Since July 31, 21 children in China have drowned, sounding the alarm for the government to fully commit to improving children's safety and preventing similar incidents from happening in the future.
The UN Security Council on Monday condemned a deadly attack near the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city over the weekend, which killed 12 people and wounded 24 others.
A 26-year-old Fijian mother has been charged with two counts of manslaughter arising from negligence and duty of care of parents for the deaths of her two children in Taveuni, Fiji.
Overseas study tours have been suspended after Saturday's plane crash in San Francisco, which killed two Chinese girls from east China's Zhejiang Province.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the UN mission in the country on Monday strongly condemned two bomb attacks in eastern provinces which claimed the lives of 20 people, including 12 children.
Over Ninety percent of parents support educating minors about sex, and incorporating it into school education, the Beijing News, reported on Monday, citing a survey.
Huang Mingzhen goes home once every three weeks, only to see the sullen, expressionless face of his 13-year-old son Huang Bo. Like Huang, many abducted children find it hard to be forcibly separated from their foster parents and integrate with their biological family. With Children's Day just around the corner, the well-being of these returned children has garnered widespread attention. Moreoever, around half of abducted children came from rural families, who often cannot afford to provide psychological counselling to these children undergone such a traumatic experience.
Ma Mei is considering buying an iPad for her three-year-old daughter as a gift for International Children's Day, which falls on Saturday. But the child's grandmother has objected, saying she should spend more time outdoors instead of playing with a tablet.
Two children were stabbed to death by their father early Tuesday morning in the western Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima according to local press.
A recent study has found that Hong Kong children tend to be significantly more narcissistic than their counterparts in Western countries with authoritarian and permissive parenting style as a contributing factor.
At least eight school children were killed and 12 others were injured Thursday when a school bus skidded off the mountain road and fell into a deep gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
A total of 13 children out of 78 were killed in a fire that broke out with a mosque school in Yangon's Botataung township early Tuesday, local authorities confirmed.
After being separated for five years, 12-year-old Wang Yi's dream of seeing his parents for the upcoming Spring Festival holiday was dashed after he was told that his parents failed to secure train tickets.
After seven people, including six handicapped children and one adult, died on Friday, the orphanage owner,Yuan Lihai - who is also the children's foster mother - said she won't abandon her charity work.
Seven people, including six handicapped children and one adult, died on Friday in a fire that engulfed an unlicensed orphanage in central China.
Russia is probably the only country where for children the acronym "DM" stands not for the famed British rock band Depeche Mode, but for Ded Moroz, which literally means Grandfather Frost, the Russian analogue of the Western Santa Claus.Artem, 8, who seems to know nearly everything about Ded Moroz, has not lost a belief in his existence as a real person.
China's urban population now outnumbers its rural for the first time - a major change, in the country's social structure.But China still has a long way to go to become truly city-based, with many side-effects from the rapid urbanization.
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