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Cultural Treasures: Zhuazhou ? CRI
| China Digital Times
From CRI via China.org: Zhuazhou(??) is regarded as one of the most important customs on a child's first birthday. When a family has a child, the family members want to know what the child will be when he or...
World Briefing | Asia: Sri Lanka: Rebels Free Teenagers
Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:04:48 EDT | New York Times
The Tamil Tiger rebels admitted abducting 23 teenagers, mostly girls, from their class in the eastern Ampara district but later freed most of them, saying the kidnapping was a ?mistake.? The guerrillas also said they had suspended the militants involved. The Tigers and a breakaway faction known as the Karuna group have been accused of conscripting thousands of child soldiers.
Child Labor in a Theme Park. I'm green with envy.
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:02:00 +0000 | Newsvina Asia
I recently noticed the above picture on a delivery pizza menu. No, "Pizza-La" haven't introduced a policy of child-labor. Apparently, it's an ad for a place called "Kidzania" in Toyosu's LaLaport complex in Tokyo, where kids go to try out different jobs for fun.
Tiger kills child after flash fright
| Findory News China
New Zealand Herald: A 6-year-old girl was mauled to death by a performing tiger at a zoo in China as she was being photographed with the animal. The animal lunged at the girl's head when a flashbulb went off as the child was being photographed at...
China ?to punish? two-child rich
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:11:14 +0000 | China View
BBC News, 1 March 2007- China is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say. The move came in response to complaints from ordinary people that the rich were having more children because they could afford the fines, officials said. Measures could include recording violators’ names and making them ineligible [...]
$300m fund to promote child development
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:10:19 +0800 | HKSAR Government
Commission on Poverty Secretary Stephen Fisher says the proposed Child Development Fund aims to create development capital for children and encourage kids to develop a saving habit.
China: Slogans with Chinese characteristics
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:36:29 +0000 | Global Voices Online - China
Banyue from DANWEI blogged some outrageous Chinese slogans, such as: Popularize the first child, control the second child, exterminate the third child, Whoever does not follow family planning will have his household ruined and his family perish, and many others.
