Japan’s population is likely to decline, as the government survey on Friday released the number of babies born in 2018 hit the lowest with 918,387 newborns, falling 27,668 from birth rates in 2017 while the number of deaths jumped from 22,085 to 1,362,482 people.
The rapidly aging population and a huge number of families migrating from the countryside to the cities for decades has decreased the number of pupils learning at rural primary schools in South Korea.
The global firm Deloitte has just released a survey that shows Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly feeling unsettled and pessimistic about the future.
A rare white killer whale was photographed in the Nemuro Strait off Rausu in the northeastern part of Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido by a Japanese research group member on May 16.
Officials in South Florida say they are frantically preparing for an influx of immigrants being sent by the federal government as the number camped along the U.S. Mexico border grows rapidly.
Alabama's governor on Wednesday signed a bill to ban nearly all abortions in the state, even in cases of rape and incest, in political conservatives' latest challenge to the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy.
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