China has spent more than 8 billion yuan (1.25 billion U.S. dollars) subsidizing farmers' children in Tibet to attend boarding schools since introducing the policy three decades ago, the regional education department said Thursday.
Children will bear the brunt of climate change as more than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported ahead of the 21st United Nations climate change conference, known as COP21.
Yang Yueqing can still recall her very first sight of "Olivia" three years ago.
Children are seen as the builders of a nation. Educated, healthy and motivated children guarantee a prosperous future. Therefore, it is advisable and many countries practically strive to protect the children from all sorts of evils and promise them better living standards. It is essential that all the people in the world and all the governments realize that they have a special responsibility towards the children which they have to fulfill in every condition.
A mask-clad attacker suspected of stabbing children and staff at an elementary school in west Sweden on Thursday died in hospital hours after being shot by police at the crime scene.
It was the 24th consecutive year of increase since the ministry started compiling such statistics in fiscal 1990.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday said conflict, violence and displacement happening in Syria have made more than two million children in the country unable to go back to school and another 400,000 at risk of dropping out of school.
One in three children aged between 10 and 15 in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City has belly fat, an alarming fact as fat has generally been associated with adults, nutritionists said Wednesday.
Islamic State (IS) militants have kidnapped 127 children in IS-held Iraqi city of Mosul recently to train them in the ranks of the terror group, Iraqi News reported on Tuesday.
The national health authority has pledged to include diagnosis and treatment of birth defects under health insurance programs.
Unicef condemned on Thursday the incidents of violence against children in Bangladesh which happened recently in different parts of the country.
As many as 14 Syrian children recruited by the Islamic State (IS) group have recently been killed during the terror group's battles in Iraq, a monitor group reported on Tuesday.
It's been three days since the resumption of educational institutions in the quake-stricken Himalayan nation,but the children are yet to break free from the shackles of fear following the massive, life-altering disaster, with its lethal and frequent subsequent aftershocks.
While many Chinese parents chose to take their children to parks or museums to celebrate Children's Day, one group of youngsters in south China was treated to a tour of multi-million-yuan mansions in hopes they would aspire to live in one.
Hussein Dandashi, a nine-year old Syrian refugee, was waiting outside a school in a poor district in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli for pupils to finish their school day to play soccer with them.
More than 60,000 Chinese orphans received free health insurance contracts on Monday as a gift for Children's Day.
More than 600 minors have been missing in Italy since 2009, figures of Italian children's charity Telefono Azzurro (Blue Telephone) showed on Monday, the International Missing Children's Day.
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