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The top-scoring students of this year's college entrance exam have just been announced. The pride of the community, they are often put on a public pedestal. But here's the case of where the champion students are being used to help sell underwear. Susan Tart has more on the social dispute.

Well much of China ground to a halt for three days earlier this month as the annual university entrance exams, or Gaokao, took place. But as students parents and schools eagerly await the results, one region is changing the rules on how those results can be published. Andrew Livingstone has more.

Two missile frigates of the Chinese navy made a stop in Hong Kong…on their way home after an escort mission against piracy in the Gulf of Aden.

The two frigates, "Zhoushan" and "Xuzhou" were greeted on their arrival by Hong Kong chief executive, Donald Tsang. The visit comes as China ups its engagement off the coast of Somalia, from where pirates have launched a spate of attacks on merchant vessels – including Chinese-owned ships. The bulk vessel, De Xin Hai, was seized in October.

During summer vacation, it seems more and more often that people are talking about educational reform. Only a month ago, students finished taking the grueling college entrance exam that leaves most young people exhausted. BON’s Tony Zhou tells us about two men who have very different ideas about how to fix this system.

Cheating these days has gone high-tech. Proctors for China’s college entrance exam have reported confiscating everything from cheating wristwatches to earpieces. Most students agree this is wrong and wouldn’t cross that line. But what about situations that aren’t so black and white? As BON’s Susan Tart tells us, cheaters often don’t consider themselves cheating.