THE CHINA

LOS ANGELES, May 9 — California Governor Jerry Brown issued a proclamation on Monday, declaring May 2011, as “Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month” in the state.“I encourage all Californians to discover the rich history and

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 9 — President Dilma Rousseff Monday reaffirmed her commitment to provide scholarships enough for 75,000 Brazilian students to study abroad, up from 5,000 at present.It will be difficult but possible, the president

CHICAGO, May 9 — Chicago’s Northwestern University is caught in fresh controversy on Monday following news that it is scrapping a sex education class, which brought unwanted media attention to the internationally-acclaimed institution last February.The student-run

NAIROBI, May 9 — The young boy studying at a secondary school in Nairobi, Kenya clicks a button to open a program on a computer.He waits keenly as the program loads up before giving the computer

WITH golf set to debut at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, some local schools are introducing the sport into their curriculum in a bid to popularize what is usually seen as a rich man’s pastime.Four

TIANJIN, May 9 — This year marks the 100th anniversary of China’s epoch-making 1911 Revolution, or Xinhai Revolution. Though celebrations are being held at home and abroad in the centenary’s honor, historical and cultural experts worry

XI’AN, May 9 — A group of six well-preserved frescoes featuring an ancient Chinese beauty from more than 1,000 years ago is on display at the ongoing International Horticultural Exposition in Xi’an, capital of the northwestern

JERUSALEM, May 9 — Israel’s Ministry of Education apparently approved text books in Arabic without thoroughly checking their grammar and syntax, according to a study by the Arab Cultural Association (ACA) in Israel.The report, written by

LOCAL elementary schools are seeing a rapid growth in numbers of non-local pupils, mostly migrant workers’ children, as more and more people move to Shanghai.In public primary schools, non-local students in Grade 1 outnumbered local children