SHANGHAI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday banned private tutors from giving classes online or in unregistered venues such as residential buildings, hotels and coffee shops, ramping up its effort to stamp out all for-profit tutoring.
Media has reported this week on various ways parents and tutors have been trying to circumvent the rules, including how some agencies were advertising live-in tutors who could command salaries of up to 30,000 yuan ($4,650) a month.
The ministry said attempts to evade the regulations include hiring private tutors in the guise of "housekeeping services", "cultural communication" or "live-in tutors" as well as conducting classes in the name of summer camps or study tours.
Morgan Trowland and Marcus Carambola were taken into custody yesterday afternoon after they scaled the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge and caused hours of delays to thousands of motorists who use the M25 between Essex and Kent.
Poland last week said it would send Ukraine four MiG-29 fighter jets in coming days, making it the first of Kyiv's allies to provide such aircraft and possibly creating a need to ramp up Poland's air defence equipment.
The youngster, who also went on a summer camp for Ukrainian children earlier this year run by Mail Force - the charity set up by the Mail - added: ‘I like trying the things here: I'd read Paddington but never had marmalade.
Their parents believe the education and experiences they are receiving in the UK will help them become part of a future generation of ‘specialists' who can help to rebuild Ukraine when the war finally ends.
Police were seen stopping two protesters from going to another eco-mob protest in London this morning, but were not quick enough to stop the rest of the rabble from blocking one of the city's busiest roads.
Polly Vacher, 78, a former music teacher who became an amateur pilot aged 50 and has flown solo around the world twice in a single engine aircraft, and her husband Peter, 79, a retired printing firm boss, were a driving force behind the initiative.
That may remain a distant prospect, but at least 12-year-old Ukrainian refugee Marc and his mother Yana Vuiev feel safe and secure - and managed to get into the festive spirit too - thanks to the warm welcome offered by their British hosts.
BERLIN, March 20 (Reuters) - Britain is ready to help Poland fill its air defence gaps caused by Warsaw sending some of its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine but Poland has not yet made such requests, British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey was quoted as saying on Monday.
Miss Vuiev said: ‘It's maybe difficult to understand from the outside - why do you want to go and stay there without any light or electricity and risk danger? A handful of other Ukrainian refugees in the village are considering similar trips.
He and his mum spent a traditional Christmas Day with the Howats, their daughter Georgie, 27, and sons Will, 16, who is also an Abingdon pupil, Bob, 23, and John, 25, and the family's pet, Boris the bolognese dog.
Natural gas exporter Woodside Energy has been a major partner of the Fremantle Dockers for almost 13 years but a number of high-profile fans, including author Tim Winton and former WA premier Carmen Lawrence, have now urged to club to end the agreement.
'Climate change is already creating catastrophic and deadly conditions for communities here and overseas, alongside massive harm to natural systems that support our economy and wellbeing,' the open letter reads.
And if anyone wondered what they think of Putin in North Moreton, then look no further than a dog waste bin in the middle of the village: it has been adorned with a label referring to the Russian president that says ‘Poo-tin'.
But the resilient and thankful family has kept in touch - and recently told the Vachers how they overcame the lack of electricity and heat in their snowy homeland with a generator - ordered from Amazon in the UK and delivered to them with the help of other Ukrainians staying in the village.
As a Ukrainian flag flew and fairy lights twinkled outside, Mr Maiboroda, a talented furniture restorer exempt from war service because of his age, told how he has been busy repairing antiques for locals and carrying out work on the pavilion at Moreton Cricket Club - known as the MCC, like its more famous counterpart.
Just over the road, Oleksandr Maiboroda, 62, his wife Olena, 41, and sons Hryhorii, 17, and Andrii, 13, from Donetsk, have been given a comfortable home in a converted former stables at their host family's property.
They are among 50 refugees from their besieged country given succour in North Moreton, Oxfordshire - dubbed ‘Britain's kindest village' and with a population of just 350 - after its generous residents opened their arms and homes to them in April.
Marc and Miss Vuiev, 41, wore traditional embroidered Ukrainian outfits as they posed for photographs ahead of Christmas Day with their hosts Kathy, 60, and Mike Howat, 64, both retired teachers, whose home is a former school building dating back to the 1850s.
