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SHANGHAI: Ctrip has issued the following press release: -In response to the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), James Liang and Huang Wenzheng released a research paper comparing the data [...]

Byline: Lily Kuo, Lyric Li TAIPEI, Taiwan - Governments across East Asia - from China and Taiwan to Japan and South Korea - have been trying to convince women to [...]

HEFEI, June 26, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- It was past midnight when Feng Longfeng received a call. She got up and hurried to a bereaved family in the neighborhood. [...]

China's top legislative body passed an amendment to the country's Population and Family Planning Law yesterday, ­endorsing a major policy shift ­allowing couples to have up to three children. The [...]

The biggest thing retired electrical worker Zhang Guancheng misses is being able to wander around parks and chat with old friends. Since the 83-year-old widower moved into a nursing home [...]

The move is the Communist Party's latest attempt to reverse declining birthrates and avert a population crisis, but experts say it is woefully inadequate. China said on Monday that it [...]

Byline: Sui-Lee Wee Some local governments are allowing couples to have more children without penalties, but the ruling Communist Party seems reluctant to lift restrictions altogether. When Fan Jianhua had [...]

Some local governments are allowing couples to have more children without penalties, but the ruling Communist Party seems reluctant to lift restrictions altogether. When Fan Jianhua had her third daughter [...]

Byline: SOMMER BROKAW China's top legislative body has passed a three-child policy into law to encourage childbearing. The major policy change announced in May was passed Friday through an amendment [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH SHIM China said the nation's population is increasing, after multiple press reports suggested the number of newborn babies is on the decline. Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics posted [...]

Byline: Joe Curtis and Simon Foy 27 Apr 2021-05:04PM BST FTSE closes in the red The FTSE 100 index at the close was down 18.15 or 0.26pc at 6944.97, while [...]

BEIJING -- The Singapore government has deployed financial incentives and even Mentos mints to increase births. In Russia, more money in mothers' pension accounts and ''Conception Day,'' with time off [...]

Byline: DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW BEIJING -- The Singapore government has deployed financial incentives and even Mentos mints to increase births. In Russia, more money in mothers' pension accounts and 'Conception [...]

BEIJING, Jan 23, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Following the end of the one-child policy, allowing all couples to have two children, China is keen to encourage more parents to [...]

BEIJING, Jan 20, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China's migrant population, people who leave their hometown to seek employment or education elsewhere, decreased for the first time in about 30 [...]