With Birthrate Falling, Singapore Targets 'Lifestyle Impotency'
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SINGAPORE -- Sarah Wee and James Ng are the quintessential career couple. Married only a year, the sparkly Wee is a media executive at a large ad agency. Ng, clean-cut in a blue button-down, is an asset manager with a property investment firm. They own a condo, a $42,000 car and two dogs, a Maltese and a Shih Tzu.
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Singapore faces an AIDS epidemic,  with the number of new infections diagnosed expected to hit a  rate of 1,000 a year by 2010, a health official said.
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Malaysia's fertility rate is declining as women postpone marriage and having children, and the drop will continue as the country becomes more and more developed, a deputy minister has warned.
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Singapore&#39;s industrial production unexpectedly shrank in August as companies such as Pfizer Inc. produced fewer drugs and electronics&#39; output slowed.
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Traditionally drug use, alcohol, smoking and obesity have been credited with lowering male sperm counts and increasing the risk of infertility.
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The trade in women and children for sex is spiralling out of control in South Asia, the UN children's fund says.
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England's strategy to reduce teenage  pregnancies is working but the pace of decline is not enough to  meet its target of halving the rate of conceptions by the end  of the decade, scientists said on Friday.
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Low sperm counts and other  reproductive problems are preventing pregnancy among Malaysia&#39;s  endangered rhinos, a worrying trend that wildlife experts say  could hasten the animals&#39; extinction.
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Singapore's drive to increase its population should not leave the city-state as crowded as Hong Kong, Lee Kuan Yew, the country's former prime minister, was quoted as saying in local media on Saturday. The Singapore government said last year it wants to add another two million people to expand the island's population to 6.5 million over the next 40 to 50 years -- mostly through immigration -- to drive economic growth in the city-state, where there is a low birth rate and a
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A Singaporean member of parliament on Monday read a petition against the country's ban on sex between men, the first time such a proposal has been presented in the city-state's parliament.
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The authorities in Singapore say they are seriously considering bringing in compulsory HIV tests for couples planning to get married.
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WASHINGTON -- Japan, Germany and many other large industrialized countries face long-term population slowdowns or declines as more young adults have fewer children or delay child-rearing, demographers say.
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Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV infections are on the rise among Singaporean teenagers as a result of promiscuity and disregard for safe-sex practices.
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A study pins declining US teenage pregnancy rates on better use of contraception - not abstinence.
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SINGAPORE : Singapore is unlikely to go the way of Thailand in the fight against AIDS, at least where public education campaigns promoting condom use are concerned.
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SINGAPORE  - Despite facing an &quot;alarming AIDS (news - web sites) epidemic,&quot; Singapore will not go on a publicity blitz to promote condom use out of respect for residents who hold conservative views on sexual behaviour, a minister said.
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Singapore health authorities have expressed concern over the tropical disease melioidosis following the deaths of 23 people out of 57 cases from January to July.