Leading Hong Kong palaeontologist Michael Pittman was inundated with phone calls and media inquiries last month when the first dinosaur fossils were discovered in the city. The overwhelming response was in a stark contrast to the limited attention in the city he received over another groundbreaking finding, made public the day before the discovery was […]
Lawmakers have slammed a promotional video touting Hong Kong as an international education hub as being “sloppy, mundane and misleading”, with an official promising to improve the film. The three-minute clip had already been broadcast at an international education fair in Australia in March and played up local delicacies, the proximity of the countryside and […]
Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu has pledged to work with mainland Chinese authorities to crack down on education consultants that forged documents for candidates seeking admission into local universities. The city leader maintained that authorities would severely combat such acts of furnishing false information as these would undermine his administration’s policy to strengthen Hong […]
Hong Kong’s No 2 official has warned that using fake academic credentials to gain admission to local universities is a crime that can lead to jail time and convicted offenders may find it “very difficult” to enter the city later. Chief Secretary Eric Chan Kwok-ki also stressed on Friday that the government would thoroughly investigate […]