SANTIAGO – Chile’s constitutional court has struck down a law that would have banned universities operating for profit, dealing a blow to free tuition reforms brought in by former leftwing president Michelle Bachelet. In a […]
BENGALURU, Karnataka – Scientists in India have been left baffled by a wild elephant caught on camera blowing out plumes of smoke while consuming smouldering lumps of charcoal. A video shared by the Wildlife Conservation […]
BARCELONA – Allying with tech giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft, Telefonica has launched Aura, an artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant, in six countries, as well as announcing a new initiative to bring 100 million people in […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s first digital Bibliometro has added three new loan points to the 20 existing points in the network, which since its creation in 1996 has lent more than five million books to more […]
SANTIAGO – The Chilean government bestowed on Mrs. Garafulich-Grabois, Mr. Paredes, and Mr. Zegers the Order of Merit Gabriela Mistral in capital Santiago earlier this month. The ceremony was hosted by Minister of Foreign Affairs […]
BOISE – A breakthrough experiment has shown how cloud seeding can help produce rain and snow. A team of scientists in the northwestern U.S. state of Idaho say they have obtained direct, quantifiable observations of […]
TEHRAN – Islamic leaders in Iran have moved to ban the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official in the country confirmed on Sunday, after the country’s Supreme Leader said early learning […]
BEIJING – China on Thursday opened a 1-km section of the world’s first solar expressway for testing. Solar panels are laid beneath part of a ring road surrounding Jinan, capital city of Shandong Province in […]
SANTIAGO – Chile now has a public education law that will transfer the administration of 6,500 schools and kindergartens to the government, based on the #NuevaEducaciónPública initiative of President Michelle Bachelet. In a ceremony held […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – The International Civic and Citizenship Study 2016 (ICCS), whose results were released on Tuesday, revealed that Chilean adolescents prefer to express their opinions of public matters through protesting […]
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