RETIRED movie queen Lin Ching-hsia checked out of a Hongkong hospital on Thursday after giving birth to her second child.  The 46-year-old delivered her baby girl via Caesarean section on saturday.  The baby has been named Yan-ai, according to Apple Daily.  Wrapped in a long quilted coat, the radiant Lin said her priority was to shed some weight.  "I have hired a trainer to help," she told reporters.  Best-known as Taiwan's queen of romance movies in the 1970s, she retired in 1994.  She is married to Michael Ying, chairman of Hongkong-based international casual fashion chain Esprit Holdings Ltd.  The couple have another daughter, aged five.

-REUTERS

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