Japan faces a severe demographic crisis with a record low birthrate, a shrinking workforce, and rising social security costs. Government me...

Countries grappling with population decline and aging issues offer financial incentives to encourage childbirth. China, Japan, Italy, and S...

Japanese lawmaker Naoki Hyakuta is facing severe criticism after he made controversial and bizarre remarks about women in a YouTube program...

In response to China's declining birthrate, businesses are shifting focus from children to the elderly. Li Dongmei, who once ran kindergart...

China's new marriages increased by 12.4% in 2023 due to COVID-19 impact. Premier Li Qiang aims for a birth-friendly society amidst declinin...

China's one-child policy, once strictly enforced, has transitioned to promoting a pro-birth culture. However, birthrates continue to declin...

China's population decline, which will soon make India the most populous nation, will have significant effects on its economy and global br...

With 850,000 fewer births than deaths last year, at least according to the country's official report, China joined an expanding set of nati...

While relying heavily on traditional political formulas, Xi's speech skirted controversial issues, including expectations he will seek a th...

A competitive higher education system has made tutoring services popular with parents but the Chinese government has sought to reduce the c...

The blue-chip CSI300 index fell 0.1 per cent to 5,277.63, while the Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.2 per cent to 3,599.54.

In the face of a looming demographic crisis, China on Monday eased its two-child policy to allow couples to have three children. However, t...

China's once-a-decade census, released this month, showed that 12 million babies were born in the last year, the lowest since 1961, during ...

The report from the Australian Strategy Policy Institute, obtained exclusively ahead of publication by The Associated Press, showed the 48....

For decades, China enforced strict controls on additional births in the name of preserving scarce resources for its burgeoning economy. But...

The Guardian on Wednesday reported claims of a Chinese academic who said Chinese statisticians had overestimated China's population by abou...

China has dismissed reports that the country's new leadership may ease up on the one-child policy, saying that it would continue adhering t...