In China, wedding bells are ringing in nightclubs, a subway station and on snowy mountain peaksChina is boosting marriage rates by letting couples wed anywhere. This initiative has led to a 22.5% increase in marriages. Registration of...
07 Nov, 2025, 08.22 AM IST
Modern caveman? 35-year-old man ditches work grind to live in a cave, calls marriage a ‘waste of time and money’Min Hengcai, a 35-year-old from China’s Sichuan province, left urban life and a steady job to live in a cave for four years. Rejecting work...
12 Jun, 2025, 12.22 AM IST
Is Canada finally breaking free from US trade dominance amid a brewing trade war?In March 2025, a trade war between Canada and the United States led to a significant decrease in exports to the US. However, Canada compens...
06 May, 2025, 07.57 PM IST
World's second-biggest economy faces a threat as Chinese are not getting marriedMarriages in China fell 20% last year, reaching a record low of 6.1 million. The drop presents a challenge to China's efforts to counter it...
10 Feb, 2025, 04.36 PM IST
China's looming crisis is its continuous population decline and economic challenges: Explained in 10 pointsChina's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births, and experts ...
17 Jan, 2025, 02.27 PM IST
Why China wants its youths to take love lessonsMore than 50 percent youth, primarily college students, in China don't want to fall in love. China is grappling with low marriage and birth...
06 Dec, 2024, 02.00 PM IST
As news of South Korea becoming extinct in the future goes viral, a big question arises, why are Koreans not having children? Here's the reasonSouth Korea to become first country to extinct in the future? That's the question that has been doing round on the social media.
03 Dec, 2024, 11.36 PM IST
Marriage registrations in China drop for the first nine months of 2024China's marriage registrations declined significantly in the first nine months of 2024, with 4.747 million couples registered, a drop of 94...
03 Nov, 2024, 09.51 AM IST
Why is Japan grappling with record-low birth rates? Here’s what the govt saidJapan faces a significant demographic challenge, with the country's birth rate hitting a record low for the eighth consecutive year. The mo...
02 Mar, 2024, 12.59 AM IST
Marriages in China decline to lowest numbers since 1986Only 7.64 million couples registered to get married across China, the world's most populous nation, in 2021, the lowest since 1986, accordi...
01 Sep, 2022, 04.48 PM IST
Sharp fall in marriages heightens China's concerns over declining birth rateA total of 7.63 million couples registered to get married across China in 2021, a record low for the past 36 years since 1986 when the Mini...
02 Apr, 2022, 04.03 PM IST
Birth rates in China's 10 provincial-level regions fall below 1 per cent, showing demographic crisisChina passed the three-child policy in August last year in a major policy shift to address the deepening demographic crisis attributed to t...
05 Jan, 2022, 02.20 PM IST
Declining marriage numbers add to China's demographic conundrumAs the demographic crisis deepened, China has permitted all couples to have two children in 2016, scrapping the draconian decades-old one-c...
24 Nov, 2021, 12.43 PM IST
A third child? No, thanks, say young ChineseOn Monday, the world's most populous nation further relaxed its strict family planning controls, allowing couples to have three children af...
02 Jun, 2021, 07.55 PM IST
China: Couples rush to file for divorce as new stringent law kicks inUnder the new law, which was implemented from last month after being passed by the NPC last year despite criticism from the public, couples...
17 Feb, 2021, 09.44 AM IST
China launches match making campaign as marriage and birth rates dropAuthorities are now not only encouraging young people to get married; they are also trying to keep married couples together. The Communist ...
11 Feb, 2021, 12.00 PM IST
Why more women in India give GMAT a skipThe number of GMAT women test takers in India has risen by a mere 2% since 2009. In 2009, 76% male Indian citizens applied for the test com...
08 Apr, 2014, 11.52 AM IST