 China says no changes to one-child policy for at least a decade
(KRON 4 Bay Area: Mon, 10 Mar) BEIJING (AP) - China's top family planning official says the country won't consider changing its one-child policy for at least another decade. He's quoted in the China Daily Newspaper as saying there would be major fluctuations in population growth if the rule were abandoned now.
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 Western bean cutworm moves into Missouri
(Iowa Farmer: Wed, 12 Mar) JOHNSTON --- The Western bean cutworm, which moved across Iowa from 2000 to 2004, has in the past year moved into the eastern Cornbelt and south into Missouri.
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 1-child rule to continue in China
(Deseret Morning News: Tue, 11 Mar) China's top population official said the country's one-child-per-couple family-planning policy would not change for at least another decade. The announcement rebuts speculation that officials were contemplating adjustments to compensate for mounting demographic pressures.
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 Modernity robs "going sim" of its poetry
(Vietnam Net: Tue, 11 Mar) VietNamNet Bridge - Spring is the time of love for romantic Van Kieu and Pa Co teenagers and I find the stories about their "going sim" – their traditional nocturnal courting – so attractive that I decided to visit the highland Huong Hoa and Dakrong districts of central Quang Tri Province to see it for myself.
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Artest Promotes Sterilization Of Pit Bulls
