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AIDS prevention methods take effect in China  - AIDS prevention methods take effect in China ... the National Center for Women and Children's Health of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention,  ...

China : 'Baby box' plan for unwanted newborns causes stir  - "The shelter embodies the idea of prioritising the interest of the child ," he says. Shenzhen is not the only Chinese city to consider such a system. Shijiazhuang  ...

China Opens Reproductive Health Clinic in Response to New Policy  - It was opened in response to the new policy soon to be launched in a few pilot areas in China , allowing more couples to have two children . Women who want to  ...

Shanghai Women's Federation Integrates Social Women's ...  -  ... of organizations on women, children and family, and cooperating with them. ... These days I am here in Shandong University, China for learning Chinese   ...

China to force officials to disclose asset info  -  China will launch a pilot scheme to make newly promoted officials disclose their spouses' and children's employment status, assets and international travel  ...

Chinese Welcome 'Two- Child ' Policy, But Can They Afford It?  - Demographers say China needs more children because the country is aging and the work force is shrinking. But raising kids costs so much these days that  ...

'Community corrections' system will not replace labour camps in China  -  China's "re- education through labour" system, in place since 1957, is a system that critics say undermines the rule of law. The government has also announced  ...

Chinese Company, UNICEF to Support Ugandan Education  - UNICEF Representative to China Gillian Mellsop said that Honghe Technology's products are excellent, which is part of the reason why they chose the company  ...

Study: Kids are less fit than their parents were  -  China's Education Ministry data show that in 2010 male college students ran 1,000 yards 14 to 15 seconds slower on average than male students who ran a  ...

Thailand joins "Getting to Zero" campaign on World ...  - Currently, there is an estimate of 440,000 people in Thailand who are still living with HIV, according to UNAIDS. Since the first discovery of HIV/AIDS patients in  ...

Thai Protesters Storm Army HQ in Bangkok Seeking Military Chief's ...  - Hundreds of people protesting against Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have stormed the army headquarters in Bangkok seeking the military chief's  ...

Protesters inside army HQ compound  - A number of protesters of the Network of Students and People for Thailand's Reform (NSPTR) gathered inside the grounds of the army headquarters compound  ...

New 'Amazing Thailand ' campaign launched at World Travel Mart  - TAT Governor Surapon Savetseranee said at the world's biggest tourism event that the campaign emphasizes the good characteristics of the Thai people ,  ...

Thailand : Uprooting Wall Street's Proxy Regime  - Estimates range from 100-400 thousand people at peak points, making them the ... showing masses of people protesting the current government in Thailand .

Gay US ambassador faces backlash in Dominican Republic  - "My spouse, Bob, and I have traveled the world, from the far reaches of Asia to the ... Others, including gay rights groups, have praised Brewster's appointment.

Finnair, UNICEF Collaborate to Support Asian Education  - Finnair is once again working with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) ... through the project to support UNICEF's work in China and around the world.

Zhang Yimou Kids Mystery Deepens as Newspaper Runs Mock ...  - Media and industry observers have been discussing reports that he sired seven kids -- in breach of China's long-established One Child Policy, which is being  ...

"Hamburger Game" in Kindergarten Shocks Parents  - A picture recently taken at the No.1 affiliated kindergarten of Changsha Normal College in Changsha, central China's Hunan province, showing children lying  ...

These videos show how ordinary middle-class life in North Korea ...  - (About half of North Koreans live in poverty and 2.8 million people are still affected by chronic food shortages. North Korea's $30 billion-economy is less than 3%  ...

Seeing Double: Kim Jong Un lookalike turns heads in Hong Kong  -  ... make-up applied to turn into a North Korean leader Kim Jong-un lookalike at a ... also hopes to stir up dialogue about North Korea and its human rights issues.

Teacher tops kids' human pyramid  - Net users are outraged by a kindergarten teacher in Changsha, Hunan Province, who recently did the splits while posing on top of a human pyramid built by her  ...

