Public hospitals in Hong Kong may stop admitting mainland mothers seeking to deliver their child in the territory to keep more resources for the use of local women. more ›

Nicola Davison of The Guardian reports on the upswing in business that the surrogate industry is expecting in the Year of the Dragon. She speaks to a woman surnamed Gao, a surrogate mother on the hunt for the next infertile couple seeking a womb: more ›

A 7.4kg (15.5lb) boy born to a 29-year-old woman in Xinxiang, Henan province is now officially the heaviest baby in the history of China. Both mom and child are fine. The world record for heaviest baby was a 10.8kg baby born in Ohio in 1879. more ›

Anti-American crusader Sima Nan (司马南) got his head stuck recently at an escalator at the airport in Washington D.C. but he can consider himself lucky that he walked away with moderate injuries. A nine-year-old boy in Beijing was not so fortunate. He died yesterday after his head got caught between two escalators at a mall: more ›

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Most people in China prefer to have sons instead of daughters to continue the family name, but not one young woman in Yancheng, Jiangsu province. In fact, she wanted to have a girl so badly she took a pair of scissors and snipped off her five-month-old son's penis. The court has handed her a five year prison sentence. more ›

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BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries have contributed to almost half of global growth in the past decade, but their high times may be over as they face an aging labor market. The major effects in demographics are already beginning to be seen in China, where its one child policy is holding itself back from growing a strong young labor force, thus raising doubts on how to fund its growing pension bill. more ›

In a strange story of in vitro fertilization (IVF) gone awry, a couple from Guangzhou injected eight fertilized embryos into three separate women and, surprise surprise, out popped eight babies! The biological mother had triplets, and also hired two surrogate mothers who gave birth to twins and triplets. The babies are now over a year old, but the story is still causing controversy because not only are they violating the one-child policy, but surrogacy illegal in China. Officials are promising to hold the participating medical institutions responsible. more ›

Two five-year-old Taekwondo "masters" face-off in this epic fight/dance battle. The cutest thing we've seen in a while, just try not to smile. more ›

An expensive private kindergarten in Nanjing has been accused of hiring unqualified teachers from the Philippines who are allegedly mistreating kids and asking parents for more cash: more ›

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A hepatitis epidemic believed to be caused by intravenous injections has broken out along the Henan-Anhui border. more ›

A 14-year-old boy has been sentenced to 12 years jail for killing his mother and sister in Guangdong's Liannanzhaigang Town more ›

In response to the recent overcrowded school van accident that took the lives of 19 children and two adults in Gansu on November 16th, Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged to allocate central and local government funds to resolve China's bus safety issue within the space of one month. more ›

42-year-old Hubei native Zeng Yueying arrived in Wenzhou with her husband in 2006 to look for work. Three years ago, they began working as road sweepers. One day last year, a friend from their hometown hid their son as a joke, sending them into a panic attack when they thought that someone had abducted their son. Since then, Zeng has kept her 3-year-old son, Liu Shuai, by her side wherever she goes, even when she's at work sweeping the city streets. more ›

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a primary school in Anze County, Shanxi Province, killing himself and wounding another 6. Local authorities say that at around 1530 on November 24, Feng Aihong (冯爱红), the suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a local primary school, killing himself on the spot. One teacher and five students who were having sports class were also wounded. However, they suffered only facial burns and there is no danger to their lives. more ›

Koinkidink, much? Fortunately, it's not as serious as the one that just happened in Gansu, and nobody died. Shanghai Daily with the details: more ›

We told you yesterday about a school bus tragedy in Zhengning (正宁) County of Qingyang (庆阳) City in Western China's Gansu province in which a minibus overcrowded with preschoolers crashed with a truck, killing 20 and injuring dozens. Public anger is now rising over the incident, which today topped the list of trending topics on Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblogging platform. more ›

China Hush points us to a man named Xiao Baiyou (萧百佑) who has recently been making waves across China as a "Wolf Father" who imposes strict restrictions on his children and will beat them if they fail to meet his standards. Although controversial and violent, his parenting method appears to be very successful -- at least outwardly. Three of his four children have been admitted into Peking University, arguably China's most prestigious university. Many parents have sent their own children to Xiao so that he could teach them during the winter and summer vacations. more ›

One October afternoon after school, two primary school girls in Funan, Anhui province made a pact to kill themselves in their empty classroom. Before drinking the poison that they hoped would lead to their death, the students scrawled "blame our deaths on our math teacher" on their classroom's blackboard. After being treated in the hospital, the girls explained that they were upset that the teacher "deliberately found fault in the girl's work after the two did not attend their make-up lessons." The teacher denies these allegations. more ›

In a video spreading like wildfire around the 'nets, two students who reportedly caused their class's school bus to leave late are forced by their teacher to stand for five minutes and repeatedly hit each other across the face. more ›

Here's yet another tragic reincarnation of the Yueyue story all over again. A 5 year old boy named Longlong (龙龙) passed away from critical injuries in Linyi, Shandong Province after passersby ignored his mother's plea for help to rush him to the hospital. more ›

More horrible news from Foshan's Nanhai district, the exact same area where the double hit-and-run of two-year-old toddler Yueyue made international news last month. Nurses at the city's Nanhai District Red Cross Hospital dumped a newly-born infant in a plastic bag in the toilet, thinking it was dead when it was actually still alive. more ›

A series of photos entitled "My younger brother wants to sleep", in which a schoolgirl is seen taking care of her younger brother during class, recently went viral on the Chinese internet. The girl in the photo, Long Zhanghuan, is from a small village in Central China's Hunan Province. The boy she is looking after is her 2-year-old cousin. more ›

At 11:17am yesterday, at Xixiang Village in Shenzhen's Bao'an district, a 1 and a half-year-old young girl was killed outside of her home after she was struck by a truck. more ›

Disaster has struck again in Guangdong province, where the death of two-year-old toddler Yueyue after a double hit-and-run has left the nation and the world stunned with the apathy of bystanders who left her bleeding by the roadside. Two three-year-old kids have been knocked down in separate incidents under eerily similar circumstances, both just metres away from their parents' shophouses. more ›