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‘We can all empower another to chase our dreams’, Student of the Year Grand Prize winner says

The annual Student of the Year (SOTY) Awards aim to reward the talent and hard work of Hong Kong’s new generation for their academic achievements and contributions to society. Nathan Ng from St. Paul’s Co-educational College won the Grand Prize at the Awards this year.

July 23, 2022
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Hong Kong’s largest dinosaur exhibition, “The Big Eight – Dinosaur Revelation”, is showcasing eight original and reconstructed fossils at the city’s Science Museum. The museum needed about one year...00:56
Dinosaurs
Hong Kong Science Museum chief on preparing for dinosaur exhibition
July 13, 2022
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Hong Kong’s largest dinosaur exhibition, “The Big Eight – Dinosaur Revelation”, is showcasing eight original and reconstructed fossils at the Science Museum. Amanda Cheung, managing director of the...02:17
Dinosaurs
Amanda Cheung hopes Hong Kong dinosaur exhibition will inspire a new generation
July 13, 2022
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About 50,000 students began their three-day college entrance examination at over 2,200 venues across Shanghai on July 7, 2022, after it was postponed for a month due to a recent Covid-19 outbreak....01:23
Shanghai
Delayed ‘gaokao’ begins in Shanghai
July 8, 2022
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Darul A’shom is one of the few religious boarding schools for the hearing-impaired  in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. Opened in 2019, the school enables students in...01:53
Indonesia
The Koran memorised in sign language
July 5, 2022
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Most of the nearly 12 million Chinese students who registered for the 2022 gaokao, completed their national college entrance exams on June 10, 2022. Taking place this year from June 7-10, the...01:15
Education
Students celebrate end of gaokao exams
June 10, 2022
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A record 12 million Chinese students have started sitting the 2022 national college entrance exams known as gaokao. Before testing began on June 7, 2022, some schools had offered psychological...02:22
Education
Record turnout for China’s gaokao exams
June 7, 2022
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Female students in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, have been forced to study in secrecy in a small classroom without desks. Taliban officials have closed schools for girls beyond grade six. The students...01:41
Afghanistan
‘I demand an education’
May 22, 2022
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Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered the closure of secondary schools for girls only hours after female pupils were allowed back into classrooms. The Taliban said it has yet to decide on what...02:21
Afghanistan
Afghan girls’ schools closed hours after reopening
March 24, 2022
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More than 500,000 students across South Korea took the high-pressured university entrance exam on November 18, 2021. For many students, the Suneung exam results will dictate their future lives,...02:05
South Korea
South Korean college test a nationwide effort
November 19, 2021
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Mongolian pupils returned to class for the first time on September 1, 2021, after a year of mostly online remote learning. Forced to set up virtual classrooms in early 2020 when the Covid-19...01:54
Mongolia
Mongolian schools restart after Covid break
September 3, 2021
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As South Korea battles outbreaks of bedbugs across the country, some residents are educating people on how to beat the insects. Blockchain engineer Kang Jae-gu has created a website that maps...03:26
South Korea
South Korea’s data-driven fight against bed bugs
December 29, 2023
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India
92-year-old Indian granny goes back to school
October 4, 2023
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Kraiz Kayastha grew up attending a Chinese-medium primary school in Hong Kong. But after almost six years, the Nepalese Hongkonger still struggles to understand his lessons, let alone speak the...11:22
Ethnic minorities in Hong Kong
Is Hong Kong’s education system failing non-ethnic Chinese children?
May 6, 2023
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Annie Chan Hau Nung is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at Lingnan University with expertise in sexuality studies, gender studies and Hong Kong culture. The...01:53
Sex and relationships
Young women selling adult content can be empowering, says Hong Kong sociology professor Annie Chan
April 12, 2023
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Schools in Afghanistan reopened for the new academic year on March 21, 2023, as teenage girls above grade 6 and women remain banned from secondary schools and universities. Like many female...03:00
Afghanistan
Afghan girls turn to online schools amid education ban
March 27, 2023
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The number of girls attending madrasas, or religious schools, has increased exponentially across Afghanistan since the Taliban imposed a ban on girls attending secondary and tertiary schools in...02:54
Afghanistan
Afghan girls turn to madrasas as education ban continues
March 20, 2023
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Twins Sri Irianingsih and Sri Rossyati established the Kartini Emergency School in 1983 for pupils from low-income families in the Indonesian capital. For the last 40 years, students, parents and...03:55
Indonesia
Twin women teach marginalised children in Indonesia
March 7, 2023
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A Hazara teenager who lost an eye in a deadly suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan on September 30, 2022, has achieved the top score in the country’s tough university entrance exams. Seventeen-year...02:06
Asia
Wounded Hazara girl achieves top score 1 month after terror attack
November 8, 2022
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The Egyptian Ministry of Education has launched a pilot project to teach Mandarin Chinese as a second language in 12 high schools. The project, in partnership with the Confucius Institute of Cairo,...01:12
Egypt
Chinese to be taught in Egyptian schools
November 2, 2022
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At the start of a new academic year in Hong Kong, secondary school students in Tin Hau expressed their excitement about the first day in class after many months of no face-to-face courses. Pupils...02:07
Coronavirus Hong Kong
Covid rules enforced at start of new Hong Kong academic year
September 6, 2022
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Millions of children in the Philippines returned to school as the academic year started on August 22, 2022. For many, it's their first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began over two years ago. The...02:08
The Philippines
Philippine schools resume after over two years
August 22, 2022