Schools in Ukraine Resume Education Despite War
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Covid-19: Hong Kong to open schools, lift flight ban, cut quarantine time and suspend mass testing | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has revealed a raft of changes to the city’s Covid-19 pandemic control measures which will start from April, including a reduction in the length of quarantine for people arriving in the city, as well as lifting flight bans on travel from Australia, Canada, France, India, P…
Teenagers rescue toddler hanging from 6th floor window in China | South China Morning Post
Two brave secondary school students rescued a two-year-old girl hanging from the railings of a sixth floor window in central China’s Henan province.
Ukraine conflict: Why are there so many Indian students in Ukraine? | South China Morning Post
Since the Russian invasion on February 24, tens of thousands of people have fled Ukraine. In recent days, images of Indian students trying to flee the country have emerged. Indians are estimated to be the largest group studying in Ukraine, making up 18,000 of the 76,000 foreign student population. The South China Mo…
African Student Fleeing Ukraine Describes Difficulties Crossing Border to Safety
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· Betty Ayoub
Makeshift maternity ward set up in bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine | South China Morning Post
Babies have been born in a makeshift maternity ward set up in a bomb shelter in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. This came as Russian troops intensified a shelling campaign against the city, forcing a local hospital to move its maternity ward to safety underground. Despite residential buildings, schools and ho…
Chinese migrant worker father watches son go to school from 267km away | South China Morning Post
An 11-year-old boy wakes up at 5am every Monday, to start his 15km journey to school from China’s Jiangxi province to Guangdong province. Since Xiao Teng’s father works in Shenzhen, a city which is 267km away, Chen can only see his son off through the lens of a security camera.
Philippine ‘trolley school’ keeps kids’ studies on track during the pandemic | South China Morning Post
In the Philippines, a group of teachers and volunteers has set up a special trolley school for students unable to continue face-to-face education during the coronavirus pandemic. They use a little-used rail track to push their trolley up three different neighbourhoods a day, three times a week. More than 60 children…
Hong Kong announces universal Covid-19 testing, school holidays moved up, tightened restrictions | South China Morning Post
All Hong Kong residents will undergo compulsory testing for Covid-19 in March, as part of further tightening of pandemic restrictions unveiled by the city’s leader on February 22, 2022. Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also announced an early start to the school summer break, as well as more stringent social distancing me…
Ex-factory worker sets sights on South Korean presidency with aim to tackle inequality | South China Morning Post
South Korea’s presidential campaign kicked off on February 15, 2022, with former child worker Lee Jae-myung throwing his name in the hat. A student dropout maimed in a factory accident as a teen, Lee is a maverick candidate from the ruling liberal Democratic Party of Korea. He says his working-class credentials make…
More than 100 lavish palaces and villas of Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein lie in ruins | South China Morning Post
More than 100 lavish palaces and villas lie in ruins across the war-torn country of Iraq. The dilapidated buildings were constructed by former dictator Saddam Hussein, who visited some of them only once or twice. Many of the buildings are now unused, after Saddam was ousted by a US-led invasion in 2003. The dictator…
VOA60 America - California Adopts Nation's First 'Endemic' Virus Policy
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· VOA
American University in Nigeria Launches Program to Help School Children
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· Percy Dabang
Hong Kong hospitals set up outdoor wards as city buckles under rising coronavirus infections | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong hospitals began to buckle under the strain of rising coronavirus infections as the city recorded 1,619 new Covid-19 cases and 5,400 suspected cases on February 15, 2022. Hong Kong treats all of its Covid-19 patients in dedicated isolation wards to control the airflow in the room and reduce the amount of ai…
India launches Earth observation satellite after setback 6 months ago | South China Morning Post
India launched a new Earth observation satellite, the EOS-04, on February 14, 2022. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sent two other satellites on the same mission, including the student satellite INSPIREsat and a technology demonstrator satellite INS-2TD. Lift-off took place from the Satish Dhawan Space…
City of Suzhou newest front in China’s all-out battle against Omicron coronavirus variant | South China Morning Post
After seven people linked to an industrial estate tested positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant on February 13, 2022, the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou banned all public gatherings and postponed the start of the spring school semester. Mass screening was under way and production stopped in at least one semico…
86-year-old in China teaches children to ice skate | South China Morning Post
A passionate 86-year-old man in central China’s Shanxi province is still teaching children how to ice skate. Wu Zhinai is a retired PE teacher and a former ice hockey player. He formed the first ice hockey school team in the city 20 years ago, and trains young members to this day.
School hijab ban triggers clashes between Hindu and Muslim students in India’s Karnataka state | South China Morning Post
Violent clashes have erupted across the Indian state of Karnataka following weeks of mounting tensions over a rule preventing female students from wearing hijabs while in classrooms at schools and colleges. The head covering is worn by many Muslim women and girls. Schools and colleges in the southern state were clos…
Female Student in Hijab Takes on Jeering Crowd in Southern India
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Carrie Lam defends imposition of tough Covid-19 rules as Hong Kong fights record case numbers | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has defended the city’s move to ramp-up Covid-19 restrictions, including lowering a cap on public gatherings to only two people and expansion of a “vaccine pass” scheme to cover shopping centres, supermarkets and hair salons. Lam stressed the need to put public he…
Afghan Universities Reopen but With Segregated Classes, Fewer Women
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· Waheed Faizi
Malaysian teacher draws 5 portraits simultaneously with his hands, feet and mouth | South China Morning Post
A Malaysian teacher has gone viral after posting a video of himself on TikTok drawing multiple portraits at the same time using his hands, feet and mouth. The 39-year-old said the idea came about after seeing an artwork drawn by a disabled person with her feet.
