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China lacks human infrastructure, is weakest state in the world  - When Li was in London last week, he told David Cameron that if London wanted to do business with China , it should keep quiet on Tibet and human  ...

South Korea Urges North to Release Baptist Missionary Sentenced to Life of Hard Labour  - In March, the United Nations Human Rights Council urged the international community to support an international criminal investigation of North Korea  ...

Chinese marketers milking demand for baby formulas  - The young man in the advertisement is strapping, lean and apparently healthy. He is also topless - apart from a baby bib wrapped firmly around his ...

Hong Kong wraps up democracy referendum  - Supporters of Caring Hong Kong Power, a pro- China group, march to police ... The Chinese characters on the banner reads, “To protect children .

Lantern prices increase 20%, Chinese products infiltrate market  - Saleh attributes these to an infiltration of Chinese lanterns into the market ... Children are especially attracted to battery-powered lanterns that play ...

China's history spelled out in baby names  - From 1950 to 1960 there was a surge in Chinese names representing the ... In an attempt to help their child stand out from the crowd, one Chinese  ...

Glimpse of China in the '70s  - Portions left on the plate would harvest adult scowls and an admonishment about the hungry children in China . Imagine my surprise upon learning ...

Today's Chinese Parents More Involved in Children's Education  - Thus, parents today pay more attention to their children's education, because they understand how essential it is for their children to have a better ...

Raising Children as Vegans or Vegetarians ?  - My father is an experienced practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine ... One of the biggest criticisms leveled at parents who raise children on ...

Woman Volunteers Care for 'Left-behind' Children  - There are many 'left-behind' children like Yang, whose parents left to work in far-away cities to earn more money 'left-behind' . In China , with the ..

Secret love of China's gay parents (1)  - asked Li's mother from his hometown in southwest China . ... There are always problems as children grow up and an unconventional family like his is ...

 Xinjiang strives to boost employment for stability  - Muhtar Jume's greatest long-term wish is that his children finish college and earn good employment prospects.

Hey, Seth Rogen: What's so funny about North Korea ?  - By contrast, North Korea continues to be a wild card in popular culture: you ... With North Korea , the danger seems easy to dismiss. ... Lost in this cycle of outrage and mockery is the suffering inside North Korea , where poverty and ...

China Focus: Xinjiang strives to boost employment for stability  - He knows first-hand about the struggles of securing a livelihood in the family home of northwest China's Xinjiang without a good education , a situation ...

Hard lessons ahead for higher education  - In the emerging world, universities are booming: China has added almost 30 ... Higher education is one of the great successes of the welfare state.

Students get opportunity for Chinese experiences  - While school is still out for Tennessee youngsters, learning will continue overseas for nearly a dozen young people traveling to ...

Chinese make up 80 percent of housing buyers in Jeju Island  - Geographically close to China , Jeju is convenient for commuting from cities in northern China . It is a one-hour flight from Shanghai, two-and-a-half ...

Xinhua Insight: Secret love of China's gay parents  - Do you want her?" asked Li's mother from his hometown in southwest China . Li, 30 at the time and gay , was at a Halloween party in downtown Beijing, ...

Hong Kong Braces for Democracy Rally Amid Turmoil Warning  - Civil Human Rights Front, the main organizer, expects at least 100,000 ... Under terms agreed between the U.K. and China , Hong Kong enjoys its own ...

Jailed Uighur writer Ilham Tohti 'shackled, denied food': PEN -  Human rights activists say detained Uighur writer Ilham Tohti has been subjected to "inhumane and degrading punishment" in China's far west ...

Vietnamese women trafficked to China for forced marriage  - My brother is no longer a human being in my eyes — he sold his own sister to China ,” Kiab, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, ...

LGBT Community Attend Gay Parade in Latin America  -  LGBT Community Attend Gay Parade in Latin America. June 29 ... Dear Women in China Staff to Shanghai, It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the ...

Why Car Seats Haven't Caught On in China  - Such scant attention to safety, combined with overcrowding, have led to horrific road accidents involving young children. But Chinese children riding in ...

