China acts to protect baby girls: China says it will intensify its efforts to protect girls and address the gender imbalance of newborn babies. A senior government official said that trafficking and abandonment of girls would be severely punished, and a ban on selective abortion reinforced.
Meeting Challenges of a Huge Population: Maintaining a low birth rate will remain a difficult task for some time in the world's most populous country, said Zhao Baige, vice minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission. She said that a number of other problems are appearing that require research into population strategy and immediate responses.
Growing movement in China against government land grabs: When the city of Zigong needed room for new apartments for its rising middle class, it took the farms, fish ponds, orchards and houses of the farmers on its outskirts. A decade later, the farmers say they got only a fraction of what would've been fair compensation. In some cases they got nothing at all.
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