From AFP:
Beijing plans to make an example of celebrities who flout China’s one-child policy by dramatically raising fines to prevent them buying their way past the rule, state media said Monday. “Celebrities and wealthy people will be more heavily fined for giving birth to more than one child,” Xinhua news agency quoted city family planning chief Deng Xingzhou as saying.
The government and its media outlets have recently played up reports of celebrities and other wealthy citizens skirting the policy, which limits urban families to one child….[Full Text]
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