Beijing's suburbs are a far cry from the glittering city centre and many of the residents who spend their days building the city's highways walk home on dirt tracks in the dark. This suburb less than 40 minutes from the Forbidden City is home to Beijing Mingyuan School. The school's several hundred students all belong to the capital's million-strong floating population. Their parents left their countryside villages to seek work in the city and their children have followed them. Mingyuan School has basic amenities: the classrooms are dark, students sweep the rubbish from their classrooms themselves, dumping it in wicker baskets at the door and there is a pervading smell of drains. According to the China Daily, a national census in 2000 revealed there were approximately 19.8 million migrant children in China. As it points out, however, the migrant population has doubled in size since then. Migrant children are likely to pass under the authorities radar in a large...
Just hours before flying to Beijing for the Olympics on Thursday (August 7), U.S. President George W. Bush used some of his bluntest language yet in publicly pressing China to improve its human...
Three cabinet ministers - David Emerson, Loyola Hearn and Monte Solberg - will not run in the next election, the Conservative Party of Canada announced Thursday afternoon. "I have the utmost...
Russian troops on Monday invaded parts of western Georgia and launched new raids across the country as fighting raged in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. The United Nations...
Seven teenage basketball players who died in a New Brunswick highway accident on the weekend were remembered on Wednesday as community leaders whose lives ended too soon. Dressed in Bathurst...
The Beijing Olympics received a mixed review of its environmental initiatives from Greenpeace just days before the Games begin. - In a report issued Monday, Greenpeace praised Beijing for...
South Korea's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday (September 4) that North Korea had taken steps to rebuild its Yongbyon nuclear plant and expressed worries over the move. Destitute North...
U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in South Korea on Tuesday (August 5) for talks focused on North Korea. Although he has largely put aside some tense disputes with his host, the visit already...
More than 8,500 people died when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, trapping adults and children under the rubble of collapsed schools and office buildings, and...
Protests across Asia on Friday (August 8) coincided with the opening of the Beijing Olympics, with Tibetan refugees in Nepal and activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan pressing China to improve its...
This is the man Al Qaeda claims carried out the June bombing of a Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. The 54 minute video, posted on the internet, is filmed documentary style, and...
Truveo video search lets you search and find videos from across the Web. Use Truveo to find all types of online video including hit television shows, full-length movies, breaking news clips, sports highlights, music videos, or the latest viral videos. If you are looking for a specific video, Truveo video search can help you find exactly the video you want. Truveo can also help you browse through video across the web and discover new videos that you might like.