Contraceptives are now subject to a 13 percent value-added tax, while services related to childcare and marriage are exempt.

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax ...

For many Chinese citizens, the move feels contradictory. The same state that is urging people to marry and have children is ...

January 1 marks 10 years since China scrapped its notorious "one-child" policy, after the government realized that a falling ...

China faces a demographic crisis ten years after ending its one-child policy. Birth rates remain low, and the population is ...

Starting January 1, Beijing will impose a tax on contraceptives, risking limiting access to condoms in a country where 97% of ...

The new UN report has reshaped the list of the world’s top 10 most populous cities. Notably, nine of the 10 are in Asia ...

The Chinese government is testing out a new solution to falling birth rates: making sex more expensive. Consumers will pay a 13% value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products, including condoms, ...

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 17 (UPI) --Argentina's government is pushing a labor reform aimed at reducing off-the-books work and expanding formal employment to shore up a pension system under the strain of ...

Precipitous population decline in the world’s leading developed countries threatens to foreshadow similar issues in the United States, a trajectory the Trump administration likely holds limited ...

“It’s astonishing the Diversity Visa Lottery still exists,” wrote U.S. Tech Workers, an advocate for lowering legal ...