At least 68 people died during the winter – all but 10 of them over 65 – when record-breaking snow hit the country’s north.

A major demographic transformation marked by rapidly ageing populations is transforming modern Asia. This shift is driven by increasing life expectancy and declining fertility rates, resulting in an ...

The Olympics provide a magnificent platform to showcase the awe-inspiring potential, power, resilience, and evolution of human beings. This year, Ni Xialian, affectionately known as 'Auntie Ni', ...

Andhra Pradesh introduces incentives for families to have a third child, addressing concerns about a declining fertility rate ...

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Birth rates are falling. Populations are ageing. In Southeast Asia, the business of dying has never been bigger Death is the ...

The shrinking and aging societies in Asia, particularly Japan, South Korea, China, and Taiwan, raised the concerns of long-term economic and societal implications of a decreasing workforce and a ...

Singapore has been ranked among the world’s top 10 nations - and first in Asia – for its readiness to address the challenges and leverage the opportunities of an ageing population, according to a ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Middle-to-high income economies in East Asia could lose as much as 15 percent of their working-age populations by 2040 due to rapidly greying demographics, weighing on economic ...