Left-behind children are the consequence of poverty. For lack of employment opportunities in local areas, men, the family bread winner, can’t earn enough money to maintain the children, so they have to migrate to eastern or southeastern parts of China where they can find a relatively well-paid job in different kinds of factories.
An television crew will fight charges of kidnapping over their involvement in the allegedly botched abduction and recovery of an Australian mother's children, local media reported Wednesday, in a case that's brought journalism ethics into question.
Victoria has become the first Australian state to legalize medicinal cannabis, after passing an historic bill in parliament overnight.
Members of an Australian investigative news team arrested in Beirut, Lebanon, earlier this week, have formally been charged on grounds of kidnapping on Wednesday (Australian time).
At rush hour every weekday, women with babies slung across their arms line the traffic-choked streets of the Indonesian capital, flagging down drivers looking to game Jakarta’s carpooling laws by hiring a few extra passengers.
Solemn-faced couples holding a hammer and a sickle were a common sight in the early 1980s, when China introduced its one-child policy. They looked out of posters above a red slogan proclaiming, "Controlled population, planned growth".
Experts at the ongoing Bologna Children's Book Fair have hailed Chinese writer Cao Wenxuan's win of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, saying they expect enhanced Sino-Western publishing exchanges.
A record number of Australian children were charged with weapons and explosives offences in 2015, according to statistics released on Tuesday.
Hong Kong public health clinics for children will have a new monthly cap on services for non-local children in light of a surge in mainland enquiries following an expired vaccine scare.
China will carry out a nationwide census on rural left-behind children, those whose parents work away from home, to ensure proper arrangements for their lives and education.
A Chinese hospital has launched psychological counseling that simulates a two-child family to help kids raised as single children prepare for unexpected siblings.
A group of round-the-world sailors dropped anchor at the eastern Chinese coastal city of Qingdao for supplies and to bring a message of social awareness about children.
With a frown on her face, the 10-year-old Sawsan is selling bread pack in downtown Damascus.
A survey revealed on Sunday that up to 80 percent of children living in sub-divided units, partitioned flats or rooftop shanties, suffered from different degrees of backbone problems.
At least five children were killed and five others went missing Sunday after a boat carrying 13 children capsized in eastern Indian state of Bihar, officials said.
Sun Xuemei had no time to celebrate Women's Day on Tuesday as she spent it fielding interviews about a campaign to protect a particularly vulnerable group of women.
China will significantly increase medical resources for children in the next five years, the head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission said on Tuesday.
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