The trend among Chinese women of postponing or eschewing marriage will undermine Beijing’s efforts to boost falling birth rates, says Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

New marriages in China reportedly plummeted by one-fifth last year, implying that the official number of births will likely fall from 9.54 million in 2024 to 7.3- 7.8 million in 2025. Thus, while ...

China's migrant worker population hovers around 300 million but work-relief job creation covers just 1 per cent of that To ...

When Tang Tang, a mother from Tianmen in central China, gave birth to her second child in December, it brought her family untold joy – and a thick wad of cash. Within months of leaving hospital ...

The ongoing 2025 International Forum on Poverty Governance and Global Development, co-hosted by the Yunnan provincial ...

While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has endured: the existence of an elevated official class, to which fiercely contested examinations offer an ...

On March 12, the 10-member journalist delegation from Bangladesh, of which I was a part, held a seminar with academicians and professors at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences in China’s Kunming ...

Shares in UK banks plunged today as the FTSE 100 neared a three-year low after China slapped a 34 per cent retaliatory tariff ...

Foreign nationals will account for nearly 11 percent of Japan’s dwindling population of 87 million in 2070, according to an estimate by the labor ministry. The nation’s overall population will ...

On Tuesday, Aug. 16 was a day of revelation as the Census Bureau concluded a post-enumeration survey with interesting results. It’s a survey used to gauge the accuracy of the census by separately ...

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