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HKU welcomes back education professor

The University of Hong Kong hosts a briefing to introduce Professor Mark Bray (left), the first holder of its new Unesco chair in comparative education, to the media. The university says Bray's field of expertise is the study of private supplementary tutoring, a sector that allows wealthy families to secure a good education for their children while those from low-income families fall behind. According to HKU, Bray first joined the university in 1986 and from 2006 to 2010 was director of Unesco's International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris.

Tenders close for New Territories land

Tenders for two residential sites in the New Territories close at noon. The responses will reflect developers' outlook on the local property market. The 46,845 square foot Tseung Kwan O site, on which 310 to 326 homes can be built, is expected to fetch between HK$979 million and HK$1.03 billion, or HK$3,800 to HK$4,000 per buildable square foot, according to five surveyors and analysts polled by the South China Morning Post. A site for luxury homes at Kau To, Sha Tin, is expected to sell for HK$270 million to HK$403 million, or HK$5,332 to HK$8,000 per square foot.

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Official opening for Picasso exhibition

The president of France's National Picasso Museum, Anne Baldassari (left), presides over this evening's opening ceremony of the Pablo Picasso exhibition at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, which runs until July 22. The collection of the Spanish artist's work is on a world tour while its home in Paris is closed for renovation. It has already visited the United States and Australia, as well as Shanghai and Chengdu .

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