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Woman avoids jail for forging PhD reference letter in Hong Kong

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A woman in Hong Kong has been spared jail time for submitting a forged reference letter to gain admission to a doctoral program at The Education University of Hong Kong. The 31-year-old, Li Zuer, admitted to using an altered letter, which was commissioned from an agent in Shenzhen, to falsely claim a former staff member had written it. She was instead sentenced to 160 hours of community service. AI

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Woman avoids jail for forging PhD reference letter in Hong Kong

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Fiona Chow ·

    Woman spared jail over forging PhD reference letter for Education University

    A woman convicted of using a forged reference letter to gain admission to a Hong Kong doctoral programme has been spared jail and ordered to perform 160 hours of community service. Fanling Magistrate Kenneth Chan Ping-chau said on Monday that he had decided to “make an exception”…

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