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As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son. All married c
stanley cup ouples are now allowed to have a second child but the legislation maintains limits on additional births. File Photo Their efforts bore fruit with another boy -- one of a million extra births this year. The traditional Chinese thinking is that more children bring more blessings, Zheng said, recovering from the birth at a luxury conval
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stanley cup lies. We grew up in the company of our siblings, she said. Before the change, we questioned why we couldnt have a second child, why they had to limit everyones desire to have children. Since the late 1970s, strict measures in the worlds most populous country restricted most couples to only a single child, with fines for violators and even forced abortions. Zheng and her husband were employees of state-owned enterprises and faced losing their jobs if they violated the ban. Officials say it was a key contributor to Chinas economic boom. But concerns over an ageing population, gender imbalances and a shrinking workforce pushed authorities to end the restriction and allow all couples a second child from January 1. Now China is undergoing a minor baby boom, with almost one million more newborns expected th Ajxu NPT meet ends without an outcome
Pakistan s prime minister warned President Barack Obama on Friday that US attacks on Islamic militants in Pakistani territory are inflaming tensions and undermining efforts to quell the insurgency in Afghanistan. Under the Bush administration, US officials complained the Pakistani government wasn t doing enough to confront militants that are allied with the Taliban and al-Qaida.
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adidas campus we are successfully isolating the militants from the local tribes, and we are keeping the tribes on the right side, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said during an event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. Obama has pledged to shift the US military s focus away from Iraq and on to Afghanistan and Pakistan, which he calls the central front in the struggle against terrorist groups. But he has offered few specifics about how his approach would turn around a fight that Adm Mike Mullen, the top US military officer, says the United States is not winning. Gilani said Richard Holbrooke, the new US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, will visit Pakistan on Feb 9. The focus of President Obama and our forces and our resolve is the same _ to fight against extremism and terrorism, he said. But Gilani said US attacks inside Pakistan are inflaming anti-American sentiment. Therefore that would not be u
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