2 Japanese, American win chemistry Nobel for key chemical tool that spawned drugs, electronics

Trio wins Nobel for key chemical tool

STOCKHOLM — An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics.

Obama presses for longer school year, ouster of underperforming teachers, to improve education

Obama presses for longer school years

WASHINGTON — Barely into the new school year, President Barack Obama issued a tough-love message to students and teachers on Monday: Their year in the classroom should be longer, and poorly performing teachers should get out.

To reverse ‘Brain Drain,’ Beijing is luring overseas Chinese back home with cash, incentives

China steps up efforts to reverse ‘Brain Drain’

Back to basics _ or cram school? To reverse sliding rank, Japan adds 1,200 pages to textbooks

Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank

Japan central bank extends loan program, while PM unveils $11 billion stimulus

Japan eases policy, plans new economic stimulus

Breakthrough role propels Donnie Yen from shadow of action co-stars Jackie Chan, Jet Li

Yen emerges from shadow of action stars Chan, Li

Breakthrough role propels Donnie Yen from shadow of Jackie Chan, Jet Li

Yen emerges from shadow of Chan, Li

HONG KONG — For years, Donnie Yen worked in the shadow of Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Having fought both on-screen, the 47-year-old actor was considered a worthy opponent but not necessarily a leading man in his own right.

With slow growth, Japan might cut exchange program that countered anti-Japanese feeling in US

Does Japan still need 23-yr-old exchange program?

Big change in little Chinatown: Cuba’s Chinese enjoy small but unprecedented freedoms

In Havana’s Chinatown, rare droplets of freedom

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and Abroad

The Dalai Lama

For China’s young ‘ant tribe’ generation, home is a shared bed far from home

China’s young college grads toil in ‘ant tribes’

China sentences man to death for knife rampage at school in April

China sentences man to death for school attack

South Korean navy recovers possible debris from fallen rocket

SKorea recovers possible debris from fallen rocket

China’s high school grads compete for elite schools in an increasingly competitive job market

Chinese teens compete for entry to elite schools

Security high as college entrance exams begin across China in wake of deadly school attacks

Security high for China’s college entrance exams

Exiles, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese president break silence on 21st Tiananmen anniversary

Exiles, Hong Kongers break silence on Tiananmen

US officials: US considers deployment of massive aircraft carrier off Korean Peninsula

US officials: US might send carrier to Korea

1 speller for all of Canada: Recession takes toll on this year’s National Spelling Bee

Recession hits Canada at National Spelling Bee

China bans schools for charging for security to protect students, following violent attacks

Chinese schools banned from charging security fees

Town shuts Internet cafes to help teens focus for college entrance exams in China

Internet cafes close ahead of exams in China

China’s latest school knife attack wounds 9 vocational students

New China knife attack wounds 9 students

BEIJING — Men with knives burst into a Chinese college dormitory and slashed nine students in the latest violence in a country shaken by a recent string of rampages at schools.

State media say 13 vocational students wounded in latest China knife attack

Report says 13 hurt in latest China knife attack

State media say 9 vocational students wounded in latest China knife attack

Report says 9 hurt in latest China knife attack

Neighbors thought China school attacker who slashed and killed 9 was a good, quiet man

Neighbors thought China attacker was a good man

7 children, 2 adults hacked to death at kindergarten; assailant commits suicide

7 children killed at China school in latest attack

Police detain 2 in separate threats on children following attacks at schools

Police detain 2 in separate threats on children

Extra police stand guard as Chinese schools reopen on first day after attacks on children

China schools reopen with guards after attacks

In effort to assert control, China orders tighter school security after attacks on children

China orders tighter school security after attacks

Chinese city urges citizens to ‘trust the government’ following protest over school attack

Chinese city goes on defense after school attack

China city urges citizens to ‘trust the government’ following protest over school attack

China city goes on defense after school attack

China orders tighter school security after 3rd attack on students in 3 days

China tightens school security after 3rd attack

Recent violent attacks at schools in China

Recent violent attacks at schools in China

5 preschool children hurt in hammer attack, 3rd assault on a Chinese school in 3 days

5 preschoolers hit with hammer in new China attack

Chinese reports say 5 preschool children hurt in new attack at kindergarten in eastern China

Chinese reports say 5 children hurt in new attack

Chinese media report: 5 preschool children hurt in new attack at kindergarten in east China

Chinese media: 5 kids hurt in new school attack

Man stabs 29 children, 3 adults at kindergarten in China in 2nd attack this week

Man stabs 29 children at kindergarten in China

Man stabs 28 children, 3 adults at kindergarten in China in 2nd attack this week

Man stabs 28 children at kindergarten in China

Chinese state news agency says man wounds 18 students, 1 teacher in knife attack in south

China: Man stabs 18 students, 1 teacher in south

Chinese government classroom grant divides S. Calif. community suspicious of motivation

Chinese gov’t school grant divides SoCal community

South Korea moves to curb ‘Internet addiction’ with some 2 million people hooked on the web

SKorea targets Internet addicts; 2 million hooked

Italy’s Franklin and Marshall apparel translates into scholarship, publicity for Pa. college

School? Fashion label? Franklin & Marshall is both

Summary Box: AP test of Google searches shows sophistication of China’s ‘Great Firewall’

Summary Box: AP test offers peek at China filters

AP test of Google searches in Beijing, Hong Kong shows sophistication of ‘Great Firewall’