Famous US-born Hong Kong actor and filmmaker Daniel Wu has garnered extensive attention on Chinese social media following the launch of an English-language course aimed at teaching his fans authentic spoken English. On February 26, Wu shared a video on his newly established social media account, “Daniel Wu Teaches English”, which has swiftly attracted over…
A secondary-school student in China has used a 3D printer and old smartphone components to make a vertical foldable mobile phone, winning massive admiration on social media, including the thumbs-up from a major phone maker. Lan Bowen, from Yiling High School in Yichang in central Hubei province, released a video clip showing the making of…
Steppin is the latest app by Kayak’s cofounder, Paul English. The app limits phone use by encouraging users to clock steps to unlock screen time. I tried it out for a week, and I noticed it made a difference in my morning routine. For the past few years, I’ve set similar New Year’s resolutions to…
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Crime-themed attractions such as Hong Kong’s ICAC Cafe and Japan’s Prison Museum, designed to promote legal culture, are drawing growing numbers of tourists. Official data shows that Hong Kong received over 290,000 visitors during New Year’s Eve and the first day of the new year, more than 77 per cent of them came from the…
When a group of Chinese primary school pupils with a keen interest in astronomy were asked what language the research on China’s Chang’e-6 lunar soil samples should be written in, they stopped smiling. The pupils of Fangcaodi International School, a state-run primary school in Beijing with an emphasis on science education, have closely followed China’s…
The use of Cantonese and English in secondary schools poses the biggest challenge academically for children of mainland Chinese talent who have settled in Hong Kong, education authorities have said. The Education Bureau also said it was willing to look into building hostels at some semi-private schools, after a lawmaker asked whether the government could…
HONG KONG — China’s Communist Party-controlled journalism association has bestowed its top annual reporting award to an English-language article by state news agency Xinhua on President Xi Jinping’s reelection — potentially reflecting the government’s emphasis on shaping global perceptions. The All-China Journalists Association, which has been handing out the awards since 1991, typically dishes out…
Weaknesses in writing and speaking have persisted among Hong Kong students sitting an internationally recognised English test, with the candidates last year performing similar overall to those in 2022. Mainland Chinese students in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) assessment also registered lower results last year, with scores dropping from 6.1 to 5.9 on…
Weaknesses in writing and speaking have persisted among Hong Kong students sitting an internationally recognised English test, with the candidates last year performing similar overall to those in 2022. Mainland Chinese students in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) assessment also registered lower results last year, with scores dropping from 6.1 to 5.9 on…