Authorities are tracking the health records of the last group of women whose faces were tattooed in a southwestern tribal tradition as they seek to preserve the vanishing ethnic culture.
The 17th Incheon Asian Games concluded all the competition with 14 world records broken 17 times and six doping cases detected prior to the closing ceremony Saturday evening.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon here on Thursday called for renewed commitment and action to sustain the unprecedented progress made in improving the health of women and children worldwide.
U.S. research expPregnant women were more likely to get sicker from the flu than other healthy adults because they have an unusually strong immune response to influenza, a new study from the Stanford University said Monday.
Senior diplomats from South Korea and Japan will hold talks about the imperialistic Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, South Korea's foreign ministry said Thursday.
Pregnant women who avidly follow showbiz new and celebrity "baby bumps" can end up being less attached to their newborns than other mums, according to a New Zealand study.
Consumption of two or more servings of fish per week may reduce the risk of hearing loss in women, U.S. researchers said Wednesday.
Since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office and launched his cabinet in December 2012, his lineup has remained unchanged for about 20 months, creating a record for a postwar prime minister.
The international community should help more than one billion women and girls across the world who rely on dark nights and quiet moments to relieve themselves because they "do not have access to sanitation."
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) came under fire Friday as one of its lower house lawmakers admitted making sexist remarks to a female Diet member during a committee hearing in April.
Police in east China's Wenzhou City have cracked a gang suspected of offering illegal fetus gender tests via medical institutions in Hong Kong, it was announced on Tuesday.
South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday that its director general-level diplomat will head to Tokyo later this week to hold talks about Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women.
South Korea and Japan confirmed differences on Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women after holding the first director general-level talks on the " comfort women" issue.
South Korea and Japan decided to hold director general-level talks in Seoul next week to discuss the issue of Korean women forced into sex slavery in the Japanese military brothels during the World War II, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
Japan said Monday it will adhere to its official 1993 apology for the forcible conscription of women into sexual slavery by its military during the Second World War.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said Thursday that his landmark 1995 apology for the nation's wartime atrocities and the 1993 Kono statement admitting culpability and apologizing for Japan's forcible wartime conscription of sex slaves should not be re-examined.
The Lao National Commission for the Advancement of Women met to draft a national plan for the eradication of violence against women and children, local media reported on Monday.
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