HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader on Monday (May 11) vowed to overhaul the city's education system, arguing its liberal studies curriculum helped fuel last year's violent pro-democracy protests.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader on Monday vowed to overhaul the city's education system, arguing its liberal studies curriculum helped fuel last year's violent pro-democracy protests.
Her comments are likely to inflame those Hong Kongers who fear Beijing is chipping away at the freedoms that make the city a major international draw as political tensions rise once more. Opponents say the laws will cut back on free speech and do little to heal the city's festering divides. But it has become a bete noire for Chinese state media and pro-Beijing politicians who have called for more patriotic education.
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