A Hong Kong independent bookstore owner has been fined HK$32,000 (US$4,085) for holding a Spanish class in his shop after a court ruled the course took place at an unregistered school. Pong Yat-ming, 52, was convicted on Friday of violating the Education Ordinance by organising a Spanish course in April last year at Book Punch,…
IT HAS BEEN Bad Bunny’s biggest, baddest month yet. Last week the Puerto Rican singer, Spotify’s most-streamed artist in four of the past six years, became the first musician to win an album-of-the-year Grammy for one entirely in Spanish. In his acceptance speech he won cheers for a swipe at Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown: “ICE…
The many benefits of learning a foreign language are well established. In Hong Kong, English is an official language along with Chinese. Children strive to master both, with many learning Mandarin, the official national language, on top of their native Cantonese dialect. The development of bilingual or trilingual talent provides the city with one of…