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Parsis confront threat to existence at Mumbai gathering The world's tiny but hugely successful Zoroastrian community will confront a demographic crisis which threatens its very existence when it gathers en masse in its spiritual home of Mumbai this week.

27 December 2013

Nazarbayev concerned over squatting around Astana and declares moratorium Lands around Astana are distributed haphazardly and their further use is not controlled. President Nazarbayev wants more order and less squatting.

01 December 2013

Australia's feral camels culled to 300,000 Australia's feral camel population numbers around 300,000, far fewer than the one million generally cited, a new study showed Thursday after a four-year cull removed 160,000.

21 November 2013

China one-child law change small but crucial: experts Beijing's relaxation of its hugely controversial one-child policy is an attention-grabbing first step, but it will have to usher in greater changes if China is to tackle its looming demographic timebomb, experts say.

16 November 2013

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.

16 November 2013

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.

07 November 2013

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.

02 October 2013

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.

24 June 2013

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.

23 June 2013

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.

25 April 2013

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.

23 April 2013

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.

01 April 2013

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.

23 March 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.

17 March 2013

Astana population exceeds 780 thousand people As of February 1, 2013 Astana’s population made 780,880 people.

14 March 2013

Kostanay tagged most feminine city of Kazakhstan Women make 55.2 percent of the population in Kostanay.

11 March 2013

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.

01 March 2013

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.

12 February 2013

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.

01 February 2013

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.

30 January 2013

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