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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicOne child policy

Topic: one child policy

China’s population dips for 1st time since 1960, gap with India narrows to less than 4 crore

Latest data by China's National Bureau of Statistics shows births in country dropped significantly in absolute numbers and number of deaths rose in last 3 years.

To make babies or not? That’s the dilemma in China as cost of raising kids soars & soars

The cost of childcare in China is now higher than US, France, Japan and Germany. Thanks to years of state-driven one-child policy and falling fertility rate.

China’s ‘one-child policy’ left at least 1 million parents childless and alone in old age

From 1980 to 2015, the Chinese government limited couples to one child only. I interviewed over 100 Chinese parents who started their families during this period.

Chinese Communist Party’s three-child policy won’t work. It doesn’t make economic sense

Xi Jinping has spoken about relying on homegrown talent to tackle the challenges in science and technology. The three-child policy intends to fix the issue of shrinking workforce.

China to allow couples to have a third child to boost its falling birth rate

China has been gradually reforming its stringent birth policy that for decades limited most families to only having a single child, with a second child allowed since 2016.

Baby shortage prompts China’s unwed mothers to fight for change

Societal shift is underway in China as Communist Party gets desperate for newborns. In 2018, the number of newborns dropped to the lowest level in almost 60 years.

Chinese women are riding the booming fertility industry

With the Chinese government ending its one-child policy, the market for fertility services in the country will reach $1.5 billion in 2022.

Global Pulse: Germany’s hate speech law isn’t fixing the problem of online hate

In other news, China’s latest family-planning policies are a major violation of women’s rights.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.