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Picking up your trousseau at Wedding Asia  - Surbhi is a visitor at the Wedding Asia bridal fair being organised at The ... their creations are different from what is available in boutiques in the city .

Nantong to become China's 37th subway city  - Nantong in Jiangsu province will become China's 37th city to have a subway system, following the recent approval of its subway project by the central ...

Wuxi: The Birthplace of China's Modern Industry  - Historically, the city has been famous as an important rice and silk market in South China since the Ming Dynasty. In this article, Rainy Yao from Dezan ...

Hong Kong ranked best city for pedestrians in China  - The survey of 35 cities in China was cited in Shanghai's China Business News. The cities were evaluated according to four criteria: security, amenity, ...

China , Central-Eastern Europe seek more potentials on cooperation  - Twinning projects exist between more than 30 cities in China and Poland. Both countries collaborate on the "Go China " program to enhance cultural ...

China's Property Market: Policy Is the Real Risk  - In Tier One cities , the number of properties being sold as a result of price ... So, while there's a supply-demand imbalance in the Chinese property ...

China's economy is not experiencing a hard landing  - During last few weeks, China's economic performance has been grim. ... In July, a record 64 of 70 Chinese cities tracked reported a drop in new home ...

In China , Dueling Scholarship Programs From Billionaires  - Higher education has a new trans-Pacific rivalry: billionaires' scholarship funds. ... But one of his prospective donors in China has responded to Mr.

China offers scholarships to Kenyan students  - Kenya's Principal Secretary for education , Professor Colleta Suda noted that China has helped Kenya to develop a large pool of skilled personnel.

Barking up the wrong tree  - DON’T bark up the wrong tree. That is the message many would like to convey to Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Razali Ibrahim who has opposed the approval for building new Chinese national-type schools (SJKC). The deputy minister was quoted as saying, “As long as approval is given, the relationship between the different races shall be further deteriorate, and shall be like throwing a spanner into the works of nurturing national harmony.”

Falling birth rates threaten societies throughout East Asia, expert says  - The study, carried out by the National Assembly Research Service in Seoul, pointed out that the fertility rate had declined to 1.19 children per South ...

Gift-Bearing Officials Try to Lure Chinese Factories Inland  - Such meetings are increasingly common as the Chinese economy ... Local officials in interior cities like Chongqing are offering enticing financial ...

Guest post: policy is biggest risk for China property  - Concerns about a possible collapse in China's property market continue to grow ... On residential projects in Tier One cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, 

China to Allow Local Governments to Sell Bonds Directly  -  China's towns and cities have used more than 10,000 financing vehicles to sell notes after they were barred from directly issuing bonds under a 1994 ...

Chinese High Schoolers' Harsh Military Training Leads to Internet Firestorm  - Some parents have reported feeling powerless as they send their children off ... Responding to the Internet firestorm, a China Youth Daily editorial on ...

Academies teach children to play the game  - Meng Xin, a 10-year-old girl from Beijing, stayed at a summer camp to play mini-tennis with about 40 other children from Chinese and expatriate ...

Ticket to a better life  - Over the past fortnight, scores of Chinese children and their parents filled the 14 competition venues at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) ...

Why This Woman Is Facing Decades In Prison For Going To The Hospital  - to the charges being filed against her, Purvi Patel attempted to end her pregnancy last year by taking pills that she bought online from Hong Kong .

In Democracy Debate, Scholar Says Tycoons Control Hong Kong's Destiny  - What should universal suffrage in Hong Kong look like? ... to the example of slavery in the U.S. and the disenfranchisement of blacks and women .

When Chinese children forget how to write  - In China , it takes blood, sweat and months of studying dictionaries to ... Character Hero is a Chinese -style spelling bee, but in this challenge, young  ...

Is the US Taking the Right Approach in Africa?  -  China favors an approach that maximizes its access to Africa's wealth of ... Of course, confronting African leaders about corruption and human rights  ...

Hongkongers should back improved legal protection against discrimination  - This also happens to be the year when Hong Kong's compliance with various UN human rights charters undergoes periodic review. Thus, the review ...

