A pair of 25-year-old twins from Yunnan have successfully received the first round of their female-to-male gender reassignment surgery at Shanghai's No. 411 Hospital of People's Liberation Army. They are now seeking to be the first twins in the country to officially change their gender. more ›

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Nearly 500 pairs of twins and triplets descended on Beijing's Young Pioneers Park yesterday for the Eighth Annual Twins Culture Festival. Events included crawling competitions for baby twins, twins doubles badminton, a "make-up parade", tug-of-war competitions. more ›

Since the 1980’s, Chinese families have been desperately seeking new ways to bypass China’s infamous ‘one-child policy’ (计划生育政策). One loophole around the policy concerns the birth of twins (or triplets, etc.), which the government allows for families, forgoing the usual fines or punishments for having more than one child. Recently, hospitals in Southern Guangdong province have gone quite public with their twin-producing scheme: Say hello to “multiple baby pills”. more ›

We told you about this two-headed baby born in Suining, Sichuan province last month and thought we'd share some updates! The two girls were born sharing so many organs that the doctors were be unable to separate them and worried they would not survive. We're happy to inform you that the the girls are still alive and being cared for by the intensive care unit of a Chongqing hospital. more ›

The birth of a pair of conjoined twins who share a single body has stunned doctors in Suining, Sichuan province. The girls were delivered by caesarean section and weighed 9 pounds. While the twins have separate spines and oesophaguses, they share all other major organs and hence separating them would be impossible, say doctors. The parents of the girls, both migrant farmers, say they had never wanted the child as they were not sure if they were able to afford it but doctors did not detect the abnormality in the baby until a few days before birth. The top priority now for doctors though is to keep the twins alive. more ›

Doing nothing to put ends to the stereotype that Asians do all look the same, Tianya has an incredibly popular thread right now that compares East Asian pop stars that seem to have been separated at birth. more ›

Hong Kong singer Gillian Chung, one of many starlets embroiled in the Edison Chen photo scandal last year, broker her silence on Saturday. In an interview with TVB, she demanded an apology and explanation from Edison, and revealed that she had thought about killing herself when the pictures leaked. Gillian is the second star to be interviewed, after Cecilia Cheung appeared on television last week lambasting Edison for failing to protect or console the women whose lives he'd inadvertently ruined. Interest in the case was recently renewed when Edison appeared in a Canadian court to give testimony against the man who stole the photos. Source: Electric Paper more ›

A pair of female Siamese twins joined at the belly have been successfully separated by doctors in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The girls are understood to be in critical condition and even their parents have not been allowed to spend time with them. The parents of the twins say that doctors had only told them during their three ultrasound checks that they would have twins but it was not until the day of the caesarian operation did they realise that the girls were conjoined. Four days after birth, the girls were admitted to the Shenzhen Children's Hospital. At that time, they weighed only 4.2kg in total, but grew to 9.6kg before doctors decided to go ahead with the operation. This is only the second case of conjoined twins to be handled by Shenzhen doctors. more ›

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In February we marveled when doctors in Urumqi removed a parasitic twin from the belly of this baby girl. The rare abnormality has occurred again, this time with an infant in Henan province. The fetus in fetu was discovered after the boy was born with an extra penis on his back, which was removed in a three-hour procedure on June 6. While the case was the first of its type at the Tianjin Childrens’ Hospital, doctors say that are not more than 100 cases of parasitic twins in the world, with ten of them in China. If all goes well, the child can be discharged in 10-12 days. more ›