China to reportedly loosen one-child policy and abolish labour camps

Jonathan Kaiman London Guardian November 15, 2013 China has pledged to loosen its one-child policy and end a controversial “re-education through labour” programme, state media reported on Friday, days after the conclusion of a meeting of top Communist party leaders in Beijing. Under the new policy, couples in which one member is an only child…

10,000 feared killed in Philippines by super typhoon Haiyan

RT Nov 10, 2013 An estimated 10,000 people might have been killed in the central Philippine province of Leyte alone, which was almost completely destroyed by the powerful typhoon Haiyan, local authorities said. The typhoon has devastated up to 80 percent of the Leyte province  area as it ripped through the Philippines, Chief Superintendent  Elmer…