Mattel has often looked to be part of the buzz around New York Fashion Week and Toy Fair with its iconic fashion doll Barbie, and this year's no different. The toymaker is kicking off a new advertising campaign for Barbie that will try to play up the doll's fashion credentials, and at the heart of the campaign's kick-off is a larger-than-life Barbie Dream Closet on display at Lincoln Center.
Mainland Chinese who have a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaching China's one-child policy, Chinese media quoted a family planning official as saying, as mainland Chinese women flock to the former British colony to give birth.
The change partly reflects demographics but also government cost-cutting that has resulted in less generous pay and benefits, the New York Times reports.