Hong Kong battles 'pregnancy tourism'

taihg101shiki Says:

May 22, 2012 - People criticize the One Child Policy so much, yet it is for reasons like this we have it in the first place. When humans believe in breeding their way out of their problems, drastic measures must be taken.

oacmre Says:

May 20, 2012 - Superstition  BS

goodinfotoknow Says:

Apr 27, 2012 - suicide, blasphemy, worship of antichrist (pale jew with red eyes, who moves like superman and makes fire come down from the sky), receiving mark of the beast (rfid chip-small grey world passport-electronic tattoo-666 tattoo by lasers), and going into ufo ship (aliens=ghosts=demons) lead to hell.

gabrielleung Says:

Mar 5, 2012 - That's not the bleeping point. The point is that local hospitals are severely strained.

gabrielleung Says:

Mar 5, 2012 - In their tongue, he is poo-fucking

gabrielleung Says:

Mar 5, 2012 - Superstition is one of the causes. Misleading information is, however, the greatest reason for this problem. These "agencies" promise soon-to-be-mothers from the mainland of how great it is to live in Hong Kong, of all the great benefits there are of possessing a HK passport. That their child will have a future much brighter than everyone else. Baloney.

SAIDON92 Says:

Feb 19, 2012 - Hong Kong should stop giving out Birthright Citizenship. We HAVE too many mainlanders using up our resources. Our own people are suffering! 

sufirodger Says:

Feb 19, 2012 - Solution (from a Gweilo perspective): If you or your partner are HK citizens, your child born in Hong Kong becomes a HK citizen. If you work in Hong Kong (and have the work permit), your child born in Hong Kong becomes a HK citizen once you have been working (and have had a work permit) for 3 years. No 3 years of work permit, No Citizenship = no HK citizenship for your child.

bunnyrabbit008 Says:

Feb 5, 2012 - if you got a Hong Kong husband you can have as many kids you want , but not in if u got a Big6 hubby.

tkcwu Says:

Feb 5, 2012 - yes but not quality ones.

tkcwu Says:

Feb 5, 2012 - and stay the fcuk in china

ktchong Says:

Feb 5, 2012 - Hong Kong has a stupid law just like the USA: if a baby is born in Hong Kong, he automatically becomes a Hong Kong "citizen". Just so you guys know: Chinese "tourists" are also exploiting this citizen-by-birthright loophole in the USA. Tens of thousands of Chinese women come to the San Gabriel Valley region in California to give birth, so that their Chinese babies automatically gain US citizenship, before they go back to China with their "American" babies.

guoqing00 Says:

Feb 3, 2012 - This is very cynical. Not everybody wants to come to Hong Kong, I'm a mainlander, and I don't want to live in Hong Kong.

tracefeng Says:

Feb 3, 2012 - Where does Al Jazeera get its experts? A Feng Shui master? Any man or woman off the street could have told you that.

peng1110 Says:

Feb 2, 2012 - Couples who pay for the tour will not be in huge favor of hongkongs education, as they can always send their children abroad... What they want is the passport... After getting the passport, they probably just go back where they were in china

mosquitoe Says:

Feb 1, 2012 - go home mainland pregnant women!!! go home!!!

KiuTsangXdd Says:

Jan 30, 2012 - Its not really about superstitious much, but more about when you have an Hong Kong ID. When you have a Hong Kong passport you almost don't need a visa to go to almost any country but when you have a Chinese passport you do. After birth you'll become a HK citizen immediately and you'll get all the benefits, school education.

mcjbzxkcb Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - I'm from Hong Kong and I'd like to say that few Hong Kongers of the current generation give a damn about this dragon year shit

likemikey93 Says:

Jan 23, 2012 - If the Hong Kong government wants to encourage population growth, it should focus on letting in skilled Mainland Chinese immigrants like doctors, nurses and lawyers. That way, they can get help these overcrowded facilities in Hong Kong.

siulasingable Says:

Jan 22, 2012 - This problem is caused by pro-democratic politicians who relentlessly probing loopholes of Basic Law since 1997 handover. These political opportunists rapidly lost support form HK people as long term sequalae of what they did in the last 14 yrs surfaced. In the District Council election last November, they suffered landslide defeat.

InfidelAvenger Says:

Jan 22, 2012 - A nice dose of James Randi-esque skepticism would be good over there.

peppeddu Says:

Jan 22, 2012 - You need to include the millenium babies in the batch

lanceseidman Says:

Jan 22, 2012 - Must be crazy to feel like that.

quaxk Says:

Jan 22, 2012 - that is so retarded

Ome99 Says:

Jan 21, 2012 - See a smart parents eill give a virth six years later, right middle between this next dragon year to give his child less cimpetition as he grows