SEOUL, Young South Korean students’ spending on private education spiked to a 10-year high in 2019, data from the Ministry of Education and Statistics Korea showed Tuesday, reflecting undiminished parental enthusiasm for their children’s academic achi…
SEOUL, Nearly half of Chinese students enrolled in South Korean universities have yet to return here after their winter break in China, the Ministry of Education here said Tuesday, indicating their growing fears over coronavirus outbreak ahead of the …
Students and staff in China, Italy, Japan, Iran and South Korea countries hard hit by the coronavirus on study abroad programs through the State University of New York and City University of New York are being contacted and quarantined.”Out of an…
In a nation where education is among the most competitive and high pressure in the world where classes have been conducted in monsoons or snowstorms the South Korean government has postponed school.Universities are quiet and mostly empty as teachin…
UNITED NATIONS The United Nations said Wednesday that nationwide school closures in 13 countries intended to help contain the spread of the coronavirus have resulted in nearly 300 million young people being out of school.”We are working with countries…
NEW YORK Health officials seeking to prevent the spread of COVID 19 in New York state focused Wednesday on a suburban community where four members of the same family and a neighbor have been diagnosed with the virus, ordering new testing and putting a…
GENEVA A U.N. analysis of the global trade impact of the coronavirus epidemic finds nations have been hit with export losses of $50 billion in February, and the world should brace itself for worse to come the longer the epidemic lasts.Over the past tw…
BANGKOK, THAILAND Saudi Arabia banned citizens from performing the Muslim pilgrimage in Mecca, Italy weighed closing schools nationwide and Iran canceled Friday prayers for a second week as nations scrambled Wednesday to control the coronavirus outbre…
An increasing number of Chinese students enrolled in universities here are canceling their trips to the country ahead of the new school year amid heightening fears over the new coronavirus, data showed Friday.Roughly 1,300 students were set to arrive h…
Education authorities of South Korea and China agreed to advise their students against returning to school in the other country as part of their cooperation to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, Seoul officials said Friday.The move comes as the…
Friday Prayers in Tehran have been canceled over the coronavirus outbreak, state media reported, as the authorities confirmed that infected cases in the country spiked by more than 100 among them Masoumeh Ebtekar, the vice president for women and fa…
KHABAROVSK, Russia Just kilometers from the border with China, ground zero of the new coronavirus spreading across the globe, the Far East Russian region of Khabarovsk shows few outward signs of being in the grip of panic.Outside the city’s main tra…