British schools should not seek to emulate China's academic system because it is wrong "to confuse league-table success with a good education", the headmaster of Eton has said.
What proponents say
Cangzhou in the southeast of Hebei province is trying to become the new economic growth pole of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, said local officials.
As a vital transport hub in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Huanghua port boasts a hundred-million-ton deep-water harbor and a comprehensive transport system.
It must be the most celebrated exchange in the history of archaeology. "Can you see anything?" asked George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, standing in a gloomy passageway cut into the bedrock of the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile.
The classic vista of Chatsworth will appear very different this summer as one of its best known landmarks is replaced by a work of Chinese contemporary art.
Ever heard of yellow fever? No, not the disease you can pick up when traveling to certain countries. I'm talking about when Caucasian men develop an acute sexual preference for East Asian women - even becoming a fetish for some.
The British Dance Council finds itself in the eye of a rather surprising storm. This hitherto blameless organization, which devises and oversees the rules for ballroom dancing in the United Kingdom, is considering a proposal to ban same-sex partnerships from competing against "traditional" couples.
Chengdu, the capital city of Southwest China's Sichuan province, expects more cultural and economic exchanges with Latin American countries amid the strengthening ties between China and the region.
"I'm engaged," she shouted down the phone. Here I was, first year at university, sitting on a dirty wall outside my apartment, being told by my best friend that at the age of 19, she was engaged. I was expecting this call because my friend was always considered more traditional than the rest of my group of three Muslim girlfriends - but it surprised me how soon it came.
A popular erotic exhibition from New York's Museum of Sex is due to transfer to London. Dr Brooke Magnanti argues why such spaces, as 'fun' as they may be, are wholly unnecessary.
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