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An app called “Are you dead” targeted at people living alone has gone viral in China, with surging downloads and widespread commentary on social media.

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Jan 14, 2026

‘Are you dead?’ Chinese app for single living goes viral

The surge in popularity has prompted the developer to introduce a subscription fee and change the app’s name for a global ?audience.

Children play at a park in Beijing on Saturday.

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Jan 7, 2026

China’s birth-rate push sputters as couples stay child-free

By Isabel Kua

A decade since China scrapped its stringent one-child policy and implemented a two-child policy in January 2016, the nation is dealing with a looming demographic crisis.

Estella, 14, a homeschooled student, attends a Spanish class at her home in Shanghai on Nov. 25.

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Dec 30, 2025

Chinese homeschool students embrace freer youth in cutthroat market

By Mary Yang

Despite China’s ban on homeschooling, the number of homeschoolers has increased annually by around 30% from 2013.

Peng Peiyun, the former head of China’s one-child policy, in Beijing in 2005

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Dec 25, 2025

China social media thrashes one-child policy after population control czar dies

China’s near-universal mandate of just one child per couple from 1980 through 2015 prompted local officials to compel women to ?undergo abortions and sterilizations.

Cambodia’s casino-hub town of Poipet, on the country’s border with Thailand, in June. Thailand’s military bombed the town of Poipet on Thursday, according to the Cambodian defense ministry.

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Dec 18, 2025

Cambodia says Thailand has bombed casino town on border as hostilities continue

Renewed fighting this month has killed at least 21 people in Thailand and 17 in Cambodia, while displacing around 800,000, officials have said.

Nurlela Agusfitri, 40, walks on uprooted trees on her way to the site of her former home in Pengidam, Aceh Tamiang, northern Sumatra, on Monday.

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Dec 16, 2025

‘The city was gone’: Survivors recount flood chaos during rare Indonesian cyclone

By Chandra Asmara

Decades of industrial land clearing may have turned an unusual storm into a catastrophe.

Afghan nationals residing in India and supporters of the Afghan Refugee Women's Association hold banners and placards and shout slogans during a demonstration in New Delhi in 2021 demanding better rights for women in Afghanistan.

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Dec 12, 2025

Abortion in Afghanistan: 'My mother crushed my stomach with a stone'

By Claire Gounon

Fewer than half of Afghan women have access to contraceptive methods such as condoms, implants or pills, with abortion being illegal.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

After a busy couple of weeks on the public lecture circuit, German-born physicist Albert Einstein took a few days of relaxation on Hiroshima Prefecture’s Miyajima island.

When Einstein came to Hiroshima

By Patrick Parr

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