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Chinese language and adaptation classes to assist them while the Home Affairs Department offers short-term tutorials to them. Hong Kong Integrated Nepalese Society Limited, a non-profit charitable organization which was known by HINS operated Home Affairs Department's Nepalese Community Support Team project from 2006 to 2016. Under this project HINS provide Cantonese tutorial classes for Nepalese primary level students. Even though after 2016 HINS has no more project but still this organization helping Nepalese community through various classes and training which help Nepalese to integration into local community. ( www.hinslimited.org )
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100 less than the locals in average per day. The situation of female workers is even worse. Also, many of them are hired on a daily basis rather than in monthly terms. This results in them having less stable jobs than the locals. Nonetheless, many of them would continue to work for their companies because they cannot afford to risk losing the income .
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In order to improve the situation, the Hong Kong government provides a new set of guidelines for the police who garrison in Yau Tsim Mong district. Tips on speaking
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British Government withdrew from Hong Kong and the Gurkha brigade disbanded. These Gurkhas and their children had the right to take up residence in Hong Kong. Also in 2008, a law of the UK was passed which claimed that those Gurkhas retired before 1997 would be eligible to
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to them, students would have poorer engagement and achievements in learning . Meanwhile, the Education Bureau does not seem to have modified the teaching materials according to their learning abilities and needs, the materials adopted are often lack of experts’ support and teachers’ trainings .
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less fluently. Although the elder generation was born in Hong Kong, their proficiency in Cantonese remains poor. Some would attribute the problem to the prohibition of learning or communicating with locals in the military camp. Restriction of learning Cantonese was a measure of the British to
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located in different main areas of Hong Kong that are designated for receiving intensive on-site support to enhance the learning and teaching of non-Chinese students. However, most Nepalese parents encounter difficulties in applying for school places since they cannot get access to official
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Thapa, Chura Bahadur (2019). Nepali students' identities and investments in learning English and Chinese (Cantonese) in Hong Kong: An ethnography inquiry. In Gube Jan and Gao Fang (Eds.), Education, Ethnicity and Equity in the Multilingual Asian Context. Pages 33-49.
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jobs or disciplined services. The requirements on the Chinese certificates and proficiency of written Chinese are often significant barriers for them, even though some of them could speak and listen to Cantonese very well. On the other hand, those academic
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