CHENGDU, May 19 (PNA/Xinhua) -- Surviving the magnitude-8 earthquake on May 12, 166 children in Sichuan Province had their first class on Sunday morning in the provincial capital of Chengdu. The children, mostly from the hardest-hit Pengzhou, Dujiangyan and Mianzhu cities, were accommodated in an old folks' home in Xindu District of Chengdu, along with 850 other quake-affected people. … [Read more...]

HA TAY -- Viet Nam will expand UNICEF's "Friendlier School" model across the nation, where schoolchildren can enjoy traditional games, songs and dances in a bid to boost children's interest in education. "Being friendlier is a good way of preventing students from leaving schools," said Associate Professor Tran Kieu, former director of the Institute of Educational Sciences. … [Read more...]

A 16-year-old student from the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) won the prestigious English Speaking Union's (ESU) International Public Speaking Competition held in the United Kingdom on May 9. With his speech titled "Fish Mucus and Foot Fungus," incoming senior Gian Karlo Dapul bested other contestants, including college level students, from 30 countries at the ESU's headquarters in London. … [Read more...]

There are close to 4,000 Filipino students enrolled at the City College of San Francisco, by far the largest Filipino student body outside the Philippines. Their large presence accounts for why four of the last eight student body presidents at the main Ocean campus have been Filipinos. They are beneficiaries of California's landmark 1960 Master Plan for Education which transformed educational opportunity in California for several generations and became the national model for public higher education. … [Read more...]

DUJIANGYAN, Sichuan, May 13 (PNA/Xinhua) -- As of 3 a.m. on Tuesday, rescuers had recovered more than 60 bodies from the debris of a high school building that collapsed and buried almost 900 students in Monday's earthquake in southwest China. … [Read more...]