Report calls for step change on human rights conduct of business in Greater China region  -  report released today in Chinese and English by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, looks at how companies in the region address human rights concerns. The Centre invites companies to respond publicly to allegations of misconduct in areas such as the treatment of workers, environmental pollution, and complicity by technology firms in surveillance or censorship activities. The briefing analyses 223 such approaches to companies.  

In 12 Years, China Built More Houses Than There Are In All of the UK  - China's urbanization has proceeded at an amazing pace in the past few decades. More than half the Chinese population is now living in cities . There ...

Facekinis — head-covering swimwear that is a hit on China's beaches — gets notice from western ...  - Beach goers in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao have taken in a big way to the swimwear, which covers the head, with holes for the eyes, nose and ...

Double trouble - China property launches to deepen inventory overhang, price declines  - Some developers such as Longfor, Greentown China (3900. ... Of the 28 cities , inventories in 18 cities will take more than one year to clear, and ...

Inside N. Korea : Me and an aging wrestler  - authoritarian regime has been accused by a United Nations panel of widespread human rights abuses, charges that North Korea strongly denies.

North Korea : Isn't America Just so Terribly Racist?  -  North Korea has joined the ranks of America's foes who have seized on riots in Missouri, saying the nation is the "graveyard of human rights " and ...

How Asia has outpaced Latin America in education reform  - How Asia has outpaced Latin America in education reform ... respective gross domestic products on education , much more than China or Singapore.

China's Mandarin Teaching Drive Sparks Uyghur Anger  - The so-called bilingual education system is actually, to put it bluntly, ... in Kashgar, China's westernmost city, together with his business associates in ...

Hong Kong should help vulnerable mainland immigrants, not denigrate them  - In the past 10 years, more than 350,000 mainland women have moved to Hong Kong , and many have faced discrimination in different aspects of their ...

North Korea calls US ' human rights graveyard' over Ferguson  -  North Korea has joined the ranks of America's foes who have seized on riots in Missouri, saying the nation is the "graveyard of human  ...

Asia's 10 Best Second Cities  - With its pleasant location along the Mekong River, manageable size, and proximity to other points of interest in the country, the Laotian capital stands ...

Is PH the best place for gays in Southeast Asia ?  - Yes, if a new report based on recent global surveys is to be believed that the Philippines is the best place in Southeast Asia to be gay or lesbian.

ADHD study flags pre-natal use of antidepressants  -  Children born to women who took antidepressants during pregnancy are statistically likelier to develop the mental disorder called ADHD, ...

When Chinese children forget how to write  - In China , it takes blood, sweat and months of studying dictionaries to become a Character Hero. Millions tune in every week to watch teenagers ...

Confucius Classroom brings China to the children  - Confucius wasn't just a famous Chinese philosopher, he was also a dedicated teacher. Thousands of years later his legacy lives on across the globe ...

What's wrong with winning?  - Off-camera, I'm getting parenting advice from ... that works with two million children in more than 6,200 schools across China .

UN accuses Islamic State, Syrian government of committing war crimes  -  Children have been present at the executions, which take the form of beheading or shooting in the head at close range... Bodies are placed on public ...

Pocket-sized teacher with a big heart: Meet the man who has been caring for rural China's ...  - Left-behind children massive and growing problem in China . With the country's urbanisation, millions of farmers have been forced to take up jobs in ...

Not against uniforms, only mandatory ones  - For example, she said: "You stated that China students are better than the ... The lesson this teaches children is: "You must be the same as everyone ...

In Thailand's Surrogacy Industry, Profit and a Moral Quagmire  - There's nothing wrong with surrogacy — you are helping people who can't have a baby,” said Pakson Thongda, 42, whose daughter twice sold eggs ...

Thailand focuses on well-being of Deep South elderly  -  Thailand focuses on well-being of Deep South elderly ... More than 1,000 people aged 50 and older were at the special event August 14th, where they ...

Thai premier tells foreign investors: 'We are not dictators'  - The EU, Thailand's third largest trade partner and its second biggest ... "In case you have heard distorted information that we have treated people  ...

HIV infections on rise among young gay men, other at-risk groups in Thailand – UN study  - Compiled by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the new study – Situational Analysis of Young People at High Risk of HIV Exposure in Thailand  ...

