A video of parents from eastern China celebrating their son’s exam results after he got just one point above a pass has gone viral online. Unlike the typical Chinese “tiger parenting” style, the ...

Students in first and second grade should have no written exams while students in other grades at primary schools should only ...

About 3.7 million candidates have been approved to take China’s coming national public service exam, according to official figures – a record-breaking applicant pool, and the first since Beijing ...

Ruixue Jia is a professor of economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California San Diego. She serves as co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, co-director ...

The 11th-grade Physical Education exam in Delhi is making headlines. The Delhi State Teachers' Association (GSTA) has demanded that the Physical Education exam be postponed from October 31st to ...

Platinum is the latest precious metal to whip up volatility in global markets. While dust was still settling on the early-week decline in gold and silver, platinum rose 6.4%. The precious metal surged ...

Education authorities in Chengdu, Sichuan province and Shanghai have clarified recent online claims suggesting that the high school entrance exam, or zhongkao, would be abolished in some pilot ...

Police in Japan can from Thursday use rifles to shoot bears after strict gun laws were revised to help authorities battle a ...

A British man who would "dream about being like James Bond" was jailed Friday for seven years after trying to spy for Russia.

Chandrarathna Bandara With a title reminiscent of Simone de Beauvoir’s Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome this most ...

You can get a life insurance policy that lets you skip the medical exam starting at $119 per month. No medical exam life insurance — also called simplified issue life insurance — offers coverage ...