Media has reported this week on various ways parents and tutors have been trying to circumvent the rules, including how some agencies were advertising live-in tutors who could command salaries of up to 30,000 yuan ($4,650) a month.
The ministry said attempts to evade the regulations include hiring private tutors in the guise of "housekeeping services", "cultural communication" or "live-in tutors" as well as conducting classes in the name of summer camps or study tours.
Morgan Trowland and Marcus Carambola were taken into custody yesterday afternoon after they scaled the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge and caused hours of delays to thousands of motorists who use the M25 between Essex and Kent.
Poland last week said it would send Ukraine four MiG-29 fighter jets in coming days, making it the first of Kyiv's allies to provide such aircraft and possibly creating a need to ramp up Poland's air defence equipment.
The youngster, who also went on a summer camp for Ukrainian children earlier this year run by Mail Force - the charity set up by the Mail - added: ‘I like trying the things here: I'd read Paddington but never had marmalade.
Their parents believe the education and experiences they are receiving in the UK will help them become part of a future generation of ‘specialists' who can help to rebuild Ukraine when the war finally ends.
Police were seen stopping two protesters from going to another eco-mob protest in London this morning, but were not quick enough to stop the rest of the rabble from blocking one of the city's busiest roads.
Polly Vacher, 78, a former music teacher who became an amateur pilot aged 50 and has flown solo around the world twice in a single engine aircraft, and her husband Peter, 79, a retired printing firm boss, were a driving force behind the initiative.
That may remain a distant prospect, but at least 12-year-old Ukrainian refugee Marc and his mother Yana Vuiev feel safe and secure - and managed to get into the festive spirit too - thanks to the warm welcome offered by their British hosts.
BERLIN, March 20 (Reuters) - Britain is ready to help Poland fill its air defence gaps caused by Warsaw sending some of its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine but Poland has not yet made such requests, British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey was quoted as saying on Monday.
Miss Vuiev said: ‘It's maybe difficult to understand from the outside - why do you want to go and stay there without any light or electricity and risk danger? A handful of other Ukrainian refugees in the village are considering similar trips.
He and his mum spent a traditional Christmas Day with the Howats, their daughter Georgie, 27, and sons Will, 16, who is also an Abingdon pupil, Bob, 23, and John, 25, and the family's pet, Boris the bolognese dog.
Natural gas exporter Woodside Energy has been a major partner of the Fremantle Dockers for almost 13 years but a number of high-profile fans, including author Tim Winton and former WA premier Carmen Lawrence, have now urged to club to end the agreement.
'Climate change is already creating catastrophic and deadly conditions for communities here and overseas, alongside massive harm to natural systems that support our economy and wellbeing,' the open letter reads.
And if anyone wondered what they think of Putin in North Moreton, then look no further than a dog waste bin in the middle of the village: it has been adorned with a label referring to the Russian president that says ‘Poo-tin'.
But the resilient and thankful family has kept in touch - and recently told the Vachers how they overcame the lack of electricity and heat in their snowy homeland with a generator - ordered from Amazon in the UK and delivered to them with the help of other Ukrainians staying in the village.
As a Ukrainian flag flew and fairy lights twinkled outside, Mr Maiboroda, a talented furniture restorer exempt from war service because of his age, told how he has been busy repairing antiques for locals and carrying out work on the pavilion at Moreton Cricket Club - known as the MCC, like its more famous counterpart.
Just over the road, Oleksandr Maiboroda, 62, his wife Olena, 41, and sons Hryhorii, 17, and Andrii, 13, from Donetsk, have been given a comfortable home in a converted former stables at their host family's property.
They are among 50 refugees from their besieged country given succour in North Moreton, Oxfordshire - dubbed ‘Britain's kindest village' and with a population of just 350 - after its generous residents opened their arms and homes to them in April.
Marc and Miss Vuiev, 41, wore traditional embroidered Ukrainian outfits as they posed for photographs ahead of Christmas Day with their hosts Kathy, 60, and Mike Howat, 64, both retired teachers, whose home is a former school building dating back to the 1850s.