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Why do Hongkongers care so much about Cantonese?
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Artists using written Cantonese to reinterpret traditional Chinese heritage and Hongkongers overseas sharing their linguistic heritage with an overseas diaspora are but two examples of Hong Kong’s attachment with the dialect most commonly spoken in the city. In the first of a two-part series about Cantonese, the Post caught up with a primary school debate team…
Hongkongers’ celebrate Dragon Boat Festival across the city in largest turnout since pandemic
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Tens of thousands of revellers gathered across Hong Kong on June 22, 2023, to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. Held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, this year’s event was the largest since the Covid-19 pandemic, with several major competitions held in various parts of the city, including at the Shing Mun River…
Could China be seeing Hongkongers’ visa applications? – BBC Newsnight
Protests in China this week against Covid restrictions and the country’s authoritarian rule were reminiscent of the violent crackdown seen in Hong Kong two years ago. Since then the UK has given sanctuary to more than 140,000 people from the former British territory. Many of those applied for visas through a locally based private company that carries out work on behalf of the Home Office. But…
Britain's new Hongkongers – BBC World Service
Since last year, over a hundred thousand people from Hong Kong have left everything they know to escape a government accused of eroding freedoms and to start new lives in the UK. Subscribe – https://www.youtube.com/bbcworldservice As Elaine Chong follows some of Britain’s new Hongkongers, she discovers that while some have found less stressful lives, others have discovered the city’s political tensions have followed them on…
As Hongkongers struggle with rising inflation, the city’s most vulnerable are the hardest hit
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Driven by the Covid-19 pandemic and other factors, rising inflation has emerged as a problem around the world including in Hong Kong. The city’s consumer price index posted a year-on-year increase of 1.7 per cent in October, 2021, making life of underprivileged residents even harder. Among those bearing the brunt of soaring costs are underprivileged people…
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