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Old May 16, 2018 | 9:24 am
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Originally Posted by maradori
Had to pull out my passport to double check, but indeed that is the case -- Place of birth just says "TAIWAN". Note this is also the same for those born in Hong Kong and Macau (no country code -- looks like this is since July 2003)
This was done because PRC denied entry visa to those with passports having COUNTRY of birth being "HKG", "TWN", 'MAC'.
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