Hong Kong Bookseller Fined for Running Unregistered Spanish Class
Hong Kong independent bookseller Pong Yat-ming and his firm have been found guilty and fined HK$32,000 for operating an unregistered school after holding a Spanish interest class at his bookstore.
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Hong Kong bookstore owner fined HK$32,000 for using shop as unregistered school
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, a bookstore he founded in Sham Shui Po in 2020. Kowloon City Court earlier heard Pong’s defence at his trial, where he testified that he held the basic language course...
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Hong Kong independent bookseller Pong Yat-ming has been found guilty of running an unregistered school after holding a Spanish interest class at his bookstore, Book Punch, last year. Pong and his firm Active Experiential Learning Company, which owns Book Punch, were fined a total of HK$32,000 at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Friday. Before handing […]
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