Chinese schoolchildren ordered to come dancing
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Dancing will be compulsory from now on for Chinese schoolchildren, who have shown alarming levels of obesity in recent years, state media said on Tuesday.
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ROCK HILL, S.C. - A Rock Hill teacher disciplined a student by having the boy's classmates stomp on his feet, the boy's mother says.
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Young Chinese couples should think twice about getting too affectionate in public in the Chinese capital -- the chances are they are being watched, state media said on Wednesday.
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A group of 29 people identifying themselves as North Koreans have sought asylum in a South Korean school in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
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CHINA BEIJING - China has ordered judges to use the death penalty more sparingly by showing leniency for murderers who cooperate with authorities and white-collar criminals who help recoup their ill-gotten gains, the government said yesterday. The order is the latest effort by Beijing to reform capital punishment in China, believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than the rest ...
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The Chinese state pledges to bring to justice traffickers who enslaved children and adults to work in brick kilns.
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Hong Kong's government has ordered schools to step up precautions against influenza as another child came down with a mysterious respiratory infection.
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Â· Chinese most exposed to displacement for games Â· 1,000 Londoners may have to move, says report
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Some 1.5 million Chinese have been forced from their homes during preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a rights group said Tuesday.
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Dance classes soon will be mandatory for Chinese elementary and secondary students because of worries about increased obesity, state media reported Tuesday.
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HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong government has ordered television stations to run nightly broadcasts of a patriotic video, sparking worries that communist China is trying to indoctrinate the free-spirited territory.
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Chinese parents pick up their children at the gate of the Korean School in Beijing Friday Oct. 22, 2004. As many as 29 North Korean asylum seekers entered the school earlier Friday, and told school authorities
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January 30, 2005 Several home schooling families in Germany are being ordered to return their children to public school.
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A video of two students abusing a 70-year-old teacher has created an Internet controversy in China and brought the morals of the nation&#39;s youths into question, state press said Tuesday.
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China&#39;s Olympic athletes, who won a record 32 gold medals in Athens, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to a hero&#39;s welcome from dozens of dancers, drummers, a brass band and throngs of wellwishers.
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Balanced on one leg like flamingos, a dozen people older than 60 concentrate on staying upright, as they master the basics of tai chi. Some are in sock feet, some are barefoot and one wears black dress shoes with shiny gold buckles.
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Teachers are urged to take pupils on more school trips as a new safety guidelines are unveiled.