The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.

Trump is polarizing and politicizing what long had been an apolitical civil service that was the envy of the world in its competence.

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Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Garfield had been shot by Charles Guiteau, a man universally described in the press as “a disappointed office-seeker.” Translation: Guiteau expected a job in the new Garfield administration ...

While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has endured: the existence of an elevated official class, to which fiercely contested examinations offer an ...

A record 3.4 million young Chinese flocked to the civil service exam this year, lured by the prospect of lifetime job security and perks including subsidized housing as an economic slowdown batters ...

Despite repeated downsizing campaigns, China’s civil service jobs swelled from 6.9 million in 2010 to eight million currently, with at least a further 31 million public employees such as school ...

A record 3.4 million young Chinese flocked to the civil service exam this year, lured by the prospect of lifetime job security and perks including subsidised housing as an economic slowdown ...

Record 3.4 million Chinese apply for civil service exam High youth unemployment drives demand for stable government jobs But civil servants face challenges such as pay cuts, unpaid wages Local ...