Shootings rise after China gives its police guns  - BEIJING (AP) - A string of shooting incidents involving Chinese police - leaving at least four people dead - has the public wondering if rank-and-file officers are really ready to carry guns, as mandated by new regulations.

Brides For Sale: Vietnamese Women Trafficked To China  - Instead, he sold her to a Chinese family as a bride. ... Dragon Children's Foundation, which has rescued 71 trafficked women from China since 2007.

Internet Addiction Meets with Death, Violence at Unregulated Schools  - Education Brand in Central China for Delinquent Children ." ... Hongkai, an education professor at Central China Normal University, told The Mirror.

US program in Shanghai trains kids to dance  - Members of the institute trained more than 50 Chinese teachers and helped them teach more than 3,000 children how to dance, communicate with an ...

Kids play real soccer matches during World Cup  - Research shows that the physical condition of adolescents in China has ... an examination on the physical conditions of children and adolescents.

Tablets becoming children's ' toy of choice  - It studied how children in the US, UK, Germany and China are interacting with tablets and other consumer electronics devices and the results show ...

Chinese law to curb spongeing children  - One of China's largest provinces has drawn up a new law that would protect ageing parents from grasping, lazy “boomerang” children and their ...

First-time buyers boost home sales in smaller cities  - According to the China Real Estate Index System, an affiliate of SouFun Holdings Ltd, sales by area in 40 cities rose 13 percent month-on-month in the ...

Downbeat Mood Among Investors in China's Real-Estate Market, Survey Shows  - Real-estate developers and investors are souring on China's slowing property market and are seeking safer bets in developed cities like ...

China's plan to combat pollution will fight climate change too  - While varying with weather and other factors, air pollution remained high in many parts of China through 2013. Many cities , including Beijing and ...

New steps for dance program  - "Dancing into the Future — I Can Dance," is a collaboration between Shanghai-based China Welfare Institute Children's Palace and the United States ...

Baby Names Reflect China's History  - But the popularity of children's names connected with national events means that many people in China share the same names – especially as many ...

People power in the People's Republic of China  - He saw it first-hand on a reporting trip in Guizhou province -- scores of village children going to school hungry. But Deng Fei refused to stand ...

Chinese Becomes Must-Learn Language  - As China continues its rise, interest in its language has increased around the world, and ... Chinese language programs for children are also booming.

Deng Zhuodi, US-born grandson of Deng Xiaoping  - princeling grandson of China's former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. His father is Deng Zhifang, the youngest of Deng Xiaoping's five children .

Taiwan's entrepreneurs struggle to get their kids on board  - Taiwanese businesspeople who have worked for over 20 years in China are worried about who will succeed them. These entrepreneurs, formerly at ...

Deadly Measles Outbreak in North Korean Province Bordering China  - A measles outbreak in a North Korean province bordering China has left at least three children dead this week in what is believed to be the worst attack of the highly contagious disease in seven years, according to a source. The deaths occurred on Monday after the disease which mainly affects children hit a district near Sinuiju, the capital of North Pyongan province in the northwest of North Korea and a gateway to China, the source told RFA’s Korean Service.

Torture is an 'expanding scourge' in Asia  - Throughout Asia, human rights organizations accuse several nations of using ... Where the torture is state-sanctioned, as in countries like North Korea , ...

N Korea refuses Australian envoy a visa  - They were then going to obtain visas as planned from the North Korean ... of inquiry that he led for the UN into human rights abuses in North Korea .

ICC prosecutor finds no grounds to investigate North Korea war crime allegations  - Also in March the Chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea Michael Kirby compared [JURIST report] the ...

China livid over US plan to rename embassy street after dissident  - Analysts have said that Western administrations' and activists' criticisms of China's human rights situation have set back the work of Chinese human ...

China is refusing to give a dozen political prisoners life-saving medical treatment  - But as China has grown more resistant to international pressure regarding human rights, it has stopped granting medical parole to political prisoners.

China's Elusive Pet Food Regulation  - A comparison to the regulation for human food is helpful to understand what's ... China has several administrative agencies dedicated to implementing ...

