Category: THE NEW YORK TIMES

As the Chinese government tries to increase the country’s falling birthrate, some millennials are striving for a lifestyle commonly known as “Double Income, No Kids.” By Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chen @ 2021 The New York Times Company Huang Yulong never wanted a baby. As a child, he resented his parents, who left him in the care of […]

More than 50,000 have escaped the pandemic by moving back, offering the country a rare chance to regain talented citizens. But they are confronting entrenched housing and employment challenges. Cat Moody, a New Zealander, and her American husband, Eric Mills, returned from the United States.Credit…Cornell Tukiri for The New York Times WELLINGTON, New Zealand — […]

For half a year, the rodents have been chewing their way around the country’s eastern grain belt, leaving economic and psychological scars. By Yan Zhuang Photographs by Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario @2021 The New York Times TOTTENHAM, Australia — The stench hits you first, pungent, musty and rotting. Then you hear them: a sound like ocean waves, […]

By Damien Cave, Emma Bubola and Choe Sang-Hun @2021 The New York Times Company All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore. Maternity wards are already shutting down in Italy. Ghost […]

The president said the main objective of ensuring that Afghanistan would not be a launching pad for terrorism had been achieved and that it was time for American troops to come home.   By David E. Sanger and Michael D. Shear @ 2021 The New York Times Company WASHINGTON — President Biden declared on Wednesday that “it is […]

Beijing’s leaders plot a path to go it alone, vowing to spend big to fill gaps in innovation and avoid dependence on the United States and others. By Paul Mozur and Steven Lee Myers @ 2021 The New York Times China is freeing up tens of billions of dollars for its tech industry to borrow. It is cataloging […]