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Private schools in China reconsider their future after failing growth assessment
Private schools in China are reconsidering their future in light of challenges brought about by increased regulation, a slowing economy, and diminishing numbers of foreign students. -
Chinese Universities See Significant Rise in Tuition Fees, Reaching Up to 54%
Chinese universities are implementing substantial increases in tuition fees this year, with some institutions raising fees for the first time in two decades. The higher fees -
MOE holds press conference on non-state education regulations
On May 17, the Ministry of Education (MOE) held a press conference on the newly revised version of the Regulations on the Implementation of the Non-state Education Promotion Law. -
EU threatens tougher rules on hate speech after Facebook meeting
A top EU official for digital policy warned Monday that big tech companies could face tougher rules and penalties in Europe if they failed to adequately curb hate speech and disinformation. -
EU to sanction two Turks linked to Med gas drilling
The European Union will impose an entry ban and asset freeze on two Turkish citizens involved in their country's disputed search for gas in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Tesla Inc has announced a price reduction for its Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles in Japan, effective from the beginning of this month. The company has lowered the prices of all variants
Models in zombie make-up and a growing number of women on the catwalks were among the eye-catching features of Men's Fashion Week, which wrapped up in
The South Korean won and Philippine peso experienced the most significant losses among Asian currencies on Thursday as the U.S. dollar remained strong. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome
A bolt of lightning pierced its tower and flames licked across its thick oak roof. Thirty-five years ago it was York Minster in northern England that went up in flames.
Human rights activists have alerted the U.S. Congress to the possibility of almost 2,000 North Koreans currently held in detention centers in China being forcibly repatriated once North Korea
British pop legend Elton John has joined "friend" George Clooney in calling for a boycott of nine Brunei-owned hotels over the sultanate's new death-penalty laws for
Chinese airlines are now rerouting their flights to and from the United States to avoid Russian airspace, as per flight tracking website FlightAware and industry sources.
British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has married his girlfriend Cherry Seaborn in a "tiny winter wedding", The Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.
Sources in the industry have revealed that Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd (0293.HK) is on the verge of finalizing an order valued at approximately $2 billion for Boeing
Alex Honnold, a big wall climber who has conquered a series of intimidating rock faces on his own and almost without equipment, could on Sunday add the Oscars to his conquests for his
The UAE and Cambodia have reached an agreement on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) to boost trade and commerce ties between the two
Harry Potter makes his stage debut on Tuesday in a new London play that imagines the fictional boy wizard as a father of three, in the latest offshoot of the globally successful franchise.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is set 19 years after the seventh and final book in the series by J.K. Rowling, which have sold more than 450 million copies since 1997 and been adapted into eight films.
Like many of his fans, Potter has now grown up and has three children with his wife Ginny Weasley, the sister of his friend Ron, and is working at the Ministry of Magic.
He still has his trademark round-rimmed glasses and the scar on his head, a permanent reminder of his nemesis Lord Voldemort, but must now help his youngest son Albus confront the family’s dark past.
Cut-price previews for the play at the Palace Theatre, in London’s West End, begin on Tuesday ahead of the world premiere on July 30.
Rowling pleaded with spectators at the previews not to disclose the details of the play.
A 3,000-year-old head sculpture of an eternally-young Tutankhamun — the Egyptian pharaoh known as King Tut — goes under the hammer this week in London despite an outcry from Cairo.
Hollywood star and UN refugee agency envoy Angelina Jolie is to become a visiting professor at Britain’s prestigious London School of Economics, the university announced Monday.
Jolie was named as one of four new “visiting professors in practice” who will contribute to a new master’s programme on “women, peace and security”.
“I am very encouraged by the creation of this master’s programme,” Jolie said in a statement.
“I hope other academic institutions will follow this example, as it is vital that we broaden the discussion on how to advance women’s rights and end impunity for crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict.”
Also appointed was British former foreign minister William Hague, with whom Jolie co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative in 2010.
