China cake millionaire at home in his six castles
As the greatest urbanisation drive in history swells China's cities with ranks of identikit apartment blocks, one culinary businessman is indulging his architectural appetite with a visual feast of extravagant, outlandish castles.
Ban pleads for women's rights to curb Sahel fertility
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pleaded Wednesday in Niger, the country with the world's highest fertility rate, for better reproductive health to curb the Sahel region's runaway demographic growth.
World population to shoot up to 9.7 billion in 2050: study
The world's population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion and India will overtake China as the world's most populous nation.
Saiga population doubles in Kazakhstan in 5 years
The population growth has not been affected even by poachers who hunt saiga for its horns used in Chinese medicine.
Chinese buy up Canada farms; is Beijing behind it?
With too few farms in China to feed a burgeoning population, Chinese immigrants have started buying up agricultural lands in Canada and shipping produce to Asia.
Original Australians numbered 1,000-3,000: study
Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the Ice Age.
Nazarbayev does not want to make Astana multimillion city
Astana’s population is at around 800 thousand citizens. I don’t have any intention to raise it to millions: Kazakhstan President.
China 'two-child policy' town shows scope for reform
A few places in China give parents a rare right to have two offspring rather than one, but many stop at a single child anyway -- fuelling demands to end what critics call an unnecessary, harmful rule.
Birth rate keeps going up in Kazakhstan
According to Alikhan Smailov, Statistics Agency chairman, population of Kazakhstan made 16,934 thousand people as of February 1, 2013.
China performed 330 mn abortions since 1971: data
Nearly 330 million abortions have been performed in China in the 40 years since it first implemented measures to limit population growth in the world's most populous nation.
Astana population exceeds 780 thousand people
As of February 1, 2013 Astana’s population made 780,880 people.
Kostanay tagged most feminine city of Kazakhstan
Women make 55.2 percent of the population in Kostanay.
Population of Almaty to grow 150 thousand by 2015
The number of citizens in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty will reach 1.6 million people by 2015.
Kazakhstan's employable population to reach 9.5 million people by 2017
Kazakhstan Ministry of Labor and Social Protection gave its forecasts of the growth of Kazakhstan's employable population.
California Latinos to overtake whites within year
Latinos will outnumber non-Hispanic whites in California by early next year for the first time since it became a US state.
Singapore population half foreigners by 2030: govt
Foreigners could make up nearly half of Singapore's population by 2030, the government said Tuesday as it unveiled its politically sensitive projection for a city of up to seven million boosted by young immigrants.
Almaty should not have been expanded to the current size: Yeleussizov
Almaty population should not have exceeded 700 thousand people, whereas it has reached 2 million already: ecologist.
Seoul's working population to fall 1 mn by 2032
South Korea's capital stands to lose one million people of working age over the next 20 years -- a fallout from the country's status as one of the world's most rapidly ageing societies.
Quarter of Kazakhstan’s population will be over 65 y.o. by 2050
According to the forecasts, the country will have 25 percent of the population at the age of over 65: expert.
Abdykalikova concerned over disproportion of men and women in Kazakhstan
Gulshara Abdykalikova talked about unbalanced demographic development of the country.