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North Korea threatens 'new form' of nuclear test, slams United Nations  -  North Korea has defended its recent rocket drills and says it might carry out other types of nuclear tests. Its remarks come in response to UN ...

DU students build playhouse for family of adopted kids with special needs  - They found Scott and Wendi Smith's family. The couple had four biological children , but it was a trip to china years ago that changed their lives forever.

China's Medical System Strains Both Patients And Doctors As Hospital Violence Becomes ...  -  Children with respiratory diseases receive treatment at a hospital in ... violent confrontations in hospitals across China's mainland has shed a light onto ...

French foie gras - made in China to dodge import ban  - A French firm plans to be fattening a million ducks in China by 2020 to supply a growing appetite there for foie gras.

Worrying price of parental pressure  - While not an exclusively Chinese phenomenon, the parental imperative to make a child excel does seem more prevalent here - the city has almost ...

Chineasy: Ingenious image-led dictionary is making learning Mandarin Chinese simpler  - When ShaoLan Hsueh, a Taiwanese entrepreneur living in London, tried to teach Chinese to her British-born children (then six and eight), she found ...

Jiangsu relaxes one- child policy  - East China's Jiangsu Province has relaxed its family planning policy by allowing couples to have a second baby if either parent is an only child , the ...

Philippines presses UN case over China sea row  - It is about securing our children's future. ... China's claims over the South China Sea, believed to harbour vast oil and gas reserves, overlap those of ...

China to debut childrenswear event Cool Kids Fashion  -  China is gearing up to host its first-ever exclusive childrenswear-focused ... Currently, the market volume for children's wear in China is estimated at ...

China's One- Child Policy and America's No-More- Child Policy  - The National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China recently tried to alter the country's infamous “one- child policy.

Chinese Lawyers Write Joint Letter To Rescue Detained Lawyers In Jiansanjiang  - Lawyers in mainland China have written a joint letter, requesting emergency ... in Heilongjiang Province continue to detain the human rights lawyers.

China and Saudi breaks new friendly ground through education – and atomic energy  - Banner Icon Education Although ties between Saudi Arabia and China emerged relatively late, today, the relationship between the two countries has ...

Made In China — But Was It Made In A Prison?  - Prisoners in China's re- education -through-labor camps make everything from electronics to shoes, which find their way into U.S. homes. U.S. efforts to ...

Gay Activist Sues the Chinese Government for Defamation  - A 20-year-old gay man in China has become the first to sue the government in the name of LGBT equality. Xiang Xiaohan (a pseudonym) filed the ...

North Korea Flexes Its Nukes After S.Korea Holds Out The Olive Branch  -  North Korea is furious at UN Security Council resolutions denouncing the ... And then there was last week's debate in the UN Human Rights Council ...

Mind your own business, NKorea tells UN  - U.N. human rights investigators said last month that security chiefs and ... Thirty states voted in favor, while six – including China and Russia – were ..

UN urges action against rights abuses in N. Korea  - The 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted a resolution ... North Korea's neighbor and long-time ally China came to Pyongyang's ...

US trying to rope in India, China to isolate Russia  - US official expresses disappointment over India abstaining from US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council ...

Activist predicts fewer China prisoner releases  -  China appears to have decided to stop accepting lists of prisoners whom foreign governments want released, a prominent human rights advocate said ...

Chinese measure aims at easing pressure on students  - Yunshan Liu, a Peking University education professor, said China's Education Ministry is under great pressure to try to offer each child an equal shot ...

China Education Reforms to Emulate Advanced Placement System  -  China's need for an innovation economy has created an educational infrastructure that is surprisingly reform oriented. Many of the changes being ...

Chinese Return from Overseas Study Hungry for Work  - The Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, under China's Ministry of Education , released a report on Saturday about the study and the ...

Michelle Obama: Parents pushed me to study  - Obama made her comments before hosting a discussion about education ... aimed at promoting educational exchanges between the US and China

Kyrgyzstan to consider anti- gay law similar to Russia's gay 'propaganda' ban  - The Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan is considering an anti- gay law that would prohibit its citizens from creating “a positive attitude toward ...

Will Asians accept the UK Gay Marriage law?  -  Gay marriage has been legalised in the UK. What does this mean for the British Asian society? Will this law make a difference to acceptance of being ...

E China province bans kindergartens medicating children  - East China's Anhui Province has passed legislation to ban kindergartens medicating kids after recent scandals involving ...

National National Fund Set Up For China's Elderly Parents   - National National Fund Set Up For China's Elderly Parents ... in China , where parents traditionally rely on their children to look after them in old age.