Compelled by Love: The Church in China Fights Human Trafficking ...  - Ai Jin is part of a small grassroots movement of Christians from the underground church joining the fight against human trafficking in China , the world's  ...

The Great False Hope: Why the UN offers no solution  - Although the importance of foreign financial support should not be discounted, concrete measures to apply pressure on China to resolve human rights violations  ...

Is China a toothless paper tiger?  - Most Asian nations, and Canada, have held their noses in recent years over China's human rights record in order to trade with it. It's a policy the Harper  ...

China says respect Sri Lanka  -  China has been upholding that different countries of the international community should resolve their difference on human rights through dialogues and  ...

Politicised electoral mechanisms undermining suffrage for Hong ...  - On November 22, a mainland official indicated China's intention to institute a screening mechanism ... Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch

Walking the thin line  - A Chinese friend once said it is tough being a woman in China , but it is tougher when you are a lesbian . After watching the 75-minute documentary, I had to  ...

Kashish voted among top 5 coolest LGBT film fests  - Kashish, which debuted in 2010, is South- Asia's biggest and India's only mainstream LGBT film festival. The magazine said, “Kashish means attraction or  ...

East Turkestan: Another Obstacle For Uyghurs In Higher Education  - Top regional education officials said this week that their institutions were the frontline ... He said China's policies of surveillance and political pressure in Xinjiang  ...

Corruption Scandal Hits One of China's Top Universities  - A Ministry of Education press officer confirmed to state-run China Central Television that the administrator, Cai Rongsheng, was under investigation, without  ...

Does Education Have to Mean Sacrifice?  - The mountainous stack of test papers shocked people and stirred up discussion and their thinking about China's spoon-feeding of education and the  ...

China's Education Sector Adapting with Economy  - With support from the National Institute of Education Sciences, the Educational Science Research Institute of Shenzhen, Intel ( China ), Shenzhen Charity  ...

Thailand facing acid test of its democratic principles  -  People from all walks of life and every political hue shared one goal: to exercise their ... The massive rally was one of the largest in Thai history, but the tens of  ...

Protesters in Thailand Find New Battleground in Sound  - Each day of the week also has a corresponding color. Yellow is assigned to Monday and has been chosen to represent the Thai people's deep-rooted respect  ...

Thai Protesters Vow To Topple Government  - These are people who are dedicated to wipe the influence of Thaksin Shinawatra out of Thai politics. And those protests first started against him, at the time he  ...

Thai PM faces her biggest challenge  -  Thailand's eight-year cycle of destructive upheaval has entered a new phase only ... "We will establish a government of the people and change the rules of the  ...

Thailand's democracy sinks into vicious circle   - Opposition movements in Thailand soon shook their head in protest. Several ... Thaksin's supporters are mainly low income people such as peasants, while the  ...

School Kids Walk for 'Seeds of Hope' Charity  - Yew Chung's Seeds of Hope charity began after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake disaster to build schools for poor and disadvantaged children in rural China .

In China , Loss of a Child Means Orphan Parents   -  China is full of Mrs. Crawleys. About 76,000 only children die annually from accidents or disease, according to the Chinese news media, citing 2010 government  ...

Dental caries status of Dai preschool children in Yunnan Province ...  - Dental caries status of Dai preschool children in Yunnan Province, China . The Dai people, one of the ethnic minorities in China , have a population of 1,260,000.

Murdered mother's family appeal for information  - Mr van den Heuvel said police had spoken to Ms Fan's children as part of the ... they have been reunited with their Chinese family when they arrived on Sunday.

China court upholds general's son rape conviction: court  - Four other males were found guilty of the crime, which drew widespread scrutiny in China , where the children of the elite are often seen as living lavishly or  ...

Problems pile up in Asia for US policymakers  - Adding to this witches' brew of bickering in the region, Washington is grappling with the threat posed by an unpredictable North Korea . The deal the U.S.  ...

TST touts find new fake in their midst: Kim Jong-un  - Hong Kong got a glimpse of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un ... "I'd also like to go to South Korea and to the [demilitarised zone] and create an  ...

