FIRMS registered with the Board of Investments (BOI) may continue to enjoy duty-free importation of capital equipment, spare parts and accessories based on a new executive order issued by President Rodrigo

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Elizabeth Taylor's 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II is going up for grabs. Guernsey's auction house in New York City is selling the car, known as 'The Green Goddess' on August 6th at the Pierre Hotel, where Taylor once lived with husband Eddie Fisher. "This was ordered by Elizabeth Taylor as her car in this unique […]The post Elizabeth Taylor's 1961 Rolls-Royce hits the auction block appeared first on UNTV News.

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A school in southeast China that operates boot camps for students looking to resit the university entrance exam is being investigated for possible fake advertising, according to various media reports.In an article about Maotanchang Middle School in Luan, Anhui province, that was widely circulated on social media, a member of its staff was quoted as saying the school was trying to attract students from Shanghai who had failed this year’s test and wanted to prepare to take it again.The school is known for running high-intensity courses where students are made to spend months sitting scores of past exam papers, Xinmin Evening News reported on Monday.It has 16,000 students who spend up to 16 hours a day in the classrooms, leaving only to sleep.According to education authorities in Luan’s Jinan district, the school is being investigated for possible fake advertising as the courses it offered are actually being run by Jinan High School, its sister operation, The Beijing News reported on Wednesday.It said also that Shanghai Maijianshi Information Company was being investigated for its involvement in the recruitment campaign. Last go at exam success for China’s ‘gaokao grandpa’The reports said the school was seeking to recruit 300 students from Shanghai who had failed this year’s university entrance examination – known locally as the gaokao – and wanted to resit it in 2020.According to the report by Xinmin Evening News, the Anhui school is about 560km (350 miles) from Shanghai and charges a minimum of 60,000 yuan (US$8,700) for its military-style courses, with the price going up for students who scored badly in their previous test.A teacher at the school was quoted as saying the boot camp approach could help people to improve their scores significantly and that the courses were very popular.“We are a gaokao training camp and our students just do test papers every day,” he said. “The students at Maotanchang [Middle School] do thousands of test papers a year.”High school students in China are under extreme pressure to do well in the gaokao as it can open the door to the country’s best universities and a brighter future beyond.More from South China Morning Post: * Why did one of China’s elite universities need to offer big money to get the best students? * China roots out its ‘gaokao migrants’ as university entrance exam nears * Why West means best for middle-class parents fleeing the Chinese education system * Last go at exam success for China’s ‘gaokao grandpa’This article Chinese university entrance exam boot camp investigated over fake advertising claims first appeared on South China Morning PostFor the latest news from the South China Morning Post download our mobile app. Copyright 2019.

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PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) Chief Oscar Albayalde admitted on Wednesday, July 24, that the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) merely consulted the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG)

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MANILA, Philippines – Senator Francis Pangilinan on Wednesday said he has filed a bill seeking to raise the entry-level salaries of nurses to P30,531 to keep them from flocking to higher-paying jobs overseas. In a statement, Pangilinan said his Senate Bill No. 260 seeks to implement mechanisms toward relevant nursing practices, just and humane working […]The post Pangilinan eyes hiking nurses’ entry-level pay to keep them from leaving PH appeared first on UNTV News.

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