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China is so desperate to prevent divorces that it's making couples take an exam before they can break up
Here's an example of a (marked) exam paper in Yibin, taken in September 2017, in which the wife sco…
Alexandra Ma
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Weddings will no longer remain a lavish affair? A Bill in Lok Sabha seeks cap on spending during marriages for a noble cause
Not just that, it wants those spending above Rs 5 lakh to contribute towards marriages of poor girl…
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Japan's top court rules that couples must share a last name, marking a huge setback for gender equality in the country
Japan is the only country in the world known to have such a law on surnames. An attempt was made in…
Cheryl Teh
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Some of China's biggest provinces are letting everyone — including unmarried couples — have as many kids as they want, and it shows the depths of China's birth rate concerns
Single parents in Sichuan can now access benefits previously only available to married couples, lik…
Aditi Bharade,Matthew Loh
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China's so desperate to get people to marry and have babies, one county is offering $137 as a 'reward' if the bride is 25 years old or under
A county in the Zhejiang province said the move is to promote "age-appropriate marriage and childbe…
Huileng Tan
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Online Matrimonial Business Getting Robust With Each Passing Year
Almost around the same time as the Internet boom began in India, the online matrimonial po…
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People in China can now file for divorce on the WeChat instant messaging app
The influence of WeChat, an app used by one billion active users worldwide, is growing in users' da…
Alexandra Ma
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Japan’s same-sex marriage ban ruled ‘unconstitutional’ as India’s LGBTQ community waits in hope
The country’s constitution asserts that marriage is a union between ‘both sexes’ in Article 14, …
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Tinder's owner just launched an app to help 'highly motivated' singles in Japan get married within a year
Match pitched Pairs Engage as a tool to help lift Japan's slumping marriage and birth rates. Those …
Theron Mohamed
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Celebrities in California including Demi Moore mistakenly registered with an ultraconservative political party
"The views of this party do not accurately reflect my personal beliefs and I am not affiliated with…
Jason Guerrasio
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5 ways China's trying to get people to have more babies — from cash incentives to cracking down on the 'bride price'
Last year, China's population started shrinking for the first time in 60 years, spurring renewed fe…
Huileng Tan
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Chinese Couples Are Getting Divorced To Take Advantage Of A Tax Loophole
The registration center in Zhabei District saw a record 53 divorces on Tuesday. It also saw 250 peo…
Mamta Badkar
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Tokyo is launching a dating app where users have to verify their income and promise they want to get married, as Japan fights tumbling birth rates
Japan is facing critically low marriage and birth rates, prompting the government to take "unpreced…
Polly Thompson
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A Chinese divorce court ordered a man to pay his ex-wife $7,700 for housework she did over the course of their 5-year marriage
A new law allows the spouse who spends more time doing housework in a marriage to ask for compensat…