Population
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China is rushing to fix a new population problem
Four decades after declaring a one-child policy China has a new population problem: it looks all but set to shrink. The country saw plummeting birth rates for a second straight year in 2018 and lawmakers are now scrambling to find a fix. At this
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Feeling old and lonely in China? Just sue your kids
Our population is ageing rapidly - between 2011 and 2016 the percentage of over 50s increased dramatically. But who exactly is going to look after our elderly? In the UK half of 75-year-olds live on their own and two fifths say that
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Abolishing taxes saved a dying Hungarian village
A world away from Panama, the sleepy eastern Hungarian village of Komlóska has become a kind of tax haven – to survive. The village of 300 inhabitants is in one of Hungary's poorest regions with high unemployment and a
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UK visa 'auction' for well-off foreigners planned
A controversial immigration plan could see wealthy foreigners buy British visas if they give cash to British universities, schools and hospitals. A full report is expected to arrive on Home Secretary Theresa May's desk next month outlining
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Population growth in every region
The Government has a bigger job to do than delivering the Olympics because of the need to provide more housing, schools, health and transport facilities for a growing population, a leading union has said. Research for the GMB showed that the
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Population grows by 500,000 a year
Sean Dempsey/PA The UK population is growing by around 500,000 every year, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics yesterday. You only have to look at the traffic on our roads or take a train journey to see the
