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Many in China can now have 2nd child , but say no  - After three decades of a Chinese policy that limits most families to one child , many families say they will not take advantage of a  ...

Young and old are urged not to breathe the air in China  - The heavily polluted air surrounding central and northern China has been particularly dangerous to children and the elderly over the past several days  ...

N.Korea govt officials to hold talks in China : Red Cross  - A man watches photos showing North Korean children suffering from famine at a photo exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, 

Loyal Protector of Tibetan Children's Dreams  - Gesang Deji, 38, who has dedicated herself to providing Monpa, an ethnic minority who live in Tibet, children from Medog County in southwest China's   ...

Maths teachers in England must learn from China to end "15 year stagnation" says Government ...  - They found that in the UK, the children of parents with a “professional” job - such as doctor or lawyer - scored 525.94 points on average in the Pisa  ...

China ignores ticking time bomb of increasing waistlines  - The Obesity Reviews published by the International Association for the Study of Obesity a year ago also showed that 12 percent of Chinese children   ...

Half the Sky: Moving Mountains  - And quite honestly, our efforts to help the children of Huazhou, China were a dismal failure. But that was back in 2002. Now we have a new story to tell  ...

The worst thing about China's education system  -  Children from rural areas and disadvantaged environments of China also outperformed peers in other countries. UK education secretary Liz Truss is  ...

Study Shows Majority Of Children Unaware Of Cigarette Warning Labels  -  Children in countries where larger warning labels are used, and which ... a sample of 2,423 five and six year-old children interviewed in Brazil, China ,  ...

North Korean Prison Camp Conditions: Ex-Guard Alleges Children Were Buried Alive  -  North Korea is a desolate land filled with despair and poverty . ... Former North Korean prison guard Ahn Myong-Chol shared various horrific details to  ...

FDA raises concerns about three-parent embryo procedure  - I just don't think that this is an avenue that we should pursue in humans ," she added Wednesday via e-mail. All people carry two sets of genes in  ...

Diplomacy through education  - On 17 April 1895, Japan defeated China in what is seen as a military victory for western industrialisation. The Chinese navy, founded after the second  ...

WHO Official Urges Hepatitis B Education in China  - More effort is needed in China to fight discrimination against hepatitis B virus carriers, Dr. Shin Young-soo, the World Health Organization (WHO)  ...

Quality divide in higher education  -  China's growth as a regional education hub over the last ten-fifteen years has been accompanied by an increase in the number of Chinese studying  ...

Moovz is a flirty app for gay guys, looking to seduce new users across Asia  - Specialist social media apps for gay people are popping up as well, such as ... European languages, the app has gained a bit of traction across Asia .

Demanding Justice for Gao Zhisheng  - Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most prominent and courageous human - rights lawyers and prisoners of conscience, has again disappeared into the  ...

Why China Is a Nightmare for American Internet Companies  - But the one country where they have the most potential for growth also has some of the most entrenched competition and thorniest human rights   ..

East Turkestan: Appeal "No One In China Is Safe from Government"  - The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) expresses alarm upon hearing that the Uyghur economist, Ilham Tohti, has been formally arrested and  ...

N. Korea's human - rights woes warrant renewal of sanctions  -  China holds veto power on the Security Council, and has already expressed ... Jacoby: North Korea human rights report demands international action.

US lawmaker backs referral of North Korea to international court for crimes against humanity  -  China is a longtime ally of North Korea, and was also criticized by the ... "I commend the U.N. panel for its extensive work investigating human rights   ...

China's asylum hypocrisy  - This week China criticised Australia's treatment of asylum seekers. The criticism, raised at a bilateral human rights dialogue, is good politics: China is  ...

China condemns Australia for refugee's rights violation  -  China's remarks came in the context of a regular human rights dialogue ... China's Foreign Affairs Vice-Minister, Li Baodong, criticised our asylum  ...

China turns the screws on dissidents by persecuting their families  - The Obama administration likes to put human rights off to the side, something to be mentioned but not allowed to interfere with the important work of  ...

Youngest Tibetan MP slams China at Geneva Summit  - A member of Tibetan parliament in exile on Tuesday criticized China's human rights record in Tibet and its handling of  ...

