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A school for bodyguards in China’s northern municipality of Tianjin is now training students in cybersecurity along with the usual skills in combat, weapons use and high-speed driving. The school’s founder said digital defences against hackers is now an essential skill for bodyguards in China, where security personn…
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Rachna Rajendra Chaurasia, a seventh-degree black belt taekwondo teacher in India, has created a safety device that she hopes will bring a sense of security to women in the country.
More than a hundred people in Ulan Bator protested Beijing’s new language policy in Inner Mongolia as Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi visited Mongolia.
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China’s new language policy for schools in Inner Mongolia sparked rare protests and class boycotts in the region as locals fear the rules will suffocate their culture. Some parents have been threatened with layoffs, fines, and their children's expulsion from school if they refuse to send their kids back to school.
The closure of many Indonesian schools to fight the coronavirus pandemic has forced pupils into remote learning, including students in remote areas with little or no access to the internet. In some communities, volunteers are trying to bring internet access to children who need it. Another group of pupils are being …
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A cafe in Shanghai, which is operated by a special needs school, is staffed mostly by the mentally disabled. Its staff includes seven graduates from the Special Education School in Pudong New Area and one able-bodied young man who works as a manager. Launched jointly by the school and a local businessman, the projec…
A group of students were seen using face masks to cover their eyes during a gratitude education session held by a school in northern China’s Hebei province. The school suggested they use eye covers to create a more emotional atmosphere. Students who didn’t have eye covers used face masks instead.
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SCMP Debate: What do you think about Leung Chun-ying's maiden policy address?Leung Chun-ying's maiden policy address lasted for more than two hours and covered everything from housing supply to help for the disabled. But the chief executive has faced a growing wave of criticism, with claims that he failed to fully a…
Poverty and a lack of education are factors that have long been blamed for driving children into wedlock in some traditional communities in Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Vietnam. But during the coronavirus pandemic, young girls across Asia are being forced into marriages in greater numbers by desperate families str…
If you are of two minds about the foreign-policy orientations of the Indian government, what do you do? Answer: Read the lips of US State Department
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Hundreds of millions of students across China started the semester at school after authorities said the pandemic is under control. All schools, from kindergarten to university, were allowed to reopen starting August 31, 2020. However, students in China’s western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have to begin the new…
A global spread of authoritarianism is threatening to upset the liberal world order established after World War II, according to historian and author Timothy Snyder. The Levin Professor of History at Yale University in the US spoke with the SCMP’s Sarah Zheng on August 27, 2020, about his book On Tyranny, which has …
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A 7-year-old girl from China’s Hubei province helps her father herd 300 goats. Wanwan started helping to guide the herd of goats when she was just 3. While on the 3km route, sometimes she would carry her school bag and books to study.
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Thailand’s prime minister said the “country will collapse” if pro-democracy protests continue. Prayuth Chan-ocha’s remarks on August 26, 2020, represented his sternest warning since July when mass, student-led demonstrations started. Among the demands being made by demonstrators is a call for Prayuth to resign.
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Researchers from the University of Hong Kong said they had confirmed what is believed to be the world’s first known case of a Covid-19 reinfection on August 24,2020. The 33-year-old man from Hong Kong was found to have contracted the coronavirus again, four and a half months after his first confirmed infection in Ma…
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A Chinese university has reported a rise in the number of applications to medicine majors amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The admission office of Shanghai Jiaotong University received a relatively high number of applications for medicine related majors, including clinical medicine, pediatrics and oral medicine. The univ…
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Thousands of young protesters took to the streets of the Thai capital Bangkok on August 16, 2020, in the latest of a series of anti-government protests that have been ongoing for the past month. The Sunday demonstration was considered one of the largest since Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha came to power in a 2014 …
Six new cabinet officials were sworn in at Dusit Palace in Thailand on August 12, 2020, on the heels of recent protests calling for political reform in relation to the country’s monarchy. As recently as August 10, thousands of protesters gathered at a university on the outskirts of Bangkok, demanding the resignation…
Presumptive US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his newly chosen running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, made their first campaign appearance on August 12, 2020. The pair spoke at a high school gymnasium in Biden’s hometown of Wilmington in the state of Delaware. The event came a day after Republican incum…
A remote village in the northern part of Indian-administered Kashmir has set up an open-air community school to help pupils catch up on lessons missed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Village teachers in the Kupwara district now teach classes outdoors to help students who have limited access to the internet, lea…
Employers must create a culture of care and compassion to look after the mental health of employees amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to Samson Tse, a professor who focuses on mental health and social work at the University of Hong Kong. He spoke with the South China Morning Post’s Elaine Ly about wha…
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Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed an AI device that conveys a sense of touch, allowing users to identify objects, textures and even read Braille letters. The device called ACES (Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin) was created by a research team led by Dr Benjamin Tee from the univers…
