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China's Surprising Advice To College Students: Drop Out  - To deal with a glut of college graduates, China's education ministry has launched a new campaign of sorts encouraging entrepreneurship among students, and even asking universities to allow students to drop out of school to start businesses.

Hongkongers discriminate against people with psychosis despite better understanding: study  -  Hongkongers ' negative attitudes towards people with psychosis have not softened in the last five years despite an improved understanding of the ...

Hongkongers try their luck for first new government subsidised flats on sale since 2003  - Hopeful Hongkongers flocked to submit applications this morning for a chance to buy the first government-subsidised flats to go on sale in more than a ...

Chinese Leaders Fear Hong Kong Will be a Base For Subversion"   - In a radio interview yesterday, Lau said Beijing hoped Hongkongers would consider issues such as national security and the national interest more ...

Hong Kong doctors back fight for democracy with new group  - The government still stuck to its own course even after tens of thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets," Lo says of the street protests.

NGO Oxfam wants Chinese taught to Hong Kong minorities in kindergarten  - He was luckier than most ethnic-minority Hongkongers . His older sister had been through the same experience and the boy, born in the city to a ...

Chinese city government bans Christmas in schools  - singing jolly carols and hoarding presents, one whole city of school children in China were unfortunately unable to celebrate the occasion because ...

Children step out of Daliang Mountain  - Up to 93 children from Daliang Mountain in southwest China's Sichuan province study at a private music school in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei ...

China to develop safety standards for baby feeding products   - The China Toy and Juvenile Products Association will develop the country's first industry-wide safety standards for infant and children's  ...

China Stresses Protection of AIDS Children's Privacy   -  Chinese authorities have stressed privacy protection for AIDS-affected children and may punish those found leaking private information. No institutions ...

Those fleeing war are now facing a brutal winter  - By day the children forage for fuel and food. At night the families burn garbage to try to keep warm as the icy winds sweep down from the Hindu Kush ...

 Looking out for vulnerable international adoptees  -  China's orphanages and foster homes used to be filled with healthy girls, reflecting the country's one- child policy and its preference for sons. Now the ...

China detains young Tibetan blogger in Tibet on unknown charges  - In further crackdown on Tibetan dissents, a Tibetan blogger has been arrested by Chinese  ...

The changing face of North Korea's refugees  - Every year, hundreds of North Koreans risk their lives escaping the ... peaked at 3,000 - most of them motivated by hunger and grinding poverty . North ...

Shenzhen is latest city in China to restrict car sales to fight pollution   - The city of Shenzhen, in southern China , said on Monday, Dec 29, 2014, that it would restrict sales of new cars, joining major cities including Shanghai ...

China recounts, standardizes place names   -  China has began to recount and record the names of the country's cities , rivers and mountains in a bid to update its geographic ...

In China , app aims to shame polluters by showing who is fouling air  - Moreover, the same smokestack plumes that blanket China's cities in stifling clouds of tiny, lung-scarring particles make the country the world's leading ...

Subway ticket price hike challenges city management  -  China's city management faces a tough test. The country is developing rapidly with various changes. It is difficult to have fixed price systems and social ...

China rethinking plans to develop coal-to-gas plants  -  China's coal-to-gas industry has struggled through a difficult year that has spurred doubts among government officials about keeping this technology ...

Police 'killing' triggers online uproar in China   - Police officers in China are often accused by rights groups and critics of ... They often extort confessions with violence, according to human rights  ...

No Season of Goodwill for China's Underground Christians   -  China's ruling Communist party is officially atheist and effectively banned ... and China that put humans at the centre of everything, the human rights  ...

Debate on N Korea vital to resolve abduction issue  - For the first time ever, the UN Security Council has held official discussions on human rights concerns involving North Korea , including the abduction ...

What Will North Korea Do Next?   - plus the deplorable North Korean human rights record made its debut on the agenda of the U.N. Security Council; (3) the Obama administration can ...

No, China does not hold more than 50 percent of US debt  - Our free stuff [government programs] today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing from China . When that note comes due ...

