China to Make Sex-Selective Abortions a Crime
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China is to outlaw the selective abortion of female fetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio of boys to girls that has grown since the one-child policy was introduced more than 20 years ago.
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China says it is to draft new laws to tackle the growing gender imbalance, with boys outnumbering girls.
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China will expand the use of lethal injections to replace execution by gunshot, state media said on Thursday of a country which kills more convicts than anywhere else.
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China has banned &quot;sexually provocative sounds&quot; on television and pulled the plug on a show reconstructing infamous crimes by women ahead of a major Communist Party meeting next month.
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BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- China is carrying out a nationwide campaign to crack down on &quot;phone sex&quot; services, paralleling another sweeping operation against Internet pornography, Minister of Information Industry Wang Xudong said here Tuesday.
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China's parliament passed a law Saturday banning the buying or selling of blood to prevent the spread of AIDS and outlawing discrimination against victims of infectious diseases, state media said.
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China issued guidelines Tuesday restricting organ transplants for foreigners, giving priority to Chinese patients in the government's latest effort to regulate procedures that have been criticized as profit-driven and unethical.
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China beefed up its ongoing crackdown on internet porn on Monday with new rules published that allow courts to issue life sentences to those convicted of posting pornography online.
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In the past two decades in China, female births have declined markedly compared with male births.
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The implication of an abortion pill in the death of an 18-year-old California woman will add new warnings linking RU-486 to the risk of bacterial infection.
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China has announced new rules on religious groups aimed at ending discrimination on grounds of belief.
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BEIJING, Jan. 7 -- Officials in Hubei province have expelled 500 people from the Communist Party for violating China's one-child family planning policy, state media reports said Monday.
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China sets out '10 taboos' for public officials to prevent corruption ahead of a provincial reshuffle.
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China is drafting new laws to make it   easier for people to donate their organs in a country with long   transplant waiting lists, state media said on Tuesday.
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China would punish intruders at embassies and schools according to the law, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said Tuesday.
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China, widely criticized for cruelty to  animals bred for consumption, is drafting new standards on  animal slaughter to make the practice more humane, Xinhua news  agency said on Tuesday.
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Chinese police have intensified a crackdown on trafficking of women and children as increasing numbers of females are sold into marriage in areas where gender imbalances are growing, state press said.