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SHANGHAI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday banned private tutors from giving classes online or in unregistered venues such as residential buildings, hotels and coffee shops, ramping up its effort to stamp out all for-profit tutoring.
At the rear is 826LA, a non-profit that supports students who attend under-resourced schools through tutoring, writing, and college access programs. The shop is an eye-opener - but there's more to it than meets the eye.
Giving a taste of things to come, the shop's window display features a mannequin of a caveman dressed in furs positioned next to a futuristic silver robot. 'Whenever you are, we're already then.'  The slogan stamped across the entrance?
The ministry said attempts to evade the regulations include hiring private tutors in the guise of "housekeeping services", "cultural communication" or "live-in tutors" as well as conducting classes in the name of summer camps or study tours.
ISLAMABAD (AP) - The Pakistan Cricket Board expressed its disappointment after Asian Cricket Council president Jay Shah said next year´s Asia Cup will be played at a neutral venue because India will not travel to Pakistan.
Media has reported this week on various ways parents and tutors have been trying to circumvent the rules, including how some agencies were advertising live-in tutors who could command salaries of up to 30,000 yuan ($4,650) a month.
"I acknowledge that some of our competitors are currently charging for returns. We consider that free returns is a critical part of our value position, we are not considering to charge for returns," CEO José Antonio Ramos Calamonte told reporters.
The application drew more than 200 objections from residents who warned it would have a disastrous impact on protected landscape on the banks of the Thames within sight of the Grade I-listed Ham House, where films including The Young Victoria have been shot.
There has been long-running antagonism between the operators of the club and residents in Ham and Petersham, who accuse it of effectively shutting out locals while causing nuisance with, for example, arrivals by helicopter of its wealthy visitors.
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Marisa Abela, who plays Amy Winehouse in Back To Black — Sam Taylor-Johnson's forthcoming biopic about the late singer — has captured her down to a tee, according to Winehouse's bass player, Dale Davis.
One Yelp reviewer wrote: ‘It's much more than just a mini-mart. I would say it's a kitschy, cheeky, time-travel-themed art installation. The store decor and items for sale have tons of gags, even down to the labels and fine print.'
I hear that the Duke of Northumberland's daughter, 35, (pictured left), whose ancestral home Alnwick Castle doubled as Hogwarts in the first two Harry Potter films, has just given birth to twin boys. One has been named Percy and the other Alfred.
Where do the shop-owners get their merchandise? A representative from the Time Travel Mart told MailOnline Travel: ‘Most of our branded items are manufactured in the 1970s. If it is made by a caveman, we will tell you.
"The PCB has noted with surprise and disappointment ... and the comments were made without any discussion or consultation with the board of the Asian Cricket Council or the Pakistan Cricket Board and without any thoughts towards their long-term consequences and implications," the PCB said in a statement on Wednesday.
The shop's window display, pictured on the left, features a caveman dressed in furs and a futuristic silver robot. A noticeboard on the wall (pictured on the right) is filled with tongue-in-cheek advertisements - one customer spied a flyer seeking reality TV show contestants for a dating series 'where Henry VIII is looking for his next wife'.
Shah, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, told reporters in Mumbai on Tuesday that since India can´t go to Pakistan and "they can´t come here," next year´s 50-over format Asia Cup will be held at a neutral venue.
Paul Hughes, dayflash app former director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC Singers — which was brutally axed by the corporation this week — tells Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch podcast: 'The director- general might rock up at the First Night Of The Proms, the chairman might at the last night.
You can get tins of ‘Mammoth Chunks' (pictured on the right) that boast ‘bold mammothy flavor'. Pictured on the left is the mart's range of Professor Clutterbuck's Elixir. Worked up an appetite? The store was created 'to help time travellers of all temporal origins find convenient products to get them through their day (or year or millennia)'. Both images are courtesy of<img src="https://p0.pikist.com/photos/80/977/singapore-marina-bay-sands-landmark-artscience-museum-singapore-river-blue-sky-hotel-tourism-travel-thumbnail.jpg"; style="max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />
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