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Myanmar’s military government announced on November 17, 2022, that it was releasing and deporting an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty to mark the country’s National Victory Day. A total of 5,774 prisoners were released, Myanmar’s st…
Seoul's Education Ministry said 508,030 students sat the annual nine-hour Suneung college entrance exam in 2022, the results of which are crucial for securing spots at top universities. The enormous pressure on students in South Korea's ultra-competitive education system has been blamed for teenage depression and su…
New air-conditioning technology will be used to cool World Cup football players and thousands of fans in Qatar’s desert climates. Saud Ghani, a professor at Qatar University nicknamed “Dr Cool”, developed the air circulation system that will keep a cool ‘bubble’ of air in the stadium.
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Covid-19 infections have been rising sharply in China despite increasingly intense controls, testing and lockdowns. More than 8,000 cases were reported in the country on November 9, 2022. The southern city of Guangzhou saw daily case numbers increase from double digit figures in late October to over 2,000 within two…
The 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, kicked off on November 8, 2022, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. Aircraft navigated by the country’s People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force could be seen in the display, including four domestically developed J-20 fighter jets. But some…
A Hazara teenager who lost an eye in a deadly suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan on September 30, 2022, has achieved the top score in the country’s tough university entrance exams. Seventeen-year-old Fatima Amiri was among the 27 students injured in the attack at the Kaaj Higher Educational centre in the predominant…
A video of a university student crawling on the floor of a train in eastern China’s Zhejiang province has sparked heated discussion online, after she said the stunt was “performance art”.
Renowned researcher says access to mainland Chinese data of 10 million Alzheimer’s disease patients a big boost for research. University presidents also calls for girls to break ‘gender myth’ by taking up science and technology studies.
New Delhi authorities on November 4, 2022, ordered primary schools to shut from Saturday and told schools to stop outdoor activities for children as air pollution in the Indian capital reached hazardous levels.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during his trip to China he affirmed Germany’s one-China policy while also addressing growing concerns about stability and peace in the region. “Any change in Taiwan’s status quo must be peaceful or by mutual agreement,” he said on November 4, 2022, in Beijing at a news conference with ou…
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Chinese authorities locked down areas around the world’s largest iPhone factory in the central province of Henan on November 2, 2022. The order was issued after an exodus of workers who fled the campus, many on foot, over concerns about a Covid-19 outbreak at the facility. Apple has been trying to diversify producti…
The Egyptian Ministry of Education has launched a pilot project to teach Mandarin Chinese as a second language in 12 high schools. The project, in partnership with the Confucius Institute of Cairo, emerged from an agreement signed in September 2020 between China and Egypt to enhance bilateral cooperation in educatio…
China’s zero-Covid policy slammed shut the gates of Shanghai Disney Resort on November 1, 2022, for a second time this year and the third such closure since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The snap lockdown dealt was another major blow for the beleaguered tourism sector in the city, where officials are on ale…
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A 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the northern Philippines, injuring at least 26 people, panicking residents and causing substantial damage to several buildings. In Lagayan in Abra province, Pulot National High School was heavily damaged, with cracks appearing in the walls and foundation.
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee delivered his first policy address on October 18, 2022, outlining his government's priorities for the next year. The Post speaks with Allan Zeman, Chairman of Lan Kwai Fong Group and Bernard Chan, Executive Vice Chairman of Our Hong Kong Foundation, about their main takeaways.
China’s “dynamic zero-Covid” strategy has greatly affected people's lives and businesses. But the government has repeatedly stressed that the policy is necessary to protect lives. The Post talked to some residents in Beijing and Shanghai about their views on the country’s strict anti-Covid strategy.
