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Apr 2, 2021 Countries across Asia are trying everything from fertility tours to baby bonuses to spur population growth in an aging world. Not so in Indonesia, where officials are trying to convince people to have fewer children. The world’s fourth most-populous country is promoting later marriages, family planning and contraception to lower its fertility rate to 2.1 children per woman by 2025. That’s the “replacement rate” that would effectively flatten population growth in the country of 270 million, damping some concerns that overcrowding could mean fewer job opportunities ...

Gulf region ties ripe for growth By JAN YUMUL in Hong Kong | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-03-09 09:58 Photo taken on Dec 9, 2018 shows the Al Diriyah Palace where the 39th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit is held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Photo/Xinhua] Education, health seen as promising areas for expanded China relations China and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council can promote stronger cultural exchanges in education and medicine amid a broader push for recovery from the economic effects of the pandemic, experts said. Hanaa Almoaibed, a research fe...

The United Arab Emirates plans to make a Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccine under license, with the Persian Gulf nation aiming to follow Brazil down that path in a bid to ensure supplies.