A newborn baby girl was thrown to her death from a Hong Kong high-rise in the third such incident in recent months, police said.
The infant was found at the foot of an apartment block in the city's Chai Wan district with her umbilical cord still attached on Sunday, a police spokesman said yesterday.
Police afterwards conducted door-to-door inquiries to try to find where the baby girl had been thrown from, the spokesman said.
A 15-year-old Hong Kong schoolgirl was put on probation in January after being convicted of throwing her newborn baby girl to her death from a 12th floor apartment.
In another case the following month, a 21-year-old woman was also put on probation for throwing her newborn baby son to his death from a 20th-floor balcony. [Tehran Times]

INDIA: CLOSED DOORS FOR HIV POSITIVE CHILDREN (March 10, 2003)

Shunted out of school after school, the two HIV positive children in Kerala, Bency and Benson are now waiting for the state government to fulfill a week-old promise of providing them a home tutor.
Faced with a deep prejudice the children have been turned away from as many as six schools in the last three years. "Seeing other children playing outside breaks my heart. The government has not provided any facility. We will go on a hunger strike outside the state assembly," said Salikutty, their grandmother.
"They have a basic right to education, just because they have HIV or they are AIDS patients or they are suspected to have HIV shouldn't deprive any child of basic education. They should study in the same school as other children there is no need for segregation or separation whatsoever," claimed Dr Sreejith N Kumar, Secretary, Indian Medical Association.
The children lost their parents to AIDS and their innocence to a society, which seems unwilling to rise above its prejudices. The state government has passed an order but seems to be in no hurry to implement it, nor is it willing to comment on the matter. [NDTV]