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India’s fertility rate faces sharp decline amid rising concern over lifestyle factors, infertility
Dr Sabine Kapasi, global strategy lead of the UN’s emergency response team, said: “We can create insurance systems … and…
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Rapidly ageing South Korea prepares to open door for foreign maids
SEOUL: South Korea approved a Seoul city plan on Friday (Sep 1) to let 100 foreign domestic workers into the…
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‘Happy Dancing’ routine boosts fitness in fast-ageing China
JIAMUSI: Hundreds of dancers twirl in unison by a riverside in northeastern China, thrusting hips and shimmying shoulders in an…
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‘Era of mass closures’: The Japan businesses without successors
BATONZ connected her with Miyaji, who pledged to keep the firm’s employees, clients and trucks. “I’m more relieved than sad,”…
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Commentary: China needs immigrants to escape a ‘low fertility trap’
But changing immigration policy will likely require a change in mindset. In a recent story by The Economist, the reporter…
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Parents who abused, abandoned children will not be able to seek maintenance under changes to law
SINGAPORE: Parents who abused, abandoned or neglected their children will not be able to seek monetary support from them under…
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Commentary: South Korea has world’s lowest fertility rate – that’s bad news for its economy
COLLEGE STATION, Texas: Around the world, nations are looking at the prospect of shrinking, ageing populations – but none more…
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‘We don’t need a baby, we have a cat’: Hong Kong women say no to kids as experts ponder baby shortage
Among developed Western countries, France had a TFR of 1.8, followed by 1.7 in the United States and 1.6 in…
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Chinese woman seeking to freeze her eggs makes final appeal in Beijing court
BEIJING: Teresa Xu, an unmarried 35-year old Chinese woman, began her final appeal in a Beijing court on Tuesday (May…
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