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Big Worry For China As Population Could More Than Halve By...
Chinas population has shrunk for the second year in a row. The two consecutive declines are the first since the great famine of 1959-1961, and the trend is accelerating.
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China's Population Shrinking For The First Time In 60 Years. Here's Why
The last time China's population declined was in 1960, as the country battled the worst famine in its modern history, caused by the disastrous Mao Zedong agricultural policy known as the Great Leap Forward.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Could Cause $8.5 Trillion Loss In Global Output: UN Chief
UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic will cause unimaginable devastation, usher in hunger and famine of historic proportions, and lead to a loss of USD 8.5 trillion in global output -- the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression -- if nations did not respond with unity and solidarity.
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China Forbids Great Famine Author Accepting Harvard Prize
A Chinese journalist says he has been blocked from traveling to accept a Harvard University prize for a 2008 book chronicling the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1961.
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Mamata Banerjee Declassifies Documents on Cabinet Meetings From 1938 To 1947
The files contain cabinet notes on the Quit India Movement, the Bengal famine and the Great Calcutta Killings. They also contain details about the partition.
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Ukraine's 'Russian Woodpecker' Takes Stab at Vladimir Putin
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was ordered deliberately by Moscow, as a coverup to distract attention from a failed weapons project.
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Somali famine killed 258,000, half of them children: report
Almost 260,000 Somali people, half of them children, died of dire hunger from 2010 to 2012, greatly more than was feared at the time, an official report said on Thursday.
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Big Worry For China As Population Could More Than Halve By...
Chinas population has shrunk for the second year in a row. The two consecutive declines are the first since the great famine of 1959-1961, and the trend is accelerating.
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China's Population Shrinking For The First Time In 60 Years. Here's Why
The last time China's population declined was in 1960, as the country battled the worst famine in its modern history, caused by the disastrous Mao Zedong agricultural policy known as the Great Leap Forward.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Could Cause $8.5 Trillion Loss In Global Output: UN Chief
UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic will cause unimaginable devastation, usher in hunger and famine of historic proportions, and lead to a loss of USD 8.5 trillion in global output -- the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression -- if nations did not respond with unity and solidarity.
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China Forbids Great Famine Author Accepting Harvard Prize
A Chinese journalist says he has been blocked from traveling to accept a Harvard University prize for a 2008 book chronicling the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1961.
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Mamata Banerjee Declassifies Documents on Cabinet Meetings From 1938 To 1947
The files contain cabinet notes on the Quit India Movement, the Bengal famine and the Great Calcutta Killings. They also contain details about the partition.
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Ukraine's 'Russian Woodpecker' Takes Stab at Vladimir Putin
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was ordered deliberately by Moscow, as a coverup to distract attention from a failed weapons project.
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Somali famine killed 258,000, half of them children: report
Almost 260,000 Somali people, half of them children, died of dire hunger from 2010 to 2012, greatly more than was feared at the time, an official report said on Thursday.
