Two companies based in Shenzhen City in south China's Guangdong Province have been confirmed to have hired nine child laborers, local authorities said.
Relaxation of China's one-child policy both delights and worries Wang Jingjing, who gave birth to a boy three years ago by Caesarean section and now yearns for a second child.
After China announced its decision to relax the one-child policy, heated discussion and controversy have broken out across the country. The new policy will allow couples to have two children if one of them is an only child.
When it comes to tackling China's aging population, the country's policy makers know time is not on their side.
Changes to China's one-child policy, in place for decades, have aroused heated discussion, with some demographers seeing the change as a step toward balanced population development.
A slew of child injuries and deaths have prompted China, a land of the single children, to keep kids safer through legislation, government intervention and promotion of public awareness of minors' safety.
The Bangladeshi government Sunday made a Call to Action for Ending Preventable Child Deaths before 2035 at a program in Dhaka.
"Finding Mr. Right," a Chinese film that details a mother's journey to the United States to give birth in order to ensure U.S. citizenship for her child, has not only scored big at the box office, but also exposed a growing trend among Chinese mothers-to-be.
A baby born with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, appears to have been cured, according to findings presented Monday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.
Family planning authorities in Shanghai Municipality are encouraging couples who are both a single child themselves to have a second baby.
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