Bookham student aids anti human trafficking effort in Hong Kong  - According to Miss Commandeur, when women caught entering Hong Kong illegally are arrested for immigration violations, they do not receive state ...

Chinas Islamic militant group founder admits Pakistan terror links  - In a rare public admission of Pakistani links to militancy in China's ... in Pakistan where he came into contact with young religious extremists.

Gay Travel Marketing Comes to China  - A cheerful promotional cartoon from a major Chinese travel agency shows two women sharing one hotel bed and two men tucked into another.

Asia's old communities vanishing amid rapid growth  - Rapid urbanization, weak legislation, and city planning laced with corruption have all contributed to the trend. Most Asian cities have not heeded ...

China Expects Fallout After Announcing Decisions On Hong Kong's Political Reform This Sunday  - Many Hong Kongers believe the nominating committee would provide Beijing a chance to prescreen candidates. Organizers of Occupy Central and ...

China Hopes This Cartoon Concubine Can Calm Its Muslim Region  - The Uighur population is mostly Muslim and has long accused China of violating human rights in its crackdowns on their freedom express their culture, ...

Human subject able to control robot arm with mind in Chinese experiment  - wherein a human subject was able to move a robot arm with his mind with the use of electrodes implanted into his brain, state-owned China News ...

Hong Kong Ebola virus volunteers speak of human catastrophe  - The Ebola epidemic has killed more than half of all infected people, but fear and stigma are helping to make the virus even more deadly, say two ...

New book explores achievements and challenges of China's 'rising research universities'  - These were among the main findings of the new book China's Rising ... parallel to the massification of China's higher education system, which from ...

Education is a critical component of building blocks in Brics plans   -South Africa is not alone in the fight to improve education outcomes. ... South Africa spends more on education than China , India, Russia and Brazil.

As China's Military Training For Students Ends With Brawl, Its Necessity Is Questioned  - The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of National Defense jointly oversee the training, which took on more weight in the aftermath of the June 4th ...

When Chinese children forget how to write  - In China, it takes blood, sweat and months of studying dictionaries to ... China's Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to ...

China urges guarantee of higher education for poor students  - The Ministry of Education has urged all colleges to ensure enrollment of students from low-income backgrounds in higher education upon the ...

China has 8 cities with bigger bike share systems than all of America  - Nowadays, dozens of Chinese cities have truly enormous programs, bigger than most other countries' systems. All told, China has eight cities with ...

12 Insights into China's Love of Copycat Suburbia  - What do China's cities look like after 15 years of government policies attempting to mimic planning templates that have since been abandoned in the ...

Which Chinese Cities Are Most Congested? The Answer May Surprise You  - A new study by online mapping company Autonavi lists China's most congested cities , with a surprising city taking the No. 2 spot. Shanghai suffers ...

China Courts Documentaries as It Limits Expression  - But while China is avidly pursuing what it considers serious content to ... because they were only children — which might be seen as casting China's  ...

Vietnam beats China when it comes to mid-autumn lanterns  - According to Nguyen Quoc Van, a shop owner there, adults and kids go ... The lanterns become available on the market in the aftermath of China's  ...

Maternity Insurance Covers Female Students, Stirring Debate  - In early July, Nanchang, the capital city of east China's Jiangxi Province, announced ... Student couples having children on campus aren't rare toady.

Ukulele gains popularity in schools  - Many parents dread the day their child brings home a recorder from school - it signals the start of a period when peace at home will broken by ...

Should my children help choose my girlfriend?  - I want to introduce them to my children to see how they get on before I make my choice. What's the best way to do this and what should I watch out for?

Urbanist lobby's goals will mean fewer families with children , more seniors needing government help  - The total fertility rate is the average number of children born to women between ... Yet the real frontier of ultra-low fertility may now be coastal China .

Three High-Ranking Officials Sacked in One Day in Northern Chinese Province  - A tiger is jargon in China for a high official targeted for corruption. ... out of China through children studying abroad, having mistresses, and so on.

Young children bring joy to elderly living in homes  - When four-year-old Li Hei-yi was one, she would visit her great-grandfather in a residential home. He'd had a stroke, suffered from diabetes and had ...

Continuing the Fight Against North Korean Atrocities  - The Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry (CoI) has found systematic human rights violations, particularly in the form of political prison ...

