By Jane Ng

THE Education Ministry (MOE) is looking for 152 children who should be in their Primary 1 classes by now, but instead have yet to register for school.

The families of the pupils cannot be contacted, a ministry spokesman said, explaining that there is a variety of reasons for this: They might have changed their addresses, are overseas or are otherwise unreachable.

The 'missing' pupils are among 1,483 children whose parents did not register them for Primary 1 last year, as required under the Compulsory Education Act (CE) enacted six years ago.

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