After 'I Do': Bringing LGBT centers to more diverse communities  - The language barrier is one issue that Asian LGBT teens might face, for example, when trying to explain to his or her parents that they're gay.

Toronto's South Asian LGBT Community's struggles and successes  - One man's story about coming out illustrates what so many in the South Asian LGBT community have had to overcome when coming to ...

Rural students are being left behind in China  - As the education gap between city and countryside widens, young people ... People in China have used education to boost their social standing and ...

China upgrading vocational education for economy, employment  - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged the nation to strengthen efforts to develop vocational education , saying it is an important part of both ...

US: China's behavior offshore hurts its standing  - Susan Collins has come out in support of gay marriage for the first time after .... WASHINGTON (AP) - China's coercive efforts to enforce its territorial claims in ... China says its expansive territorial claims have a historical basis and ...

Govt may propel India to score high on realty transparency  - Progress has nonetheless been the strongest in the Asia Pacific region, with Indian cities starting to make up for lost ground against other BRIC ...

Tokyo museum apologizes over naming row  - The head of the Tokyo National Museum on Monday apologized to the Taiwanese people over the misnaming of Taiwan's ...

China Toddler Is World's Youngest Alcoholic  - A toddler in China is the world's youngest alcoholic. ... It would seem like an innocent thing allowing children to have a small taste of a drink.

Chinese Students Enjoy Studying Abroad  - Many Chinese parents are enthusiastic about enrolling their children in ... "The demand for overseas summer camps from Chinese families is huge ...

Teach your child to think critically  - Our schools take on the responsibility of teaching our children to become critical thinkers — individuals who are able to ...

China can learn from US how to cut smog  - Smog cuts life expectancy in northern Chinese cities by an average of 5.5 years per person compared with the country's less-polluted southern ...

The "ghost cities " of China  - The exceptions are the “ghost cities ” – centres stalled, or built for predicted influxes that failed to appear. Construction of the northern city of Yujiapu, ...

Luoyang: The ancient capital that feeds China  - Luoyang, the "lost city " of sorts...Once one of the 4 Great Ancient Capitals of China , it was the heart of the Grand Canal back in its hey-day. This city  ...

Home Prices May Drop By 15% In China  - Meanwhile, it's expected to narrow restrictions for home purchases in many cities in China , where Chinese economy faces many challenges recently ...

China Local Debt Growth Slows as Economic Expansion Cools  - China’s chief auditor said growth in local government debt slowed, a sign that tighter scrutiny on borrowing and an economic slowdown have curbed credit.  

Ford opens 88 dealerships in China in one day  - But these Tier 4 cities still boast populations numbering in the millions, and a lot of Ford's potential customers in China are first-time vehicle buyers.

Dictators Unite at UNHRC to Slam Israeli 'Violations'  - One such representative came to speak for dictator Kim Jong-Un's North Korea . "The deteriorating situation of human rights and the deteriorating ...

Sincere' North Korean concern for disabled questioned - Currently a candidate for a Master's in Human Rights at UCL (UK), she focuses her research on human rights and gender issues in North Korea .

Basic School Education Connects with the Outside World  - Deep in the mountains of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, villagers struggle to survive. Poverty, drugs ...

China to boost vocational education system  -  China's cabinet, the State Council, has released its guidelines on the development of the vocational education program, aiming at improving the ...

Why the uproar over the TDSB's partnership with the Confucius Institute?  - Some TDSB staff note having teachers from China would make activities like ... Doesn't the TDSB partner with other countries' educational groups?

New US ambassador to China pushes trade ties  - Max Baucus of Montana also cited disagreements between the two countries over China's human rights record and U.S. accusations of Chinese ...

Brides for sale: Vietnamese women trafficked to China  - My brother is no longer a human being in my eyes -- he sold his own sister to China ," Kiab, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, told ..

After 'I Do': LGBT Asians come out amid cultural and language barriers  - More than twice as many immigrants come to California from Asia than ... "Lot of first generation got no idea what LGBT is," says Minsook Brady from ...

US doctors urge parents to read to babies  - A leading U.S. doctors' group Tuesday urged parents to read to their children starting in infancy, in order to boost language skills in ...

