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China not scrapping birth caps entirely due to strictly enforced family pl
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 2 (ANI): Bucking the trend, China has announced this week that it will allow couples to have three children in a bid to boost its population, but some experts are questioning over why Beijing did not scrap birth caps entirely? The reason might be Xinjiang.
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China revises birth data for 2011-19 after 2020 census in wake of looming
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 20 (ANI): After releasing its 2020 census, China is adjusting the birth data for 2011 to 2019, saying that it was based on a small sample of the total population.
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Gas explosion in England: 1 child dead, 4 injured
Updated : 5 years ago IST
London [UK], May 17 (ANI): One child died and four persons were injured in a suspected gas explosion in north-eastern England on Sunday.
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Over 80 people missing, six killed in dust storm in Mongolia
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), March 15 (ANI/Sputnik): A heavy dust storm hits Mongolia over the weekend, leaving six people killed, including one child, and over 80 people missing, media reported on Monday.
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China's senior citizens seeking retirement homes scammed
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 2 (ANI): Rooms and beds for Chinese retirees are in short supply as the population is ageing, leaving many vulnerable to companies pitching risky investments, reported The New York Times.
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Despite end of one-child policy, birth rates declined in China during COVI
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 21 (ANI): Contrary to what population experts had expected, birth rates declined in China during the COVID-19 lockdown even though the communist nation has ended the one-child policy and given incentives to couples to have two children.
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China launches match making campaign as marriage and birth rates drop
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 11 (ANI): China has launched a campaign to check severe distress in its economic and social stability that may also pose a threat to Chinese Communist Party rule caused by a sharp plunge in marriage rates due to the one-child policy.
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One child or teen infected with HIV every 100 seconds last year: UNICEF
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Approximately once every minute and 40 seconds, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV last year, the UNICEF said on Wednesday. Nearly 320,000 children and adolescents were infected with HIV and 110,000 children died of AIDS
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Three dead in chemical gas leakage in Visakhapatanam
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Visakhapatanam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 7 (ANI): Three persons, including one child, died after chemical gas leakage here at LG Polymers industry in RR Venkatapuram village on Thursday, said Tirupathi Rao, District Medical & Health Officer (DMHO).
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Bihar: Another child dies due to AES at SKMCH, Muzaffarpur
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Muzaffarpur (Bihar) [India], April 28 (ANI): One child died on Tuesday due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), said Dr SK Shahi, Superintendent of Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur, Bihar.
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Hyderabad: One child dies, four injured in a fire at children's hospital
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Oct 21 (ANI): A five-month-old infant died and four children were injured in a fire that broke out in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Shine children's hospital in Hyderabad's LB Nagar area on October 21.
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WB: Family of 3, including one child murdered
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Murshidabad (West Bengal) [India], Oct 10 (ANI): In a gruesome incident, three people, including a child, were murdered by unknown miscreants in their house on Thursday in Jiyaganj area of Murshidabad.
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