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  "id": 7313190,
  "title": "Hong Kong to sweeten school merger deals, offer housing measures to lift births",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/hong-kong-to-sweeten-school-merger-deals-offer-housing-measures-to-7313190",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-14T12:00:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
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    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3367484/hong-kong-sweeten-school-merger-deals-offer-housing-measures-lift-births"
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  "summary": "Hong Kong authorities are expected to provide more incentives to encourage under-enrolled public schools to merge to survive, while announcing housing measures and tax reductions to tackle the falling birth rate in this week’s policy address, the South China Morning Post has learned. A government source told the South China Morning Post that the policy address by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu…",
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      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Hong Kong to sweeten school merger deals, offer housing measures to lift births",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/hong-kong-to-sweeten-school-merger-deals-offer-housing-measures-to",
        "published": "2026-09-14T12:00:36.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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