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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1638)12/30/2018 7:25:40 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Respond to of 13798
 
PM Theresa May awarded a £13.8m contract this week to run a post-Brexit freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend to Seaborne Freight - a company which has never done business and has no ships.

This money thrown into the abyss is the first of £108m the UK will spend on "no-deal ferries".




To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1638)1/2/2019 5:23:51 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 13798
 
Like you say. Pay more the people appear.
Chinese couples might be paid to have more children, report says

Research is latest sign policymakers believe more dramatic action is needed to defuse demographic time bomb

Chinese bachelors plug gender gap by buying Southeast Asian brides
12 Dec 2018

Chinese health authorities are studying the possibility of financial incentives to encourage child birth, local media reported, after decades of population controls left the country with a shrinking workforce.

The National Health Commission has organised experts to explore using tax breaks and other benefits to reduce the cost of having children, news portal Thepaper.cn reported on Wednesday.

The study will assess the effects of rewarding families based on the number of children they have, the report said, without saying where it got the information.

scmp.com