Wheaton-based Sunny Ridge Family Center has overseen 60 to 100 adoptions of Chinese girls into American families since China reorganized its policies and reopened its adoption process in 1994.More recently, Sunny Ridge has placed 10 Chinese boys into adoptive families. But not until Dec. 13 did the China Center of Adoption Affairs allow Sunny Ridge to oversee the adoption of special-needs children from China. That's when Victoria Jackson brought her new daughter, 7-year-old...
Beijing, 17 October: Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress [NPC], hosted a reception marking the 20th anniversary of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development [AFPPD] in the Great Hall of the People this evening and delivered a speech, in which he pointed out: Population and development have become a major topic, which the international community is following with increasingly great interest. China will...
Astana, 3 March: Holding a trans-Asian forum of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will strengthen Kazakhstan's international positions, [Kazakh] State Secretary and Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev believes."This forum will help strengthen Kazakhstan's cooperation with various countries of the world," he said at the first sitting of the organizing committee for holding this forum in Astana today.It was reported that this forum was...
The Philippines recently reaped recognition through special awards for the best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies and programs. It reflects on the growing acceptance of CSR as a strategic element of managing businesses in Asia.The presentation of the Asian CSR Awards was an event highlight of the Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility, the largest gathering in Asia in the field of CSR recently held in Bangkok, Thailand. Presented by the Asian Institute of...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei -- Secretary of State Colin Powell met briefly early today with the foreign minister of North Korea, the highest-level U.S. encounter with the reclusive communist nation since President Bush labeled it part of an "axis of evil." State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Powell had a "15-minute informal chat" with Paek Nam Sun before the start of an Asian forum here. Boucher said Powell told the...