Xinhua News Agency

Married couples in China will from Jan. 1, be allowed to have two children, after concerns over an ageing population and shrinking workforce ushered in an end to the country's controversial one-child policy.  

The change, which was announced in October by the ruling Communist Party, takes effect from Jan. 1, Beijing's official Xinhua news agency reported over the weekend.

China has legalised overseas counter-terror operations by its military, details of a controversial new law showed, as it tries to tie violence linked to mainly Muslim Xinjiang into global concerns about extremism.

A landslide that swept through an industrial park in southern China has buried more than 30 buildings in a sea of mud, leaving 91 people missing and triggering a gas explosion, Chinese media said Dec. 21.

China's navy chief warned his US counterpart encounters between their forces could spiral into conflict, state media reported, two days after a US destroyer sailed close to Beijing's artificial South China Sea islands.
 

China announced the end of its controversial one-child policy on Thursday. Its strict and brutal enforcement left the country with an ageing population and shrinking workforce.

All couples now will be allowed to have two children, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a communique issued by the ruling Communist Party.

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Oct. 29, with the official Xinhua news agency saying that all couples would be allowed two children.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that Serbia is preparing projects for the upcoming summit of China and 16 countries of central and eastern Europe.

Not even 10 percent of the USD 10 billion that the Chinese government had set aside for cooperation with southeastern European countries had been employed for projects, he told China's Xinhua agency in an interview.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for talks in Beijing on July 29, in a visit expected to cover trade ties, missile defense program bargaining and spat over the Asian giant?s Uighur minority. 

China passed a wide-ranging new national security law on July 1, expanding its legal reach over the Internet and even outer space as concerns grow about ever-tighter limits on rights.

China is mounting a serious effort to challenge US military superiority in air and space, forcing the Pentagon to seek new technologies and systems to stay ahead of its rapidly developing rival, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said on June 22.