Hong Kong Parents Are Photoshopping Their Babies' Photos to Help Them Get Into Kindergarten  - In the fight to get their kids accepted into the best play groups, ... and having the images photoshopped to make the kids look “perfect,” the South China  ...

Joint for promotion of literacy in China , The Netherlands and Finland | GraphoGame  - However, in the past years it has been reported that between 5% and 10% of school-aged Chinese children have dyslexia. Reading difficulties in ...

Peng Liyuan visits Paris children's hospital, panda toys abound  - Having arrived in France on Tuesday for a four-day visit to mark the country's 50-year anniversary of full diplomatic ties with China , glamorous First ...

Will China's SMIC Narrow Tech Gap?  - 

China's First Lady Visits Paris Children's Hospital  -  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday visited the former site of the Lyon Sino-French Institute here as part of his ongoing state visit to France.

French and Germans are concerned about human rights and Tibet  - Dalai Lama sits down with WSJ's Barabara Chai. His take on the new leadership in China : there are some good things under the totalitarian system ...

Chinese measure aims at easing pressure on students  - Xinyu's overbooked schedule is not unique in China , where cram school and ... "Parents can't risk their children's future for their childhood happiness, 

Care for Autistic Children  - The number of autistic children is gradually increasing in China . However, there is not an accurate number due to the fact that the condition is often .

Challenges in the air to foreign recruitment  - We are really struggling to persuade people to move to Beijing - especially people with children ," he told China Daily. "We certainly don't want to ...

Only A Few Children with Microsomia in Treatment  - There are about 7 million children aged from 4 to 15 in China afflicted with microsomia (a birth defect which often causes cranial disfigurement), but ...

China Two- Child Policy? Economy Over LawDaily Edition  - The Chinese government issued its infamous one- child policy in 1980 with an eye toward controlling the population bomb and raising the country's ...

Chinese relatives still skeptical after analysis that Malaysia Airlines plane lost at sea  - said a man who identified himself as Mr. Zhang from the Chinese city of ... They cannot have children anymore, and imagine how they will spend the ...

Stalled efforts to reform guardianship rules leave kids at risk  - A worker cares an abandoned child at Nanjing Social Children's Welfare House in ... China's current children welfare system only protects orphans.

Chinese Farmers Make 'Transformers' Out of Used Cars  -  Chinese Farmers Make 'Transformers' Out of Used Cars ... The original toys, which were a huge hit with children in the 1980s, could be turned from ...

Slumdogs in China's Sin City  - Gangs in China's “Sin City” are forcing children to work the streets. Like the hungry, grimy Indian tots in the Slumdog Millionaire film, some of the least ...

Blood test could predict obesity in children  - Obesity in China , particularly among children , has become a growing health concern that will not only seriously affect the health of future generations ...

Autism may be tied to flawed prenatal brain growth: study  - The abnormalities were found in 10 of 11 children with autism, but in only one of 11 children without the disease. The children's brains were donated ...

Further Questions Remain As China Prohibits Unauthorized Organs Transplant To Foreigners  - Recently, at a UN Human Rights Council meeting, a Canadian government representative formally raised the issue of China's live organ harvesting.

Judicial review cases undermining parliament, says justice secretary  -  Human rights are [about] what is happening in North Korea , issues of organ-harvesting or the use of rape as a tool of war," he added. "It's not about ...

Obama Brings Together Japanese, South Korean Leaders  - WASHINGTON President Obama brought together the leaders of Japan and South Korea to discuss cooperation on containing North Korea and its ...

China, North Korea , and Hypocrisy on Human Rights  - On the human rights issue Beijing has clearly decided that what is good for the goose (Japan) is definitely NOT good for the gander ( North Korea ).

All North Koreans Must Have Kim Jong-Un's Haircut  - all North Korean men must have Kim's "Dear Leader" haircut . Bizarre as it may seem, the  Korea Times  on Tuesday reported that the new edict went into effect in the capital of Pyongyang two weeks ago, and is now being enforced nation-wide.

Leaders of South Korea , Germany discuss inter- Korean reunification, boosting Seoul-Berlin ties  - President Gauck was a human rights and democratization activist in the ... concerns about human rights violations prevalent inside North Korea .

N Korea and the myth of starvation  -  North Korea is a secretive country - and, like most secretive countries, it is especially susceptible to ... However, poverty does not equal starvation.

In China , Retirees Dancing in Public Raise a Ruckus  - In China , the latest group threatened with being banned isn't a spiritual movement or a democracy party: It's older people dancing together in public.

