More than 300 school children in northern China were treated for food poisoning late Tuesday night, raising fresh concerns over the sanitary conditions of school canteens.
To Wang Mudi, a grade six student at a rural junior middle school, nothing beats calligraphy class every Wednesday.
Classes resumed at 62 elementary and junior high schools in Kumamoto Prefecture on May 9, bringing a sense of normalcy to young lives in the quake-battered southern prefecture.
The Ministry of Education in China has announced a new regulation that bans any paid make-up classes organized by primary schools or middle schools.
Students in central Beijing will soon be allowed choice in their subjects for the first time, under a scheme announced by the city's education commission on Thursday.
Some protesters decided on Sunday to withdraw from areas in Hong Kong as a good gesture for talks with the authorities, while secondary schools affected by the Occupy Central demonstration would resume classes on Monday.
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