11.   Mr Ho said Hong Kong authorities were aware of the use of Tongan passports by mainland women.

12.   Some are the offspring of Hong Kong men and mainland women.

13.   The children are mostly products of marriages between Hong Kong and Chinese citizens, usually between a Hong Kong man who works in China and a mainland woman.

14.   The government worries that if it loses the case against Chong, more pregnant mainland women will come to Hong Kong to give birth.

15.   The spokesman said the move was aimed at further discouraging visiting mainland women from giving birth in Hong Kong.

16.   They found themselves popular with young mainland women desperate to seek a better standard of living.

17.   While the communist revolution guaranteed equality of the sexes there, many mainland women are willing to give it up to marry a prosperous Taiwanese.

18.   Siazon told the South China Morning Post guarantees from Hong Kong and China would prevent Filipina domestic helpers from being supplanted by mainland women.