China announced measures on Saturday to simplify the registration of marriages and try to reduce the financial pressure on the bride and groom, the latest initiative of the authorities to revive the birth rate. Marriage is an almost obliged passage in the country before having a child, because births outside marriage are very frowned upon … Read more
Coming to record their wedding, two young Chinese pose all smiles in the town hall’s office … by proudly showing off the bundle of tickets received from the authorities in their hands to encourage them to marry. The city of Lüliang, in the province of Shanxi (North), is one of the many places in China … Read more
► Establish the daily quarter of an hour Every morning, be completely silent, put a book in everyone’s hands and give everyone fifteen minutes of escape. When he attended this ritual for the first time, in a high school in Türkiye, the writer and filmmaker Olivier Delahaye was amazed. With director Ayse Bascavusoglu and Danièle … Read more