It was the 24th consecutive year of increase since the ministry started compiling such statistics in fiscal 1990.
Teachers in Shanghai who have accepted gifts or cash from students or their parents will be disqualified from applying for professional titles that confer higher rank and more pay, the municipal education commission announced ahead of Teachers' Day, which fell on Thursday.
While many Chinese parents chose to take their children to parks or museums to celebrate Children's Day, one group of youngsters in south China was treated to a tour of multi-million-yuan mansions in hopes they would aspire to live in one.
Australia's leading influenza expert body on Monday urged citizens to book a flu shot now as the number of local people dying of flu keeps rising.
Singapore government will launch 4,000 two-room flats this year and will raise the quota for singles to 50 percent, according to National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan's announcement on Tuesday.
The plight of Song Liuchen, from a village in Shangqiu, Henan province, who has confounded medical experts by fighting epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare skin disease, since birth, has caused a nationwide sensation.
A woman aborted her second baby in central China's Hubei Province after her 13-year-old daughter threatened to commit suicide.
The parents of Hugjiltu, an 18-year-old who was executed after being wrongly convicted of raping and killing a woman in 1996, will receive 2,059,621.4 yuan ($332,116) in state compensation, the Higher People's Court of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region ruled on Tuesday.
The State Council, China's cabinet, is soliciting opinions on a draft law on regulating Chinese ethnic identities, according to a statement from the State Council on Tuesday.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Thursday that he has met the families of 43 students who went missing in late September, and pledged results in the case.
Parents lead teen children on alcohol path: Australian study
For the second time, Beijing citizen Jiang Hai took her 4-year-old son to the annual Beijing Foreign Language Festival, hoping the environment get her son interested in the language.
More cases of medicines being administered illegally to preschoolers are emerging in China, as the crisis of confidence in kindergarten managers expands.
The principal and vice principal of a kindergarten in central China's Hubei Province were detained on Tuesday for illegally giving children anti-fever drugs, local authorities said.
British government on Thursday announced draft rules allowing the introduction of new treatments that could see the creation of babies with three genetic parents.
Wei Renhua, a shy fourth-grader in southwest China's rural region of Guangxi, does not know his parents' names. Wei's mum and dad spend just two or three short vacations at home each year, otherwise leaving the boy with his grandparents while they struggle for city work.
Wei Renhua, a shy fourth-grader in southwest China's rural region of Guangxi, does not know his parents' names. Wei's mum and dad spend just two or three short vacations at home each year, otherwise leaving the boy with his grandparents while they struggle for city work.
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