China aims for better-skilled population, to improve childcare
Many Chinese women are reluctant to have more than one or even any children due to the high costs of child-rearing and as the lack of childcare means becoming a parent often entails giving up a career.
China launches projects to build 'new-era' marriage, childbearing culture
Many women have been put off having more children or any at all due to the expense of child care and having to stop their careers, with gender discrimination still a key hurdle.
Global push to tackle maternal and newborn deaths has stalled, WHO report finds
Annually since 2015 there have been about 290,000 maternal deaths, 1.9 million stillbirths, and 2.3 million newborn deaths within a month after birth.
UK apologises for hospital scandal over 200 baby deaths
The report listed a catalogue of repeated failings at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust over a 20-year period from 2000 to 2019.
