Education | Head teacher tries alternative education for left-behind children

Chinese schools are inclined to focus on the discipline and obedience of students, less so on individual autonomy, but a village school in eastern China is trying

Big-city renters feel 20 percent inflation

Project manager Yuan Fang says she’s cutting spending and working overtime after a 20 percent surge in the cost of both her Beijing room rent and

Beijing delegation open to meeting Trump’s team at Davos

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s delegation to next week’s World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos is open to meeting with President-elect Donald Trump’s team,

Philippines to offer free contraceptives to poor

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered government agencies to ensure free access to contraceptives for 6 million women who cannot obtain them, officials said yesterday, in

Myanmar | Activists say thousands flee airstrikes, fighting

More than 3,000 people have fled airstrikes and heavy fighting in northern Myanmar since the weekend as the government tries to flush out rebel positions, activists said

Japan | Rural towns luring tax from Tokyo with beef and beer

Want a free case of craft beer? If you send 30,000 yen (USD260) or more of your taxes to the town of Yamanouchi in Nagano prefecture,

US names Indonesian group as terrorist organization 

The United States has designated an Indonesian radical network behind an attack in Jakarta as a terrorist group and announced sanctions on four militants in an effort

North Korea is a bad trip if you’re looking to get high

North Korea has been getting some pretty high praise lately from the stoner world. Marijuana news outlets including High Times, Merry Jane and Green Rush — along with

In Central African Republic, ‘impunity on staggering scale’ 

The lack of justice in Central Africa Republic is so acute that some victims are forced to live daily lives alongside their aggressors, Amnesty International said yesterday,

Obama returns to White House after final Air Force One ride

President Barack Obama didn’t just say farewell to the nation. He said goodbye to Air Force One, too. Obama’s roundtrip to his Chicago hometown, where

Journalist Clare Hollingworth, who broke news of WW II, dies

As German tanks encircled the Polish town of Katowice, rookie British newspaper reporter Clare Hollingworth picked up the phone and dialed the British Embassy. An official there didn’t believe

This Day in History | 1991 – US Congress votes for war in Iraq

The United States Congress has voted to authorize the use of military force against Iraq to end its occupation of neighboring Kuwait. The vote seals

Offbeat | Kardashian robbery probe: driver, 2 others released in Paris

French investigators have released a chauffeur for Kim Kardashian West and two other people in their probe into the robbery of more than USD10 million worth

Boxing | Manny Pacquiao set to return to ring on April 23

Manny Pacquiao will add another fight to his long career resume when he takes on Australian welterweight Jeff Horn on April 23 at a venue to be

Russia defends record on doping

Russia’s deputy prime minister, responding to calls for the nation’s sports teams to be excluded from all international competitions because of doping, said yesterday that the country

Football | EPL Often derided, Fellaini finally feels some love at United

There was only one place Marouane Fellaini was heading after scoring the goal that put Manchester United in a dominant position in the League Cup semifinals. And it wasn’t

Enrique supports decision to skip FIFA awards

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique gave his full support Tuesday to his players’ decision not to attend FIFA’s awards ceremony. Luis Enrique said he was “100

The Buzz | Madonna: Trump is like ‘being stuck in a nightmare’ 

Madonna says President-elect Donald Trump winning the White House is “like being dumped by a lover and also being stuck in a nightmare.” The pop icon tells

World briefs

PHILIPPINES The country’s top diplomat says his country won’t raise its recent international arbitration victory against China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea during Asian

Film | S. Korean cinema leads nominees at Asian Awards 

South Korean cinema has fared well in the nominations for the Asian Film Awards. Director Park Chan Wook’s erotic period drama, “The Handmaiden,” received six

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