I'm just doing a little wondering out loud here. HK has itself a little storm in a teacup right now about who is going to take over as CE. Me wonders if it is the boding of things to come. After all, if you think about it, you have this housing problem and all those empty investment apartments. You have all the returnees who came back to HK after the tanks didn't roll into the streets post '97. Well educated in true democratic traditions from students councils and prefects to condo committees. Judging from those who are blogging, they're all having kids. And methinks they're not going to be happy sending them to the local canto primary, and are not going to particularly want to inflict the single-mindedness of a local elite school onto their offspring. And the ESF and other international schools are bulging at the seams. And the govt turns the same blind eye that it's turned to the whole maternity hospital situation (people in government don't breed or only homeschool their kids?)
I wonder, I wonder.
(And to be honest, I wonder why I wonder, since I'm not even living there anymore. Why am I so attached to that place?)
…and the Black Rainstorm Signal is up
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A Family Planning Association of Hong Kong survey shows that 39% of women
have fewer children than they would like, and zero- and one-child families
outnum...
3 comments:
I am surprised to see how engaged the locals are in the CE election even though only a small group of elites get to vote. Last week and this whole week, different groups of locals have been asking me what I think, over my lunch hour. In HK, straw polls for those with HKID cards are being set up. I find the process quite interesting (and entertaining!) and it is not the fait accompli that I thought it was, granted both candidates had passed the initial test with Beijing, I am sure. Sophia
Hong Kong is a strange place. As someone who has lived and worked there, and now lives overseas, I can empathise with your sense of nostalgia. There is something amongst the craziness of it all, the suffocating pollution and tall buildings that continues to draw me in. The city beckons me to return. It is the spirit of the place, an energy, a grittiness, that still resonates with me.
Monday, March 19, 2012
HK School football match turns ugly
An English Schools Foundation (ESF) Caucasian schoolboy who willfully kicked a Chinese schoolboy's head in an Under-12 football match between the ESF and rival Kitchee Escola was arrested by the Hong Kong Police when the victim's parents lodged a police complaint against him.
This news has gone viral worldwide:
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120315-333647.html
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/school-football-incident-sparks-hong-kong-race-row
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1189174/1/.html
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/322758
http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/video-violent-school-football-incident-sparks-caucasian-chinese-racism-row-2012-03-15-1.448671
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_777896.html
http://vancouverdesi.com/sports/school-football-incident-sparks-hong-kong-race-row/
http://news.yahoo.com/school-football-incident-sparks-hong-kong-race-row-160123815.html
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