HISTORY DEPARTMENT
YEAR 8 FOCUS WEEK
Click on the title above to see our what Year 8 investigators got up to!
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More photos can be found in this Powerpoint:
and in the Public area of the network: P:\History\Year 8\Focus_Week\Focus_Week_photos
Here is some of the work that our Year 8 Students produced:
Overall PowerPoint - this is a combination of several groups' PowerPoints
Resources
Hong Kong Police (Powerpoint)
· General information on the HK police and crime and punishment
http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Hong_Kong/Default.htm - police weapons
www.corpun.com – corporal punishment
www.info.gov.hk/police - Hong Kong Police
www.bbc.co.uk/crime/fighters/dayinthelife/hongkongofficer.shtml – account of a Hong Kong policeman’s day
www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Hong_Kong/Default.htm - site on the Special operations team within the Hong Kong Police tactical unit
www.csd.gov.hk/misc/csd_history - information on a variety of topics (punishment, refugees, narcotics, prisons, weapons, police dogs)
http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/program_archive.cgi - film clips - tours of historical police stations etc
· Protest
www.britains-smallwars.com/RRGP/HongKong.htm – information on riots in HK
www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501030714/story.html - Time magazine on July 1 protest
· Prisons
Useful for looking at prison conditions in Hong Kong and comparing them with other countries: http://www.phaseloop.com/foreignprisoners/prisoners.html
Timelines: http://www.csd.gov.hk/english/abt/abt_his/abt_his_early.html
www.hrw.org/research/hongkong/hk-sum.htm – a report on prison conditions in HK
http://hrw.org/research/hongkong/hk-spec.htm - information about prison condition 1997
· Illegal immigrants
www.migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=1252_0_3_0 – article about immigration in Hong Kong
www.info.gov.hk/hkfacts/immi.pdf - government fact sheet about immigration
www.unesco.org/most/apmrnwp7.htm - very long but useful article about immigration
www.hku.hk/hkcer/articles/v55/immigration.htm - article about immigration and Hong Kong – some comparisons with other countries.
http://www.immi.gov.au/ - Australian government website about immigration
http://www.peo.gov.au/archive/tws/tws1299.htm - education website about immigration to Australia – some really useful information, links and pictures (ignore the tasks)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/899166.stm - article from BBC news about immigration in Australia – useful links too
http://www.library.ubc.ca/asian/FinalAsian/China/Thumb/China.html - great images of illegal immigrants to Hong Kong from Vietnam, mainland China etc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1252298.stm - article from BBC news about Australia and illegal immigrants – links to related articles also included.
· Illegal drugs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/778377.stm - article from BBC news about the drug trade in Hong Kong – some useful links
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/news_item.asp?a=1&intID=524 - a site linking drug taking with road deaths
http://www.serendipity.li/wod/hongkong.html - an essay about the Opium wars between China and Britain – useful for looking at the history of illegal drugs in HK
http://www.info.gov.hk/info/sar4/elaw.htm - HK government website with information about drug crime and immigration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands - details about the Netherlands drug policy
http://www.ukcia.org/research/dutch.htm - detailed report on the Netherlands and drugs
http://www.sana.org.sg/ - Singapore’s anti-narcotics site – some useful information on Singapore’s drug laws etc
http://www.cnb.gov.sg/enforcement/index.asp?page=9 – a page from Singapore’s Central Narcotics (illegal drugs) bureau – gives information about what drugs are illegal and what punishments there are – other pages from this site might be useful.
· Organised Crime – Triads etc
http://members.tripod.com/~orgcrime/faq.htm - FAQ’s regarding organised crime
What are ‘triads’? - http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/90841.html
Very detailed: http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:-d237lgmkOgJ:www.unafei.or.jp/english/pdf/PDF_rms/no58/58-04.pdf+triads+mafia&hl=en