China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly aging, state media Xinhua reported Monday. “To actively respond to the aging of the population… a couple can have three children,” ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced to launch a comprehensive campaign to check the population growth. He was addressing the concluding session of one day national symposium on 'Alarming Growth in Population in Islamabad on Wednesday organized by the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan. The ...

Peking, China: 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.Their efforts bore fruit with another boy — one of a million extra births this year.CPEC: Pak-China JCC meets in Beijing“The ...

KARACHI: (APP) Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has approved Sindh Population Policy 2016 and sanctioned Rs 1 billion budget for the implementation of new population policy in five years, under which Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) would enhanced from 30 to 40 per cent by 2020.The CM ...

LAHORE: (APP) On the orders of Chief Minister Punjab, provincial government has regularized 52,000 employees of National Programme for Family Planning (NPFP). The regularized employees included Lady Health Workers (LHVs), LHWs, LHSs, Accounts Supervisors and drivers. According to handout ...

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed that there is no concept of family planning in Islam and we have to increase our descendents. He claimed that birth control is a treason and it's women responsibility to make sure that the Turkish population keep growing continuously. He ...

ISLAMABAD: While taking notice of the family planning ads on TV Channels, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has decided to ban all birth control and family planning commercials on TV Channels and FM Radio.As per details, a notice has been issued by PEMRA to all TV Channels and FM Radio ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) Voluntary organ donation: China at top of the list Voluntary organ donations by Chinese citizens have risen 120 times in past six years since China began the trial in 2010, making the country No. 1 in Asia in the number of voluntary organ donations. The figure was made public at ...

WASHINGTON: A gunman opened fire at a prominent family planning center in Colorado, killing three people and wounding several in a standoff that dragged on for five hours before he surrendered. An usually busy area of snow-covered Colorado Springs was placed on lockdown into the early evening, ...