HEADING OVERSEAS:

Hong Kong birth ban on women from China (Richard Spencer, 18/01/2007, Daily Telegraph)

An invasion of pregnant women from mainland China flooding into Hong Kong to give birth has forced the territory's authorities to take action to turn them back at the border.

Tens of thousands of women in the past three years have crossed into Hong Kong, checked into hospitals to give birth, and returned home again, often without paying their bills.

By doing so, they can evade China's one-child policy, and gain automatic residency rights for their child in Hong Kong.

Because, Hong Kong isn't China.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 17, 2007 10:07 PM