North Korean Men Are Now Required to Get the Same 'Chinese Smuggler Haircut" as Their Leader ...    -  North Korea's hairstyle guidelines are very strict. Recently, men had a choice of 10 options to choose from, which isn't too bad, relative to the poverty , ...

Michelle Obama gets a taste of Tibet in China  - I have a deep feeling towards Tibet, I am half Tibetan," said Shi. ... ethnic Tibetan population , including the freedoms of speech, religion, association, ...

Taiwanese Students Welcome Negotiations, Appeal to Legislate First; Pass Trade Agreement Later  - The reason many people are against the Trade Agreement is because this agreement is based on sacrificing vulnerable group's legal right under an ...

Chinese official urges modern vocational education  - The building of a modern vocational education system to ensure talent supply must be accelerated, China's deputy education minister Lu Xin urged on ...

Rise of alternative education in China  - When five-year-old Xiao Ge starts primary school in Guangzhou next year, she won't endure strict discipline and mountains of homework. Unlike the ...

Unesco names Peng Liyuan its ambassador for girls' and women's education  - Unesco will name China's first lady Peng Liyuan as a special envoy to promote education for girls and women when President Xi Jinping visits the ...

Top firms in China meet for first LGBTI business summit  - The summit today (27 March), thought to be the first of its kind in China , ... It was organized by Steven Paul Bielinski, who founded Shanghai LGBT  ...

From grandsons to grandparents, families wiped out with MH370 crash, says paper  - They were flying home to China from beach holidays in Malaysia and ... They leave behind children as young as two, a grandchild on the way and  ...

what makes Chinese maths lessons so good?  - Because of China's standardised curriculum and teaching, the national exam system, and the one child policy, teachers and parents in China have big  ...

Pollution kills 7 million people every year, is now biggest environmental health risk  -  children wearing masks walk home after school in Beijing, China . Air pollution kills about 7 million  ...

Further Cooperation Seen Between China and Asean  - An intergovernmental organization representing Asean and China is seeking further opportunities, such as through promoting education , ...

Chinese official urges modern vocational education  - The building of a modern vocational education system to ensure talent supply must be accelerated, China's deputy ...

Recognise Unified Examination Certificate, stop politicising education – Kua Kia Soong  - How does a student from Kazakhstan or Bosnia or China gain admission into a Malaysian public tertiary institution when their respective education   ...

The  Children China  Leaves Behind  -  Village life has never been easy in  China , especially in the mountainous central and western regions, mostly arid and poor, which were once the  ...

These  Kids  Want to Show You Their Favorite Toys  -  In some places, like  China  and the Middle East, the parents would push their children  hard to pose for the photos, even if the  kids  didn't seem  ...

China's  Disastrous One- Child  Policy  -  China  has engaged in a gigantic social experiment the likes of which humanity has never seen. Stemming from fears of overpopulation  ...

Dothan family's adoption journey leads to  China  -   Male  children  are more valued than female  children  in  China  and laws place restrictions on the number of children  families can have. She was also  ...

Henan to Construct 'Left-behind  Children's  Home'  -  As a large labor export city, the city of Luohe, in central  China's  Henan Province, has undertaken the construction of a 'Left-behind  Children's  Home'  ...

Michelle Obama meets with school  children  in  China   -  Michelle Obama met with young students in  China  and says that her prayers are with the families of passengers presumed dead in the  ...

Another kindergarten mired in drug scandal  -  The  children  were given the drug twice, each time for three days.  ...  Over the past few days, kindergartens in northwest  China's  Shaanxi Province,  ...

Please be seated!  -  With more  Chinese  families owning cars in recent years, car safety and, especially, child  passenger safety, have become major issues. But in  ...

Coal plant closure in  China  led to improvements in  children's health, research shows  -  China , after the closure of the coal-burning power plant in 2004. Credit: Deliang Tang/Columbia Center for  Children's  Environmental ...

Study links infant genetic mutations to air pollution  -  a now defunct coal power plant in  China . The study consisted of non-smoking women who had their  children  in 2002, when the plant was still active.

More join 'Color, Way of Love'   -  Children at Yuhua Primary School participate in "Color, Way of Love" activities.

Health organization: Pollution kills 7 million people every year  - Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organization published Tuesday. The agency said air pollution is the cause of about one in eight deaths and has now become the single biggest environmental health risk.

Child neglect in one- child families from Suzhou City of Mainland China  - The one- child policy introduced in China in 1979 has led to far-reaching changes in socio-demographic characteristics. Under this policy regime, each  ...

Chinese parents push up school district housing prices  - To Chinese parents, a "key" school is the first key to the bright future of their children . Many parents have shifted homes to get their children admitted to  ...

