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Life would be meaningless and not worth living without the Internet, nearly one in seven Hong Kong youngsters said in a survey released Friday.
Appearance matters. That's what some job-seeking Chinese college graduates say.
South Asia's future can be bright if its youth can come together to share ideas and work together as young people remain largely unaffected by some of the animosities and conflicts between their countries, said students at a South Asian festival here.
Thai police arrested a female teacher for having sex with a 13-year-old boy whom she was tutoring in her room, media reports said Tuesday.
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Nitin tops Western Union South Asia Essay Competition
Students raise $3,000 for cleaning water wells
Indian American bags top Honor
Indian American wins Lange fellowship
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Postgraduates, graduates apply for sweepers' jobs
Sons of labourer, shopkeeper crack prestigious IIT exam
Immigrants miss out on Australia's best jobs
Zip, zap...IIT Delhi's F1 car for Silverstone circuit
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It's Valentine's Day. But barring a few couples walking around with flowers in their hands or cosying up over coffee in cafes, one could see more people marching with banners to protest against self-proclaimed moral policing groups Saturday morning.
"It's our future that's being negotiated out here," says Ruchi Jain. "We can make a difference," says Avipsa Mahapatra. "We need India to move faster on a green development path," says Deepanjali Gupta. These voices, which are getting louder, are of the youth who have joined the fight against climate change.
Such is the high level of unemployment that graduates and even postgraduates are queuing up to apply for jobs as sweepers in a satellite town of New Delhi - and even wielding the broom to clean dirty roads and drains as part of the practical test.
Jai Ram's father earns less than Rs.80 a day for eight hours of back-breaking labour, but today his joy is overflowing at his son having cracked the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) exam - thanks to Super 30, an innovative coaching institute here.
Adelphi University student Nitin Chatriniyom is the winner of the "Western Union South Asia Essay Competition".
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater have raised more than $3,000 to fund wells in India as part of an effort by the Rotary India Water Trust to develop a sustainable water supply for 650 villages.
Sivarama P. Vinjamury has been bestowed with the President's Associates Outstanding Graduate Student Award of the california State University Fullerton.
Adithya Sambamurthy, a 28-year-old student pursuing master's degrees at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism has won the prestigious 2008 Dorothea Lange Fellowship.
When Jitu Motwani of Fullerton was accepted into the master's program in economics at Cal State Fullerton in January 2006, he was a little concerned. Not only would he be leaving his home in Mumbai, India, to study abroad, but his bachelor of science degree from Mumbai University wasn't in economics - it was in pharmaceutical science.
Mridu Gandhi, an Indian American student, along with a dozen others have been honored as outstanding graduate seniors by Kansas State University.
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