Waldo
In regard to your original question, home birthing in HKG is still illegal. You can have your own midwife (private midwife) but they cannot deliver the baby, it will be delivered by the hospitals widwife.
Not illegal, just very difficult. I asked Doc Cocks at Cathay the same question when I first came to HKG and he told me one of his kids was born at home here. I forget the details but remember he said the paperwork afterwards was a bit of a 'mare...