Noisy children skateboarding on the streets. Couples arguing in their homes. People gathered on the sidewalk, gossiping for long hours. Some people would describe these activities as noise pollution.

Girls in South Asia are disproportionately impacted by the risk of increased child marriage as a result of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an estimated 191,000 being forced into ...

China is the man-child of Asia.” Barme points to a best-selling 2016 book by Wu Zhihong, a Beijing-based psychologist, Giant Baby Nation: A Mainland Psychologist’s Systematic Examination of ...

“Thick Face, Black Heart: Thriving, Winning & Succeeding in Life’s Every Endeavor,” by Chin-Ning Chu, AMC Publishing, 380 pages, $19.95 The economic ascent of Japan and Asia&… ...

The maps show the estimated prevalence of anemia in children aged 6 to 59 months for the years 2010 (left) and 2020 (right). Credit: Communications Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-00765-2 ...

About Help For Children Help For Children (HFC), a not-for-profit established by the hedge fund industry in 1998, is a global foundation dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse.

Scandinavian-style forest schools are booming in Europe and the US – and spreading in Asia, too. Could outdoor classrooms be the future?

“Due to their physiology, climate change will increase children’s risks to water and heat stress, food insecurity, rising air pollution, increased risk of vector-borne diseases, acute respiratory ...

The jump in child deaths coincides with the surge of the Delta variant, which has swept through Southeast Asia, where vaccination rates are low, causing record outbreaks not only in Indonesia, but ...

Hundreds of thousands of additional vaccines intended for children have been found to be faulty, the Chinese government announced Wednesday, raising the number of known defective vaccines in the ...