Latest Fujian News & Updates

Santiago, April 4 (IANS) Chile’s El Barrio Meiggs region has emerged as an operational hub for the ‘Bang Clan’, a Chinese organised crime group with roots in the Fujian province on China’s southeastern coast. The organisation is involved in a range of criminal activities, including “intensive cannabis cultivation; human trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation; as well as the trafficking of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine and ecstasy”, a recent report has detailed. Writing for ‘The…

New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) While China has introduced a slew of measures to boost its population demographic, the country’s birth count is shrinking and rapidly shifting as an ageing society, according to a media report.According to the latest official data, China’s birth count registered a historic low last year — just 7.92 million births, a 17 per cent drop from 9.54 million the previous year, and the lowest figure since 1949, Myanmar-based MeKongNews reported.The overall population fell by…