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World briefs: One-child policy will continue, official says
By Times Wires
Published March 11, 2008
CHINA 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 refutes speculation that officials were contemplating adjustments to compensate for mounting demographic pressures. Zhang Weiqing, minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said China would not make any major changes to the overall family planning policy until roughly a decade from now, when an anticipated surge in births is expected to end. WASHINGTON Bush says Poland to get military aid President Bush promised Poland's visiting prime minister Monday that the United States would help modernize the country's military, as Poland moved closer to joining a U.S.-sponsored missile-defense system. Bush's meeting with Prime Minister Donald Tusk followed a similar conference in February with the Czech prime minister, who said Prague was close to an agreement with Washington on the missile-defense system. Elsewhere South Korea: The government said Monday that a bioengineering student, Yi So Yeon, 29, will become the nation's first astronaut when she blasts off on board Russia's Soyuz rocket April 8 on a trip to the international space station that will be watched on TV by millions of South Koreans. Times wires
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