Human rights ' attacks on DPRK will not bring peace  - The People's Republic of China has rightly condemned the recent Human Rights Report on the DPRK. They have spoken out against "politicizing  ...

In Two- Child China , A New Dilemma  - Beijing recently became the fifth region in China to official implement a long-awaited loosening of the country's family planning rules, announcing last  ...

Henan couple arrested after selling three of their children  - Zhang, the 24-year-old female half of the China's most dysfunctional couple, was arrested in an internet cafe, while pregnant with her sixth child .

Smog in northern China reaches 'crisis' point  - For the past week, much of north China has been blanketed in a thick layer of smog. Children are being kept indoors, many people won't leave their  ...

Elders' own worries reflected on their kids  - It is common to see parents spoiling their children , but the Chinese way of ... The undeveloped spiritual civilization during China's reform in the past  ...

Family Welcomes Second Baby After China Relaxes One- Child Policy  - Li Yan, left, pregnant with her second child , lies on a bed as her daughter places her hand on her stomach in Hefei, China , on Feb. 20. Li gave birth to  ...

Car seats required for kids under 4  - Shanghai drivers will have to start buckling children under 4 into car seats next month to comply with the first local regulation in China to require child   ...

Inside North Korea's death camps  - terrible, how the North Koreans have to suffer under this demonic regime. To be so utterly repressed, to have a total absence for one's human rights .

Where is our shame?  - Millions of North Koreans have died from starvation caused by their ... What will it take to make North Korea's human-rights atrocities a matter of  ...

Dogs ripped kids to pieces in N. Korean camp: ex-guard  - People in the camps are not treated as human beings. ... week issued a searing, 400-page indictment of gross human rights abuses in North Korea .

World can do little about North Korea  - United Nations report on North Korea confirms that things are as bad within the ... as of the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, information and association. ... The regime's “crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder,  ...

North Korea leader warns of cultural invasion  - The 500,000 leaflets in the packages were also accompanied with DVDs about human rights conditions in North Korea as well as some 50 tiny  ...

Children buried alive and ripped to pieces by dogs in North Korean prison camp  - United Nations human rights investigators had 17 February issued a damning report cataloguing massive human rights violations in North Korea that  ...

Human rights ' attacks on DPRK will not bring peace  -  North Korea : A Country Study', published by the US Library of Congress, documents how the economic transformation greatly benefited the  ...

Kerry slams N. Korea as 'an evil, evil place'  -  North Korea is one of the most closed and cruel places on earth. ... the level of human rights violations, they have conducted executions, using  ...

China seeks fair, unified pension scheme before 2020  - pensions will particularly benefit China's migrant workers and their families," said Hu Xiaoyi, vice minister of human resources and social security.

Human rights lectures are little more than a joke   -  China and Iran about human rights abuses is a bit like taking advice on etiquette from Miley Cyrus. It's not just the pot calling the  ...

US envoy stresses human rights in China farewell speech  -  China's future development will hinge on a neutral judiciary and freedom of speech, U.S. Ambassador Gary  ...

Japanese singer Masaharu Fukuyama to promote Taiwan tourism  - Fukuyama said he is impressed with the food, scenery and warmth of the Taiwanese people every time he visits the country.

HK government to allocate 8.61 bil. USD for education in new budget year  - The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government plans to allocate 67.1 billion HK dollars(8.61  ...

China plans modern vocational education  - The State Council, China's cabinet, met on Wednesday to discuss deploying a modern vocational education program to  ...

WHO official urges hepatitis B education in China  - While praising China's efforts in reducing hepatitis B infections at a press conference, Dr. Shin urged the country to continue with its vaccine program  ...

Education ministers hold high-level meeting with the People's Republic of China  - The Chinese delegation was led by the Vice Minister of Education for the People's Republic of China , the Honourable Li Weihong. The Honourable  ...

China charges Uighur activist with separatism  - The only things I have ever wanted and requested are human rights , legal rights, autonomous regional rights and equality,” he said in the statement  ...

China's blind dissident predicts Ukraine-type revolt  - Exiled, blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng laments that Beijing is cracking down harder than ever on human rights defenders,  ...

