China to ease one-child policy, abolish labor camps, Xinhua reports

[IDemo]

Source: CNN

China will slightly relax its decades-long one-child policy, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Couples will be allowed to have two children if one of the parents was an only child, Xinhua reported.

The nation also announced it will abolish labor camps as part of efforts to improve human rights, the state news agency said.

Under the education through labor system, tens of thousands of offenders are imprisoned in China without trial.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/world/asia/china-one-child-policy/

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No more at link.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. The government in China

Is not too much different than the government in North Korea, in the Human Rights department.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

5. Sorry. . .live in China. Been here six year. Wrong!

[onehandle]

2. China's government. Now only 99.9% as oppressive and backwards as before.

Our partner in business.

[bemildred]

3. Ending the "labor camps" seems like a good idea.

Prisons for profit is always a slippery slope.

[Posteritatis]

7. I'm surprised by how much coverage just skipped that part entirely. (nt)

[bemildred]

8. I'm not. It does annoy me though.

The way facts are omitted, obscured, or neglected in order to better vent the usual empty slurs and stereotypes.

[KittyWampus]

4. Right- the labor camps will now be called "full employment opportunities for workers".

[Jesus Malverde]

6. bump... nt