Embryology

2 Jul 2012

During the 1980s and '90s, it was all the rage for some Hong Kong celebrities and tai-tais to disappear from public view and re-emerge a few weeks later looking much younger.

And the...

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In Brief

2 Apr 2011

Fetus woman arrested

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Test draws mainland women who want sons

11 Feb 2010

A new DNA test that can identify the gender of a fetus as early as eight weeks is now being used as a sex selection tool by mainland women, who come to the city specially for the test.

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Premature baby found dead at park

19 Dec 2008

Detectives are investigating the discovery of the body of a newborn boy outside a park in To Kwa Wan early yesterday.

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Rosemary cuts the cord of financial dependence

13 Jun 2007

Model Rosemary Vandenbroucke is indeed her own independent woman now.

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Maid says embryo she kept in a jar is her baby

13 Feb 2006

A bottled human embryo was found in luggage belonging to a Filipino maid who was about to leave after completing her contract.

Her employer called police on Saturday after spotting...

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Mother seeks help for son's rare illness

The mother of a boy born with a rare and crippling condition has launched a worldwide search for doctors' opinions and advice in the faint hope he can be cured.

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Human placenta sold for use in health tonics

Hospital staff in Guangzhou are believed to be accepting bribes

Human placenta for use in health tonics is being sold by vendors in Zhongshan market in Guangzhou, according to a...

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Music to little ears

AT THE FETUSONICS concert - a Cantonese programme of music, singing, interactive discussions and relaxation exercises for the unborn child and parents-to-be held last week - drama therapist Kevin...

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Teenage mother charged

A 15-year-old, whose newly born baby died after being thrown from her 12th floor flat in Hunghom this week, was charged last night with concealing the birth of a child.

4:52PM

Baby 'thrown from 12th-floor flat'

A newborn baby girl was found dead yesterday after her 15-year-old mother allegedly threw her from a 12th-floor Hunghom flat.

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Newborn boy found thrown from roof

A newborn boy was thrown out of the window of a sixth-floor rooftop home in Tai Po. Naked and with his umbilical cord still attached, the body was found at the back of Kwong Fuk Lane by a rubbish...

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