China's Top Political Advisor Woos Spanish Senate to Ensure End of Tibet Lawsuit  - Suddenly, China is deciding how international law should be applied. ... International human rights organizations, including Amnesty International  ...

China's demographic curse  - Is the end of the one- child policy too little and too late to address China's demographic challenge? The preliminary evidence indicates the end of the  ...

Reality show sparks debate on China's overindulgent parents  - The hit reality TV program Dad! Where are we Going?, broadcast by Hunan TV from last year, has sparked a heated discussion on the parent- child   ...

Chinese teachers are 'more effective' than those in Britain, the education minister has said  - She added that teachers in China “follow up” with their children more than they do in Britain making sure that each child fully understands any concept  ...

China savages hugely popular female TV presenter after she gave birth to her daughter in the US  - The practice of 'birth tourism' is popular with Chinese women who travel to the U.S. on tourist visas in order to give birth to children who automatically  ...

Chinese classroom introduces roller coaster-style desks, hopes to protect kids ' eyesight  - What's this strange contraption? Perhaps a headrest, or some kind of anti-cheating device? Maybe it's something for the kids to hold on to when  ...

Chinese woman welcomes baby son after becoming first to receive birth permit for second child  -  Chinese woman has welcomed a baby son after becoming the first to receive a birth permit for a second child . Li Yan gave birth to a healthy baby  ...

What Not to Learn From Shanghai Schools  - On Monday, Elizabeth Truss, the British Minister of Education landed in Shanghai with one question on her mind: why are Chinese kids so good at  ...

Five children's television and cartoon theme parks  - Hello Kitty may have been created in Japan but according to the storyline, the kawaii china white feline character is, in fact, from Britain. With this in  ...

China's shame  - contaminated infant formula caused thousands of children to become ill and some died. To save their children , concerned parents stopped buying  ...

Chinese man becomes first to sue government over severe smog  -  Children with respiratory illness receive treatment at a hospital in Beijing, February 21, 2014. China has sent teams of investigators to parts of the  ...

China : 51job revenue up 10.9%   -  China human resources services provider 51job increased revenues by 10.9% in 2013 to 1,676.7m yuan (£165.1m), according to financial results  ...

North Korea: Humanity at its very worst  -  China has a visceral dislike of human -rights investigations. It fears that condoning the exposure of other countries' abuses might invite scrutiny of its  ...

Beijing reflects China's growing labor shortage  -  China's labor shortage is becoming acute as seen in Beijing ... It quoted a forecast by the Beijing Human Resources and Social Security  ...

One more H7N9 death, four new human cases in China  -  China's southern province of Guangdong reported one more death and four new human cases of H7N9 infection on Monday.

Malaysia hopeful of partial 2015 ceasefire in Thai peace process   - Despite the impasse in peace talks between the Thai ... Two weeks ago, four people , including a Buddhist monk and a boy, were killed  ...

Time for the sane, good people to stand up  - As the political situation in Thailand threatens to spiral out of control, wild accusations and hate speech from both sides of the political divide are  ...

Using Acetaminophen during pregnancy tied to ADHD risk  - Women who took acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, while pregnant had a 37-percent higher risk of having a child who would be later given  ...

China criticizes UN for 'politicizing human rights '  -  China has loudly condemned what it calls the politicizing of human rights issues. Beijing says the actions of the United Nations Human Rights Council  ...

China , Obama and Dalai Lama Drama  -  China established a puppet government in the region and has been blamed for countless human rights abuses over the past sixty plus years, many  ...

Pearson announces new MD for Chinese region  - A newcomer to the education industry, Hera has spent over two decades in the ... Greater China as a "key part of [its own] global education strategy".

There is nothing fake about Shanghai's success in maths'  - Made in China ” is the label you find on everything – from Apple computers to ... First, the Chinese waste no time on teaching theories of education .

Missionary's wife knows her imprisoned husband is in God's hands  - While information regarding the arrest of an Australian missionary slowly emerges from North Korea , a Christian human rights organization has made  ...

Going from Reunions to Letters and Beyond  - When I lived in North Korea , I was also part of a separated family. ... allow my grandmother in America from visiting North Korea , lest the human rights   ...

UN report on North Korea demands international action  - According to a recently released report mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council, the state of North Korea currently has the social  ...

