What happens when 30 million Chinese men can’t find wives? Dating coaches step in with special campsAs marriage rates fall and China’s gender imbalance deepens, millions of single Chinese men are turning to dating coaches, virtual partners...
18 Jul, 2025, 10.48 PM IST
This bride just got the wildest dowry of this year, perhaps: 100 civet cats and...A Vietnamese bride received an extraordinary dowry, including 100 civet cats valued at $70,000 for Kopi Luwak coffee production, alongside ...
09 Jun, 2025, 10.51 AM IST
Planning a wedding is stressful. Couples and vendors in US now have to factor in tariffsU.S. tariffs on imported goods are significantly impacting the wedding industry, causing price increases for dresses, flowers, cakes, and o...
29 May, 2025, 10.20 AM IST
Why Chinese men are queuing up to marry women from Pakistan and Bangladesh, and why China is worriedA critical shortage of women in China, stemming from the one-child policy, has fueled a disturbing trend of cross-border marriages, particu...
28 May, 2025, 12.39 PM IST
China's 35 million leftover men are hunting for brides in Russia, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh and PakistanCriminal gangs and online portals are helping Chinese men find a girl of marriageable age in foreign countries as the number of women in th...
27 May, 2025, 11.13 AM IST
Beijing simplifies marriages to encourage Chinese to wedChina announced new measures to simplify the marriage registration process to reduce financial burdens on couples, aiming to address the de...
22 Mar, 2025, 08.15 PM IST
Gold's lighting run rains on India's wedding season, China offers discountsGold prices have soared to record highs, negatively impacting jewellery sales in India during the wedding season. Jewellers in India and Ch...
13 Feb, 2025, 04.21 PM IST
Bride scam exposed: Sex worker trap lands woman in jail - Here's what happenedA Chinese woman and her accomplices were sentenced to jail for orchestrating a fraudulent marriage scheme to swindle her husband out of a s...
24 Dec, 2024, 05.51 PM IST
How a Chinese district is solving its population problems by giving newlyweds Rs 11,411China is implementing unconventional measures to control its population growth, including setting the legal marriage age at 22 for men and ...
01 Sep, 2023, 12.27 PM IST
China cracks down on costly ‘Bride Price’ custom to boost falling birth rateIt isn’t the first time authorities have taken aim at the practice, which was featured in an annual central agriculture policy document thi...
08 Mar, 2023, 10.50 AM IST
China's demographic retreat and its implicationsFurther, the shortage of labour, rising wages and the Chinese government's policy of forced technology transfer may accelerate the already ...
28 Feb, 2023, 08.39 AM IST
Dollar hits 7-month low vs euro on expectations of slower Fed hikesThe moves continued the trend lower for the dollar, which in the final three months of 2022 posted its biggest quarterly loss in 12 years. ...
09 Jan, 2023, 09.55 PM IST
Budget impact: Surat is witnessing a sudden rush for setting up laboratory-grown diamond units“The hike in duty will bring down imports, and manufacturing of diamonds through chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technology will increase....
09 Feb, 2021, 08.24 PM IST
Falling gold prices boost jewellery demand up by 10-20 per centJewellers said demand is up by 10-20% compared with December, when prices were ruling over Rs 50,000 per 10 gm.
20 Jan, 2021, 12.03 PM IST
Loved Deepika Padukone's diamond mangalsutra? Light-weight jewellery is the new trendThe actress' simple yet elegant mangalsutra with solitaire in the middle may be around Rs 20 lakh.
15 Dec, 2018, 08.54 AM IST
Platinum demand up in second half of 2016Platinum prices are now at their decade’s low and the spread between gold and platinum prices has created a buying opportunity for consumer...
10 Aug, 2016, 06.32 AM IST
If you want to learn about gold, speak to an Indian sugar farmerGold imports to the western state of Gujarat, where farmers grow cotton and wheat, last month fell 87% from a year earlier, according to a ...
11 Nov, 2015, 10.27 AM IST