Watching Titanic made me realise something was wrong in my country,' says North Korean defector  - Illicit foreign films offer young North Koreans like Park Yeon-mi a rare ... Organised by the New York-based NGO Human Rights Foundation, the event ...

Dubai – ME's Global Capital and Most Influential City  - While the Middle East region rather underrepresented this year, Asia is the true leader on the 2014 list. Four Asian cities managed to sneak into the ...

Building 100 Smart Cities In India, Can Singapore Seize This Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity?  - This requires these new cities to be “smart,” i.e. creating new types of transport systems to avoid congestion that is currently so rampant in many Asian  ...

Chinese scientists create robotic arm powered only by human thoughts  - Chinese scientists have equipped a patient with a special robotic arm that she could successfully control – using just the power of her thoughts – to ...

Now that Taiwanese can petition Beijing, why not Hongkongers ?  - In traditional China, aggrieved people from around the country could seek justice by travelling to the capital and lodging a petition. In today's China ...

Protecting workers' rights is good for business, in China and elsewhere   - But this is just part of a much bigger picture of business' human rights impact in the greater China region. Equally important are the social effects of ...

Internet users in China willing to pay for concert webcasts: poll  - The survey also showed that the potential online concert audiences are younger, educated and nearly half of them are living in China's eastern and ...

Why I write love notes to my two young boys  - As chief executive officer of Business China (from 2011 to 2013), I spoke to fellow Singaporeans who ventured into China . A lot of them tell me that ...

Young children bring joy to elderly living in homes  - When four-year-old Li Hei-yi was one, she would visit her great-grandfather in a residential home. He'd had a stroke, suffered from diabetes and had ...

Lucky escape for young boy after China hit-and-run  - A six-year-old boy in China has had a lucky escape after being swept under a moving car, only to walk away moments later.

Indian men and women teams enter in Incheon Games  - While the men's team is grouped with Hong Kong , Maldives and 2010 silver medallists Iran in Group C, the women are drawn to play against hosts ...

Buoyed Hong Kong women aim high in World Series qualifiers  - Encouraged by the performance in the first leg of the Women's Asian Sevens Series at the weekend, Hong Kong coach Anna Richards is targeting a ...

UPMC to help China build private medical center to improve health care disparity there  - UPMC is helping to build a private, international medical center in China , ... A growing and aging population is putting pressure on medical services, ...

More than 300m smoke  - CHINA’S top legislature has begun reviewing a draft amendment to the 20-year-old Advertisement Law that aims to ban tobacco advertisements in more public venues and online. “Tobacco advertisements directly or indirectly transmitted via radio, film, television, newspaper, magazines, books, audio and visual products, electronic publications, telecommunication networks and the Internet are banned,” says the draft amendment submitted to lawmakers yesterday.

New Zealand scientists confident of diabetes cure after research breakthrough  - According to the International Diabetes Federation, the number of people contracting diabetes worldwide is expected to reach 592 million by 2035.

Can Chinese Millionaires Save San Francisco's Poorest Neighborhood?  - We're very grateful for the monetary support that our Chinese friends have lent to the city and county of San Francisco to make projects like the ...

Biggest Risk for China Could Be Failure to Change, Economists Say  - Among the most challenging: measures to extend social benefits to millions of migrant workers in Chinese cities , and to make local governments fund ...

Decision Time for Hong Kong   - There is little doubt that an overwhelming majority of Hong Kongers at least want a system in which the nomination committee could choose one of the ...

US missionary visits North Korea as silent 'apostle of peace'  - U.S. missionary visits North Korea as silent 'apostle of peace' ... Poverty in the North is dire, Father Hammond says, though no worse than what he ...

Rural children vulnerable to accidents, crime: report  - About 80 percent of unnatural deaths among minors in China occur in rural areas, according to a report submitted to ...

Growing number of diabetic and obese children  - They don't understand that children can get this disease." ... says Dr Ronald Ma Ching-wan, an endocrinologist at Chinese University's department of ...

China's (pet) population rising fast  - While human babies might not be increasing much in number in China despite the relaxation of the one child policy, pets are becoming much more ..

100000 children in queue for public rental flats  - The number of children whose families are in the queue for public housing has jumped 30 per cent in three years and now tops 100,000, a welfare ...