North Korea plans space missions to Moon, Mars and asteroids  -  North Korea announced an intention to launch its own space rocket no later than in 2020. Reportedly, the National Space Committee of the republic approved  ...

Putin seeks cooperation on intercontinental transport line  - Apart from talks on the nuclear standoff in North Korea , the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, and economic and cultural exchanges between the two  ...

Democracy, Human Rights , Refugees: Keynote Remarks at North .  - The resolution mandates the commission to investigate the systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights in North Korea , with a view to ensuring  ...

Ghitis: Grisly news out of North Korea  -  Human rights groups say tens of thousands may have died in one of the largest prisons. By some estimates, at least 130,000 North Koreans , perhaps many  ...

UN committee wants excessive electronic spying stopped  - The UN General Assembly's Third Committee, which deals with human rights ... North Korea , one of the world's most reclusive and repressive nations, was one  ...

How Harper's foreign policy focus evolved from human rights to the ...  - Mr. Harper's stand excited some human rights groups – led by the Taiwan and ... It's a stance that won China a lot of friends in parts of the developing world that  ...

China : Keep Commitment to Hong Kong Democracy  - Last, the amendments have to be reported to China's top legislature, the National People's ... The United Nations Human Rights Committee, which is a group of  ...

Thailand PM declared Emergency Law for Bangkok  -  Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on 25 November 2013 declared ... in Thailand since the 2010 bloody protests in which over 90 people were killed.

Thailand's political crisis deepens  -  Thailand's political crisis is deepening as anti-government protesters occupy 24 ... The crisis is all too familiar in the country of 62 million people that has seen  ...

Time for Thailand to 'stand on its own two feet' in HIV/Aids fight  - The reason: Thailand faces financial problems caused by the external financial ... Because of the lack of funds, channels to communicate with people for such a  ...

Bangkok Protests Spur Concerns About Thai Stability  - BANGKOK — Thailand's governing party accused protesters on Tuesday of fomenting anarchy and trying to overthrow the government after thousands of people   ...

Thai protesters occupy Finance Ministry in bid to oust government  - Thailand issued an extension of the Internal Security act on Monday as tens of ... have been enforced to maintain security and peace for the Thai people .

The Washington Post: Too quiet on China  - "As we diversify the ways in which we do business with China , we will continue to champion respect for the rule of law, human rights, religious freedom and  ...

Sharp increase in China state security arrests: rights group  -  China arrested more than 1,000 people last year for “endangering state security” (ESS) according to the official China Law Yearbook, a human rights watch  ...

25% of Chinese Women Suffer Domestic Violence  - China and Australia have gained significant achievements in their cooperation on human rights, such as the Australia- China Human Rights Technical  ...

China Readies First-Ever Mission To The Moon  -  China is preparing to launch its first-ever moon rover, with the vehicle named ... a permanent space station by 2020 and eventually send a human to the moon,  ...

China Focus: Postgrad says poisoning roommate was April Fool's ...  - " China's test-oriented education has failed to teach children to respect the law and life," said Yin Xiaohu, a legal expert at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Chinese newspaper publishes "Wanted" poster for missing film ...  -  China's highly controversial one- child policy was introduced in the 1970s and resulted in 400 million fewer births, according to the government. On Tuesday  ...

Don't leave all your money to your children  - Hongkongers are increasingly reluctant to leave all their money to their children . A popular Chinese proverb advises that "prosperity can never last for three  ...

I Was an Illegal Second Child in China  - Sometime earlier this year, my mother, a native of Zhejiang province, was shocked to learn that China's one- child policy was not the rule of law everywhere.

Enormous, 13.6-Pound Baby Born In China  - Weighing in at more than 13 pounds, a baby born recently in China may be one of the largest of 2013. The enormous child , whose mother is a 27-year-old in  ...

N Korea refuses South's request to release detained "spy"  - SEOUL: North Korea has refused to accept an official written request from South Korea for the release of one of its citizens detained for alleged espionage,  ...

