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Monday, October 31, 2011 9:08:18 PM
Countries across world celebrate 7 billionth babies
AFP | Nov 1, 2011, 05.54AM IST
MANILA, PHILIPPINES : She came into the world at two minutes before midnight, a tiny , wrinkled girl born into a struggling Manila family. On Monday, she became a symbol of the world's population reaching 7 billion people and all the worries that entails for the planet's future.
Danica May Camacho, born in a crowded public hospital , was welcomed with a chocolate cake marked "7B Philippines" and a gift certificate for free shoes. There were bursts of photographers' flashes, and speeches by local officials. The celebrations, though, reflected symbolism more than demography.
Amid the millions of births and deaths around the world each day, it is impossible to pinpoint the arrival of the globe's 7 billionth occupant . But the UN chose Monday to mark the day with a string of festivities worldwide , and a series of symbolic 7-billionth babies being born.
Countries around the world marked the demographic milestone in a variety of ways. Russian authorities showered gifts on newborns, while Papua New Guinea handed out special "goody bags" for new mothers.
In Bangladesh, authorities named another baby girl the world's seven billionth child. Weighing 2.75 kilos and named Oishee, she arrived a minute after midnight at a hospital in the capital Dhaka. "I'm so happy. I've become the father of a baby girl at a historic moment," her father Mohsin Hossain said.
In Cambodia, the honour fell to a baby girl who has yet to be named. Weighing three kilos, she was born in the southern province of Preah Sihanouk, her parents' fifth child. "I am very glad for her. She is the last child for us. I hope she will have good future . I had a dream that she would be the luckiest among my children," proud mother Pring Phal, 42, said.
Meanwhile, China, which at 1.34 billion people is the world's most populous nation, said it would stand by its onechild policy, a set of restrictions launched three decades ago limiting urban families to one child and most rural families to two. Li Bin, director of the state population and family planning commission said population of China would hit 1.45 billion in 2020.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Countries-across-world-celebrate-7-billionth-babies/articleshow/10562964.cms
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World's 'seven billionth baby' is born
Danica May Camacho, a girl born in Philippine capital Manila, is chosen by UN to symbolically mark global population milestone
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/31/seven-billionth-baby-born-philippines?newsfeed=true
AFP | Nov 1, 2011, 05.54AM IST
MANILA, PHILIPPINES : She came into the world at two minutes before midnight, a tiny , wrinkled girl born into a struggling Manila family. On Monday, she became a symbol of the world's population reaching 7 billion people and all the worries that entails for the planet's future.
Danica May Camacho, born in a crowded public hospital , was welcomed with a chocolate cake marked "7B Philippines" and a gift certificate for free shoes. There were bursts of photographers' flashes, and speeches by local officials. The celebrations, though, reflected symbolism more than demography.
Amid the millions of births and deaths around the world each day, it is impossible to pinpoint the arrival of the globe's 7 billionth occupant . But the UN chose Monday to mark the day with a string of festivities worldwide , and a series of symbolic 7-billionth babies being born.
Countries around the world marked the demographic milestone in a variety of ways. Russian authorities showered gifts on newborns, while Papua New Guinea handed out special "goody bags" for new mothers.
In Bangladesh, authorities named another baby girl the world's seven billionth child. Weighing 2.75 kilos and named Oishee, she arrived a minute after midnight at a hospital in the capital Dhaka. "I'm so happy. I've become the father of a baby girl at a historic moment," her father Mohsin Hossain said.
In Cambodia, the honour fell to a baby girl who has yet to be named. Weighing three kilos, she was born in the southern province of Preah Sihanouk, her parents' fifth child. "I am very glad for her. She is the last child for us. I hope she will have good future . I had a dream that she would be the luckiest among my children," proud mother Pring Phal, 42, said.
Meanwhile, China, which at 1.34 billion people is the world's most populous nation, said it would stand by its onechild policy, a set of restrictions launched three decades ago limiting urban families to one child and most rural families to two. Li Bin, director of the state population and family planning commission said population of China would hit 1.45 billion in 2020.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Countries-across-world-celebrate-7-billionth-babies/articleshow/10562964.cms
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World's 'seven billionth baby' is born
Danica May Camacho, a girl born in Philippine capital Manila, is chosen by UN to symbolically mark global population milestone
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/31/seven-billionth-baby-born-philippines?newsfeed=true
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