set to kick off on April 23, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. At least two candidates who were identified as clo…
As schools reopen, Asian-American families across the country are worried about sending their children back to classrooms. Many are keeping their children at home to attend online classes as reports of anti-Asian violence rise.
A bush fire hit South Africa’s historic University of Cape Town on April 18, 2021. The blaze spread quickly up the slopes of Table Mountain after starting on Devil’s Peak, near a memorial to politician Cecil Rhodes. Runaway flames set several campus buildings ablaze, forcing hundreds of students to evacuate.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the campus of his alma mater Tsinghua University on April 19, 2021, ahead of its 110th anniversary. Xi praised Tsinghua for its cultivating talent “both red and professional”, using a phrase coined during the Mao Zedong era. The Chinese leader, who studied chemistry at Tsinghua, …
Riot police souvenirs were on display at Hong Kong’s National Security Education Day on April 15, 2021. The event was the first held since the introduction of Hong Kong’s national security law (NSL) in June 2020. Apart from activities promoting national security education at hundreds of schools and universities, Hon…
Flag-raising ceremonies, talks and quiz competitions were among the activities hundreds of schools in Hong Kong held to mark National Security Education Day on April 15, 2021. Children as young as three years old learned about the national security law (NSL), which Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in June 2020. Under th…
A Shanghai driving school in China has “hired” artificial-intelligence coaches to teach student drivers how to get behind the wheel. Equipped with high-precision GPS trackers and radars, the AI coaches in the cars can detect obstacles and the real-time position of the vehicles, according to state media. The robotic …
The Li Xiaoshuang Gymnastics School in the Chinese city of Xiantao in Hubei province has churned out several Olympic gold medallists over the years. As a result, it has attracted many parents across the country to send their children there for training in hopes of turning them into world champions. Despite the tough…
A video of a 20-year-old man playing basketball in an apron outside a grocery store in southern China's Guizhou province has gone viral on the country’s social media. Shi Xuenian is a college student majoring in physical education who aspires to be a professional player. Since he was 10, he has followed his idol Kob…
Innocent Mutanga fled his home in Zimbabwe to Hong Kong in 2013 as a political refugee. After at first ending up sleeping on the streets, Innocent found a way to overcome his challenges and enrol in a local university before eventually becoming the first asylum seeker to graduate from a Hong Kong tertiary institutio…
