The Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2012 starts on 5 October. RTHK Radio 3 is proud to be a media partner once again. Over the nine days of the Festival, we'll be talking to many of the writers taking part, and moderating some of the events, and featuring everything we do on our Bookmarks book website.
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The 2008 Literary Festival drew some of the biggest names in modern writing to Hong Kong for an intense programme of talks, workshops, readings and literary lunches.
RTHK English newsroom previews a number of hotly contested functional constituencies and all five geographical constituencies in the 2008 Legislative Council election. Due to the large number of candidates competiting, some of the geographical constituencies will be split into two to three features.
香港電台原創睇得聽得的Podcast節目,由五時花六時變的林子揚主理,內容輕鬆搞笑甚至發神經,旨在令大家有5分鐘快快樂樂的Podcast Happy Hour。 如果你有古靈精怪的主意或見聞,歡迎電郵話我地知! 電郵:hk.300@rthk.hk
The Agender Cafe serves up a delicious array of topics on gender, sex, sexuality and society. Every week we have a frank, open conversation with our guests about issues which affect us all, and try to tackle some of those “taboo” topics. Sit down with hosts Karen Koh & Noreen Mir every Friday from 2-3pm and enjoy a visit to the Agender Cafe!
RTHK's English-language current affairs programme that takes "The Pulse" of Hong Kong ... and the world around it. "The Pulse" is presented by locally and internationally known journalist and writer Steve Vines. Its focus? The latest events and trends that affect Hong Kong - from the corridors of power and business boardrooms, to the streets and dai pai dongs. "The Pulse" is politics. What's happening in the Legislative Council and on the streets right now. "The Pulse" is the media, informin ...
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'Patient likely died of heart attack, not vaccine'
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An panel of experts on Wednesday unanimously took the view that a 63-year-old patient likely died of a heart attack on Sunday, and that his death had no direct link with the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine that he received two days before his passing. The Expert Committee on Clinical Events Assessment Following Covid-19 Immunisation held an emergency meet…
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Longer detention of asylum seekers justified: govt
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Security officials have dismissed concerns that proposed changes to the Immigration Ordinance relating to the detention of asylum seekers would violate a common law principle ensuring they may only be detained for a reasonable period of time. The Hardial Singh Principles state that a person can’t continue to be detained, if the screening of non-ref…
Myanmar security forces opened fire on protests against military rule on Wednesday killing nine people, witnesses and media reported, a day after neighbouring countries called for restraint and offered to help Myanmar resolve the crisis. The security forces resorted to live fire with little warning in several towns and cities, witnesses said, as th…
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Tourism Board plans staycation and local tour offers
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The Tourism Board said on Wednesday it's planning to give away local tours and staycation discounts to boost consumption once the pandemic condition is stabilised here. The board's executive director, Dane Cheng, said they decided to bring back the popular programme after the 10,000 quotas for free day trips were fully booked in a week at the end o…
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'Eateries will struggle to follow new Covid rule'
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A catering sector representative said on Wednesday that it will be difficult for small restaurants to comply with a new anti-epidemic rule which requires them to arrange dedicated staff to clear tables. Some medical experts have said the arrangement is needed to prevent cross-infections of Covid-19, but the president of the Federation of Restaurant…
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Capitol siege was 'criminal behaviour'- FBI head
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FBI Director Chris Wray on Tuesday accused supporters of Donald Trump who carried out a deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol of domestic terrorism and vowed to hold them accountable. "I was appalled that you, our country's elected leaders, were victimized right here in these very halls," Wray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "T…
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Washington sanctions Russia over Navalny poisoning
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The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on seven senior Russian officials as it said its intelligence concluded that Moscow orchestrated the near fatal poisoning of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. In action coordinated with the European Union, President Joe Biden's administration renewed demands that Russia free Navalny, who has been s…
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Nigerian schoolgirls freed from captivity
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Gunmen have freed all 279 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday, as victims described how their abductors had beaten and threatened to shoot them. The pupils from Jangebe, a town in Zamfara state, were abducted just after midnight on Friday. All had now been freed, Zamfara Governor Bello Matawalle sa…
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Retired HKUST academic among new Covid infections
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A retired academic at the University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has come down with coronavirus, and health authorities said his case may be linked to a 28-year-old man who was allowed to skip compulsory quarantine after arriving here from Shenzhen. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said the pair had meetings together last week after the…