China stresses protection of AIDS children's privacy   -  Chinese authorities have stressed privacy protection for AIDS-affected children and may punish those found leaking private information.

Filipino children and the negotiation of modernity   - In traditional society, the status of the child is determined by the social position of the family from which she springs. Indeed, parents “own” their ...

In China , a rare criminal case in which evidence made a difference   - It would take four trials, three appeals and a review by China's Supreme Court during the ... Within hours, the four children in the group fell violently ill.

Chinese boy buried alive by lorry while building sandcastles on building site  - The surviving children said they had not noticed the lorry reversing towards them with a fresh ... Rescuers haul the body of the child from the sand.

Malaria killing thousands more than Ebola in West Africa   - Malaria is the leading cause of death in children under five in Guinea and, after AIDS, the leading cause of adult deaths, according to Nets for Life.

Chinese University finds people with diabetes at greater risk of depression   - conducted by the Hong Kong Diabetes Registry between 1997 and 2008, which showed that for people with diabetes and depression, the risk of ...

Justice system failed for innocent teens who spent six months in custody   - Bear in mind that we are talking about two very young people . ... But Hong Kong has no timetable for the outside limit of when such an event should ...

Different Pictures of 'One Country, Two Systems'   - The authority of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) were not ...

Umbrella movement anthem may become Hong Kong's song of the year   - I've never seen anything like this happen in Hong Kong : people being so united by a common cause, which we fully support," says Ly, who kicked off ...

Cabinet officials grilled over China's divided pension programs  - It is estimated that by 2053, about 487 million Chinese will be older than 60, ... To cope with increasing pressure from a graying population , the ...

China's elderly flock back to university  -  China's elderly flock back to university ... “We had one student who studied piano for one year when she was young , but her parents forced her to quit,” ...

Chinese luxury car owners consider themselves to be self-confident, stubborn yet enthusiastic.  - Overall, the findings showed that luxury car owners in China are young , highly educated and with a high income. The average age of the car owner ...

Young readers benefit from a curated selection of books   - When children are little, part of the process of learning to read involves finding "just right" books. A just right book is one that interests a child and that ...

Benchmarks for global smart cities   - First, Singapore is a sovereign, island city -state in South-East Asia while Dubai is a city -emirate in the Middle East, part of the larger federation of the ...

Parents in China face agonizing, lonely search for missing kids  - In the grainy video, Zhang Xiuhong can see her daughter ride her bike down a country road on her way to school one spring afternoon six years ago. In the next shot, Yao Li rides down a driveway a few moments after her classmates walk by. Then, the pictures stop: The 15-year-old disappeared just minutes after that surveillance footage was taken, leaving only a shoe as a clue in a nearby ditch.

65% of seniors want to live with children  - Only 18 percent of those surveyed said that they want to live alone with their partner. Only 14 percent said that they would be willing to live in a retirement home or senior community.

Some Lucky North Koreans Will Get To See “The Interview” Because Of This Man  - He has partnered with Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation in New York to finance his balloon project. Halvorssen says North Koreans  ...

The Interview wants to be a brutal satire of North Korea and the media. Don't fall for it.   - In a smart piece, my Verge colleague Emily Yoshida argues that the film trivializes the ongoing human rights calamities in North Korea . Similarly, Vox's ...

NoKor blames US for Internet 'blackout'   -  North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures ... According to the North Korea commission's spokesman, “the U.S., a big ... North's nuclear and missile programs and its alleged human rights abuses.

Korea struggles to enact hate speech laws  - While Oh was taken into custody by the police right after the attack, such ... the Seoul City's enactment of the Charter of Human Rights was canceled due to ... In South Korea, activities or speeches in favor of the North Korean regime ...

Imperialism and The Interview: The Racist Dehumanization of North Korea  - We are sometimes misled to believe that the media and entertainment depictions of North Korea are somehow about its human rights abuses. And to ...

