Teachers’ rights

Teachers may be given the right to punish and discipline students, according to a draft regulation issued by the Ministry of Education.

Currently, the draft regulation is soliciting public opinions. According to the regulation, educational punishment is a necessary means and legitimate power for teachers to perform their educational and teaching duties. Students who violate the student code, school rules, social order, laws and regulations, or engage in other behaviors that hinder the normal operation of teaching activities or harm the physical or mental health of other students should receive criticism and proper punishment from teachers.

Doctors honored

Two doctors who moved the public when one siphoned* out urine with his mouth to save a senior patient on a flight have been honored by their hospitals, and one doctor will be awarded 100,000 yuan (US$14,227.78), according to his hospital.

Hainan General Hospital in Haikou, Hainan Province, decided on Thursday to honor Xiao Zhanxiang with the Virtue and Art Award and reward him with 100,000 yuan.

Online fame

A recent survey has found that more than 51 percent of young Chinese respondents used paid services to embellish* their online social accounts to gain popularity and nearly 56 percent thought it would lead to an obsession of false satisfaction.

The survey, conducted by China Youth Daily, interviewed 1,981 Chinese people aged 18 to 35, with men and women accounting for 46.8 and 53.2 percent, respectively. The most popular paid service to enhance online social accounts, according to 40 percent of the respondents, was posting digitally altered pictures.

Toy-themed toilet

A public toilet for parents with young children in Shanghai’s LEGOLAND Discovery Center was declared one of the city’s 20 most beautiful toilets on November 19, the seventh World Toilet Day.

Each stall door in the toilet is decorated with a picture of a LEGO character, such as a police officer, cowboy and robot, with LEGO-themed music playing. The lavatory also features a two-in-one toilet seat, which combines a standard size adult seat with an integral fold-down child seat.(SD-Agencies)