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China beefs up efforts to help underprivileged children

When 23-year-old Yu Runhan first began teaching at a remote middle school in southwest China's Yunnan Province, educating the students proved a daunting challenge.

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Helping disadvantaged children key for world human rights progress

China's blueprint of enhancing underprivileged children's development (2014-2020) has shown the country's determination to join global efforts to translate children's rights into action.

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China's HK-based Sunwah Group launches social services day in Vietnam's HCM City

Sunwah and Friends Social Services and Creativity Day 2015 was launched here on Sunday, attracting participation of over 1,000 people.

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Funeral planned for eight murdered Australian children

The bodies of eight Australian children aged from two and 14 years will be laid to rest at a joint funeral next month, it was reported on Tuesday.

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Humanitarian efforts make headway in Syria amid intense clashes

​Clashes between the Syrian troops and the Islamic State (IS) militants raged Tuesday in the province of al-Hasakah amid renewed humanitarian efforts to deliver medical aid to afflicted Syrian areas, reports said.

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Severe overloading behind fatal China school van crash

Both vehicles involved in a tragedy that killed 11 kindergarten children last month were overloaded to almost twice their capacity, an official investigation has declared.

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Adoption rates in Australia hit all-time low

Adoption rates across Australia have fallen to their"lowest annual number on record", according to a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

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Foreign man suspected of child abuse 'missing'

Beijing police have started looking into the case in which a foreign man and the ten Chinese children he adopted have gone missing, Beijing Morning Post reported Friday.

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Social media websites targeted as Australia aims to stop cyber bullying

Social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter are the target of an Australian government crackdown on cyber bullying.

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Internet technology raises educational hopes for rural children in Bangladesh

​A charming, yet revolutionary television commercial has been garnering a great deal of attention on and off the airwaves and changing the way people in Bangladesh think about education, particularly in poorer, more rural areas, as local students are being taught by teachers hundreds of miles away in Dhaka via the Internet.

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China's rich want to send children abroad for education

An overwhelming majority of China's richest people are likely to send their children abroad for education, the United States and the United Kingdom being their first choices, according to a Hurun Report on education.

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China's rich want to send children abroad for education

An overwhelming majority of China's richest people are likely to send their children abroad for education, the United States and the United Kingdom being their first choices, according to a Hurun Report on education.

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Heightened public concerns raise hope for parents of stolen children

Feng Jianlin has never lost hope that one day he will be reunited with his daughter, who has been missing for six years.

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Lao measles immunization drive continues toward 1.6-mln target

​Laos is attempting to vaccinate 1.6 million children against measles and rubella in a campaign to eradicate the diseases from the country by 2017, the state-run Vientiane Times reported Monday.

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Hollywood film to launch anti-trafficking campaign in Nepal

The Hollywood movie Sold has partnered with Childreach Nepal to launch the anti-trafficking campaign "Taught not Trafficked" in Nepal.

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Laundry detergent pods pose "serious poisoning risk" for children

One young child per day was hospitalized in the United States in 2012 and 2013 because of laundry detergent pods, according to a study published on Monday.

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UN slams deadly bomb attack on school in northeastern Nigeria

​UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Monday condemned a deadly bomb attack on a school in northeastern Nigeria, which left dozens of students dead and many others injured, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.