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Statue cleaning Hong Kong’s first Tiananmen crackdown memorial event under national security law | South China Morning Post
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…
Camel delivers books to Pakistan’s desert children amid Covid school closures | South China Morning Post
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 declares new state of emergency after worst Covid-19 spike since January | South China Morning Post
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 ‘only one part of the battle‘ in China-Australia dispute, says legal expert Bryan Mercurio | South China Morning Post
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…
Trending in China: Young man practises basketball in apron, gains online fame | South China Morning Post
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…
Penny’s Bay camp to become HKDSE venue for candidates under quarantine | South China Morning Post
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…
Asian-American families wary about school return as hate violence increases | South China Morning Post
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.
Bush fire on South Africa’s Table Mountain sets University of Cape Town buildings ablaze | South China Morning Post
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 universities should train ‘builders and successors’ of socialism, says President Xi Jinping | South China Morning Post
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, …
Police tear-smoke warning souvenirs offered at Hong Kong National Security Education Day | South China Morning Post
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…
Hong Kong schools mark first National Security Education Day under security law imposed by Beijing | South China Morning Post
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…
AI instructors teach student drivers in Shanghai how to get behind the wheel | South China Morning Post
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 …
Inside China’s gymnastics school that churns out Olympic champions | South China Morning Post
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…
Young Chinese man practises basketball in apron, gains online fame | South China Morning Post
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…
From asylum seeker to banker: Zimbabwean in Hong Kong pays it forward | South China Morning Post
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…
University classroom ceiling collapses under the weight of rainfall in China | South China Morning Post
The ceiling of a classroom at a university in central China’s Hubei province collapsed under the weight of rainfall. The incident took place while students were in class.
Egypt School for Deaf Works to Overcome Obstacles
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· Edward Yeranian
Biden Faces Tough Questions on Immigration, Foreign Policy
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· Patsy Widakuswara
Universities Serve as Mass Vaccination Centers
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· Kathleen Struck
Self-powered soft robot developed by Chinese scientists reaches world’s deepest point | South China Morning Post
A bionic robot developed by Chinese scientists recently reached a depth of 10,900 metres (35,761ft) in the Mariana Trench, the world’s deepest point in the western Pacific Ocean. The design mimics deep-sea snailfish, whose bones are finely distributed in a gel-like body to resist high pressure in the deep sea. Resea…
Civil service secretary Patrick Nip says ‘patriots’ needed within Hong Kong's government bureaucracy | South China Morning Post
In a wide-ranging discussion with the Post, Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen addresses the issue of the requirement for civil servants to take an oath of allegiance to the Hong Kong government. Nip says “just under” 200 civil servants have declined to do so, but stressed the importance of the gov…
Which schools did these royals go to? | South China Morning Post
Monaco’s Prince Albert attended the same school as mum Grace Kelly – 6 royals educated at ‘normal’ schools including Prince Philippe of Belgium and Japan’s Prince Hisahito
Changes to US Immigration Policy Triggers Migrant Inflow
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· Celia Mendoza
Continuity More Likely Than Change in US-China Policy, Experts Say
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· Elizabeth Lee
Cost of Higher Education in US 'Bankrupting Students'
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· Jesusemen Oni
Kenya Aims to Transition School Kitchens to Clean Fuel
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· Victoria Amunga
China slams US-Japan joint statement | South China Morning Post
China has slammed the US and Japan over the joint statement by top officials from both countries that raised concerns about Beijing’s behaviour in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the South China Sea. The statement called Beijing’s behaviour inconsistent with the international order. On March 17, 2021, Chinese foreign minist…
Thai prime minister gets AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after safety scare | South China Morning Post
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha became the first person in Thailand to be inoculated with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on March 16, 2021. Prayuth and his cabinet were initially scheduled to get their shots on March 12. But the country suspended use of the shots developed by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca…
Looming ‘learning crisis’ in the Philippines after year-long school closures during pandemic | South China Morning Post
During the year-long closure of classrooms because of measures taken to curb the spread of Covid-19, classes have gone virtual in the Philippines. But during the pandemic, not all students have access to the internet or even a mobile device to log in to online classes, leaving many teachers worried that students hav…
Old-school haircut tradition lives on in the hands of Hong Kong master barber Tiger Leung | South China Morning Post
Tiger Leung has made a career out of cutting hair and giving clean shaves. For over 50 years, he has run his traditional barbershop in Hong Kong with a focus on an old-school approach to his craft. While similar shops have gradually faded away and closed over the years, Leung is determined to keep his business open …
At least 27 die as Indonesian bus carrying school tour group plunges into ravine | South China Morning Post
A school tour bus crashed into a ravine on the Indonesian island of Java late on March 10, 2021, killing at least 27 people and injuring 39 others. The bus was carrying junior high school pupils and some of their parents as they were returning from a visit to an Islamic pilgrimage site. Police say brakes on the vehi…
US Immigration Policy Changes Spark Hope and Worry
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· Elizabeth Lee
‘I'm as old as the revolution’, Syrian boy turns 10 as nation marks decade of civil war | South China Morning Post
Ten-year-old Aalwan Aalwan was born in Syria just days after pro-democracy protests began in the country in March 2011. But instead of bringing out wider political freedom demonstrators hoped for, the “revolution” developed into a decade-long civil war. Over those 10 years, Aalwan has only known war and has been dis…
Students and Schools still Grappling with Impact of COVID-19 in US
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· Jesusemen Oni
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama gets coronavirus vaccine shot | South China Morning Post
The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, received his first of two doses of the coronavirus vaccine on March 6, 2021. The 85-year-old received the Covishield vaccine, developed by Oxford University and UK-based drug maker AstraZeneca and manufactured by India’s Serum Institute, at a hospital in the north…
Indigo dyeing helps Fukushima farmers still living in shadow of 2011 nuclear disaster | South China Morning Post
Kiyoko Mori’s livelihood was washed away on March 11, 2011, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami hit her farm in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture. The disaster caused a meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi power plant, which then spewed massive amounts of radioactive particles which contaminated the soil. U…
Virginia Starts Reopening Schools for In-Person Learning
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· Lesia Bakalets