In May of last year, a sordid story of child sex abuse made headlines. Chen Zaipeng, then the principal of Wanning No. 2 Primary School, Hainan Province, together with a government official, took six pupils between 11 and 14 years old to a hotel and sexually abused them. Mr. Chen was convicted of rape and sentenced to a mere 13-and-a-half years in prison for his crimes.

Mới đây, hai học trò lớp 1 và lớp hai tại một trường tiểu học ở huyện Khánh Vĩnh (Khánh Hòa) bị bảo vệ của trường dụ dỗ đưa vào nhà vệ sinh nữ và thực hiện hành vi dâm ô. May rằng gia đình phát hiện kịp thời khi trẻ có những biểu hiện bất thường nên sự việc kịp thời được phanh phui.
Có lẽ, đây là một trong những sự việc vô cùng may mắn trong số các vụ lạm dụng tình dục trẻ em. Theo báo cáo của Bộ Công an, trung bình mỗi năm nước ta có 1.400 - 1.500 vụ xâm hại trẻ em được thụ lý và điều tra, trong đó có trên 60% là xâm hại tình dục.

He was one of the most beloved teachers in the small world of international schools that serve the children of diplomats, well-off American expatriates and local elites. He was often the first to arrive in the morning, and the last to leave each day. He led students on class trips to exotic places, treating them to cookies and milk at bedtime.
That was the public persona of William Vahey, carefully crafted over four decades until a maid cleaning his home in Nicaragua stole a 16-gigabyte memory drive. There, in photograph after photograph, was evidence that the model teacher had molested scores of adolescent boys, possibly more, in a career spanning 10 schools on four continents.
Apparently not even Vahey's victims knew they had been molested. The double-cream Oreos that he handed out at bedtime on the overnight trips were laced with sleeping pills — enough to leave the boys unconscious as he touched them, and posed them for lewd photographs.

The principal and four teachers at Cayuga Elementary School were indicted on Thursday for charges ranging from perjury to tampering with records and criminal conspiracy related to providing answers to students for standardized tests and reviewing questions for the exams

A large section of the mighty West Antarctica ice sheet has begun falling apart and its continued melting now appears to be unstoppable, two groups of scientists reported on Monday. If the findings hold up, they suggest that the melting could destabilize neighboring parts of the ice sheet and a rise in sea level of 10 feet or more may be unavoidable in coming centuries.

Glaciers in western Antarctica are melting at an “unstoppable” rate that could cause worldwide sea levels to rise far quicker than previously thought, two groups of scientists said Monday.
Teams of researchers from NASA and the University of California said the ice sheets will continue to retreat for decades or even centuries to come, regardless of any human effort to reduce carbon emissions a primary cause of climate change ’ though warming temperatures could accelerate the process.

The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests dying under assault from heat-loving insects.

Stanford University announced Tuesday that it would divest its $18.7 billion endowment of stock in coal-mining companies, becoming the first major university to lend support to a nationwide campaign to purge endowments and pension funds of fossil fuel investments.

tudent activists with the Divest Harvard campaign blockaded one of the main entrances to Harvard University President Drew Faust’s office in Harvard Yard today, kicking off a day of non-violent action. Students are calling for an open debate about fossil fuel divestment with the Harvard Corporation after having been denied a public meeting with the administration since fall 2013, according to the groups press release.

Hiện bình quân mỗi ngày có khoảng 150 phương tiện, với hơn 300 người khai thác nghêu giống trái phép từ rạch Hai Thọ đến kinh Hai Thiện, đặc biệt tập trung đông từ đầu kinh 17 đến khu rẫy Trương Phi (thuộc xã Đất Mũi).