In a series of dramatic wedding-day incidents, two brides in India abandoned their ceremonies to elope with lovers, while in China, a bride awoke from a 92-day coma just before her planned wedding.

China’s marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 million the previous year. This decline has prompted Chen Songxi, a Chinese ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The way Huang Xiahong had it figured, she said, life in prosperous Taiwan was bound to be better than her prospects in the teeming Chinese city of Guangzhou. So three years ago, she ...

In recent years, marriage brokers have become increasingly active in pairing Bangladeshi women with Chinese men. A search for the term “Bangladeshi girls” (孟加拉女孩) on Chinese social media and ...