The Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday 18th January that Ma Jiantang, director of China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), called for the country's one-child policy to be changed because of the nation's shrinking pool of workers. According to the NBS, the working-age population in China decreased by 3.45 million between 2011 and 2012. In October 2011, the China Development Research Foundation, a think-tank affiliated with the Chinese government, also…

As 2013 comes to a close, many are warning about the effect of a range of UK government cuts to the funding of public services and how that will affect some of the elderly, services delivered by local councils and may even lead to the closure of hospital wards. Why? Because money is scarce and the government has to reduce the budget deficit so "everyone has to tighten their belt"…

America has just spent $6 billion dollars on the most expensive election in US history to re-elect the man that will give them more of the same.Despite the rhetoric of ‘change' or ‘moving forward' nothing has really changed. Obama through his victory speech tried his best to conceal the doom and gloom of the status quo. But reality eventually hit home. As the stock market nose-dived, it dawned on the…

Turkey's parliament authorised military operations against Syria on Thursday 4th October 2012 and its military immediately fired into Syria, sending salvos of artillery rounds deep into Syria. This was after five civilians in a Turkish border town were killed by Syrian shelling. Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said parliament's authorisation was not a declaration of war on Syria but gave Turkey the right to respond to any future attacks from…