By Andrew Jacobs and Sarah Lyall
October 11, 2012


Mo Yan in Beijing in 2009. China Daily, via Reuters

BEIJING — Two years ago, when the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, the government reacted with contempt and fury, scrubbing the announcement from the Internet, condemning the award as a “desecration” and calling it a Western propaganda tool intended to insult and destabilize the ruling Communist Party. ...

By Didi Kirsten Tatlow
October 7, 2012


Xiong Jing, center, and two friends in Beijing in August, protesting university rues that they said discriminated against female applicants. Han Hongmei

BEIJING — On the last day of August, Xiong Jing and two friends shaved their heads in Beijing to protest a growing trend in Chinese universities in which women increasingly must score higher than men to get in and face unofficial but widespread gender quotas that favor men. ...

By Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Seoul
October 1, 2012 Last updated at 19:35 ET


Song-ji High School allows board games to be part of the school curriculum

South Korea's education system is globally renowned - a feverishly competitive national industry that churns out highly-motivated students and sends them to the world's top universities. But what happens if you do not fit the stereotype? ...

By Craig Stephen
Sept. 9, 2012, 10:01 p.m. EDT


Luxury fashion houses are going to extremes to develop intimate relationships with high-rolling clients in China.

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — For a government to make not one, but two major policy U-turns in a matter of days suggests it has a serious problem.

Hong Kong’s new administration finds itself in a tight spot — caught between growing popular protest at accelerated integration with the Chinese mainland ...

By Lilian Lin
August 22, 2012, 10:59 a.m. ET


More than 10,000 college graduates attended an Aug. 2 job fair in Haikou in south China's Hainan province, where 8,000 vacancies were listed. Xinhua/Zuma Press

BEIJING—China's labor market has so far proved resilient despite a slowing economy, but that means little to recent college graduate Wu Xiuyan. ...

By Rachel Nuwer
July 6, 2012, 5:35 PM


Evolutionary dispute. A Korean creationist group called for deleting discussion of the bird ancestor Archaeopteryx (above) and horse evolution from high school textbooks.
Credit: H. Raab/Wikimedia

The South Korean government is poised to appoint a new committee that will revisit a controversial plan to drop two examples of evolutionary theory from high school textbooks. ...

By John Sudworth
June 07, 2012 at 20:30 ET


At least nine million students are expected to take the notoriously tough exam

Every year, police road blocks are set up around schools and nearby construction sites are ordered to fall silent as the country is plunged into two days of "Gaokao fever".

This year, 9.15 million Chinese high school students are sitting the notoriously tough university entrance exam. ...

By Meghan Neal
June 6, 2012, 5:31 PM


South Korea is set to remove examples of evolution from high-school textbooks. MULTI-BITS/GETTY IMAGES

South Korean publishers are poised to delete references to evolution from high-school textbooks, a victory for the growing creationist movement in the country. ...

By Unni Krishnan - Apr 12, 2012 11:30 AM PT


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