One-Child Policy

Letters to the Editor, May 18, 2013

18 May 2013

Quest to end alfresco dining hurts tourism

I first landed in Hong Kong in 1994 and found the dining scene quite vibrant and exciting. It was certainly very different from the US, where I...

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Did China's one-child policy motivate 'secret son' to kill his father and sister?

17 May 2013

The mainland's one-child policy may have played a key role in a tragedy involving a Henan teenager who allegedly hired hitmen to help him kill his father and sister on Sunday.

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Probe over reports Chinese director Zhang Yimou has seven children

9 May 2013

Authorities have begun investigating reports that Zhang Yimou , one of the mainland's best-known movie directors, has seven children in violation of the one-child policy, state media said...

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Zhang Yimou linked to '7 children', sparks debate over one-child policy

8 May 2013

The renowned film director fathered three children with actress Chen Ting before they married secretly in 2011. He also had a daughter with his first wife and was further linked to three children...

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Letters to the Editor, April 29, 2013

29 Apr 2013

The Housing Authority has in fact undertaken various waste recycling initiatives in recent years and is committed to reducing waste in its public housing estates through different waste recycling...

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Critic of one-child policy in from cold

28 Apr 2013

Yi Fuxian was trained as a clinic medicine specialist before obtaining a PhD in medicine in the United States, but the Hunan native is better known as a staunch critic of the mainland's one-child...

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

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Hubei woman dies after forced sterilisation

A 42-year-old woman in China’s Hubei province died last month after being forced to endure a sterilisation procedure, said Chinese media reports.

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‘Two-child policy’ town shows scope for reform

A few places in China give parents a rare right to have two offspring rather than one, but many stop at a single child anyway – fuelling demands to end what critics call an unnecessary, harmful...

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China's one-child policy must be changed before it's too late

Thanks to longer life expectancy and the one-child policy, for well over a decade China's fertility rate has remained below replacement levels.

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Briefs, March 9, 2013

Wu Shimin, vice chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, advocated ending the one-child policy as China faces an ageing population and many of these children are in "weak" physical health...

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Letters to the Editor, February 12, 2013

Religion is probably not the first thing that comes to mind for most people when thinking of Hong Kong. But for the three of us, as leaders in our respective religious communities, religion...

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Zhejiang woman 'abandons' second child to avoid fines

A woman in China’s eastern Zhejiang province ''abandoned" her recently-born second child, a two-month-old baby girl, only to ''adopt'' her later - hoping to avoid fines from birth control...

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