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Childhood TV addicts more likely to commit crime: study
Children who watch excessive amounts of television are more likely to have criminal convictions and show aggressive personality traits as adults.
19 February 2013
Kazakhstan ranked 74th in where-to-be-born index for 2013
The rating was based on factors like the country's GDP, average life expectancy, political freedom, employment and gender equality.
14 February 2013
Kazakhstan Healthcare Ministry cannot solve maternal and infant mortality problem alone
Kazakhstan government has exhausted the medical administrative resource for lowering maternal and infant mortality.
11 February 2013
US immigrants' kids almost as well off as natives: study
Second-generation immigrants in the United States are far better off than their parents and almost as well-placed as the offspring of native-born Americans.
08 February 2013
Nurses try to sell newborn for $6 thousand in Shymkent
Nurses of Shymkent perinatal center No.1 in south Kazakhstan are suspected of an attempt to sell a newborn.
06 February 2013
Scotland Yard stole dead children's identities: report
London's Metropolitan Police stole the identities of some 80 dead children and issued false documents in their names for use by undercover officers.
04 February 2013
US court throws out award in Bratz doll row
A US appeals court on Thursday threw out a multi-million dollar award against toy maker Mattel in a long-running dispute with rival MGA Entertainment over Bratz children's dolls.
27 January 2013
Russia backs nationwide 'anti-gay' bill
Russia's parliament has given initial backing to a bill banning homosexual "propaganda" among children that could lead to gays being fined for demonstrating or kissing in public.
27 January 2013
Ust-Kamenogorsk will have its own Disneyland
A Disneyland-like park that will be constructed in Ust-Kamenogorsk in East-Kazakhstan oblast.
24 January 2013
Japan says will sign child abduction treaty
Japan's foreign minister said Friday his country's new government would sign a treaty on child abductions, addressing one of the few rifts in relations with its main ally the United States.
20 January 2013
Some children outgrow autism: study
Some children diagnosed as autistic at a young age see their symptoms completely disappear when they get older, new research shows.
19 January 2013
Astana administration to spend over 15 million tenge on treatment of disabled children
15.5 million tenge ($103 thousand) were raised from sales of tickets to the Capital Day events in Astana, Kazakhstan.
14 January 2013
Nineteen children among 46 dead in China landslide
A desperate search for three people missing in a landslide in southwestern China ended on Saturday when their bodies were pulled from the mud, taking the final death toll to 46 -- many of them children.
13 January 2013
Tech world crawling into the crib
One is never too young to be connected.
10 January 2013
US trying to help families adopt Russian kids
Washington is trying to help hundreds of American families whose dreams of adopting a child from Russia are in limbo after the passage of a controversial Russian law.
10 January 2013
US judge orders LA Catholics to name abusers
A US judge Monday ordered Catholic leaders in Los Angeles to identify senior church officials accused of sexually abusing children, in a move welcomed by campaigners for victims.
08 January 2013
International operation nabs 245 child porn suspects
An international police operation into child pornography led to the arrest of 245 people and the rescues of 123 children, mostly in the US.
05 January 2013
An heir for North Korea's Kim Jong-Un?
North Korea's next dynastic succession may have been secured, with new TV images of leader Kim Jong-Un's wife suggesting that Pyongyang's first lady recently gave birth.
03 January 2013
Russia set to advance ban on US adoptions
Russia's upper house of parliament was due Wednesday to vote for a bill barring Americans from adopting the country's children, in retaliation for a new piece of human rights legislation in the US.
27 December 2012
Family planning official snared in China trafficking ring
Police have detained two officials including one involved in family planning in China's latest crackdown on child trafficking that has ensnared 355 suspects.
27 December 2012