[2] Also in 2008, a law of the UK was passed which claimed that those Gurkhas retired before 1997 would be eligible to live in United Kingdom as citizens.
Another reason is the time of public housing application is too long, even they can succeed, and they would be arranged to remote areas.
[citation needed] Restriction of learning Cantonese was a measure of the British to stabilize the military force.
[7] However, most Nepalese parents encounter difficulties in applying for school places since they cannot get access to official information .
At that time, the policy dramatically reduced the number of English medium of instruction (EMI) secondary school.
Other than studying in Hong Kong, some Nepalese parents would send their children to receive cheaper education in Nepal until university graduation.
After Nepalese students graduate from secondary school, choices of enrolling in local tertiary education are limited, since most of the tertiary institutions and programs require passing Advance level (matriculation) or Advance Supplementary (AS) Chinese Language and Culture examination.
Although the Hong Kong Education and Manpower Bureau has designed special teaching material for ethnic minorities for the last 10 years,[citation needed] students still find it difficult to learn Chinese.
[citation needed] Instead, some NGOs organize Chinese language and adaptation classes to assist them[13] while the Home Affairs Department offers short-term tutorials to them.
Under this project HINS provide Cantonese tutorial classes for Nepalese primary level students.
[14] The policeman arrived to deal with a nuisance complaint about the man, who had been sleeping rough on a hillside in To Kwa Wan.
Mainstream media based on the 2-3 minute video clip[15] and reported this news to a discussion about "illegal snake being damaging to social security" and claimed that they were in Hong Kong to "seek cash".
[citation needed] Nevertheless, some media such as Ming Pao and Economic Daily quoted from a hiker who said that he never perceived the homeless dangerous to others.
"[16] The media tend to depict the negative side of them,[17] with relatively fewer reports on their contributions to Hong Kong society.
Yet there has been a number of criticisms on the ordinance, for instance, only the part ‘Discrimination and Harassment in Employment Field’ has been implemented so far.
[20] Also, the direct involvement of ethnic minorities in legislation was relatively low,[21] due to insufficient promotion of the Bill during its consultation period.
[22] In fact they would like to be hired as police officers or firefighters, though their not understanding the local language may, justifiably, limit their opportunities.
Gurkha Security Services Limited launched various kinds of talks and workshops on workers’ policies.
[25] Naturally one living in a place but not knowing the local language encounters difficulty for himself/herself and others in daily life.
For instance, the police check their HKID cards usually simply due to misunderstanding of language and cultural difference.
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 Nepalese and brief introduction to minority cultures are provided, in order to ease their communication and reduce the appearance of direct discrimination.