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Hong Kong has redoubled the emphasis on "patriotic" education since 2020 when China cracked down on the city's pro-democracy movement.
Officials said students' voices at the Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church Primary School were "soft and weak" and "should be strengthened".
At Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School, teachers were told to "help students develop the habit of singing the national anthem loudly in unison".
Many former opposition lawmakers and democracy campaigners have been jailed since 2020 under a controversial national security law that criminalised all forms of dissent.
More recently, it banned what has effectively been the city's unofficial anthem, a protest song called Glory to Hong Kong, because of its "seditious" possibilities.
In November last year, the bureau introduced a new subject which would require students as young as eight to start learning about the Beijing-enacted security law.
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