China May Lower Number of Crimes Punishable by Death  - The human rights group Dui Hua reports China executed 2,400 people last year. That is more executions than the rest of the world combined. But it is ...

Asia lost in human drama  - But what is happening between China and young protesters in Hong Kong, between China and maritime neighbours such as South Korea, Japan and ...

Heavy smog shrouds north China   -  Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin and those in the surrounding areas are once again shrouded in heavy smog that is ...

Solving China's water scarcity problem won't be easy   - But with an ongoing drought and massive population boom in its cities , water scarcity is fast replacing pollution as China's major problem, ...

China's trade growth seen falling short of target in 2014  - China's trade will grow 3.5 percent in 2014, implying the ... of Social Sciences predicted that real estate prices in Chinese cities would ...

Doing e-business with the dragon   - McKinsey Global Intitute assessed what it called China's e-tailing revolution in early 2013. Then, China had an estimated 130 million residential ...

Cabinet officials grilled for divided pension programs, depreciating funds  -  China is an aging society, with people above 60 numbering more than 200 million in 2013 and accounting for 14.8 percent of the whole population .

Insufficient Fields Penalize Soccer's Grassroots Growth  - Despite China's bold ambition to develop soccer at the grassroots, the lack of soccer fields has hampered public participation, said a national survey ...

China's small schools go digital  - Small schools, or the official term "teaching spots", are seen by many as the weakest link in China's elementary education . Most are nestled in remote ...

When income inequality hurts economic growth  - Better fed, clad and housed, the poor still fail to afford an investment in education . They lag behind like their ancestors, and inequality persistently ...

China Launches Children's Rare Diseases Fund  - The China Child Rare Disease Aid Fund of the China Social Assistance Foundation (CSAF) was launched in Beijing on December 26, 2014. It is the ...

Agonizing, Lonely Search for Missing Kids in China   - Zhang and her husband have since searched all over China for Yao Li, hoping to rescue her from a child trafficking industry that swallows up ...

Death-row Prisoner Declared Innocent in Call to Punish Police  - had tortured him to make him confess and fabricated evidence that led to his conviction for the murder of two children in southeast China in 2006.

Adopted child proves an early Christmas gift   - Jody and I were not actively searching for children in China , or anywhere for that matter,” Julie said. “I just happened to be online one evening and I ...

Charity mission a dietician's journey of personal growth  - Navigating the rocky roads of rural China with a couple of children strapped into a pushchair was a far cry from Jasmine Ong's standard working day in ...

Oral Health and the Child With Cerebral Palsy  -  children with CP were identified from a complete list of special childcare centers in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), China .

Mother insists that child supermodel is sheltered from fame  - Kristina Pimenova has been dubbed “the most beautiful girl in the world” but her mother says the 8-year-old Russian supermodel is ...

Genes linked to developmental disorders in children : UK research team  - British scientists said Wednesday they had discovered 12 genes linked to developmental disorders in children that can cause heart defects, ...

Pressure on China to Further Reduce Birth Restrictions  -  China's government implemented new rules this year easing China's one- child policy, allowing couples to have two children if one spouse is an only ...

South China's Dongguan to Establish Its First Domestic-Violence Shelter  - A domestic-violence shelter will be opened in Dongguan, a city in south China's Guangdong Province, to protect women and children in need of ...

Chinese city makes 'socalist values' mandatory: Report  - A Chinese city is attempting to force its eight million residents to memorise and recite a series of "socialist values," state-media reported ...

Chinese gay man wants all parents of gay children to know 'gay conversion' treatment is now illegal  - In the first case of its kind in China , Beijing's Haidian District People's Court last Friday ruled that the Xinyupiaoxiang Counseling Center in Chongqing ...

Beauty firm's business not pretty in China  - The Justice department is looking into whether the bank hired children of China's elite in order to win business from the Chinese government.

North Korean reality isn't funny for Christians:  -    The response from North Korea was, as is typical of the regime, oppressive. ... Human rights groups estimate that more than 200,000 people are ...

