Topic: Education — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-17 21:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: SINGAPORE and PATTAYA, Thailand, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- XCL Education ("XCL"), one of Southeast Asia's leading K-12 education platforms, has entered a strategic partnership with Mooltripakdee International School (MIS) in Chonburi, Thailand — marking a decisive entry into the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), one of the region's rapidly developing economic zones.
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[2026-03-17 21:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: Early US assessment suggesting missile was Iranian was almost immediately dismissed, sources say
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[2026-03-17 20:35 UTC+10:00] [Pony Ma Huateng] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rong Museum, a flower-like structure within the M80 Campus in Shenzhen’s Houhai district, will open in 2027
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[2026-03-17 20:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Civilians covered in dust. Blood-stained school bags. Hospitals turned into military targets.
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[2026-03-17 20:06 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-03-17 19:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education has issued a circular introducing a four-day school week as part of measures to manage energy consumption amid the ongoing global fuel crisis.
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[2026-03-17 19:46 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Tuesday it will provide psychological support, child care services and guidance on South Korea’s education system for students and parents returning from the Middle East following the outbreak of conflict involving Iran.
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[2026-03-17 19:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Treasury yields edged higher Tuesday as investors weighed escalating tensions in the Middle East and rising oil prices ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy decision.
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[2026-03-17 19:30 UTC+10:00] [China Press] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The woman reported the incident to Kuching police, saying the aggressor treated the victim like ‘a punching bag’
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[2026-03-17 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The technology company behind both last week’s NAPLAN meltdown and the selective school exam chaos that sparked a riot police response has the green light to run both until 2030, and there is no sign the government will abandon its contracts.
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[2026-03-17 19:19 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: A group of researchers including Wataru Kojima, an associate professor of animal ecology at Yamaguchi University's Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, has found that most female Japanese rhinoceros beetles mate only once in their lifetime, which is rare for an insect.
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[2026-03-17 17:44 UTC+10:00] [Independent Commission Against Corruption] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Anti-corruption agency charges Liu Hongbin with accepting HK$40,000 bribe and offering red packets to colleagues to facilitate admission
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[2026-03-17 17:17 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-03-17 17:11 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Five members of the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee are worried about inflation right now. Four are more worried about where the economy will be in a few weeks’ time.
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[2026-03-17 16:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Steele Wilson has been sentenced after firebombing his former high school in Eden on the NSW South Coast. (ABC South East NSW: Adriane Reardon)
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[2026-03-17 16:25 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: For over a decade, I’ve navigated the complexities of North Korean affairs, security, and foreign policy from both Seoul and Washington, D.C. As the National Desk Political Team Lead, I track the pulse of geopolitics, closely following developments from the Unification Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. My mornings start with Rodong Sinmun—North Korea’s state mouthpiece—before diving into the day’s headlines from Seoul and Washington.
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[2026-03-17 16:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education has instructed all international schools, private higher education institutions, and vocational education institutions across the country to observe a weekly Wednesday holiday.
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[2026-03-17 15:57 UTC+10:00] [Indigenous Australians] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The policy reversal came after a federal court judge asked the government to explain why it had stopped negotiating with Cape York traditional owners
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[2026-03-17 15:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Researchers at Sogang University have developed a technique that can cut the response time of large language models roughly in half, a breakthrough that could improve the efficiency of AI systems that power chatbots and other generative tools.
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[2026-03-17 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Kamin Gock is a North America correspondent based in Washington DC. He has previously worked as a journalist with 7.30 and as a state political reporter in the NSW newsroom. In 2023, he was awarded the Kennedy Young Journalist of the Year and the prestigious Andrew Olle Scholarship during which he worked at 4 Corners, Parliament House and the London bureau.
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[2026-03-17 14:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An elementary school teaching assistant related to a former Rhode Island congressman allegedly misplaced a baggie of cocaine inside the school nurse’s office bathroom.
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[2026-03-17 14:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Australia's central bank on Tuesday raised benchmark policy rates for a second straight time, pushing them to their highest since April 2025 at 4.1%, amid sticky inflation.
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[2026-03-17 14:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s ambassador to Moscow, Kazem Jalili, said Tehran will seek reparations from the United States and Israel over a deadly attack on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab.
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[2026-03-17 14:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Washington, DC – Pro-Israel groups in the United States are spending millions of dollars in elections to assert their influence over the rising anger towards Israeli policies.
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[2026-03-17 14:02 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A woman who fatally struck a QUT PhD student on a Brisbane road after failing to see the traffic light was red for seven seconds will spend four months behind bars.
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[2026-03-17 13:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea’s Army has suspended rifle shooting drills to conduct safety checks across all units, after an elementary school girl was injured at a playground in Daegu on Monday by what is believed to be a stray bullet.