UN North Korea Human Rights Report & A Call to Action  - Heart-wrenching family reunions, a damning report by the UN and a missionary arrested for possessing religious pamphlets, were all stories coming  ...

See what this school in China is doing to protect children's eyesight!  - The teachers at the institution in Wuhan, Hubei Province said they will prevent children from 'damaging their eyes' by ensuring they hold their books at  ...

As Thailand's anti-government protests get vengeful, one telco faces boycott  - Until now. Some anti-government protesters are now calling on the people of Thailand to boycott any companies linked to the leader's family. Yingluck  ...

Thai war widows bear heavy burden of insurgency  -  Thai Buddhists and Muslims live here as brothers and sisters.” Some 6,000 people have been killed in this complex, brutal insurgency in which Muslim  ...

Thai crisis deepens  -  The bomb blast in Bangkok on Saturday, which killed at least three people and left nearly two dozen injured, is a case in point. The only silver lining  ...

Thai army chief cautions nation may "collapse" as violence escalates  -  Thailand's army chief warned Monday the country risks ... Twenty-one people have now been killed and more than 700 wounded in  ...

China urges Kiwi children to learn Mandarin  -  China's Government wants more Kiwi children speaking its native language, telling ONE News the relationship between the two countries depends on  ...

Women's Employment Prospects Improve in Xinjiang  - A conference reporting on the status of women's and children's work in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reveals that by the end  ...

Six Children Die in Skating River Tragedy in China  - Six children have drowned after skating on a frozen river in China – despite recent government warnings advising parents not to let their children go  ...

370000 families qualify for 2nd child  - Shanghai's family planning authority announced that the city will implement China's new family planning policy in the first half of the year, which allows  ...

Copying the long Chinese school day could have unintended consequences  -  Chinese pupils spend more time in school than British children . School days are longer and holidays are shorter. On average, under the current  ...

Has A New Strain Of Enterovirus Emerged In California, Giving Children Symptoms Similar To Polio?  - A child suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), receives medical treatment at a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province, China April 2, 2009.

Child Protection Program Manager based in Beijing, Xi'an or Kunming,  - Plan China believes that child protection program is central to achieving our vision of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies  ...

Married Chinese Woman's Mother Put Socks On for Her  - Cao Qiuyan, a Nanjing psychologist, told the newspaper that Chinese parents often spoil their children like this. He gave several examples, such as  ...

Uninsured Children and Young Adults More Likely to have Advanced Cancer  - They found that children and young adults that do not have insurance have a higher chance of getting  ...

North Korean dissidents seek Silicon Valley's help  - But two North Koreans who were able to escape from a nation where the ... Human Rights Foundation, who helped arrange the visit of the North  ...

N. Korea snubs UN rights report as 'fabrication'  - SEOUL North Korea on Friday “categorically” rejected a UN report on its human rights record, accusing it of being a “sheer fabrication” invented by the  ...

Inside North Korea's secret gulags: Prisoners strangled to death and others so hungry they ate ...   - Chilling testimony from a former guard at one of North Korea's notorious prison ... of appalling crimes against humanity, UN investigators said yesterday. ... escaped the totalitarian regime laid bare the extent of human rights abuses in  ...

Reports won't change North Korea policy  - Since snippets of information began to leak from behind the airtight North ... and complete inquiry into the human rights horrors inside North Korea .

Is Comedy About North Korea Wrong?  - The recent release of the United Nations' commission of inquiry report into human rights abuses in North Korea brought the horrors of the nation's  ...

Documenting North Korea's crimes against humanity  - The United Nations issued a scathing report on North Korea last week . ... thunders about human rights abuses, starvation and torture in North Korea   ...

China UN Rights Activist in Intensive Care, Denied Visits  - A prominent China rights activist detained after she tried to take part in a United Nations review of China's human rights record is in intensive care after  ...

CCTF Summarizes Year-long 'Mass Line' Education  - The China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF) held a meeting on February 10, 2014 to summarize the year-long 'mass line' campaign at its  ...

China's ageing woes  - As the country with the most aged population , China is turning older before getting wealthier,” Wang says. “There are many disabled elderly and  ...