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IPAN supports PM Albanese’s firm rejection of US demands to increase military spending by billions. Australia must not be drawn into a conflict with China over Taiwan. AUKUS Pillars 1 and 2 should be cancelled.

Update, 19 February 2023: According to a video by EU President Ursula von der Leyen on 30 November 2022, which she soon edited, 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have perished [1] since the launch of Russia's Special Military Operation on 24 January 2022. If true, the number of Ukrainian military deaths greatly outnumbers her figure for 20,000 claimed civilian deaths. This makes Ukrainian soldiers, mostly conscripts including ethnic Hungarians the greatest victims of the Ukraine conflict, a conflict, which is clearly a war of choice by the West and its puppet, Zilenskyy.

Former German Chancellor Merkel, former French President Hollande and former Ukrainian President Poroshenko have all revealed that the 2014 Minsk Accords were only designed to buy time for then Ukrainian President Poroshenko to re-equip the Ukrainian Army. Even President Zilenskyy admitted on Thursday 9, February that he personally refused to implement those agreements. So the ongoing war in Ukraine is clearly a war of choice by President Zilenskyy and and his US masters.

However, even if we were to, somehow, still find a way to attribute all of those deaths to Russia and not to the Kiev regime, how does this compare with the record of the United States, which by one estimate, has, since the end of the Second World War in 1945, killed between 20 and 30 million people in many bloody wars of aggression across the globe? Even United States political leaders such as President JFK, his brother, Robert and Marin Luther King, who tried to stop these wars have also fallen victim in circumstances, which can be described at best, as very suspicious.

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HA NOI — Significant outcomes have been attained in curbing population growth in Viet Nam, with 18.5 million people lower than estimated by 2010, according to health officials. "Achievements of population activities have contributed much to spur the country's socio-economic development, realise Millennium Development Goals, and combat hunger and poverty."

Originally published as "Nation checks rising population," in the In the Vietnam News

Nurses care for newborn babies at Saint Paul Hospital in Ha Noi. For the past 40 years, the average number of children per woman has fallen from 6.3 to 2. — VNA/VNS Photo Huu Oai

HA NOI — Significant outcomes have been attained in curbing population boom in Viet Nam, with 18.5 million people lower than estimated by 2010, according to health officials yesterday.

The success was hailed at a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnamese Population Day (December 26) in Ha Noi.

President Truong Tan Sang presented the first class Independence Order to the population and family planning sector for their achievements in national socio-economic growth.

The Ministry of Health statistics showed that during the period of 1960-2010, the average number of children for a woman of reproductive age had reduced from 6.3 to 2.0.

Life expectancy had increased from 40 to 73. Population growth rate also had reduced from 3.8 per cent to 1.05 per cent. The availability of contraceptive measures had increased the number of married couples of reproductive age.

Director of the General Office for Population and Family Planning Duong Quoc Trong said scientists had estimated that the population scale of Viet Nam would reached 105.5 million in 2010. In fact, the country population was 87 million last year.

"Achievements of population activities have contributed much to spur the country's socio-economic development, realise Millennium Development Goals, and combat hunger and poverty," said Trong.

However, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said, Viet Nam was facing problems in handling emerging issues in population activities such as the difference in birth rate between regions, areas and provinces nation-wide, the imbalance in gender at birth and low population quality.

The health ministry reported that the imbalance of the sexes at birth has been at an alarming level where the sex ratio (the number of males per 100 females) at birth had increased from 110 in 2006 to 111.9 in 2011.

The rate of new-borns with congenital deformities also was on the increase. Situation of early marriage and in-breeding in some ethnic and minority groups were problems causing race degradation.

"An intervention plan should be programmed to actively control the population growth rate due to increasing demands of family planning," stressed Tien.

Tien said that intervention measures should be brought forwards faster with an aim to improve population quality and control population growth rate and unbalanced sex ratio in Viet Nam.

Closely collaboration between ministries and sectors was needed for the perfection of law and the regulation system on population and family planning and implementation of the population and reproductive health strategy of Viet Nam during the 2011-20 period. — VNS