China to act on gender imbalance
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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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The Chinese government is trying to address an electricity shortage that has led to rationing in more than a third of the countryâs provinces in recent weeks.
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China will start holding jury trials next year as part of court reforms that also will increase the number of judges, state media reported Monday.
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China mulls new measures in environmental protection    BEIJING, Feb.
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China, rocked by a brick kiln child slavery scandal, plans to set up a national panel to stop human trafficking, aimed at protecting women and children from forced labor and prostitution, state media reported on Tuesday.
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China replaced its finance minister on Thursday amid media reports that he was involved in a sex scandal just weeks ahead of a major Communist Party meeting that will set the country's policies for the next five years.
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Text of report by Papua New Guinea newspaper The National website on 6 June  [by Zachery Per]  Young men and women from the Eastern Highlands Province will be able to work in China and learn the Chinese language.
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China plans to enact an anti-secession law, the government said Friday, in a move apparently aimed at promoting Beijing&#39;s campaign to pressure Taiwan into uniting with the mainland.
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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 a one-child policy was  introduced more than 20 years ago.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Yinchuan, Feb.
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China is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say.
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China plans ratings systems for online games, books and movies to protect children from violence and sexual content in the nation's latest effort to tighten controls on various media, reports said Friday.
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China for the first time introduces laws specifically targeting the spread of Aids, state media says.
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China will unveil new rules this week  aimed at restricting the number of foreigners who can adopt  Chinese children, an official said on Wednesday, which foreign  agencies say will ban the obese and unmarried from adopting.
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A Japanese government panel begins work on whether to recommend women be allowed to take the throne.
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By You Nuo  The central government of China should set up a new and powerful commission to help protect the nation's environment.
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China is the only country in the world where suicides among women outnumber those of men, with rural suicides more common than those in the city, state media said on Tuesday.