Breastfeeding? Sorry ma'am, no drinks allowed here - OCT 26, 2002

HONGKONG - A woman breastfeeding her 22-month-old son in a library in Hongkong was told by a staff member to stop doing so as 'no food and drinks are allowed'.

Halfway through breastfeeding her son, Ms Ng Lai Ping was asked by a library staff to go to the sick bay instead. -- APPLE DAILY

Ms Ng Lai Ping was reading to the toddler and an older son in the Central Library on Oct 18 when her younger son cried of hunger pangs, reported Apple Daily yesterday.