Deal in hand, will Iran follow path of North Korea ?  - Critics of the newly struck deal with Iran cite the United States' bruising experience with North Korea over the past two decades. The rogue nation repeatedly led  ...

Deal in hand, will Iran follow path of North Korea ?  - Critics of the newly struck deal with Iran cite the United States' bruising experience with North Korea over the past two decades. The rogue nation repeatedly led  ...

Rapid Pay Rise in Some North Korean Companies Signals Reforms?  -  North Korea technicians work at the satellite control room of a space center in the ... Recent reports from North Korea say that there has been a considerable  ...

Every Day Is Thanksgiving Day In North Korea -By Order Of The State  - But according to a news release from Seoul USA, in the country of North Korea , Thanksgiving to North Korea's "Eternal President" Kim Il Sung must be given at  ...

North Korea can't even fake it with Photoshop  - It's also a friend to communists in countries like North Korea . Dictators like Kim Jong-un who attempt to completely corrupt the truth. And reality. It's beyond lies.

Newman, a retired finance executive for technology companies ...  - The desperately worried wife of an 85-year-old Korean War veteran and beloved grandfather detained in North Korea has spoken out for the first time in a plea  ...

China opening up to foreign investors pressures Hong Kong, says ...  - Beijing will make it easier for foreign investors to enter China's finance, education , accounting, medical care and e-commerce markets, Commerce Minister Gao  ...

Education placed on reform agenda  -  China's education system isn't perfect. But the education reforms mentioned in the blueprint which emerged following the recent third plenary session have  ...

Timely Budget Allocations to Support Preschool Education  - Over the weekend, it was announced that the central government has now allocated 16.03 billion yuan (US$ 2.61 billion) to a special fund to support preschool  ...

Compelled by Love: The Church in China Fights Human Trafficking ...  - Ai Jin is part of a small grassroots movement of Christians from the underground church joining the fight against human trafficking in China , the  ...

Qingdao blasts blamed on human error  - The deadly oil pipeline blasts in East China's Shandong province on Friday exposed severe problems of human error and "very serious dereliction of duty" was  ...

China looking for new markets in Eastern Europe  - China wants to do business in Eastern Europe, the prime minister said Tuesday, ... Eastern European countries are less critical of China's human rights record.

Human rights supporters celebrate recent prisoner releases  - In China , poet and journalist Shi Tao was released after more than eight years in prison. Supporters of the human rights organization Amnesty International  ...

Veteran Journalist Paul Mooney Explains Why He Thinks China Is A ...  - Let's say that China has their own culture and history and they shouldn't be forced to adopt western concepts of human rights . To me that's just an excuse to fool  ...

Interview: Military coup feared to cap off Thailand's massive anti-gov ...  -  Thailand's massive anti-government protests might possibly end up in a fresh military coup shortly, according to noted scholar Pavin  ...

Mental Health Dept: Thais not anxious about political gridlock  - The Mental Health Department says Thai people are not anxious about the current political situation, but worried that  ...

Demystifying Thai food: Katie Chin's new recipe book  - Then my husband took me to Thailand and I was blown away by the food there and wanted to teach people how to recreate the amazing sweet, sour, salty and  ...

China urges stability in Thailand  - Thailand's stability is not only in line with the fundamental interests of the Thai people , but also conducive to regional stability and prosperity, he added.

Thailand rocked by mass protests  - Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have marched through Bangkok in an effort to topple the Thai government, AL Jazeera reports. The people   ...

Thailand's Prodigal Sons and Daughters Come Home Through ...  - I think most Thai people are afraid to change, but I want them to know there are other choices.” Mote said he used to believe in Buddha, but his soul was left  ...

Human rights supporters celebrate recent prisoner releases  - In China , poet and journalist Shi Tao was released after more than eight years in prison. Supporters of the human rights organization Amnesty International  ...

Double income, need kids  - No matter how committed young, carefree couples are to the DINK lifestyle, social pressure in China to have children is causing a growing number to change  ...

Zhang Yimou Rep: Chinese Director Didn't Breach One Child Policy  -  China has eased strict population control measures in a wide-ranging program of reforms this month, but population planners are reportedly seeking Zhang  ...

