The country is to extend the current nine-year compulsory education to encompass high school students nationwide by 2020, according to a guideline recently released by the Ministry of Education and other three ministries.
The Guideline for Popularizing High School Education (2017-20), released early this month, aims to raise the gross enrolment ratio for high schools to above 90 percent on average nationwide with rates in central and western China substantially improved.
Police in Pennsylvania are investigating the death of a New York City college student during a fraternity ritual.
The Monroe County District Attorney's office said in a statement Wednesday that 19-year-old Chen "Michael" Deng was brought to a Wilkes-Barre hospital early Sunday morning in critical condition. Police said Deng was injured at a Tunkhannock Township residence, where about 30 members of the Pi Delta Psi fraternity had traveled for the weekend. The township is in northeastern Pennsylvania, about 30 miles north of Allentown Karson Choi.
According to a source close to the talks, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Justice Department have reached a tentative $13 billion agreement.
NEW RESEARCH HAS found that just a third of voices on radio news and current affairs coverage across the country’s three main stations are female.
FINE GAEL TD Paschal Donohue has been appointed Minister of State for European Affairs.
Ms Parata announced on Wednesday that seven Christchurch primary and intermediate schools will close outright garage storage cabinets, three primary schools will merge, and three secondary schools - Hornby High, Hillmorton High and Linwood College - will expand to take year 7 and 8 students.
A Murray Harbour teenager accused of bludgeoning seals on an eastern P.E.I. shore this winter pleaded guilty to animal cruelty in Charlottetown provincial court Tuesday.
Mr Marles quit the role as parliamentary secretary for Pacific Island Affairs on Thursday after publicly backing a bid to install former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd as the nation's PM over Julia Gillard.
His lawyers said they would appeal against the decision to formally investigate Sarkozy over allegations he took advantage of elderly L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt when she was weakened by poor health.
