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10 y.o. Bibissara Assaubayeva from Kazakhstan wins Juniors Chess Championship
Little Kazakhstani Miss Bibissara Assaubayeva, 10, has won the 13th Dubai Juniors Chess Championship 2014.
20 August 2014
Australia to free some detained asylum-seeker children
A number of asylum-seeker children held in Australian mainland detention centres are to be released.
19 August 2014
China gang forced children to donate blood: Xinhua
Police arrested seven people in northwest China allegedly involved in a scheme that forced school children to donate blood.
16 August 2014
New treatment helps children with ICP walk in Kazakhstan
A recreational therapist from Pavlodar Alexander Myakota invented exercising equipment to treat infantile cerebral palsy (ICP).
01 August 2014
Mother sentenced to 8 years of prison for selling her children in Kazakhstan
A specialized district court of South Kazakhstan Oblast sentenced the 27 y.o. mother who sold four of her children.
01 August 2014
6 y.o. Sophie Manasyan wins Constellation of Vienna in Austria.
6 y.o. Sophie Manasyan won a prize in choreography at the children’s and youth creativity festival Constellation of Vienna in Austria.
01 August 2014
Obama, Central American leaders meet on child migrants
President Barack Obama met Friday with three Central American leaders to try to get control of an humanitarian crisis triggered by a tide of child migrants crossing the southern US border.
26 July 2014
Grim reality of Kazakhstani rehab centres for abused children
The grim reality of Kazakhstan’s Centers for Adaptation of Underage startles with adults’ inhumanity and cruelty towards abused children.
24 July 2014
India train hits school bus, at least 11 children dead
A passenger train rammed into a school bus in southern India on Thursday killing at least 11 children, with fears the death toll could rise further, officials said.
24 July 2014
Four children, two adults killed in France minibus crash
Four children, their driver and a 20-year-old were killed when the minibus they were travelling in crashed head-on into a truck coming the other way in France, authorities said.
23 July 2014
Inside Mexican shelter, a world of fear and abuse
A nauseating smell of rotting food and excrement hangs in the air inside the Mexican shelter where authorities say hundreds of children lived in squalor and endured physical and sexual abuse.
19 July 2014
Honduras calls for curbing crime to fight child migration
Honduras called for international efforts to fight organized crime to deter minors from leaving Central America to illegally enter the United States, where rights officials warned youths can face abuse.
17 July 2014
11 y.o. Kazakh pianist wins competition in Cannes
11-y.o. pianist from Kokshetau, Kazakhstan, Alina Galiyeva has won a prestigious international competition in
France.
16 July 2014
Mexican police find hundreds, mainly children, living in squalor
Mexican authorities found nearly 600 people, most of them children, living in squalid conditions amid rats and insects in a residential facility.
16 July 2014
Samsung finds 'evidence' of child labour at China plant
Samsung said Monday it had temporarily suspended business with one of its suppliers in China after finding "evidence" of possible illegal child labour at the plant.
15 July 2014
Child's development card introduced in Kazakhstan by UNICEF and Ministry of Health
Kazakhstani Ministry of Health in cooperation with UNICEF introduced an individual child development card.
14 July 2014
China school minivan accident kills eight children
Eight children were among 11 people killed when a kindergarten minivan plunged into a reservoir in central China, state media reported Friday.
11 July 2014
Texas gunman kills at least six, including children: police
A lone gunman killed at least six people, most of them children, during a domestic dispute in Texas that triggered a tense ongoing standoff with armed police.
10 July 2014
Asylum-seeker mothers 'attempt suicide' to get kids to Australia
A dozen mothers in an asylum-seeker camp have reportedly attempted suicide so their children can be settled in Australia, piling pressure on Prime Minister Tony Abbott who said Wednesday he would not be morally blackmailed.
09 July 2014
Echo of Asia circus festival in Astana
International Circus Festival Echo of Asia was taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan from 1 to 8 July.
09 July 2014