More than 100 elderly people visited a will registration office in Beijing's Xicheng district yesterday a day after it opened, Chen Kai, co-founder of the Beijing Sunny Senior Health Foundation,...
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- May 22, 2013
- Updated: 12:41am
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Thanks to longer life expectancy and the one-child policy, for well over a decade China's fertility rate has remained below replacement levels.
The government appears to be taking the issue of our ageing population seriously, with Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah making it a focus of his latest budget report.
Brigitte Dersch retired from her engineering job five years ago and, at the age of 70, she says she has little to fear from the future.
The views of Hongkongers are to be sought on ways to tackle problems posed by the city's ageing population. The consultation may cover questions over imported labour and the role of mainland...
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah turned his sights to the future in his sixth budget. He pledged to deal with the financial challenges posed by an ageing population while offering a HK$33...
A woman in China’s eastern Zhejiang province ''abandoned" her recently-born second child, a two-month-old baby girl, only to ''adopt'' her later - hoping to avoid fines from birth control...
Both Singapore and Hong Kong share very similar population characteristics: a rapidly ageing population and very low fertility rates. Both worry about the negative impact of a shrinking workforce...
A nursing home located near a diplomatic area in Beijing cares for 26 people aged between 60 and 92.
An ageing population may present challenges for society at large, but for companies involved in the health care business it means growing opportunities.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is cranking up a national debate on babies this month, with proposals to Parliament that would attempt to stem the country's slumping birth rate. Penelope...
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