7 Shenzhen schools to admit children born in Hong Kong to non ...  - Seven schools in Shenzhen will be allowed to admit children born in Hong Kong to Chinese mainland parents according to the education agreement signed by  ...

How China's one- child policy may have affected its people  - It was recently announced that China's infamous one- child policy is to begin to be relaxed, with couples permitted to have two children if at least one of them is a  ...

KraneShares Weekly China Update: Follow Up From China's Third ...  - Now the policy is to be eased to allow couples to have two children if one the ... Welfare-system reformed: China said it would relax its system of household  ...

Astronauts leave children in a vacuum  - It seems many Chinese children are fated to either be over-dependent on their ... The latter are called children of "astronauts", the subject of a new study by  ...

US: Pyongyang could face more sanctions  - Glyn Davies, the US Special Representative for North Korea Policy, is surrounded by the media as he speaks after meetings with Junichi Ihara (not pictured), the  ...

' North Korea chic': Elle's offensive take on military fashion  - Elle has come under fire for its ' North Korea chic' spread. But the Prabal Gurung collection is just the latest example of fashion's enduring fascination with the  ...

Uncensored Photos Of North Korea Through Instagram (41 photos)  - David Guttenfelder, an Associated Press chief photographer, is on assignment in North Korea currently, and he's taking some amazing Instagram photos and  ...

In 1988, Kim Jong-Il gave a speech exhorting North Koreans to write ...  - And that's just one fascinating fact about North Korean science fiction contained in a brilliant overview, over at SinonK.com.

Wife of vet detained in N. Korea : 'We want him home for the holidays'  - The wife of an 85-year-old military veteran who has been detained in North Korea spoke out Monday in an emotional interview in which she expressed concern  ...

Russia wants more trade with Korea  - The envoy said talks on South Korea's participation in the construction of a railway linking Russia and North Korea is underway between Hyundai Merchant  ...

Too quiet on China's crackdown on dissent  - “AS WE diversify the ways in which we do business with China , we will continue to champion respect for the rule of law, human rights , religious freedom and  ...

AIDS infection affecting younger people : health official  - The AIDS virus is infecting people at a younger age, a Taipei city government official said Monday, calling for the public to pay more attention to the  ...

Information Platform Launched to Focus on Left-behind Children's ...  - The event was jointly initiated by the China Women Activity Center and the China Next Generation Education Foundation. A series of activities such as safety  ...

Homeless people need help: social worker  - Removing obstacles to employment for homeless people should take priority over requiring them to be in stable employment, National Taiwan University social  ...

U.S. indicates new sanctions against N. Korea over nuclear issue  - During Monday's meeting, the Japanese and U.S. diplomats also discussed North Korea's human rights issues, including the abduction of Japanese nationals  ...

Indian gays demand an end to discrimination  -  Gay rights activists dance as they march in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. Hundreds of gay rights activists marched to demand an end to the  ...

Thai anti-government protesters occupy ministry buildings  - Monday's rally came a day after about 100,000 people marched in Bangkok, the largest protest Thailand had seen in years. There were no reports of clashes  ...

Democracy lies with the people , not the court  - More importantly, is it the duty of the Constitution Court to dictate what type of charter or public administrative mechanisms the people of Thailand want for  ...

Academics: Think beyond Thaksin  -  People politics have been mobilised to justify political demands in toppling the government. Thai society should be well aware that, whether red or yellow, the  ...

Thai Anti-Government Protests Swell as Yingluck Calls for Unity  -  Thai anti-government groups pledged to spread their protest to military bases, government offices and television stations today after more than 100,000 people   ...

Man arrested with gun, whistle  - The owner of a gold shop and supporter of the Network of Students and People for Thailand's Reform (NSPTR) was arrested on Monday morning at a security  ...

Hong Kong gets ready to party at music, food and fashion festival  - We want to keep in mind that people in Hong Kong have high standards. We want to make sure the VIPs come and they don't have to line up for the bathroom or  ...