By Wu Nan. Organisers hope the scheme will help ease the historic tensions between the two nations.

An educational foundation based in Hong Kong has set up scholarships for Chinese and Japanese students to help increase their understanding of each other’s countries.

It is also hoped the programme will join other efforts to ease the historic tensions between the two Asian giants.

The Bai Xian Education Foundation plans to offer students about US$25,000 a year to help them study at universities in China, Japan and other Asian countries. More...