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In China, 190 children are snatched every day. Clare Dwyer reports

In China, 190 children are snatched every day - more than twice the number taken in England and Wales in a year. Is the Single Child Policy to blame, asks Clare Dwyer Hogg. ...full story at Observer

from Observer on Sat, Sep 22 2007

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