China Should Be Concerned by Overuse of Cesarean Sections  - For those who were born in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s, the story of my birth—as my mother used to tell me—is not atypical. When the labor pains began, my mom sent my siblings to the local midwife asking her to come and deliver the baby at home.  

Xi Jinping Meets Kazakh Young People  - He told the group of young people China had a 5,000-year history. Chinese civilization, which is rich with its own qualities, has also adopted ...

Meet the Chinese women standing up to inequality  - Protesters hold banners with slogans including 'If you love her, do not let her wait in line', during the Occupy the Men's Toilets campaign in Beijing.

Brides for sale: Vietnamese women, young girls trafficked to China  - When Kiab turned 16, her brother promised to take her to a party in a tourist town in northern Vietnam. Instead, he sold her to a Chinese family as a ...

Cities in India show modest improvement in transparency'  - said: ""Progress has nonetheless been the strongest in the Asia -Pacific region, with Indian cities starting to make up for the lost ground against other ...

China's cure for teenage internet addiction is worse than the supposed disease  - Ever since China classified internet addiction as a mental disorder in 2008, parents have been sending their children to camps that promise to cure ...

China will need to remove all fertility restrictions in order to get reasonable bump in birth rate  - Tweet Beijing decided to significantly scale back the one- child policy in November last year. Leading Chinese demographers, such as Cai Fang from ...

How accessible are social services for older people in China ?  - Xitang, a town in Zhejiang, China , one of the two provinces surveyed on ... living in communities, often without adult children in the same household.

2nd generation Taiwanese hope to find success in China  - More and more Taiwanese businesspeople operating in China have begun to encourage their children to join in the family business, reports our ...

It Takes a Village: 2 Families Find Raising Kids Together More Effective  - Two neighboring families with one child each in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian province, found that they have become better at raising their kids  ...

Safe haven' overwhelmed with abandoned babies  - As the capital of Jiangsu province, which is located in China's relatively economically developed Yangtze Delta, Nanjing draws parents of sick children  ...

China looks to organize home visits for overseas Tibetans  -  China looks to organize home visits for overseas Tibetans ... establishing scholarships for their children to come back for education, reported China's  ...

Women, Children Receive Better Public Services in Tibet  - In recent years the Working Committee on Women and Children of Tibet ... Dear Women in China Staff to Shanghai, It is our pleasure to invite you to ...

Grandson of Late Chinese Leader Deng Promoted  - Many children of the founding leaders of Communist China have risen up the ranks of officialdom, some from humble rural positions, including current ...

Will the two- child policy save China from its demographic destiny?  - In 2012, China's labour force declined for the first time in the country's ... in the one- child policy will not result in a significant improvement in China's  ...

Chinese official who piggybacked in Jiangxi flood zone is sacked  - n official in eastern China has been sacked after a picture of him being given a piggyback across a flooded path during a search for missing children  ...

Education exchanges gain momentum at grassroots level  - It might be annoying for many that there have not been many good things talked about lately regarding the China -US relationship by either politicians ...

From backwater to the mainstream  - In an attempt to promote equality in education , China's leading universities are reaching out to students from disadvantaged rural backgrounds.

How accessible are social services for older people in China ?  - Xitang, a town in Zhejiang, China , one of the two provinces surveyed on ... So neighbourhood communities in China where older people live differed ...

Sky's the Limit for the Chinese City of Wuhan and Its Phoenix Towers  - Completion of the Phoenix Towers is likely to stimulate interest among multinational real estate companies in central China's burgeoning cities .

Plan aims to assess China's smart tourist cities  - An evaluation framework published by China Wisdom Engineering Association and unveiled during the weekend aims to gauge the progress of a city  ...

Cities along canal eye new preservation  - This is the city with the most World Heritages sites in China . The listing of the Grand Canal has largely enriched the variety of heritage in Beijing.".

China Wants More Vocational Students, Fewer Universities  - In both countries a mismatch exists between what young people learn and what skills employers need. Just as in the U.S., China's university ...

Double trouble in China  - Eight years ago, the accountants Ernst and Young got in trouble with the Chinese authorities for estimating the bad debts in the Chinese banking ...

