BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Global South nations that “unilateral bullying” was hurting a rules-based world, as Beijing kept up the diplomatic pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump to roll back his punitive trade tariffs. Power politics and unilateral bullying were undermining international rules and creating divisions and confrontations, Wang told…
Hong Kong’s postal service provider will stop accepting airmail parcels to the United States in 10 days after suspending the handling of US-bound packages by land and sea on Wednesday amid the coming tariff increase. US President Donald Trump last week announced plans to further raise tariffs on small parcels sent to his country from…
Hongkong Post has said it will stop accepting surface parcels containing goods destined for the United States with immediate effect. The postal service said on Wednesday it would contact senders of items that had not been shipped to the US yet to arrange for a return and a refund starting from April 22. Parcels containing…
Footage of two separate fights at an elite Hong Kong boys’ school has gone viral, with one video showing a youngster rushing over to punch a classmate in the head and another clip featuring a student on the floor getting kicked in the stomach. The social media user who uploaded the two videos to Instagram…
Nearly half of Hong Kong parents of children with special educational needs (SEN) have said their families encountered unpleasant treatment in public, such as stares, teasing or scolding, a poll has found. The Hong Kong Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) released the results on Sunday after polling 520 parents of SEN children and 619 members…
Clanton, Alabama — Sometimes, wearing rainbow colors isn’t about orientation or politicization. Sometimes, a rainbow is just a rainbow, such as when 10-year-old Hunter Blankenship of Clanton, Alabama, picked out his rainbow-colored glasses. This car-loving, autistic boy wasn’t making a statement, he just loved the look — until the day he didn’t. A few months…
Hundreds of muscle car drivers rally around bullied Alabama boy – CBS News Watch CBS News When a mother desperate to show her 10-year-old son that people care and life can be joyful put out a small request on social media, hundreds of muscle car drivers heeded the call. Steve Hartman has the story in…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education has just released a new resource to help states, school districts, and schools adopt policies for student use of cell phones and other personal devices on campus. Titled Planning Together: A Playbook for Student Personal Device Policies, the new guide “offers a model process that education leaders can…
PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) – Cellphones are everywhere nowadays. But state leaders in Mississippi are considering legislation that will limit their use in schools. “It’s not in any way an exception for when you’re in the classroom,” Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said. “That’s when you really learn, not off green dots on the screen.”…
China is outraged after officials in eastern China said that a case in which a boy stabbed his classmate more than 200 times with a sewing awl over three months “did not meet the standards of bullying”. According to the victim’s parents, their daughter was stabbed in her thigh by a male transfer student at…