City University is criticised for its plan to turn five popular subjects into online courses, from next year, after excessive numbers of students had signed up for seven compulsory general education courses. Some lessons were packed with up to 70 students rather than the intended 50. Some lawmakers and a university trade union worried that this might erode the quality of education - even the exams will be conducted online.
Mainland agencies are providing services for women who want to give birth in Hong Kong, even though they have no links to the city. A reporter visited an agency in Shenzhen, posing as such a woman. The agency advised her to get divorced and become "the mainland wife of a Hong Kong man" through a fake marriage, to gain the right to give birth in Hong Kong. The agency said it would arrange everything for her until her baby was born for a fee of 260,000 yuan (HK$320,000).