In the shadows of Kuala Lumpur’s gleaming high-rises, a non-governmental organisation has started holding workshops on sexual abuse for children of a poor Indian community, once a haunt of convicted British paedophile Richard Huckle.
With the help of DNA test, police in north China's Hebei province have managed to find parents for six children who were abducted more than 20 years ago, local sources said.
With all the inducements to buy, buy, buy as the holiday season approaches, there’s no better time to start teaching your children about financial literacy
The British Council has obtained a licence from the education authorities to operate its first kindergarten in Hong Kong, the organisation announced yesterday.
At a time when the Norwegian authorities are looking for ways to resolve the controversies surrounding the country's child welfare service Barnevernet, local media organizations should be more engaged in reporting relevant cases and help promote children protection, media veterans and rights lawyers said at a seminar on Monday.
Authorities on Sunday launched an investigation into a deadly boat accident in southwest Chinese province of Sichuan on Saturday, as 14 people including at least six children remained missing.
Only around half of Korean parents are willing to be financially responsible for their children after they graduate from university.
The International Day for Protection of Children is celebrated on June 1 and has been observed as the Children's Day in many countries since 1950, while different countries in Latin America and Caribbean have different ways and days to celebrate the event.
China's State Council carried out new measures to better protect vulnerable children on Wednesday, International Children's Day.
Chinese online shoppers are bargain hunters. But when it comes to the well-being of their children, they can be pretty generous.
The government is carrying out the first survey of minors in the rural areas with the aim of ensuring they are safe and have access to education, as Luo Wangshu reports from Huarong, Hunan province.
The right to be a child's guardian must be removed whenever parents and guardians are found to have sexually abused minors, officials from China's top court said on Tuesday in response to a rise in such cases in recent years.
Children have always been the most vulnerable group in wars. When adults start a war, children have no choice but to experience, at minimum, the same horrors as their parents. As Wednesday marks International Children's Day, we tell three stories about children and war.
Xin Xin, 14, does not expect any gifts on International Children's Day, as he has lived a life he describes as "pretty much like an orphan."
Most children remember their school days fondly, but for students of a school in Youxian County in central China's Hunan Province, it is a time they would prefer to forget.
"There is no life for me in Afghanistan. There is no life for children where there is war," Ahmet, a 15-year-old Afghan boy told Xinhua in a recent interview in a minors camp in the Greek island of Lesvos where the majority of the more than 1 million refugees and migrants have landed since 2015.
The relaxation of China's family planning policy has led to a drop in the number of children being adopted, a trend that is expected to continue.
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