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1. News - Hong Kong - POPULATION

   For the first time, more one-child families in Hong Kong

   Posted May 22nd 2013, 12:00am by Amy Nip

   ... households for the first time, a survey shows. Of 1,518 married or cohabitating women aged 15 to 49 surveyed by the Family Planning Association in its latest five-yearly study, 37.5 per cent had one ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1243044/first-time-one-child-families-are-majority-survey-shows
2. Comment - Blogs

   Xinhua: CPPCC official keeps a wife, four concubines, and six kids in his massive Liaoning estate

   Posted Feb 06th 2013, 08:12am by John Kennedy

   ... Jinzhou family planning authorities told Xinhua Li will be fined, but declined to confirm the number of children he has. Meanwhile, local police say they've begun investigating accusations Li ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1144295/xinhua-cppcc-official-keeps-wife-four-concubines-and-six-kids-his
3. News - China

   Hubei woman dies after forced sterilisation

   Posted Apr 09th 2013, 12:50pm by Amy Li

   ... for her, said her husband, Cheng Shixiong. But family planning officials at Hubei’s Tongshan county, where the couple lived, kept pressuring her after they allegedly received a bad rating from ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1210674/hubei-woman-dies-after-forced-sterilisation
4. News - China - CHANGING FACES

   Critic of one-child policy in from cold

   Posted Apr 28th 2013, 12:00am by Raymond Li

   ... in the United States, but the Hunan native is better known as a staunch critic of the mainland's one-child policy, or family planning as authorities prefer to call it. His book A Big Country ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1224885/critic-one-child-policy-cold
5. News - China - FAMILY PLANNING

   Shenzhen plans charge on second children born in Hong Kong

   Posted Nov 02nd 2012, 12:00am by Choi Chi Yuk, Emily Tsang

   ... recently that social maintenance fees - more commonly known as extra-child penalties - would be imposed on residents of the city who violated the mainland's family planning policy. Many ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1074482/shenzhen-plans-charge-second-children-born-hong-kong
6. News - Hong Kong

   Association makes it cheaper for couples who want to get pregnant

   Posted Mar 07th 2013, 12:00am by LO WEI

   ... News Hong Kong Family Planning Association subfertility treatments pregnancy rate Lo Wei wei.lo@scmp.com More married couples are seeking help to get pregnant, prompting the Family Planning Association to offer subfertility treatments at fees lower than those in the private sector. The association's Wan Chai centre started providing a service in "artificial ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1184163/association-makes-it-cheaper-couples-who-want-get-pregnant
7. News - China - FAMILY PLANNING

   Probe over reports Chinese director Zhang Yimou has seven children

   Posted May 09th 2013, 11:06am by AGENCIES

   ... Xinhua reported that family planning authorities in Wuxi, Jiangsu, where Zhang's wife lives, said they were working on an investigation report and would release the results soon. Online ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1233523/china-investigates-reports-zhang-yimous-seven-children
8. News - China - POPULATION

   New realities drive population policy, experts say

   Posted Mar 11th 2013, 12:00am by ZHUANG PINGHUI

   ... News China Population policy Family Planning Birth Rate Population and Family Planning Commission Demographics Zhuang Pinghui pinghui.zhuang@scmp.com Axing of family planning commission reflects economic, demographic changes, experts say The decision to dissolve the National Population and Family Planning Commission demonstrates changing attitudes about population control after ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1187858/new-realities-drive-population-policy-experts-say
9. Comment - Blogs

   Outcry over blunders of China’s one-child policy

   Posted Dec 19th 2012, 02:50pm by Peony Lui

   ... that the policy is to “ensure smooth sailing for the local Population and Family Planning Bureau”, the government department overlooking issues related to the one-child policy. The requirement is, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1108203/outcry-over-blunders-chinas-one-child-policy
10. News - Asia - PHILIPPINES

    Bishops pledge to continue Philippine birth control fight

    Posted Dec 18th 2012, 05:24pm by AFP

    ... of the commission on family issues for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). He added that the Catholic Church would also continue to urge the nation of 100 million people – 80 per ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1107493/bishops-pledge-continue-philippine-birth-control-fight

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