HONG KONG residents have put up a full-page advertisement to protest against mothers from mainland China travelling to the Special Administrative Region to give birth, major Chinese dailies reported.

“Do you want Hong Kong to spend HK$1mil (RM389,765) every 18 minutes on children whose parents are non-residents?

“This city is dying, do you know it?

“The Hong Kong people have had enough!” said the ad in Apple Daily, with the picture of a giant locust overlooking Hong Kong from a mountain top.

The advertisement was paid for by donations collected through a popular online forum in the former British colony by Netizens, who also demanded that the government put a stop to the influx of the mothers, who they call “locusts”.

Each year, tens of thousands of pregnant women from China cross the border to give birth in Hong Kong, which is exempt from China's one-child policy, and in order for the child to get citizenship.

This has put a huge strain on public hospitals and medical services in Hong Kong.

In 2010, more than 40,000 children of China parents were born in Hong Kong.

> A Hong Kong detective film is searching for new talents in Malaysia, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.

The film would be helmed by Hong Kong director Oxide Pang, the husband of Malaysian actress Lee Sinje.

The collaboration between local company Asia Tropical Films and a Hong Kong company follows their earlier tie-up for blockbuster hit The Viral Factor, partly shot in Malaysia.

Interested parties can send their particulars (name, contact number, IC number, height, weight, skills and other relevant information) together with a full and a half-body photo to asiatropicalfilms@gmail.com.

Call Liyin at 03-7726 7225 or 7726 8225 for details.

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