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The Beijing Municipal Education Commission announced the starting date for the 2020-2021 fall semester for schools across the city.
Earlier tonight (Aug 11) around 7.30pm the Beijing Municipal Flood Prevention Office sent out a message advising Beijing’s residents to take the necessary precautions of tomorrow’s expected downpour.
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WIth COVID-19 turning the food and beverage industry upside down, germaphobe like me have some health and safety concerns we want answered before we’re comfortable picking up a plate and heading to the buffet again.
Our plans to sneak spicy peppers into zongzi for Dragonboat festival were foiled by a second outbreak of COVID-19. Thankfully, the storm has calmed, and while there may not be as much sticky rice, there will certainly be plenty of spice and everything nice (may it not be postponed twice!), allowing you to enjoy three full days of delicious food, live entertainment, and mixing with Beijing’s vibrant expat community.
Up to now, foreigners have been exempt from China’s experimental social credit system, designed to keep citizens accountable for their actions. However, if proposed legislation drafted by the Ministry of Education (MoE) is passed, foreign teachers – whether they work at a language training center or international school – could find themselves with a credit system of their own.
Beijing has surpassed the milestone of zero new cases for 14 days for the first time since the exposure to the novel coronavirus in the Xinfadi market caused a second COVID-19 outbreak. As a result, officials have reduced the city’s risk status to level three.
The walk down the bike-strewn path from my apartment to Chaoyang Park via Solana over the past six months has not been a particularly scenic one.
As international schools all around the city continue to handle all the difficulties in these uncertain times, this latest news from Keystone Academy is a little light at the end of the tunnel for the international education community.