More than 760 Hong Kong families have applied for the government’s HK$20,000 (US$2,567) baby bonuses, a scheme introduced about a month ago as part of a bid to boost the birth rate.
The Immigration Department on Monday said it had logged 761 applications by last week, after Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu announced a range of measures designed to tackle the city’s record-low birth rate, including the one-off cash allowance for babies born over the next three years.
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