Thailand is hailed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday as the first country in Asia to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
A child was confirmed dead and 14 other people went missing after a leisure boat capsized on a lake in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday.
Takayuki Tanooka meets with reporters Friday in Hakodate after his 7-year-old son, Yamato, was found safe after being left on a mountain road last Saturday as punishment for misbehaving. The 44-year-old father apologized for the trouble he caused.
Beijing’s decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand for fertility treatment among older women, putting heavy pressure on clinics and breaking down past sensitivities, and even shame, about the issue.
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.
Hospitals in China's biggest cities are reporting an increase in women choosing natural childbirth, reversing a decadeslong trend during the one-child policy in which cesarean sections were favored.
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".
A new policy on extended maternity leave in Liaoning Province came just at the right time for Ge Shengnan, who recently welcomed her second child into the world.
Women employees in Beijing who give birth to a second child could have their maternity leave extended by up to three months, according to a revised regulation on family planning adopted by the city on Thursday.
A Chinese hospital has launched psychological counseling that simulates a two-child family to help kids raised as single children prepare for unexpected siblings.
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.
Australian experts warn that child-on-child sexual assaults are rising due to youth exposure to readily available pornography that depicts violent, degrading acts and coercion.
There are thousands of these children in Brazil, and scientists fear thousands more might come as the Zika virus leaps across Latin America and the Caribbean.
For Yuan Lizhen, a migrant worker from southeastern China's Jiangxi province, her first month as a newsstand owner in Shenzhen was not as easy as it seemed.
After his mother had another child two months ago, four-year-old Kaikai insisted his little brother be named "Duoduo," meaning "extra."
A suicide car bomb killed at least four people, including a child, on Thursday in Libya's northern oil port of Ras Lanuf, said a spokesman for the Petroleum Facility Guard (PFG).
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