Hong Kong's Education Bureau announces plans for school closures and mergers due to insufficient enrollment, with four schools set to shut down by 2029-30 and nine seeking to merge with other institutions.

Four of 15 Hong Kong public primary schools at risk of closure due to insufficient enrolment plan to shut down, while nine are seeking to merge with other institutions, the Education Bureau has said. One intended to run Primary One classes privately from the coming school year, it said. The bureau said four schools would gradually wind down operations or at the latest end their services by the 2029-30 academic year, and nine had applied to merge with other institutions. But one of the...