Left-Behind Chinese Girl Starts Fire to Bring Mother Home  - Left-Behind Chinese Girl Starts Fire to Bring Mother Home ... In China , there are an estimated 61 million children who live apart from their parents.

Picture books with talking animals prevent kids from learning about natural world  -  Children's books that feature talking animals, or animals  ...

Malaysia Arilines missing flight exposes tragedy of China's 'orphaned' one- child parents  - Like many Chinese parents of their generation, the Wangs were permitted only one child by the Communist Party's draconian family planning rules,  ...

Top S. Korean commander warns against two-track strategy by North Korea  - - South Korea's top military officer on Tuesday warned of a two-track strategy by North Korea of alternating between  ...

S. Korea strives in naval build-up following Cheonan sinking  - The deadly incident made South Koreans realize the dangers of North Korean attacks, especially after the North shelled the South Korean border  ...

North Korea test-launches additional short-range rockets - Army Technology  -  North Korea has test-launched 16 additional Frog short-range rockets into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula on the second  ...

Video games and aggressive behavior in kids linked: study  - Youths who play video games are more likely to think and act in aggressive ways, suggested a study out Monday of more than 3,000  ...

S. Korea joins UN resolution on N. Korea's human rights  - South Korea has joined hands with Japan and the European Union in drafting a resolution on North Korea's human   ...

Taipei protesters may face backlash after Executive Yuan break-in  - The student protesters who stormed and occupied the Executive Yuan on March 23 have lost their minds and the support of the Taiwanese people ,  ...

Wife of jailed China Nobel laureate had heart attack: Amnesty  - The report comes as China faces new scrutiny over its treatment of ... Human rights campaigner Cao Shunli died in police detention two weeks ago  ...

Obama, Xi hold talks on Ukraine, N. Korea  - Bilateral friction over human rights issues and China's maritime activities in the South China Sea and the Pacific region would also be on the agenda,  ...

China - Xi Jinping, enemy of freedom of information, visits France  -  China's growing harassment of journalists and its mistreatment of cyber-dissidents and activists who try to expose the constant human rights   ...

US welcomes departure of 'noxious' UN Palestine envoy Falk  - Falk, the outgoing United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the ... "It is beyond absurd that the only country that has a standing place on the Human Rights Council's agenda is not Syria, not North Korea , and not Iran, but  ...

North Korea's UN envoy slams US 'hostile policy' for poor relations, human rights record  -  North Korea's U.N. envoy in Geneva is accusing the United ... and relations on everything from nuclear talks to its human rights record.

Concise Analysis of the International Human Vaccine Industry  - In the wake of China's economic growth and enhanced disease prevention awareness, Chinese human vaccine market has been expanding. In 2012  ...

Thais Detain More Migrants Believed to Be Ethnic Uighurs  -  Human Rights Watch and other advocacy organizations are urging the Thai government not to deport the Uighurs to China , saying they face  ...

Park Urges China Not to Veto COI Report  - President Park Geun Hye has urged the Chinese government not to veto the final report released by the UN Commission of Inquiry into human rights  ...

A Look at China's Increasingly Educated Workforce  - On today's “Single Best Chart,” Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu looks at the increasing number of Chinese university graduates on  ...

The Children China Leaves Behind  - Even though China's national spending on education , as a percentage of GDP, continues to rise, the Ministry of Education every day shuts down  ...

Obama visits Stanford center at Peking University, talks international education  - On Friday, March 21, First Lady Michelle Obama teleconferenced with Stanford students, local high school students and students studying in China to  ...

A rainbow for China's orphans  - June 1 is “ Children's Day” in China . It's a day when every child can feel important—celebrated with parties and music and sweet treats by parents,  ...

Chinese secretly drug schoolchildren to boost attendance for revenue: report  - Kindergartens in three Chinese provinces have been accused of secretly administering antiviral drugs to children in order to boost attendance for  ...

Barry talent shines spotlight on China  - Superstars director Christian Bullen, 24, has returned from a two-week visit to Zhengzhou, where he and his team provided Chinese children with a  ...

China Launches Campaign to Curb Drugs in Schools  - It comes in the wake of news that some kindergartens in Hubei, Shaanxi and Jilin provinces illegally administered prescription drugs to children .

China vows to continue protecting human rights  -  China will continue to make positive efforts in promoting and protecting human rights as always, in line with its national situation, a spokesman said on  ...

China is a 'Turncoat and our Enemy'  - Chosun Ilbo, a conservative South Korean newspaper, reports that a sign in North Korea's Kang Kon Military Academy states that China is a “turncoat  ...