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Japan stumbles over baby steps to encourage working mums

Japan stumbles over baby steps to encourage working mums

Akane had always enjoyed her job at a Tokyo call centre until, unlike many Japanese mothers, she decided to return to work after finishing her maternity leave.
Gay couple's lives 'destroyed' by custody war with Thai surrogate

Gay couple's lives 'destroyed' by custody war with Thai surrogate

For babies in SE Asia disasters, breast is best - experts

For babies in SE Asia disasters, breast is best - experts

Police save hundreds of children from being crushed at Hung Kings Festival

Police save hundreds of children from being crushed at Hung Kings Festival

An estimated seven million people attended the Hung Kings Temple Festival yesterday in Phu Tho province. Many children waiting outside the temple with their parents showed signs of exhaustion, and police had a hard time escorting them from the massive crowd. Every year, Vietnamese people commemorate the death anniversary of the Hung Kings at the Hung Kings Temple Festival on the tenth day of the third lunar month (April 16 this year). The Kings are believed to be the ancestors of the country.
April 17, 2016 | 01:25 am PT
China: hundreds of school chilren fall sick of chemical pollution

China: hundreds of school chilren fall sick of chemical pollution

Authorities in China have launched an investigation after a report that hundreds of children attending a language school built near a polluted former industrial site developed health problems, including cancer, state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.
April 17, 2016 | 10:20 pm PT
Music helps babies learn speech: study

Music helps babies learn speech: study

Babies who engage in musical play may have an easier time picking up language skills, suggested a study Monday.
April 25, 2016 | 05:10 pm PT
Crane truck topples into HCM City pre-school; no injuries reported

Crane truck topples into HCM City pre-school; no injuries reported

A construction crane toppled into a kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City and narrowly missed a classroom this morning, leaving dozens of children and teachers in panic.
May 12, 2016 | 12:09 am PT
Childhood goes up in smoke for Indonesian tobacco farm workers

Childhood goes up in smoke for Indonesian tobacco farm workers

Thirteen-year-old Siti Maryam says she suffers headaches and nausea after harvesting tobacco leaves with her bare hands during four years of working on her family's farm in Indonesia.
May 25, 2016 | 01:38 am PT
Migrant crisis fuels sex trafficking of Nigerian girls to Europe

Migrant crisis fuels sex trafficking of Nigerian girls to Europe

A promising student who dreamed of going to university, Mary was 16 when a woman approached her mother at their home and offered to take the Nigerian teenager to Italy to find work.
May 31, 2016 | 05:10 pm PT
Man and children killed by electric shock in river east of Hanoi

Man and children killed by electric shock in river east of Hanoi

Four children and a man died on June 2 in Bac Ninh Province after hitting a power line with an iron gangway.
June 2, 2016 | 08:56 pm PT
U.S. couple accused of enslaving two South Korean children

U.S. couple accused of enslaving two South Korean children

An indictment against a New York couple accused of treating two immigrant children living in their home like their personal slaves "read like a frightening childhood fairy tale", the defense attorney said.
June 3, 2016 | 12:24 am PT
Fighting bombs with straw hats: how a generation of Vietnamese children survived

Fighting bombs with straw hats: how a generation of Vietnamese children survived

War affects all walks of life and children are not spared from its cruelty, but a generation of Vietnamese kids survived the bombardment thanks to the humble hat.
June 3, 2016 | 02:54 am PT
British man convicted of abusing 23 Malaysian and Cambodian children

British man convicted of abusing 23 Malaysian and Cambodian children

British pedophile Richard Huckle, who sexually 23 assaulted impoverished children and babies in Southeast Asia, is sentenced to life in prison.
June 6, 2016 | 10:47 pm PT
Stranded in France, migrant children forced into crime, prostitution every day

Stranded in France, migrant children forced into crime, prostitution every day

Migrant children in northern France are forced into crime and prostitution on a daily basis to secure a place to stay in migrant camps or the promise of passage to Britain, the U.N. children's agency said on Thursday.
June 16, 2016 | 05:08 pm PT
Exploitation, child labor found in Indonesia palm oil linked to PepsiCo

Exploitation, child labor found in Indonesia palm oil linked to PepsiCo

Food and beverage giant PepsiCo's affiliate in Indonesia has been linked to child labour, worker exploitation, unethically low wages and hazardous working conditions, activists said.
June 17, 2016 | 05:16 pm PT
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