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Students cross the border. Some schools in Hong Kong have reported receiving applications from students returning after being stuck on the mainland during the pandemic, and Hong Kong-born children of mainland parents. Photo: Handout
Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong schools’ fair to woo mainland Chinese but ‘no priority’ in admissions

13 Nov 2023 - 10:07AM

As local enrolments dwindle, schools target students arriving with parents through top talent scheme.

Students cross the border. Some schools in Hong Kong have reported receiving applications from students returning after being stuck on the mainland during the pandemic, and Hong Kong-born children of mainland parents. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong schools’ fair to woo mainland Chinese but ‘no priority’ in admissions

As local enrolments dwindle, schools target students arriving with parents through top talent scheme.

13 Nov 2023 - 10:07AM
14 Mar 2016 - 3:16PM

Around the nation: Chinese man smuggles heroin in his foreskin; divorce on menu after wedding feast dispute

A 12-year-old girl in Jiangyou killed herself by drinking pesticide after giving her grandmother water laced with the poison. Railway police revealed they captured a man who hid a bag of heroin under his foreskin.

21 Aug 2015 - 4:50PM
The latest victim of a massage bed child trap in the mainland. Photo: Hangzhou Metropolis Express

Another child in China gets his head stuck in the hole of a massage bed

14 Mar 2016 - 3:16PM
China society

Around the nation: Chinese man smuggles heroin in his foreskin; divorce on menu after wedding feast dispute

A 12-year-old girl in Jiangyou killed herself by drinking pesticide after giving her grandmother water laced with the poison. Railway police revealed they captured a man who hid a bag of heroin under his foreskin.

A 12-year-old girl in Jiangyou killed herself by drinking pesticide after giving her grandmother water laced with the poison. Railway police revealed they captured a man who hid a bag of heroin under his foreskin.

21 Aug 2015 - 4:50PM
China society

Around the nation: Chinese 'naked' wedding celebrations focus on love - not money

Couples covered in body paint and dressed only in underwear celebrate 'naked weddings' in Zhejiang province to protest against modern China's values, which focus more on money than love

Couples covered in body paint and dressed only in underwear celebrate 'naked weddings' in Zhejiang province to protest against modern China's values, which focus more on money than love

21 Aug 2015 - 5:16PM

China's longest-living couple look back on 90 years of marital bliss

Two Chinese lovebirds who have been married for 90 years - and who are still in love at the ripe age of over 100 - are proving that love can indeed last a lifetime.

18 Feb 2015 - 3:43PM
China's longest-living couple look back on 90 years of marital bliss
27 Aug 2015 - 4:36PM
Around the nation: Pupils kowtow en masse at Shanghai school

Around the nation: Chinese 'naked' wedding celebrations focus on love - not money

Couples covered in body paint and dressed only in underwear celebrate 'naked weddings' in Zhejiang province to protest against modern China's values, which focus more on money than love

21 Aug 2015 - 5:16PM

China's longest-living couple look back on 90 years of marital bliss

Two Chinese lovebirds who have been married for 90 years - and who are still in love at the ripe age of over 100 - are proving that love can indeed last a lifetime.

18 Feb 2015 - 3:43PM
27 Aug 2015 - 4:36PM
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