Teacher goes the distance

BAISE, Guangxi: When Zhou Biaoliang, headmaster of Hope Primary School in Fengwu town, Pingguo county, carried the Olympic torch 100 m yesterday, it was a walk in the park compared to her daily four km trek up a mountainside to work.

The 27-year-old was leading a 208-member delegation of torchbearers in Baise, the relay's final stop in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Zhou wakes before sunrise every morning to teach Chinese-language classes at the school, which was built by Project Hope in 1992, a charity constructing schools in impoverished areas.