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China posts slowest population growth in decades: census data
AFP, Published on 11/05/2021
» BEIJING: China's population has grown at its slowest pace in decades, reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on Tuesday.
China passes laws, deploys counsellors to battle soaring divorce rate
AFP, Published on 23/03/2021
» SHANGHAI: From a small office in Shanghai, marriage counsellor Zhu Shenyong livestreams advice over several phones simultaneously to an attentive audience keen to save their relationships.
US stimulus checks could end up in stock markets, bitcoin
AFP, Published on 16/03/2021
» WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus will start flooding into the US economy soon, and some analysts say much of that money could end up invested in stocks or even bitcoin.
No baby boom in China as births fall further in 2020
AFP, Published on 09/02/2021
» BEIJING: China's number of registered births in 2020 dropped by nearly a third from the total births reported the year before, in the latest sign that relaxations in the country's strict family planning policy are failing to spark a baby boom.
Chengdu: China's permissive 'gay capital' refusing to fold
AFP, Published on 31/12/2020
» CHENGDU (CHINA) - It's Saturday night at the HUNK club in Chengdu and men in gold lycra shorts and black boots dance on stage. They wear kimonos, in an apparent tactical compromise with new morality codes creeping into China's "gay capital".
A year in Wuhan: AFP's Guardian agency photographer of 2020
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» WUHAN (CHINA) - AFP's Chilean photographer Hector Retamal, based in Shanghai, has been named news agency photographer of the year by The Guardian for work including his reporting on the ordeal of people in Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic started.
France mourns ex-president Giscard as reformer, European
AFP, Published on 03/12/2020
» PARIS - France on Thursday mourned its former president Valery Giscard d'Estaing after he died from Covid-19 aged 94, with tributes hailing him as an ambitious social reformer and great European statesman.
Pope backs civil unions for gay couples
AFP, Published on 22/10/2020
» ROME - Pope Francis on Wednesday voiced support for same-sex couples, calling them "children of God" and saying they should be allowed to have legally recognised civil unions, in a radical shift from previous pontiffs.
Cartier's 'father-son' Valentine draws derision in China
AFP, Published on 13/08/2020
» BEIJING - French luxury brand Cartier is facing online mockery in China over a Valentine-themed advert which appears to show a gay couple who are described in a caption as depicting "father-son" love.
European tourism dips a toe in the water
Published on 16/05/2020
» On the Greek island of Mykonos, Mayor Kostas Koukas is desperately trying to revive the tourism that is the lifeblood of the local economy.