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Plan to turn border area into innovation hub floated
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Lawmakers on Tuesday said the government should use soon-to-be vacated land near the border with Shenzhen for innovation and technology enterprises, to tie in with the Lok Ma Chau Loop. At least 20 hectares of land, currently under the Lok Ma Chau Control Point, will be vacated once customs, immigration and quarantine clearance facilities are moved…
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Private doctors clamouring for Covid jabs: union
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The government has been urged to speed up its process of allowing private doctors to join the territory-wide Covid-19 vaccination programme, and to replenish the supply of jabs for them more quickly. The call was made by the president of the Hong Kong Doctors Union, Dr Henry Yeung, as 800 private doctors started to administer the Sinovac vaccines o…
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District councillors shouldn't elect CE: Ip Kwok-him
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A Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC) says Beijing will likely remove district councillors’ power to help choose the SAR's chief executive, so as to reduce the opposition camp’s political leverage. Of the 1,200-strong election committee tasked to select the CE, 117 are district councillors. They are elected among 452 district c…
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Marathon national security bail hearing resumes
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A marathon national security law hearing resumed at West Kowloon Court on Tuesday lunchtime, with 47 pro-democracy politicians and activists seeking bail after being charged with subversion. Several of the defendants were absent, however, with Chui Chi-kin, Clarisse Yeung, Roy Tam, Leung Kwok-hung and Mike Lam all in hospital after Monday's prolong…
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Online queue expected for BioNTech jabs: IT chief
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The Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Alfred Sit, on Tuesday said the government has increased the capacity of its vaccination booking website, but he said people might still have to queue online for some time when appointments open for the coronavirus jabs made by German drug-maker BioNTech on Wednesday. He said more than 100,000 people log…
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Court burns midnight oil processing security cases
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West Kowloon Court sat into the small hours as it tried to process the cases of 47 pro-democracy figures accused of national security crimes over their involvement in Legco primaries last year. The suspects are accused of intending to abuse Legco's power by plotting to indiscriminately overturn government budgets and eventually force the Chief Exec…
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CUHK student union resigns citing political pressure
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The new cabinet of the student union of Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) announced its resignation on Monday, citing increasing political pressure after the school cut ties with it last week. Syzygia said it was taking "political responsibility" for the decision to withdraw their manifesto and election platform earlier, saying it'd lost its m…
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Bad ventilation may have caused TST outbreak: expert
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Hong Kong University microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung said bad ventilation at a restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui might have caused a coronavirus cluster there. Forty-eight cases -- including 22 customers and nine staff at Mr Ming's Chinese Dining, along with their close contacts -- have been confirmed with the virus, and there was also a preliminary positi…
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Govt to probe possible Covid jab side effects
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The Health Secretary, Sophia Chan, said on Monday that authorities will investigate whether an elderly man who became ill after receiving the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine was suffering from any side effects. The 72-year-old man, who had hypertension, started developing heart palpitations on Saturday within half an hour after the jab. He was sent to …
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Police warn of security law arrests outside court
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Police on Monday warned people gathering outside the court where 47 pro-democracy figures were appearing on subversion charges that they too could be arrested under the national security law. Officers raised the purple warning flag that they have been unfurling at demonstrations since last July, but which has been something of a rare sight in recen…
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Protest slogans ring out as hundreds gather at court
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Hundreds of people gathered outside West Kowloon Magistracy on Monday, to show their support for 47 pro-democracy activists appearing there accused of "subverting the state" by holding Legco primary polls. As they queued up for seats for the hearing, the crowd shouted slogans including "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" – which the gover…
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There's no freedom without restraint: new RTHK head
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New Director of Broadcasting Patrick Li on Monday vowed to uphold editorial independence, while at the same time emphasising the importance of RTHK "fulfilling its editorial responsibilities", adding that there's no "freedom without restraint". Li, an administrative officer, was appointed by the government to replace veteran journalist Leung Ka-win…
