VOA Mandarin: Pledge to provide child care subsidies welcomed
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FILE - Potential nannies learn how to care for newborns at a training school in Beijing on Dec 5, 2018.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang told the National People’s Congress on Wednesday that the Chinese government will provide child care subsidies and expand free preschool day care available to young couples to boost the country’s declining population. Li’s pledges were welcomed by Chinese netizens.
Thembisa Mdoda-Nxumalo, who plays on the role of Winnie, left, with Ayanda Sibisi perform during a rehearsal of the play "The Cry of Winnie Mandela" at Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, Feb. 26, 2025. Kgomotso "MoMo" Matsunyane, a director of the play "The Cry of Winnie Mandela" speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, Feb. 26, 2025.
Syrian government forces are deployed amid heightened security in Damascus, March 6, 2025. An ambush late Thursday by gunmen in Jableh, Syria, left more than a dozen security members dead, sources reported.
FILE - South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol attends the hearing of his impeachment trial over his short-lived imposition of martial law, at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, Feb. 20, 2025.
Travelers wait as Eurostar trains to London and all trains heading to northern France were stopped following the discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War II near the tracks, March 7, 2025, at the Gare du Nord station in Paris.
Chinese soldiers march to their post outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 7, 2025.
Uzbek native Iroda Rakhimova, who won a green card to the United States, speaks with VOA in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband and three children.
A damaged yacht that was swept away by the waves rests at Point Danger on the southern end of Australia's Gold Coast on March 7, 2025. An empty freeway ahead of Tropical Cyclone Alfred's landfall, in Brisbane, Australia, March 7, 2025.
A member of a Syrian government force is deployed amid heightened security in Damascus, March 6, 2025. An ambush late Thursday by gunmen in Jableh, Syria, left more than a dozen security members dead, sources reported.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, welcomes Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey to the Pentagon, March 6, 2025, in Washington.
A man watches a television screen showing news footage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un observing a test-launch of strategic cruise missiles, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 28, 2025.
FILE - Potential nannies learn how to care for newborns at a training school in Beijing on Dec 5, 2018.
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FILE - A boy looks over a refugee camp near the Chad-Sudan border, Nov. 9, 2023. Hundreds of Masalit families from Sudan's West Darfur state were sent here following a massacre in El Geneina. Sudan claims the UAE supplied arms to paramilitary forces in relation to the attacks.