Has China's One Child Policy been successful?

How successful has China's 'One Child Policy' been? A recent report says it has prevented 400 million births but China may be storing up problems for the future. Read more about it from the BBC here.

Two approaches to a declining and ageing population....

Japan have an ageing population and have decided robots may be the solution. read the whole story here.

Meanwhile, in Russia, they are worried they may lose 40 million people, a third of their population, by the middle of the century. Read about their unusual solution to raise the birth rate here.

Migrant workers face English test

An article from the BBC today (here) says that skilled migrant workers to England are going to have to take an English test.

"The government estimates 35,000 of the 95,000 skilled migrants who entered the UK last year would not have been able to show they could speak the language."
but.... "Exemptions will include international footballers signed by Premiership clubs."