Chinese artist Zhisheng Wu squeezed into dozens of hazmat suits before he walked through New York City’s Times Square on October 16, 2022. Wu, who came to the US in 2021 to pursue a master’s degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, said he experienced China’s Covid lockdowns in 2020 and felt powerless u…
A robot artist Ai-da spoke and answered questions in Britain’s House of Lords on October 11, 2022, to address the effects of technology on creative industries. Developed by scientists at the University of Oxford in 2019, Ai-da is the world’s first ultra-realistic AI humanoid robot artist. She can create drawings, pa…
Diners ate as fish snapped at their heels in the central Thai province of Nonthaburi. Customers are welcome to play and feed the aquatic animals, which came after floods overflowed into the restaurant. In recent weeks, heavy rains lashed nearly half of Thailand, causing the Chao Phraya river to burst its banks on Oc…
On October 11, 2022, Thai monks arranged a mass funeral and cremation ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Na Klang for 19 of the victims killed in a nursery school massacre. A former police officer murdered 36 people, including 24 children, on October 6 in one of the worst mass killings by a lone wolf attacker in Thail…
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A video circulating on social media shows schoolgirls without hijab chasing a man thought to be an education official out of their campus at Gohardasht near Iranian capital Tehran, reportedly on October 3, 2022. Officials have been visiting schools lately to meet girls following widespread protests over the custodia…
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The family of Indonesian football stampede victim Iwan Junaedi remembers the father of three as an avid Arema FC fan, who would skip school to watch the team play. Junaedi was among at least 125 people killed on October 1, 2022, when Indonesian police fired tear gas to disperse football fans at the Kanjuruhan Stadiu…
A suicide bomb blast killed at least 19 people and injured 27 in an education centre in west Kabul on September 30, 2022. The mostly female students were preparing for exams when the attack took place. The Kaaj Higher Educational Centre is located in the Dasht-e-Barchi area, where the Hazara ethnic minority communit…
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A gunman, described as being in his early 30s and wearing a T-shirt with a swastika painted on it, reportedly entered his former school in central Russia and opened fire on pupils and teachers on September 26, 2022, killing at least 15 people including 11 children. Another 24 people were injured in the attack before…
China hopes Italy’s new government will continue to follow a positive and pragmatic policy in bilateral ties, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on September 26, 2022, soon after Giorgia Meloni was reportedly set to become the European country’s first woman prime minister. Days before her far-right Brothers…
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Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu announced an end to the city’s mandatory hotel quarantine policy on September 23, 2022, ending some of the world’s toughest Covid-19 restrictions. The current policy requires overseas arrivals to quarantine in designated hotels for three days and be put under home medical surveillan…
The Hong Kong government announced an end to the mandatory hotel quarantine requirement for overseas arrivals on September 23, 2022. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said the policy decision was to “reconnect the city with the world” and to “reduce inconvenience”. Hong Kong has had one of the world’s toughest set of…
US President Joe Biden called out Russia for launching a “brutal, needless war” against Ukraine on September 21, 2022, at the 77th United Nations General Assembly. He pledged US$2.9 billion in food aid to alleviate global shortages caused partly by the war. “We are committed to our one-China policy,” Biden also said…
At least 11 children were killed in north-central Myanmar during a government air strike that authorities said was aimed at rebels on September 16, 2022. Soldiers rained gunfire from helicopters before entering the school in a Buddhist monastery compound in the township of Tabayin. The junta blamed the rebels for us…
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The driver of a school bus and two other people were injured when a 15-metre (50ft) flame tree toppled onto their vehicles in Hong Kong on September 16, 2022. The school bus, driven by a 62-year-old man, was on its way to pick up students with a female nanny, the only passenger, according to police. The bus driver s…
The driver of a school bus and two other people were injured when a 15-metre (50ft) flame tree toppled onto their vehicles in Hong Kong on September 16, 2022. The school bus driven by a 62-year-old man was on its way to pick up students with only a female caretaker on board, according to police. The bus driver suffe…
A 42-year-old Korean-born New Zealander was arrested in South Korea on September 15, 2022, over the murder of two school-age children, whose bodies were discovered in suitcases in August 2022 in New Zealand. The suspect, believed to be the mother of the two victims - then aged 7 and 10 - has denied the murder allega…
Yemen has been embroiled in internal conflict since 2014. More than 10,200 children have been killed or injured, according to UNICEF. The Atahadi Centre for Early Intervention and Special Education in Yemen’s largest city of Sanaa provides specialised care for children with disabilities. The staff there hope to help…
Struggling families in Afghanistan's Badakhshan region have reportedly been sending their children to work in illegal gold mines amid an economic crisis in the country. Footage captured on September 8, 2022 appears to show school-age workers being lowered into the shafts of an illegal gold mine, to work long hours e…
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A school garden in Cambodia has been providing hungry children free meals, helping to reduce dropout rates. The Southeast Asian nation has been grappling with food insecurity and inflation, worsened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The UN World Food Programme has sponsored over 1,000 schools in C…
American television writer Heidi Ferrer came down with Covid-19 in 2020 and never fully recovered. Long Covid left her in debilitating pain and suffering from severe neurological tremors that made it impossible for her to sleep and walk. She took her own life in May 2021 at age 50. Nearly 150 million people worldwid…
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China has accused the US of using Trojan virus cyberattacks to steal high-value data from servers belonging to a state-funded university in the northwestern province of Shaanxi. China’s foreign ministry urged Washington to “stop stealing [from] and attacking other countries”, as the allegations based on an investiga…
At the start of a new academic year in Hong Kong, secondary school students in Tin Hau expressed their excitement about the first day in class after many months of no face-to-face courses. Pupils at a primary school in Tsing Yi district grappled with strict health protection measures set out by the Education Bureau,…
