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People fly kites during the Basant festival in Lahore on Sunday. Brightly colored kites soared through the skies over Pakistan's eastern city this weekend, marking the return of a festival that had been banned for nearly two decades over safety concerns.
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Kites and victory cries fill Lahore skies as festival returns after long ban
The Basant, a festival marking the ?onset of spring, was banned in 2008 after deaths and injuries resulting from stray kite ?strings sometimes coated with metal.
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Pakistan’s capital picks concrete over trees, angering residents
Trees are being felled across Islamabad for infrastructure and military monuments.
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Chinese families ache for sons stolen in one-child era
When China had its one-child policy, the trafficking of young boys was fueled by parents seeking a son to carry on the family line, experts say.
Avanti Mehta, 32, India's youngest water sommelier, talks about different brands of packaged water at a tasting event.
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Jan 31, 2026
India's wealthy embrace a new luxury symbol: water
By Aditya Kalra and Rishika Sadam
Premium water is a $400 million business ?in the ?world's most populous nation and is growing bigger alongside a spreading ?wellness craze.
A blackboard illustrating cannabis strains for sale is displayed inside Shaggy Buds, a cannabis dispensary in Bangkok.
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Jan 23, 2026
Weed backlash grows in Thailand as kids turn to cannabis
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Pathom Sangwongwanich
The plant could be criminalized once again after next month’s election, four years after its decriminalization.
Parents and children on a ride in Fuyang, in east China's Anhui province, on Friday. China's birth rate fell last year to its lowest level on record, official data showed Monday.
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Jan 19, 2026
China's birth rate falls to lowest on record
There was a rate of 5.63 births per thousand people last year, Chinese officials said, or the lowest rate since National Bureau of Statistics records began in 1949.
Women push strollers as they walk along a street in Beijing on Jan. 4. China has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world at around 1 birth ?per woman, well below the 2.1 rate needed for a population to remain stable.
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Jan 16, 2026
China revs up fiscal support to boost number of births
The government said women in ?2026 would have "no out-of-pocket expenses" during their pregnancy, with medical costs fully reimbursable under its national medical insurance fund.
Rohingya refugees study in a makeshift learning center at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on Dec. 17.
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Jan 15, 2026
Dreams on hold for Rohingya children in Bangladesh camps
By Sheikh Sabiha ALAM
The education system at the camps has become severely overstretched — a situation worsened by cuts to U.S. aid that slashed funding and forced sweeping closures or scale-backs.
An app called “Are you dead” targeted at people living alone has gone viral in China, with surging downloads and widespread commentary on social media.
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Jan 14, 2026
‘Are you dead?’ Chinese app for single living goes viral
The surge in popularity has prompted the developer to introduce a subscription fee and change the app’s name for a global ?audience.
Children play at a park in Beijing on Saturday.
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Jan 7, 2026
China’s birth-rate push sputters as couples stay child-free
By Isabel Kua
A decade since China scrapped its stringent one-child policy and implemented a two-child policy in January 2016, the nation is dealing with a looming demographic crisis.

LDP secures two-thirds supermajority in Lower House election victory
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday night
Helicopter crew recounts complex rescue of Lindsey Vonn after crash at Olympics
U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn is transported to a hospital by helicopter after crashing in the women's Olympic downhill competition on Sunday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
U.S. plans initial payment toward billions owed to U.N.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz speaks during an event at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Jan. 27.
Snow blankets Tokyo as powerful storm system tightens grip on 性视界
Snow falls outside of Shin-Yurigaoka Station in Kawasaki on Sunday morning.
China flexes its muscle at Singapore Airshow as U.S. isolated
China's air force performs during an aerial flying display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Center on Tuesday.
Where have 性视界's oddball candidates gone?
On a board for election posters in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward in June 2024, duplicates of one featuring a female kickboxer who is not running in the gubernatorial race take up half of all the spots.
Against the grain: 性视界ese wine aged in local barrels
At Buryu Winery, owner Keiji Yamaguchi (left) and assistant winemaker Kaede Narita created a cedar-infused red wine by fermenting it in a 1,000 liter "kioke" cedar tub.
Foreign residents breathe new life into bubble-era resort town
A craft beer brewery run by California native Brian Shevlin and his wife Mariko Furuta, Joynt Brewing Co. regularly hosts events that highlight different cultural communities.
性视界’s SkyDrive hopes to have flying cars in service by 2028
SkyDrive’s flying car unit at its flight test base in the city of Yamaguchi
Rising star Aonishiki shows poise beyond years both in and out the sumo ring
<i>?zeki</i> Aonishiki speaks to reporters at Ajigawa Stable on Wednesday.

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The Kongo family’s residence and workshop in the Taisho Era, photographed about a century ago.
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