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Teaching cranes self-sufficiency
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/04/2022
» The dance of the red-crowned cranes commenced, an impromptu pas de deux.
When you can take it with you -- just
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/03/2022
» If you were leaving home forever and had just a few hours to collect your thoughts and most precious belongings, items that would have to fit into a knapsack or purse, or just your pockets, what would you choose?
Guns, blasts and smiles in Kyiv under military curfew
AFP, Published on 27/02/2022
» KYIV: Men with long guns peered out of slow-moving cars Sunday after a night of booms and gunfire under Kyiv's state-of-war curfew -- imposed with shoot-on-sight orders.
Can't find love? China's party cadres lend a hand
AFP, Published on 11/02/2022
» BEIJING - Zhang Shaoge wants to get married, but after struggling to meet the right woman through friends and work -- he has put his heart in the hands of China's Communist Party.
Iron curtain falls on Hong Kong cinema as censors demand cuts
AFP, Published on 21/09/2021
» HONG KONG: Once renowned for world-class cinema, Hong Kong's film industry was already struggling before the latest hurdle -- Chinese mainland-style censorship as authorities take their purge of dissent into the cultural sphere.
Danish minister on trial for separating migrant couples
AFP, Published on 02/09/2021
» COPENHAGEN - A former Danish immigration minister went on trial on Thursday over rare impeachment charges, accused of illegally separating couples who arrived in the country to claim asylum.
School's out? Tuition curbs pile on the anxiety for China's parents
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» BEIJING - In Beijing's exclusive Haidian district, Zhao says she ploughs $10,000 a year into extra classes for her eight-year-old, a leg up in the competitive scramble of modern China -- and an advantage the state now wants to restrict.
A third child? No, thanks, say young Chinese
AFP, Published on 02/06/2021
» BEIJING: China wants its women to have more children but for many young people, the government's big promises of support mean little because of soaring living costs and changing mindsets about families.
China allows couples to have three children as birthrate falls
AFP, Published on 31/05/2021
» BEIJING - China will allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media said Monday, further unwinding four decades of strict family planning controls in the world's most populous nation.
Taiwan hurtles towards 'super-aged' status as birthrate plummets
AFP, Published on 27/05/2021
» TAIPEI - Wu En-tzu has delivered more than 2,000 babies working as an obstetrician but she has no desire to have children of her own -- an increasingly common position taken by Taiwanese families.