China Reduces Number of Crimes Punishable by Death  - I think that China doesn't want to be too much of an outlier in respect to human rights," said Nicholas Bequelin, a senior researcher with Human  ...

China to add over 13 million jobs in 2014   - China's registered urban jobless rate will remain at a "relatively low" level, Yin Weimin, China's human resources and social security minister, said ...

No Custody Rights for the Irresponsible and Molester  - This is in line with the Chinese government's objective to stop violence ... Apart from the previous condition, parents who sell their children will also ...

Living God's love: They were unwanted children , but to the Risley family, they are treasured, and ...   - The Risley family have felt a religious calling to go to China and adopt three more children this December which will bring the total number of kids they ...

Sants Claus comes to China  - Although a majority of Chinese people do not receive a Christmas break, the country's ... The children will sing songs, eat snacks, and play games.

Chinese Go to Korea for a Change of Face - One night, the three young Chinese women visited the latest hot spot: a ... Seizing an opportunity to tap the steady and ubiquitous flow of China's  ...

Tibetan Woman Self-Immolates And Dies In Protest Of Chinese Rule; Family Apprehended By ...  - Tsepe Kyi self-immolated in protest of the Chinese government's rule of Tibet. She died, and her parents and brother were taken away by police.

China's young filmgoers bring box office surprises  - The disappointing box office performance of epic drama "The Crossing: Part 1" is a sign of the growing influence of a ...

Chinese Hit Back Against a Foreign Intrusion: Christmas  - Even if the holiday is largely devoid of its religious connotations, gift-giving among young Chinese is soaring, and nearly every office building, ...

Christmas banned by Chinese university, says it is 'kitsch'  - BEIJING - A university in northwestern China has banned Christmas, calling it a "kitsch" foreign celebration unbefitting of the country's own traditions ...

N Korea's Human Rights 'Worst In The World'  - The DPRK ( North Korea ) is in effect a totalitarian state which uses violence and repression against its own citizens ... The images demonstrate the poverty inside the country and the degree to which China cooperates with its old ally.

Why America would be foolish to wage a cyber-war against North Korea  - and weaker antagonist, it would reveal the poverty of American thinking and strategy. Yes, what North Korea did opens a new page in the terrorist handbook, and could presage far more destructive attacks on American business.

Lower-tier cities in China grapple with brain drain  - This means that second- and third-tier cities in China's hinterland are affected the most and have begun competing with each other to draw immigrants ...

Christmas is cancelled for Chinese university students in effort to 'resist the expansion of Western ...  -  China's young, moneyed middle class has adopted Western-derived ... Meanwhile, in high-end hotels in major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, ...

Tech and inspiration create a 'plush' sensation  - The source of Low's inspiration was the fact that due to the prevalence of one- child families there were many lonely children in China . He felt that a ...

Why Christmas Is Huge in China  - There’s a joke going around: “Santa Claus was descending into China from the sky. Due to the heavy smog, he fell to the ground, but no one dared help him up. While he was still lying in the snow, his bag was ransacked for presents, and his reindeer and sleigh taken away by the chengguan . Therefore, no Christmas this year.”

China Focus: Oh, Christmas! Let's have some fun!  - Although a majority of Chinese people do not have a Christmas ... The children will sing songs, eat snacks and play games with her ...

North Korean prison guards 'cooked female prisoner's baby and fed it to their dogs', more accounts ...  - Horrific detail has emerged from a UN report on human rights abuses in North Korea suggesting prison officials in the state "cooked" a female ...

Yes, North Korea has the internet. Here's what it looks like.  -  North Korea is so paranoid about its citizens accessing the internet that merely owning a ... Most of the country is still mired in poverty , much of it rural.

Christmas in China : With saxophones, Smurfs and steam trains  - The commercial importance of Christmas in China is typified in the eastern city of Yiwu, which supplies some 60 percent of the world's decorations, ...

Staggered work hours won't solve city's traffic problems  - In 2010, Shanghai residents spent 47 minutes on average commuting to and from their workplaces, ranking third among 50 surveyed cities in China , ...

