Hong Kongs requests China to halt influx of pregnant women February 6, 2012 - 17:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Talks were held between Hong Kong and Chinese officials Monday, February 6 over ways to combat an influx of pregnant women from the mainland crossing the border to give birth in the city. Tens of thousands of mainlanders are giving birth in the wealthy former British colony, straining the city's public hospitals. A newspaper advertisement taken out by a group of citizens last week depicted mainland visitors as locusts. Raymond Tam, secretary for constitutional and mainland affairs, on Monday met Zhu Xiaodan, governor of neighbouring Guangdong province. Tam said he wanted officials in Guangdong to help crack down on cross-border agents who help pregnant women give birth in Hong Kong. Zhu promised a solution but did not give any details, M&C reported, citing DPA. In 2010, some 42,000 of Hong Kong's 89,000 births were to women from the mainland, whose children qualify for residency, free education and health care if born in the city.  Top stories The UN's target is a 2 C (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) limit on warming from pre-industrial levels for manageable climate change. Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan noted in his Facebook page that he has no intention to change his current job. Intrauterine devices "and implants are more effective because women can forget about them after clinicians put the devices in place." The government of Armenia hosted a sitting on coordination of buildings’ construction in the center of Yerevan.   |  Latest news Over 100 trespassers detained in Armenia in January-May  Russian border guards seized 50 firearms, bladed weapons and 300 thous. rubles worth contraband in January-May.Conference participants at Institute of CIS States back Artsakh’s stance The NKR was represented at the round table by Advisers to Foreign Minister Ruben Zargarian and Arsen Melik-Shakhnazarian.Shoushi liberation anniversary celebrated in France Armenian ambassador to France Vigen Chitechyan answered Armenian foreign and domestic policy related questions.Armenian ambassador to China participates in ESCAP meeting Armen Sargsyan participated in meeting of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. |
