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WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 9:56am neoform

Newsday -- In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new "socialist villages," ordering them to build hous.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 8:40am neoform

Globe and Mail -- Immigration is fuelling two-thirds of Canada's population growth and will likely become the only source of gains by 2030, according to a national census snapshot released yesterday. Statistics Canada also found the country's population increase was the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jan 13, 2007 @ 10:52am neoform

BBC News -- China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women by 2020, making it difficult for them to find wives, according to a national report... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 21, 2006 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- A dwindling birth rate is expected to cut Japan's population by 30% over the next 50 years, a survey by the government has said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 13, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs caused by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament to all Aborigines for laws and policies that "inflicted.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

BBC News -- China has decided to tone down some of the slogans used to promote its one-child policy, in a bid to make them sound less threatening. Some posters used in rural areas will be banned, such as one which read "One more baby means one more tomb." A lis.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 10:53am neoform

CNN -- About eight million Iraqis -- nearly a third of the population -- are without water, sanitation, food and shelter and need emergency aid, a report by two major relief agencies says. Oxfam and the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Coordination Committ.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

USA Today -- Zhang Bing grew up in remote Inner Mongolia, where his family herded sheep and raised chickens. Today he manages a glittering karaoke club 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) away in a booming eastern Chinese city. Zhang, 26, is part of a huge wave of rural w.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Sun May 27, 2007 @ 4:42pm hiscity

trak.in -- "India and China are probably the most talked about countries outside of US currently. The reason - their phenomenal growth.".. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:22am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Two-thirds of Canada's rapid population increase over the past five years came from immigration - a force that in coming decades will account for almost all of the country's growth, according to census figures released Tuesday. Unlike the United States.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 1:01am neoform

Yahoo News -- Wolves in the northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list within the next year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday, a move that would open the population up to trophy hunting... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 1:26pm neoform

Times Online -- BRITISH people are now more spied upon by their political leaders than any other population in the free world, according to an official report... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 18, 2006 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- When the municipal day-care center ran out of space because of a local baby boom, the town government gave Maylis Staub and her husband $200 a month to defray the cost of a "maternal assistant" to care for their two children... Read More