Young Chinese buying cars on credit  - In a country where owning a car has long been a symbol of luxury and success, around 85 percent of Chinese car buyers still buy cars with cash.

A 19-Year-Old Dies After Abuse in Chinese 'Internet Rehab'  - 

I'm Working Hard to Ensure" US has LGBT Ambassadors, Kerry Says  - as a U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam said, "(Osius) will be the first openly LGBT officer nominated to serve in Asia ," and "I'm working hard to ensure that ...

Church must work with like-minded groups to oppose Pink Dot: Pastor  - Various faith groups, such as the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore and the Catholic Church, have expressed their positions on the LGBT  ...

Home, unification linger on Han's mind  - Asked what her real job is, the North Korean defector spoke frankly. ... want the world to know about the human rights situation (in the North)," she said.

Christian North Korea defector shares amazing testimony; Describes rape, slavery and torture  - In February, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights found North Korea guilty of crimes against humanity, including torture, ...

Washington downgrades Thailand over human trafficking  - human trafficking, slavery and gross human rights abuses, downgrading the country's reputation to same level as Syria, Iran and North Korea .

Human Rights Activists Launch Choco-Pies at North Korea  - I wonder if the North Korean regime will respond angrily to this latest balloon launch from North Korean human rights groups that this time features.

Wealthy parents hire $300/hr. experts to plot proper summer fun for kids - Apparently, summer vacation for school children has taken on a new ... The fact that China was a part of his story, I think, made his story much more ...

Women Engaged in China's Drug Campaign  - Like almost every country in the world, China is actively preventing the illicit trafficking and abuse of illegal drugs. In 2013, China solved 150,000 drug-related cases and arrested more than 160,000 suspects. These efforts destroyed over 30 tons of illegal drugs, according to the 2014 China Drug Control Report, which was released by China's Drug Control Office earlier this year.

China animal protectors at cross-porpoises  - The porpoises are social and “pick up on human emotions like children would,” said Hao Yujiang, researcher at China's Institute of Hydrobiology.

Have Children with Moral Values, Responsibility and Imagination, Says Scholar Yu  - The second thing Yu sought to remind Chinese parents of is that a child should learn how to be responsible for themselves. Yu explained that the ...

Phone addiction hindering child development: Taiwanese experts  - As more and more people have access to the latest consumer electronics, phubbing — referring to the act of snubbing someone in a social situation by looking at your phone instead — has become a common phenomenon, reports our Chinese-language sister paper China Times.

Hainan's secret to top-flight service is all in the details  - This new service is really providing a great convenience for me and many Chinese parents whose children are studying in Boston," said Lin as she ..

Canine controversy: Chinese festival serves up dog meat  - A mob of people have surrounded a group of animal rights activists protesting in the busiest open ...

Young Men Who Are Anything Short Of Wealthy In Urban China Face Brutal Girlfriend Reality  - I am a single bachelor living in China , but I'm a foreigner. For expats, it's pretty good being single, as there is that foreigner mystique and the general ...

China's economic power buys British silence on human rights  - For Prime Minister David Cameron and the British government, Premier Li Keqiang's recent visit could not have gone better. The two sides announced ...

UN to facilitate safe passage of Tibetan refugees in Nepal  - This statement comes in the backdrop of a recent report by Human Rights Watch entitled 'Under China's Shadow: Mistreatment of Tibetans in Nepal' ...

Vietnamese young people call for more Vietnam- China cooperation  - Having enjoyed a unique and good relationship for centuries, Vietnam and China have a lot in common and should focus more on ...

Devesh Kapur: Can India's higher education be saved from the rule of babus?  - A recent paper details the striking rise of China as a major contributor to science and technology over the past three decades, buoyed not only by the ...

Access to education vital in China's dream of urbanisation  - Without parental guidance, and in an educational environment far inferior to that of the major cities, many will grow up undereducated. China must ...

Did humans cause the great flooding of China's Yellow River? 3000-year-old levees accidentally ...  - But according to a recent study, it was human activity rather than Mother ... A census taken by China in 2 AD suggests the area struck by the massive ...