14 Feb 2013

An article published by Britain's Royal Society says that male guppies prefer to associate with drab-coloured counterparts when females are around.

2 Dec 2012

One day during field observations last year at Marion Island, a remote nature preserve in the southern Indian Ocean, something bizarre caught Tristan Scott's eye: on a rocky beach, a sleek young...

30 Jul 2010

More Hong Kong women are tying the knot with mainland men but the trend is the reverse for Hong Kong men and mainland women, according to the latest government statistics. And those who are...

17 Nov 2007

'Scored yet?' That was the first question posed by several young Chinese crowded around a bar table in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. Between sips of yak butter tea, they traded jokes and swapped...

22 Jul 2006

THE FIRST TIME was difficult. I put it off, avoided the issue, dreaded the day, felt physically sick when it arrived, got weepy when the crunch moment came, and then spent the next 24 hours...

Choosing not to have children is the trend among young couples of this generation. Their parents, however, want them to have babies.


The parents try hard to persuade the couples to...

Most lovers think marriage is the beginning of happiness. However, many married couples would say it is the beginning of troubles.


Marriage is no joke. It is a life-long commitment...

Hong Kong, although a modern city, is still full of traditional thinking.


Some people still feel having children is a must for married couples. I feel that whether you have...

HONG KONG people are still an extremely conservative group when it comes to sex.

TWO of Singapore's official matchmaking agencies say more members are marrying, but their partners are mainly people they have met elsewhere.


The agencies were set up with...

MATING, by Norman Rush (Vintage, $72).


NORMAN Rush's first volume of short stories, Whites, arrived to critical acclaim five years ago, examining the almost extinct ''tribes'' of...

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