Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds

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She came to Singapore as a dialysis nurse for two years but stayed for 30 – now 70, she has no plans to retire

Student protests in Myanmar derailed Daw Mi Mi’s academic ambitions and led her to nursing, where she survived a hospital fire and spent 17 years working in the operating theatre. She later moved to Singapore to become a dialysis nurse, caring for thousands of kidney patients here.

Number of new elementary students in Korea expected to hit another record low next year

At least seven dead and more than one hundred injured in a train crash in Egypt

At least seven people have died and 112 have been injured in a collision between two passenger trains near the Egyptian city of Giza, south of Cairo, which caused several carriages to derail and fall down an embankment.