birth

Gearoid Reidy. Sketch: TBS
Thoughts

The fertility crisis started in Japan, but it won't stay there

It is a variation on the Anna Karenina principle: All fertile societies are alike; each infertile society is infertile in its own way

Newborn babies wearing dog costumes to celebrate the New Year of the Dog are pictured at the nursery room of Paolo Chokchai 4 Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, December 28, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
World+Biz

Thailand bids to avert 'population crisis' as birth rate crashes

A mother walks with her twin daughters on a street in Shanghai, China June 7, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song
China

China to allow tax deductions for care of small children to help boost births

Khaleda Zia, chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS
Bangladesh

High Court seeks Khaleda’s date of birth documents

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Bangladesh

About 9,236 children supposedly born on New Year’s Day: Unicef

Picture: Collected
Coronavirus chronicle

Migrant woman with coronavirus gives birth on board a helicopter

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Health

Giving birth during the coronavirus pandemic

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Modi, Pranab, Sonia likely to attend Bangabandhu’s birth centenary celebrations