Beijing independent film festival shut down by Chinese authorities  - The Beijing independent film festival, one of China 's leading platforms for ... Authorities halted a festival in the southern city of Kunming in 2013, and ...

Daughters take helm in family-run businesses  - Family firms seem to fare better when it comes to opportunities for women . ... Hong Kong ranked sixth with 30 percent, the Philippines 37 percent, ...

Verdict on China's largest organ trading case  - An illegal human organ trading case, the largest of this kind in China , was prosecuted in Beijing on Aug 20, 2014. Fifteen defendants were put on trial ...

China planned transit route for Naxals, claims book on Kanu Sanyal  -  China had planned a secret transit route for Naxals to India via ... Sen said the members of the human rights group found that over 60 per ...

China urges guarantee of higher education for poor students  - The Ministry of Education has urged all colleges to ensure enrollment of students from low-income backgrounds in higher ...

China demands local TV drop Cantonese in favour of Mandarin  - FREE-WHEELING and business-oriented, the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is a long way from Beijing physically, culturally and linguistically — and hackles have been raised by reports that communist authorities are demanding local television drop Cantonese in favour of Mandarin.

18 college admins the latest treasures in China's anti-graft dig  - As China's anti-graft campaign spreads outwards from government offices, the education sector is losing its pristine image in dozens of embezzlement ...

Young learners enjoying their Mandarin  - While she'd planned on sticking to daily phrases for younger learners, she'd been surprised at the interest in learning to write Chinese characters.

Alibaba delivers benefits of a new digital economy to remotest China  - Like many young Chinese , Hua often made purchases on Taobao, the country's equivalent of eBay. Four years ago he realised the site's potential for ...

Young athletes enjoy performance of Chinese opera in Nanjing  - An athlete (front R2) poses for a photo with acters during a visit to Jinling Theater at Laomendong, Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu ...

India criticized for low-caste waste cleaners  - That discrimination, as well as chronic debt, blocks them from other jobs and opportunities, Human Rights Watch said. “When you have no one to ...

Mum-to-be locked in battle with Hong Kong hospital over right to keep placenta  - A heavily pregnant American woman living in Hong Kong is entangled in a bureaucratic battle with a public hospital over the fate of her placenta.

China executes eight for "terrorist" attacks in Xinjiang  - Exiled Uighur groups and human rights activists say the government's own ... “The lawyers, to accomplish political ends, led them to accept China's  ...

Carbon monoxide cited in deaths of LDS missionaries  - The New Taipei City Fire Department reminded the public that carbon monoxide poisoning does not just happen in winter when people close their ...

Changing tides could shift focus from China to Africa  -  China was facing the challenges of an ageing population much sooner than previously expected, an HSBC report said, warning that if nothing was ...

Hotel room glut makes Southeast Asian tourist hubs cheaper  - Similar properties in Southeast Asian cities , with better service quality, are up to 50% cheaper, which makes traveling to locations such as Thailand or ...

Thailand's baby farm  -  Thailand's baby farm ... Mr Nom said commercial surrogacy flourishes because the law is unclear and many people are struggling with poverty.

Asia's rise: Undoubted but not unimpeded  - Western multinationals and consumer brands have flocked to Asian cities to gain a foothold in the growing markets, as Asians aspire to a Western ...

North Korea Human Rights Film Festival offers tales of horror, heroism  - His acumen brought him an award from late dictator Kim Jong-il for earning much-needed foreign currency from China . But his fortune was no ...

US missionary in North Korea a silent 'apostle of peace'  - Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, no Catholic priest has resided in the North of this divided peninsula, where autonomous religious activity is effectively forbidden. And no enemy of the communist regime there is more detested or fiercely denounced than the United States. Nevertheless, one of the few outsiders to have penetrated the so-called hermit kingdom of the North is an 81-year-old Catholic priest from West Philadelphia. Maryknoll Father Gerard Hammond, 81, who has lived in

China targets ordinary Uighurs with beards, burkas  - AKSU, China (AP) — Outside a mosque in China's restive west, a government-appointed Muslim cleric was dodging a foreign reporter's question about why young men of the Uighur ethnic minority don't have beards when one such youth interrupted.