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Hong Kong’s darkest days of Japanese invasion, cannibalism, POW camps and heroism
5. How a violinist's tunes helped guide soldiers breaking out of Sham Shui Po prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, four British POWs escaped with the help of ...
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Hong Kong varsity camp scandals: Police arrest man, 28, over sex assault on Education University student, 18, and voyeuristic act
The fresh allegations came in the wake of separate sexual assault complaints centred also on an orientation camp at the University of Hong Kong last month. Tang Ho-yin, a second-year HKU student ...
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Three survivors on how they endured oppression, cruelty and abuse as prisoners in Japan during WW II
24-year-old Canadian soldier Hormidas Fredette was sent to defend Hong Kong from the Japanese. He shares his memories of the battle, as well as his 3 years and 8 months in a POW camp. After the ...
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The Fence
In 1941, 2000 Canadians suffer the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter four-year period inside Japanese POW camps in Hong Kong and Japan. George Macdonell and George ...
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Hong Kong lawmakers seek more governance over university orientation camps, accused of ‘licensed sexual harassment’
Hong Kong universities’ orientation camps have been denounced as having deteriorated into “licensed collective sexual harassment”. Lawmakers have reached out to the city’s equality ...