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The number of assisted reproductive institutions reaches 645 in China
15+ hour, 56+ min ago (205+ words) The number of assisted reproductive institutions across China has reached 645, with clinical success rates now on par with advanced international levels, an official from the National Health Commission said on Friday. Fu Wei, director of the commission's department of maternal…...
Xizang children head home after life-changing heart surgeries
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (179+ words) Twenty-two children from remote areas in the Xizang autonomous region are heading home with healthy hearts this week after undergoing free, life-changing cardiac surgeries in Zibo, Shandong province. The medical pipeline began earlier this month during the "Tour of Angels…...
Making toys and rebuilding lives
1+ week, 3+ day ago (147+ words) On a late morning in May, the high-pitched whine of 3 D printers filled a small workshop in Beijing's Chaoyang district. Cao Qiuping, a former Paralympian who uses a wheelchair, had arrived early and was sorting piles of brightly colored plastic…...
Guided by a legacy
1+ week, 4+ day ago (299+ words) During rehearsal, some moments in time seem to bend. A phrase of song is repeated once, then again " never quite the same, yet never entirely different. A gesture shifts by a few centimeters, and suddenly the emotional logic of a…...
Funk beats and family chaos propel pop star's new hit
1+ week, 4+ day ago (250+ words) Pop superstar Jay Chou has released his latest music video, My Daughter, Your Highness, from his new album Children of the Sun. The track, written as a love letter to his youngest daughter Jacinda, turns everyday father-daughter life into a…...
Action plan a new blueprint for people-centered development
2+ week, 1+ day ago (382+ words) China had completed four consecutive national human rights action plans as of last year. It released its fifth, the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2026-30), at the 2026 Forum on Global Human Rights Governance in Beijing on Thursday. The action…...
Canadian father says Beijing changed his thinking on parenting, safety
2+ week, 1+ day ago (432+ words) Merlin Palmer, 40, stood out amongst the elderly grandparents while waiting outside the door of a kindergarten in Beijing. When his son, Arthur, came running out, he hoisted the five-year-old onto his shoulders for the walk home. A passing child greeted…...
Shouldering cement for a living, Hunan mother sends daughter to gaokao
2+ week, 1+ day ago (312+ words) In a scene that recently resonated with many on the internet, a mother tightly embraced her daughter after she completed her'gaokao, or national college entrance exam, outside a school in Qidong county of Hengyang, Hunan province. The mother, Wei Yungui,…...
The family history that lies beneath
2+ week, 2+ day ago (390+ words) In a talk following the screening of her first feature documentary film, May the Soil Be Everywhere, at the recent Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival, director Zhao Yehui discussed how she discovered a family history, and how that…...
Cross-Strait 'mother' volunteers nurture child welfare
2+ week, 2+ day ago (486+ words) Strolling through a university campus in Fuzhou, Fujian province, Tsai Yu-chin from Taiwan tightly held the hand of a local primary school boy whose parents both live with visual impairments. Beside them, Tsai's junior high son joined in, laughing and…...