China's gender imbalance has birthed a shadow industry of bride-trafficking, where poor women from several Asian countries, ...

Cases of domestic violence in China point to a legal system that looks good on paper but is failing victims because of a lack ...

By Claire Fu, Tingshu Wang and Josh Arslan SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -When bank clerk Ren Yingxiao was looking for a ...

Marriage rates in China continued to plummet last year, deepening the country’s demographic crisis and highlighting the public’s changing attitudes towards marriage, childbirth, family planning, and ...

The mistress dispeller industry sprang up during China’s economic boom of the 2010s, at a time when divorce rates were skyrocketing. In a country where emperors once kept dozens of concubines, it was ...

The ever-growing list of government pro-natalist initiatives at local and national levels has so far failed to slow China’s demographic changes. For many men and women, marriage and child bearing ...

Young women look at posts showing personal information of unmarried people at the Matchmaking Corner in a park in Shenzhen city, Guangdong province, China, Oct. 6, 2025. Lihua*, sat at the wooden ...

What started as a survival arrangement deepened as they communicated daily, sharing updates about their lives, thoughts.

China's attempt to boost marriage rates has led to innovative strategies, such as registering marriages at scenic spots and ...

HONG KONG — Several Chinese trade unions have issued notices to companies to stop asking female job seekers about their marital and childbearing status, as women concerned about discrimination at work ...

A Chinese woman accused her husband of cheating after an online fortune teller’s claim, forcing him to seek police help to clear his name.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese national political adviser has recommended lowering the legal age for marriage to 18 to boost fertility chances in the face of a declining population and "unleash ...