Double Income, No Kid (DINK) couples are not prevailing. A DINK family is one that has made the conscious decision not to have a child. However, studies have found that in the end, most of these DINK couples are eventually electing to have a child.

The name of the world-famous Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City, has become China's most famous brand, confirmed the Trademark Office under the State Administration for Industry & Commerce.

A coordination committee for the construction of the Shaanxi Qinling National Botanical Gardens was selected in Beijing by the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, the State Forestry Administration, the Chinese Academy of Science and the People's Government of Xi'an City on October 10.

A new human bird flu case was detected Tuesday in the Egyptian Delta governorate of Gharbiya, the first human case since mid-May, the official news agency MENA reported Wednesday.

China's ten leading global brands in 2006 were announced in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province, on October 10.

A 67-year-old hospitalized Indonesian woman is positively infected by avian influenza, a health official said Wednesday.

The first Chinese-made hydro-turbine paddle wheel, made for the right bank of the damn that has been built as part of the Three Gorges Project, was sent to its new site on October 10.

Beijing has reinstated daily reporting of bird flu monitoring results in a bid to prevent possible outbreaks.

Around 67 percent of the Cambodian infants are immunized for traditional diseases like measles, diphtheria, polio and tuberculosis before they reach 23 months old, the Cambodian Daily on Wednesday quoted a United Nations official as saying.

Hundreds of government officials, school administrators and parents gathered on Tuesday in Chevy Chase, on the outskirts of the nation's capital, trying to find ways to end violence in schools across the country.