Afghan Women Under Taliban: Giving Up on Education, Work and Dreams
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· Karina Bafradzhian
The lives of sex workers and their children in New Delhi's biggest red-light district | South China Morning Post
The women and children of New Delhi's G.B. Road are afraid to tell others where they are from. They live in the Indian capital’s biggest red-light district. The mothers are sex workers. Many say they were trafficked and forced into the sex trade with no way to escape. Out of fear of being shunned by society, the chi…
Water cooling at ultra-high temperatures made possible by Hong Kong-led scientific breakthrough | South China Morning Post
A Hong Kong-led research team has cracked a centuries-old problem that has made it impossible to use water for cooling extremely hot surfaces, from rocket engines to frying pans. A new low-cost, thin and flexible film developed by scientists at the City University of Hong Kong with researchers in mainland China and …
Former Olympic stars employed as gym teachers as China pushes more physical education in schools | South China Morning Post
A new programme in China designed to reduce rising rates of childhood obesity and the stress of excess study is bringing some star power to school gymnasiums by employing former Olympic Games athletes. The new push for less study and at least two hours a day of physical exercise has offered former Olympic stars like…
COVID and Poverty Widen Education Gap in Uganda
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· Halima Athumani
South African University Students Fight COVID Vaccine Mandates
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· Linda Givetash
Japanese woman files US$2.9 million lawsuit against sperm donor who lied about identity | South China Morning Post
A Japanese woman gave her newborn up for adoption after discovering that the child’s biological father, a sperm donor, lied about his identity. The 30-year-old woman slept with the man up to 10 times after he claimed to be a Japanese graduate of an elite national university. In reality, he was a Chinese national who…
Could Burkina Faso's Husband Schools Be Key to Successful Marriages?
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· Henry Wilkins
Map of childhood village leads abducted man in China to find his biological family 33 years later | South China Morning Post
A 37-year-old Chinese man who was abducted at the age of four has found his biological mother by drawing a map of his home village strictly from memory. Li Jingwei was taken in 1989 by a neighbour who sold him to another family in Henan province, more than 1,770km (1,100 miles) from his home in Yunnan province. A vi…
Students Dismayed as COVID Forces Some California Universities to Go Back Online
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· Khrystyna Shevchenko
What Do Policy Changes in China Mean to Industries Worldwide?
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· Chris Hannas
Hong Kong leader on delay of vaccine passport and border reopening with mainland China | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced on January 4, 2022, that the introduction of the city’s coronavirus vaccine passport plan would be delayed. The scheme will prohibit those who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 from entering all restaurants, leisure venues and schools. At her w…
Chinese Olympics superfan spends thousands on Games memorabilia | South China Morning Post
Zhang Wenquan is an Olympics superfan, who has filled his small Beijing home with an assortment of Olympics souvenirs. He has so far amassed about 5,000 items worth at least 400,000 yuan (US$62,900). His collection has been displayed in local schools in the run-up to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
Omicron Cramps US Holiday Travel, Resumption of School Year
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· Arash Arabasadi
‘We can’t shut down our city again,’ says incoming New York City mayor as Covid-19 cases climb | South China Morning Post
Incoming New York mayor Eric Adams has reiterated his pledge not to shut the city down despite a surge in daily Covid-19 infection rates. Speaking on December 30, 2021, the day before he took office, Adams promised a new city plan to tackle the pandemic, including greater access to in-home and in-school testing and …
More Tiananmen crackdown monuments removed from Hong Kong university campuses | South China Morning Post
Two more monuments commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown were removed from two university campuses in Hong Kong in the early hours of Christmas Eve. After removing the Goddess of Democracy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong said its placement on campus had never been authorised, while Lingnan University cited…
Baidu unveils China's first metaverse platform ‘Xi Rang’ | South China Morning Post
Chinese search engine giant Baidu will launch the country's first metaverse platform. Xi Rang, which means "land of hope" in English, can be accessed via smartphones, computers or VR goggles, allowing users to create avatars and interact with other players. Baidu says it aims to develop Xi Rang into an infrastructur…
Santas on Elephants Send Thai School Kids Masks and Sanitizer
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· Reuters
US Promotes Closer Ties With Taiwan While Upholding Its 'One China' Policy
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· Nike Ching
Japanese lickable TV screen imitates food flavours, creating multisensory viewing experience | South China Morning Post
Homei Miyashita from Japan’s Meiji University has created a lickable TV screen to allow viewers to taste what they see. “Taste the TV” (TTTV) uses a “flavour spray” technology to create a multi-sensory viewing experience. Miyashita says his invention was inspired by the pandemic when people were unable to enjoy rest…
University of Hong Kong removes ‘Pillar of Shame’ sculpture marking Tiananmen crackdown | South China Morning Post
The Pillar of Shame sculpture at the University of Hong Kong was removed on the night of December 22, 2021. The artwork commemorates victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, when protesters demanded greater democracy and government transparency. The statue had been on loan to the Hong Kong Alliance in Supp…
HKU covers ‘Pillar of Shame’ Tiananmen sculpture, sparking speculation of removal | South China Morning Post
The Pillar of Shame sculpture at the University of Hong Kong, which commemorates victims of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, was curtained off late on the night of December 22, 2021. Workers were believed to be dismantling the 8-metre memorial two months after campus administrators ordered its removal. Securit…
Students Challenge US School District's Ban on Some Diversity Education
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· Nukhbat Malik
Children of Detained Uyghurs Find Refuge in Istanbul School
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· Heather Murdock
LA School Board Fires 500 Employees Lacking COVID Shot
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· Angelina Bagdasaryan