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July 7th, 2008

Hong Kong: Education Chief Urges English Emphasis

Hong Kong’s students must master English to ensure the country’s global competitiveness. This was the message today from Secretary for Education Michael Suen, speaking at the Heung Hoi Ching Kok Lin Association’s Secondary & Primary Schools & Kindergartens.
He shared with students views raised among member economies at the fourth APEC Education Ministerial Meeting he attended […]

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June 26th, 2008

Hong Kong:The Cat Got Your Mother Tongue?

It was an admission of cultural defeat; but then Hong Kong is nothing if not pragmatic about such things. On June 6th its education minister, Michael Suen Ming-yeung, lifted restrictions that forced four-fifths of the territory’s more than 500 secondary schools to teach in the “mother tongue”, ie, Cantonese, the main language of its residents […]

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