Taiwan protests over Google map: Taiwan has asked the internet search engine Google to stop referring to the island as a province of China on its map web site.
More Women Contracting Breast Cancer at Earlier Age: More Chinese women are suffering from breast cancer and are contracting the disease at an earlier age than a decade ago, according to a survey by the Ministry of Health.
Second manned spacecraft successfully takes off: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday hailed the successful launch of China's second manned spacecraft Shenzhou-6, reiterating China's policy for peaceful use of space.
China's average life expectancy at 71.8: According to statistics, China's average life expectancy has increased to 71.8 years, infant mortality rate reduced to 2.55%, mortality rate of children below five years old fell to 2.99%, and mortality rate of pregnant and lying-in women also declined to 0.0513%.
China's wealth gap reaching critical level: Eight years ago, Chen Hua thought she'd put poverty behind her when she left her remote, mountain village in Sichuan province for a factory job in China's booming Pearl River Delta.
Forty Million Missing Girls: In the study of China's rural development, economists and political scientists have frequently examined land policy, while demographers, sociologists and anthropologists look at family planning. Yet in real life the two domains are closely related as households attempt to match and manage their land and labor resources. This article brings together questions about land, gender and family planning in relation to both policy and practice. It draws on fieldwork in rural north China and comparative data to examine and assess local and regional variations in the critical gender imbalance in contemporary rural China.
Adopting abroad: The task of preparing for a new child can be overwhelming for any parent, but for adoptive parents the task can seem even more daunting -- especially if the preparation includes a trip halfway around the world.
Mmmm . . . Panda . . .
Have a wild party! Invite an adorable panda made easily with cake mix and frosting in a tub.
(Thanks Brian!)
Lakeview woman to travel around the world to adopt: The room is ready. The walls are painted pink, furniture is in place and clothes are tucked away and hanging in the closet. Like any expectant mother, Lisa Drake of Lakeview is ready for the arrival of her daughter. But Drake will not become a mother by a trip to a local hospital.
Sizzling Shanghai: Everybody had warned me to expect huge changes in Shanghai, and I had read enough about this economic showcase of the new China to believe that I was prepared for what I'd see. But I was wrong. To begin with, there's the sheer volume of recently erected skyscrapers stretching for miles in every direction in this city of 17 million people.
Shenzhen, Guangzhou Most Inconvenient Cities to Go to the Restroom: Shenzhen and Guangzhou are considered to be the most inconvenient cities for people to go to the restroom, according to a survey released in September by the Horizon Group (HG), a leading firm in professional research and management consulting in China.
Women in China Embrace Divorce as Stigma Eases: In this lush, affluent region where adultery is so ingrained that wealthy businessmen keep their lovers in "concubine villages," infidelity is often tolerated in a marriage. But Cai Shaohong could not put up with it.
Triple plum blessing: The story of Nora, Alice and Anna Youtz of Tenafly begins on a bridge in Qinzhou, a Chinese city of a million people so far south it is almost in Vietnam. On May 25 last year, three tiny morsels wrapped in baby blankets were found by a passer-by who reported them to the district police station. Police officer Gan Xiang-ming picked them up and took them to the city welfare office.
