The Pearl Report

I was eating instant noodles on my own for lunch today. I turned on the TV, nothing worthed watching on the Chinese channels, and I switched to the Pearl. Well.. it was a replaying a documentary interviewing a few Hong Kong families who had immigrated into Canada. Some of them decided to stay there for a more relaxed and family-oriented life, some had already did, but the parents got frustrated for their children who acted and thought like Canadians and loathed to talk to them. Some of them decided to return to Hong Kong after spending over 10 years there.

One of the families had moved to Beijing 2 years ago. The father says he planned to send his children back to Canada for college. He wants to expose his children to a broad spectrum of cultures and let them decide where to develop their career and find their own homes.

Yes, moving around the globe is not as simple as it seems. Career, of course. But parents, children, the spouse always weigh in, even you think you don't need to take them seriously.

The program is called The Pearl Report, and this episode is one of six for a review of 10 years of rule under the Chinese sovereign (note: not a "celebration for return for 10 years", you got to be neutral for news program). I didn't expect the English channels in Hong Kong would produce documentary of such a high quality. The audience of those English channels are small here after all. I try to look up more about The Pearl Report on TVB's webpage, but amazingly I can't find even a description of it. The English News team deserves more respect.