Representatives from Taiwan and the mainland gathered in Beijing on Tuesday to commemorate Liu Mingchuan, Taiwan's first provincial governor during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), with speakers highlighting how his life demonstrated that Taiwan's destiny is closely bound to the Chinese mainland. Yu S»»»

Dharamshala [India], December 7 (ANI): The Tibetan Women's Association (TWA) observed the 30th anniversary of the historic 'Silent Protest' staged during the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, a symbolic act remembered as the first protest by Tibetan exiles against »»»

KUWAIT CITY, Nov 9: Kuwait is steadily advancing in implementing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, affirmed Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Affairs, Ambassador Sheikha Jawaher Ibrahim Al-Duaij Al-Sabah, emphasizing the country’s firm commitment to enhancing women’s role in pea»»»

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World explores the causes and implications of this trend. YIMIANPO, China — Small town life suits»»»

In a remarkable week that has placed her at the centre of both celebration and concern, actor Hania Aamir has been officially appointed as the National Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women Pakistan - even as reports of her sudden hospitalisation in the United States have left fans deeply worried. The d»»»

Sept. 2 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 people in the southwestern mountain region of Sudan are dead following landslides that struck over the weekend due to heavy rains that have pummeled the region over the last week. The death toll was announced Monday in a statement by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Ar»»»

Japan falling well out of step with G7 peers by overtly distancing itself from global gender equality norms In the 2025 global gender gap index (GGGI), Japan ranks 118th out of 148 countries – still the lowest among the G7 nations and among the poorest performers globally. This is largely because o»»»

BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- In the first week after opening his car wash in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province in late 2023, Ji Hui regretted the decision to start a business that employs people with Down syndrome. "I felt like I had opened an outlet just for myself," said Ji, a former profes»»»

MYAWADDY (Myanmar), Feb 28 — Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night. They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from»»»

MYAWADDY: Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night. They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from scam compounds who»»»

United Nations human rights experts have urged Thailand not to send 48 Uyghurs in its custody back to China, warning they are at risk of torture, ill-treatment and "irreparable harm" if returned. Human rights groups and some Thai lawmakers have raised concerns in the past week that the transfer to »»»