2 Fatally Stabbed Over China’s ‘1-Child Policy’

A man who was told by officials they couldn’t register his fourth child because he didn’t pay a penalty for breaking China’s family planning laws stabbed to death two government workers and injured four others, state media and an official said. Footage of police trying to subdue the man outside a family planning office in…

China’s Brutal One-Child Policy

LONDON — ZHANG YIMOU, the celebrated film director and arranger of the 2008 Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony in Beijing, was accused last week of being the latest high-profile violator of China’s one-child policy. The People’s Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, alleged that Mr. Zhang had fathered seven children with four different women. The news has…

France Lifts Its Ban on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

It is a common misconception in America that in the rest of the world, scientists are free to work with embryonic stem cells all they want, and that in the United States, we are “far behind” everyone else because of President George W. Bush’s funding restrictions. That simply is not true. Unlike the U.S. that…

ROMANIA HAS SURPASSED THE MINIMUM REQUIRED

Romania has reached the minimum signatures required by the Commission. With this great advance from Romania  10 EU countries have support the citizens initiative One of Us surpassing the number of signatures required by the EU regulations for the ECI’s: Austria, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia. Congratulations to all the team…

Chinese Scholar: One-Child Policy “Worse than Cultural Revolution”

Public policy researcher Wang Feng slammed the One-Child Policy at an academic conference in Beijing last month. Wang, who works for the Brookings Tsinghua Center for Public Policy Research, delivered his bold criticism in an interview with Chinese media outlet Sohu Finance. “I believe history will judge the One-Child Policy as worse than the Cultural Revolution,” Wang said.…