The Wall Street Journal talks to Shi Kang, a successful writer who's caught the America Bug after taking a 60,000km road trip across the US last year. Shi waxes wistfully about the usual motivations Chinese people have for wishing to emigrate: cleaner air, better food safety, a decent education for kids and cheaper BMW SUV's (Shi apparently has yet to learn the concept of renting, since he purchased a car specifically for his road trip). more ›

In the latest series of events stoking the tensions between Hong Kongers and Mainlanders, Cheung Wan Lai, director of hospital groups at the Hospital Authority, revealed that the quota for foreigners giving birth in Hong Kong has been reduced from 10,000 in 2011 to just 3,400 in 2012. more ›

Al-Jazeera (who have recently landed on American airwaves, by the way) takes a look at the phenomenon of mainland Chinese citizens popping over to Hong Kong to pop out their babies (known as 'Birth Tourism') in order to ensure their children are Hong Kong citizens, and other ways that the Special Administrative Region's public services sectors are being stretched by PRC citizens. more ›

Actress Gong Li (巩俐) appeared recently as glamorous as ever in Beijing for a L'Oreal event in what was likely her first public appearance in China since she took on Singaporean citizenship. At a press conference she revealed that she's been receiving lots of offers from Hollywood lately, and when asked if she had any plans to return to Chinese cinema, she said, "I've always had, I've always had." But when the question moved on to her citizenship, Gong Li promptly turned around, spoke to her minders and made a quick exit. more ›