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Blood & Treasure: think of the children
Confidential details of every one of Britain's 11 million children, along with their parents and carers, are to be gathered in the ContactPoint database accessible to over 300,000 people
University Education = Hukou in China
"Gaokao offers a ticket to the stage where you can perform. If you don't get the ticket, it does not matter how good you are."
What’s your experience? « Shenzhen Noted
Making college “about” getting a job is actually magical realism (of an albeit cross-cultural kind), rather than hopefully and practically idealistic.
Shenzhen Fieldnotes - the high school entrance exam: shenzhen
students do not simply take the test and get ranked. instead, they apply for admission to schools before they take the exam. moreover, they do so not knowing what the minimum score for a given school is
Toward Freedom - Inside Africa’s PlayStation War
"Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms,"
Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists - Crime, UK - The Independent
the Association of Chief Police Officers, asks teachers, parents to be vigilant for signs that kids are being "groomed" by radicalisers
Chinese Hunger for Sons Fuels Boys’ Abductions - NYTimes.com
Several parents have tracked down surveillance video images that clearly show the kidnappings in progress. Yet even that can fail to move the police
奥巴马为何不怕“未成年人上网”？-河南大河网
Obama's call to put all kids on the 'net inspires Chinese writer to ask why not put Chinese kids on the web? Hint: yellow, violent.
中组部 人口计生委等11部委关于加强人口和计划生育工作若干政策措施的通知
National Population and Family Planning Commission article stating illegal births will appear on credit reports.
China birth defects soar due to pollution: report | Environment | Reuters
Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 percent since 2001 - Ed. Why haven't they been aborted?
Most people free to have more child - China Daily
While popularly referred to as the "one child policy", the rule actually restricts just 35.9 percent of the population to having one child
Shouts & Murmurs: The Wisdom of Children: Humor: The New Yorker
A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table - Ed. requires table turning
PingMag » Bruce Osborn: Oyako - Portraying Japanese Generations
For the last 25 years he took pictures of one parent with one child in a white studio setting.
Man hacks on pupils in Xinjiang
Not spitting, he used a weapon - One student died on the spot and the other failed to survive after receiving treatment in hospital, the police said, adding that the victims are about nine to ten years old.
Foreign Policy: The List: Killer Products
Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa (and most of the United States’) comes from West Africa, where nearly 300,000 children under the age of 14 toil in dangerous conditions on cocoa plantations.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Nepal 'goddess' inquiry ordered
The Newari community say they are following time-honoured Hindu traditions in appointing the Kumari. She is a pre-adolescent ethnic girl - often between the age of eight to 13. Kumaris are installed in the temple of Taleju Bhawani in the heart of Kathmand
Listen, Secrets! Issues and Research by Children Affected by HIV/ AIDS in Xinjiang and Yunnan, China
Save the Children UK report on the impact of HIV/AIDS as reported by child researchers. Modeled on work done previously in Central China, Anhui province. Participatory aspect quite interesting.
Rolling Stone : Follow Omar Khadr From an Al Qaeda Childhood to a Gitmo Cell
He was a child of jihad, a teenage soldier in bin Laden's army. Captured on the battlefield when he was only fifteen, he has been held at Guantanamo Bay for the past four years -- subjected to unspeakable abuse sanctioned by the president himself
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