Excerpt from report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 6 August [Report by Mary Ann Benitez: "No Beds for New Mainland Mothers"] All eight public hospitals offering maternity services will for the first time temporarily stop accepting childbirth bookings by mainland women from next month amid a surge in demand from expectant Hongkongers, the Hospital Authority said.

MORE than 200 mainland Chinese tourists arrived in Taiwan yesterday on the first regular commercial flight in nearly six decades, a historic move aimed at further easing tensions between the old foes.

By Annie Huang Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan -- More than 200 mainland Chinese tourists arrived in Taiwan on Friday on the first regular commercial flight in nearly six decades, a historic move aimed at further easing tensions between the old foes.

By Jonathan Adams Outside a popular tourist site in Taipei on a baking-hot morning recently, Gao Mingzhu, 56, a visitor from Beijing, took a break in the shade and posed as his tour group companion took a picture.

Chinese mainland tourists start historic Taiwan holiday on Friday BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A group of 760 Chinese mainland tourists will start a historic journey to Taiwan on Friday, the National Tourism Administration (NTA) said on Monday.