Uber business model faces legal scrutiny in Taiwan, Chinese mega city  -  Uber, valued at around US$40bil (RM140bil), operates in eight Chinese cities . Chongqing, where it has been carrying out a free trial, would be the ...

Will China Be Seeking Dairy Products in 2015?  - With over 18 millions babies born each year, around 200 millions of children at the age 0-12 China become a significant point on the milk exporter ...

Toys From Abusive Chinese Factories Bring No Holiday Cheer  - Eighty-five percent of all children's toys that are sold in the United States come from China . Furthermore, these toys often come with too many hazards ...

Film and Cartoon Rating System for Children  - Recently, an unofficial film and cartoon rating system for children has been put forward in China . It was created by a PhD of Brain Science at the ...

Oh, Christmas! Let's have some fun!   - Although a majority of Chinese people do not have a Christmas break, the country's youth have been increasingly getting into the holiday spirit. Different from family reunions that often mark the celebration in the west, Chinese observe the day by getting together with friends, shopping, giving gifts and romance. 

Hong Kong's children need better protection of their rights  -  When the lives and rights of children are at stake," said Unicef director Carol Bellamy, "there must be no silent witnesses". In the 20 years since the ...

Sitcom Integrating Socialist Values Well Received across China  - The show's organizers, the Department for Children of the All- China Women's Federation (ACWF) and the National Public Culture Development ...

China's Property Slowdown Prompts Diversification  - China's real estate sector has experienced a slowdown in recent months, with ... Excess housing stock exists in more than one-third of Chinese cities .

China eyes elimination of most foreign tech  -  China eyes elimination of most foreign tech ... The push comes after a test of domestic alternatives in the northeastern city of Siping that was deemed a ...

City Beat: Business event awards go to show Hong Kong's still got it  - It also rated Hong Kong the best city for business events in the region, ... neighbours, such as Singapore, Seoul and the big cities of mainland China .

China's internet finance boom helps close salary gap with Hong Kong  - The booming internet finance sector on the mainland has made the job market more attractive there as the salary gap between major Chinese cities  ...

China – Ghost Cities  - Vast new cities are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns. Racing to stay ahead ...

China's Economy Eased Pace in 2014  - Huang said the government should reconsider its policy of restricting moves of rural dwellers to China's largest cities as it liberalizes its "hukou" ...

Experiencing Chinese culture  - Amanda Blanton, a supervisor with the Brown County Educational Service Center, spent a week in China on an educational and cultural tour ...

China's Second “Cultural Revolution”: “Moralizing Capitalism”  -  China is in the midst of its second ‘cultural revolution’ in a half century.  While the first (under Chairman Mao Tse Tung) was intended to ‘revitalize socialism’; the current is directed to ‘moralizing’capitalism.  The first CR was a frontal attack on the hierarchy of power and privilege

China makes an example of Jackie Chan's son  - Jaycee Chan charged: The son of Hong Kong action film star Jackie Chan was indicted on the charge of 'sheltering others to use drugs.' If convicted ...

Young Tibetan sets woman herself on fire in protest against Chinese repression  - The tragic episode took place in Sichuan province. Since 2009, 135 Tibetans have taken their lives demanding an end to Chinese dictatorship and the ...

Causes and consequences of more time and money  - The life cycle difference is summed up by the idea that young and old differ because the young have yet to live through the life experiences of their ...

China goes crazy over Christmas  - Many Christmas “traditions” have been brought back by young Chinese who have studied abroad, Ho said, meaning the holiday often bears more ...

Hangzhou emerges as China's new Silicon Valley  -  China is beginning to emerge as a legitimate contender to Silicon Valley as the ... than double the US$3.5 billion for the whole of last year, said Ernst & Young . China trails only the US, where venture investments reached US$37.3 ...

North Korea back online after nine-hour blackout following suspected cyber attack after The ...  - The battle of the nerds rages on as North Korean websites were back ... North Korea has an incredibly high level of censorship, meaning most of the ... problem in a country which suffers from rampant poverty and regular power cuts.