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Trump rules out new party, hints at 2024 run
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Former US president Donald Trump on Sunday hinted at another run for the White House in 2024 while repeating his discredited claims that Democrats "stole" the 2020 election. Trump made the remarks during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida. The former president also called reports that he was plotting a form…
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Thai police fire rubber bullets at demonstrators
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Thai police shot rubber bullets and used water cannon and tear gas against pro-democracy protesters in Bangkok on Sunday at a rally outside a military barracks housing the prime minister's residence. A youth-led protest movement calling for the resignation of Prayut Chan-ocha's government had lost steam in recent months following a second wave of c…
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Valentina Tudose - Managing our emotions 26-2-2021
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Noreen Mir is joined by co-host Karen Koh on the Agender Cafe, as they talk about managing our emotions, with Valentina Tudose, a transformational relationship coach.Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Budget & discussion with: Kevin Tsui & John Marrett; tenancy control of subdivided units
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On Wednesday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivered his Budget for the coming year. In the midst of a pandemic and with the jobless rate at 7%, the highest in 17 years, many Hongkongers were hoping for decisive measures to help them through this diff...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Interview with Simon Wong on relaxation of social-distancing rules in restaurants & US elections: Ge
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Hello and welcome to The Pulse coming to you in a rather different format matching the rather strange times we are now facing, not least for some of us who have been working at RTHK’s Television House where a hair stylist was found to have contracted C...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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CNY flower markets and fairs & Homelessness in the pandemic: MercyHK & ImpactHK
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Kung Hey Fat Choi. Hello and welcome to The Pulse.It’s fair to say that for many, in Hong Kong as around the world, the Year of the Rat hasn’t been one of the best, so it’s not be surprising if we enter the Year of the Ox with some trepidation. Even t...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Agender Cafe: Loron Orris and Michael Maddess - Sports
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On Friday's 123 Show, the Agender Cafe is back! After 2, hosts Karen Koh and Noreen Mir talk about something which impacts our physical and mental health - sports! We're joined by Loron Orris, co-founder of Asia Sports Tech and AmCham Sports Committee ...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Myanmar coup discussion: Ian Holliday & John Mak, & oath-taking/declaration for civil servants
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Myanmar, previously known as Burma, was under military rule for more than half a century. In 1962, General Ne Win staged a coup leading the country into a 26-year era of one-party rule. It wasn’t until 2011 that the military junta was officially dissol...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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HK's ethnic minorities in the pandemic & Virtual Legco meetings
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Last Saturday marked a year since the first pandemic lockdown in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei, China. And here we are again, exactly one year later, with the Hong Kong government enforcing a two-day lockdown of its own in the densely packed neighbou...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Oath-taking for civil servants & Inauguration of Joe Biden
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As James Hacker, the fictional Minister for Administrative Affairs in the acclaimed British political comedy, “Yes, Minister” once said, “The three articles of Civil Service faith: It takes longer to do things quickly, it's more expensive to do them ch...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Interview with Tong Wong of OGCIO on Leave Home Safe mobile app & Bishop Hill Reservoir
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As we enter a second year under the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries are seeing infection surges and mounting deaths. A key element in countering the spread of the virus is contact tracing to identify the source of infections following t...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Mass arrest of 53 democrats: interview with Lau Siu-kai & Lo Kin-hei; Geoffrey Ma's retirement & int
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Interview with Lau Siu-kai and Lo Kin-hei on the mass arrest of 53 pro-democracy figures, Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma's retirement and interview with Henry Litton on judicial reformBởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Covid-19 vaccine discussion: David Hui, government health expert on Covid-19 & Alex Lam, Chairman of
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Happy new year and welcome to The Pulse. 2020 has been a year that many will be happy to see go. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought great disruption and many losses, both personally and economically, all around the world. We’ve all had to adapt to new...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
