The British Council has obtained a licence from the education authorities to operate its first kindergarten in Hong Kong, the organisation announced yesterday.
A court in Thailand has sentenced four men to two years in prison for a vicious assault on a holidaying British couple in their 60s and their 43-year-old son that left them unconscious in the street.
It’s been six years of “long days and long nights,” but President Aquino isn’t thinking of taking it easy just yet. “I’ll be working till the last hour of my presidency,” the President told The STAR in a recent interview at Malacañang. “I have to lead by example, and we have six years to do everything we can do. My term ends June 30, noon. We have to be able to face the mirror each day and say, ‘We did the maximum’.”
The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris began to recede Saturday after reaching its highest level in three decades. However, problems troubling the French tourism may not be eased immediately amid the shadows of terrorism and strikes.
Thousands of visitors have flocked to the Botanical Garden of Copenhagen over the past few days to have a glimpse of the blooming Amorphophallus Titanum, also known as "corpse flower" and considered one of the largest flowers in the world.
Myanmar opened the first school day of 2016-17 academic year on Wednesday with a new syllabus and teaching methods for kindergarten children, marking a new step taken in boosting the basic education sector.
Touching on an issue that has for long agonized Muslims in India, Union minister for law and justice DV Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday said he is concerned about false terror charges slapped on Muslim youths that are followed by acquittals due to lack of evidence across the country. More importantly, he said legal reforms are in the pipeline to address such cases.
Wang Zhengqiang, 52, retired eight years early during a layoff at a steel mill in Tangshan, North China's Hebei province.
School children with mental health problems are waiting more than two thirds longer for treatment at public clinics than two years ago, it has been revealed.
"It is simply another Silicon Valley" -- this is the impression Liu Zihong had of Shenzhen when he came to the southern Chinese city to start his own tech firm four years ago.
One of the most talked-about television commercials in Japan this year advertises an unusual product: contrition.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that life expectancy increased by five years globally since 2000, but that major inequalities persist within and among countries.
South Korea’s defence ministry said Tuesday it was pushing to scrap nearly all existing exemptions to mandatory military service, citing a shortfall in the number of conscripts.
A court in central China's Hunan Province on Monday handed five staff members of a newspaper and its website prison terms of up to 12 years for blackmail.
Five-year plans, one of the last links to Nehru's economic policies, will soon be history. The Narendra Modi government has decided to discontinue the plans after the current one, which ends in March next year, and replace it with a longer vision of 15 years that will factor in social goals and sustainable development goals.
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) play a major role in the development of new medicines for patients, said the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in a report on Wednesday.
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