BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China plans to build enough school canteens to provide safe and nutritional meals for all primary and junior high school students in impoverished rural regions by 2015. According to a circular, jointly released Saturday by...
BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China allocated 4.5 billion yuan (715.5 million U.S. dollars) to teachers in rural areas working for compulsory education in 2012, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Saturday. The money subsidizes teachers that serve in...
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By Peta Thornycroft Harare 29 March 2008 The polls are closing in Zimbabwe after elections to determine the future of longtime President Robert Mugabe. Peta Thornycroft reports from the capital, Harare, that voting was largely peaceful but few voters...
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 27 March 2008 For the first time, many people in Zimbabwe's rural areas have dropped their long-standing support of President Robert Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF, which has depended on the rural vote for victory. Peta Thor...
By Naomi Schwarz Northern Mauritania 17 October 2007 In arid Mauritania, where Sahara desert meets Sahel grasslands, a train stretching up to two and one half kilometers snakes along the northern border. Built to carry iron ore from mines in the nort...
By Phuong Tran Fatick, Senegal 18 December 2006 Anta Mbow, left, and Gueye Ndao Seck make couscous by hand, in Thiaroye, Senegal, 17 Sept 2006 Young rural women in Africa face harsh circumstances, as they prepare for adulthood. In this first part of...
By Chad Bouchard Sarian, Indonesia 31 May 2006 Some rural areas of Indonesia's central-Java earthquake zone are still not getting food and supplies, four days after the 6.3 magnitude temblor killed more than 5,800 people and left 200,000 homeless. A...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 02 February 2006 India has kicked off an ambitious project aimed at alleviating rural poverty. The country has witnessed high economic growth in recent years, but large pa...