{
  "id": 9298418,
  "title": "Hong Kong professor apologises for comments on marriage and women in academia, but maintains he ‘did not discriminate’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/hong-kong-professor-apologises-for-comments-on-marriage-and-women-in-9298418",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T07:15:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hong Kong Free Press",
    "slug": "hong-kong-free-press",
    "url": "https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/23/hong-kong-university-professor-apologises-over-comments-about-women-marrying-rich-but-maintains-did-not-discriminate/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A university professor has apologised after his comments on gender and marriage at a college-wide presentation sparked controversy on social media, with students accusing him of advocating misogynistic and backward gender norms. According to posts on Threads, Terence Chong, an associate professor of economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and associate head […]",
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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."
}