China - Rich mainland parents are paying thousands of Hong Kong dollars to private investigators to spy on their children studying in Hong Kong, including PhD students and kindergarteners...
Philic Man Hin-nam, founder and director of Global Investigation and Security Consultancy, an all-woman detective agency, said that mainland student cases accounted for about 40 per cent of the more than 100 requests made by parents last summer for information on their children...
"Many mainland students studying in Hong Kong are single children from rich families," Liu of Wan King On Investigations said, "Those parents attach great importance to their children's behavior." (more)