Hello and welcome to The Pulse. And from all of us here, best wishes to you for this holiday season. There are still a few days left, but so far 2020 has been a year unlike any other in recent history- and that’s putting it mildy. Merriam-Webster’s onl...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Hong Kong's academic freedom & Long Time No Chat: Calling Los Angeles
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Chief Executive Carrie Lam says the introduction of the National Security Law has been “remarkably effective in restoring stability”. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said last month that more ref...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Hong Kong Media discussion with Francis Lee of CUHK Journalism & Comm. & Tom Grundy, Editor-in-Chief
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The relationship between the media, the government and law enforcement has become increasingly volatile and tense since last year’s social unrest, even more so since the enactment of the National Security Law. Among the Incidents that have caused conce...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Interview with Andrew Heyn, UK British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau
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In her fourth Policy Address delivered last week, Chief Executive Carrie Lam dedicated a lengthy chapter to upholding “One Country, Two Systems” and stressed the need for constitutional order. She said that to fully implement the concept formulated by ...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Policy Address 2020 discussion with: Liberal Party James Tien & Democratic Party Wu Chi-wai
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On Wednesday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam delivered her delayed Policy Address to a half-empty Legislative Council chamber. Opposition members had boycotted the session.The first part of the title of the Address “Striving Ahead” is a phrase frequently ...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
On today's Agender Cafe, we’re celebrating Movember and talking about men's mental health with Ed Rollo, who's a musician, DJ, electronic artist, and is currently dealing with cancer; and Philip Watkins, a naturopath who has over 10 years' clinical pra...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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China's new antitrust guidelines on Fintech discussion with Anjani Trivedi & relabeling of "Made in
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As an African proverb goes, when elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. Currently, Hong Kong is finding itself in the position of that grass. Starting this month, locally-made goods can no longer be exported to the United States with the label “...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
Agender Cafe: Sextech, with Bryony Cole, the Founder of Future of Sex podcast and Ruben Rodriguez, the regional PR manager, APAC for WowTech.Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
Agender Cafe: Sextech, with Bryony Cole, the Founder of Future of Sex podcast and Ruben Rodriguez, the regional PR manager, APAC for WowTech.Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Disqualification and mass resignation of pro-democracy lawmakers discussion: James To & Junius Ho; &
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Wednesday’s decision by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress makes it clear that Hong Kong must be governed by people Beijing considers to be patriots. The resolution, citing activities endangering national security, paved the way f...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
on today's Agender Cafe we’re focusing on women and gaming. We’ll find out more about women and video game culture with our guests Keiko Bang, the CEO of Bang Singapore, aka Millenasia, who's a media producer and lifelong gamer; and Allison Yang Jing, ...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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US Election Special III: Election results update, Chinese & HK voters in NYC & discussion with: Davi
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Hello, and welcome to The Pulse. Unprecedented, extraordinary, mind-boggling - choose your own adjective for describing the American elections. From the distance of Hong Kong, another adjective might be confusing. Coming to think of it, it’s pretty con...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
On today's Agender Cafe we're hearing something uplifting and fun for Halloween. We’re talking to Lily Lu and Jack Yu, the Chairperson and Vice-Chair of Hong Kong’s only LGBT+ choir, the Harmonics HK, and we'll hear the results of their latest project.Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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US Election Special II: Voter suppression, reports from Portland Oregon & Texas & discussion with Se
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The President of the United States wields so much power and influence over the rest of the world that some people jokingly, or not so jokingly, want the whole world to get a chance to vote in the presidential election. However in the United States itse...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Better sex education knowledge and attitudes for youth 23-10-2020
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The Agender Cafe is back and this week we're talking about how to equip our youth with better sex education knowledge and attitudes. Hosts Karen Koh and Noreen Mir are talking to the participants of the "Hong Kong Jockey Club Youth Zex Educator Program...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong
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Trump and Biden final US presidential debate: discussion with Peter Beattie of CUHK & misinformation
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There is just 12 days to go before the United States Presidential election. It’s being billed as the most crucial election in US history, in terms of America’s own democracy, and its role in the world. This week, and in the coming two weeks, we’ll be l...Bởi Radio Television Hong Kong