Record number of Chinese high schoolers start all-important ‘gaokao’ exams

Record number of Chinese high schoolers start all-important ‘gaokao’ exams

Pacific Asia • Jun 7, 2024, 4:19 AM

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Mothers in crimson dresses and fathers clutching umbrellas huddled together in drizzly Beijing after sending their children into an exam hall on Friday, the first day of China's biggest "gaokao" tests that will shape the futures of millions of high school kids.

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Japan's Supreme Court rules that forced sterilisation law was unconstitutional

Pacific Asia • 7:09 AM

Thousands of Japanese people who were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996 will be able to request government compensation after the country's Supreme Court ruled that its now-defunct eugenics law was unconstitutional.

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