It has created a foreign policy dilemma for many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, increasingly seen as the epicentre of global geopolitics. It is here that the strategic, economic, and security ...

Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable.

Huizhou, a Chinese city of just over 6 million people, has banned hunting land-based animals to protect its wildlife.

The two nations secured places after soccer’s governing body in Asia — a recipient of lavish funding from the two Persian Gulf states — changed qualification rules.

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

On social media Trump celebrated his meeting with Xi in South Korea as a “G2,” a recognition of America and China’s status as ...

Happier people are more successful in their careers, have more fulfilling relationships and live longer, healthier lives, previous research has shown. Now, scientists say they have identified the ...

Green sea turtles are no longer an endangered species, thanks to decades of conservation, the International Union for ...

This year, for the first time in nearly a century, more foreign-born people will likely leave the United States than will ...

Gender inequality is accelerating young Japanese women's flight from rural areas to the cities, further depressing the country's already low birthrate.

A population boom around Mount Kilimanjaro, not climate change, is responsible for the rapid decline in biodiversity around ...

Catholic U. professor Brandon Vaidyanathan has been awarded a $3.89 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study ...