Mar162017
Countryside Management and Rural Skills Students from the Oatridge Campus of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) got their hands dirty by enjoying a day volunteering with Scottish National Heritage (SNH).
Mar162017
Countryside Management and Rural Skills Students from the Oatridge Campus of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) got their hands dirty by enjoying a day volunteering with Scottish National Heritage (SNH).
Mar162017
The Oatridge Campus of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has been honoured with two awards from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society.
Mar162017
An amendment to the physical examination standards for military academies has loosened the body weight requirements for candidates, military authorities said.
The amended standards allow a male candidate weighing up to 30 percent more than the standard body weight for his height to pass the examination. For female candidates the maximum is 20 percent over the standard.
Standard weight for candidates, in kilograms, is the difference between his or her height in centimeters and 110, according to the standards.
The original standards released in 2006 stated that male candidates more than 25 percent heavier than the standard weight for their height, and female candidates exceeding the standard by over 15 percent, shall not pass the physical examination.
The amendment made other changes to the military academy physical examination, including permitting candidates to have larger tattoos and canceling several examination items such as checks for carsickness, seasickness and chronic sinusitis.
Authorities started work on the amendment in 2014, hoping to make the standards better match the physical and mental conditions of young people, which have changed due to social and economic development and improved living standards, according to the military authority.
Mar162017
Chinese top legislator Zhang Dejiang has voiced his thanks to the journalists covering the annual session of the national legislature.
“The annual session is an important window for the world to observe China,” said Zhang, chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, at the session’s media center on Tuesday.
The stories of this year’s parliamentary session have been well told and are worth praising, he said.
Zhang toured the news center set up by Xinhua News Agency in the Great Hall of the People, shaking hands with Xinhua staff and watching them report on the event through traditional and new-media platforms.
Zhang also talked with journalists from other state media outlets including the People’s Daily, China Central Television and China Daily.
The annual session of the NPC concluded Wednesday.