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[2026-03-17 13:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Educational Institutions
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[2026-03-17 11:50 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Beijing: By normal foreign policy metrics, it ought to be seen as a little galling for Washington to demand Beijing’s support to help resolve a Middle East crisis of its own making, let alone one resulting from an attack on China’s friend in the region.
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[2026-03-17 11:36 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for China to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz will almost certainly be rejected out of hand. But it unwittingly touches a sensitive debate simmering among foreign policy thinkers in Beijing: Should President Xi Jinping start using his military to shape geopolitical outcomes?
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[2026-03-17 11:01 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A primary-school-aged girl has suffered “significant” injuries after she was struck by a car on K’gari’s Orchid Beach on Monday.
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[2026-03-17 10:15 UTC+10:00] [actor] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: At a viewing of his paintings at the University of Hong Kong, the actor talks about his art and about bringing Hong Kong filmmakers to America
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[2026-03-17 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Maxim Suchkov, Director of the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IIS)
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[2026-03-17 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Maxim Suchkov, Director of the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IIS)
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[2026-03-17 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: System aims to let AI agents collaborate under strict rules, as HKGAI rolls out tools for school selection, budgeting and racing data
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[2026-03-17 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A school in Canada designated its cafeteria as a “no food space” to support fasting Muslim students during Ramadan — sparking a firestorm online as critics questioned the decree’s fairness.
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[2026-03-17 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Leqaa Kordia, center, demonstrates with pro-Palestianian protesters at Columbia University in New York, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
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[2026-03-17 08:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — A US judge on Monday dealt a blow to the Trump administration by blocking the government from implementing major vaccine policy changes made by health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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[2026-03-17 08:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Lilly Williams of Howell High School has been named Michigan’s Miss Basketball.
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[2026-03-17 07:37 UTC+10:00] [Robert F Kennedy Jr] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Unprecedented changes to routine US immunization recommendations ‘arbitrary and capricious’, court says
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[2026-03-17 07:24 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul has become a popular destination for young people from around the world. Each year, more and more foreign students arrive at Korean universities through various international exchange programs. Some stay for a semester, while others stay for the whole academic year. In fact, one of the most prominent developments in Korean colleges lately is the growing population of international exchange students on campus.
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[2026-03-17 07:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Industrial Action
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[2026-03-17 07:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON, DC — The US Education Department is threatening to thwart a key college accrediting agency that serves as a “gatekeeper” for $100 billion in student loans and grants if it refuses to permanently nix its DEI standards.
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[2026-03-17 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Adesh Almeida, skipper of St. Sebastian’s College Moratuwa made his third ton in this season in the under 19 two-day inter schools cricket tournament conducted by Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association with the sponsorship by Sri Lanka Cricket yesterday.
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[2026-03-17 06:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A prolonged US-Israel war on Iran could reduce Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP) by as much as 03 percent over the next two years, according to a new policy analysis by the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (Sanem).
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[2026-03-17 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The University of Peradeniya is more known for its tree-lined outskirts and the academic life under the shadow of the Hantana mountain range. And now, a rare encounter with the wild has reignited debate about human expansion and the shrinking space for wildlife.
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[2026-03-17 06:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: This article commemorates her legacy as part of the Dr. Kumari Jayawardena Appreciation Ceremony, scheduled to be held at the University of Colombo’s New Art Theatre (NAT) on March 23, organized by the Alumni Organisation of University of Colombo. It serves both as a tribute and as a call to sustain engaged scholarship in Sri Lanka and beyond
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[2026-03-17 06:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Royal College Colombo produced a powerful all-round performance to defeat St Anthony’s College Katugastota by 34 points (four goals, two penalties) to 13 (one goal, two penalties) and enter the quarter-finals of the Dialog President’s Trophy Schools Under-19 Knockout Rugby Tournament in their pre-quarter-final played under floodlights at Longden Place on Sunday after leading 20-10 at the ‘breather’.
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[2026-03-17 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Ananda College, Colombo, took the lead to redefine student development with the launch of its landmark project in the Career Counselling Programme on March 5.
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[2026-03-17 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Principal of Science College Mount Lavina Susantha Mendis was elected as the President of the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association at the AGM held recently at the Education Ministry. Saman Hettiarachchi of Isipathana College, Colombo, was elected as the Secretary while Sampath Weragoda, Principal of D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo, was elected as the Senior Deputy President.
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[2026-03-17 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s cricketing and academic communities recently came together for a unique knowledge-sharing experience as world-renowned statistician and custodian of the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern (DLS) Method, Steven Stern, addressed the audience at a special forum held at the BMICH in Colombo. Organized by Sirus Migration and Education in collaboration with Bond University, the event brought together students, sports enthusiasts, academics, and professionals to explore the science behind one of the most discussed systems in modern cricket.
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