The cabinet meeting on Tuesday permits the Ministry of Education to prepare the framework of cooperation of Chinese language teaching and learning in Thai higher education institutes.

A Thai student practices to write Chinese characters.

Thai Ministry of Education and China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Hanban) will work together in preparing the cooperation framework.

The project is aimed at enhancing teaching capability of Thai academics as well as developing Chinese language curriculum in Thai universities.

The cooperation encompasses exchange of academics from both countries and provision of scholarships.

(Xinhua News Agency November 3, 2010)