Tag: CHINA

Millions tune in to watch herd of wandering elephants in China

Written by Cape Coral Mortgage Syndicated User on June 10, 2021. Posted in Cape Coral Mortgage, Mortgage Cape Coral.

For more than a week, China has been gripped by a herd of 15 marauding elephants, who are large, lost, and wrecking havoc in the country’s southwest. Millions have tuned in to live streams of the elephants, which have trekked more than 310 miles across the country since escaping from a nature reserve in South China last year, CNN reports. And online, netizens have followed transfixed as the elephants trampled crops, causing more than a million dollars worth of damage, and roamed through towns, prompting local residents to stay inside. More than 8 million people watched a video captured...

China to allow couples to have up to three children in attempt to reverse falling birth rates

Written by Cape Coral Mortgage Syndicated User on May 31, 2021. Posted in Cape Coral Mortgage, Mortgage Cape Coral.

(CNN) — The Chinese government will allow couples to have three children, according to state-run news agency Xinhua, the latest easing of strict family planning policies as the country tries to avert a demographic crisis. The Chinese Communist Party’s top leadership made the decision at a meeting on Monday, state media said, in a move designed to combat the country’s aging population. State media did not say when the new policy would be implemented. It comes just three weeks after Beijing published its2020 census, which showed China’s population...