Al Jazeera - Hong Kong Babies - Chinese Population Control (XviD

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Al-Jazeera (English)

18th May 2007



PROGRAMMES EVERYWOMAN

Hong Kong Babies



Our main story is on how tough new policies in Hong Kong could prevent Chinese women having babies there, the rise of the Purity Ball - where American teenage girls pledge their virginity to their Dads and turning the other cheek, the new film on Israeli and Palestinian peacebuilders, struggling for an end to violence



Last year, more then 26 thousand pregnant Chinese women from the mainland had their babies in Hong Kong. But now Hong Kong authorities say the baby boom has put their health facilities under too much strain - and from February this year new regulations have come into force to check the tide. Hospital fees have doubled for mainland mothers, who have to pay nearly $5000 U-S dollars even before they set foot in the region. And immigration officers will turn back anyone appearing to be 7 months pregnant who hasn't paid in advance.



So why are so many Chinese women keen to give birth in Hong Kong? Is it just to escape China's one-child policy, or are there other driving forces?



Shiulie Ghosh is joined from Hong Kong by Ka-Ming Wu, anthropologist and visiting scholar at Hong Kong University who gives us quick overview of the One Child Policy and its effect and Mr Lee Che-ok Yan, legislative councillor to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China who tells us why these regulations are divisive.







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