25 Oct 2004
Binta and the Great Idea
Binta, a little girl from Senegal, tells us about the everyday life in her village, the importance of education for the girls, and about her father's great idea to make the world a better place.
Homeless Children
Lam Siu-ming cannot afford tuition and quitted school. His teacher Ms. Chui intercedes with the principal in vain. She quits. Chui became an orphanage director. She suffers from the orphans’ mischief, but she treats them with love and honesty instead of punishing them. She gets recognition from kids and colleagues. Siu-ming is expelled. He dares not go home and lives on pickpocketing with street boys. Chui learns that Siu-ming is missing and looks for him. Siu-ming feels ashamed and avoids her. Chui finds Siu-ming and takes him and the street boys to the orphanage, yet they cannot be disciplined and escape. Little Bully runs after them, but is beaten down on the railway. Siu-ming's legs are cut off by the train when he tries to save Little Bully. The escaped kids regret for this. Chui's cousin wants her to go abroad together, but at the farewell party, he is moved by the orphans, so he does not force the plan, and decides to stay behind to serve the kids.
Top Billed Cast
Ting Ying Tsui Suk-kuen
馮克安 Little rascal
Cheung Sang Lam's father
Leung Suk-Hing Lam's mother
Cheung Yee Lee Yee (Chui's elder cousin)
羅蘭 Miss Lau
Ko Lo-Chuen Principal
Yuen Lap-Cheung Sturdy Faat
Lok Gung Father Lee
Lee Sau-Kei 
Addy Sung Gam-Loi Cheung Tak-Yiu Loudie Wun
Cheung Po-Man Little Monkey
Wong Kam-Shing Chicken Heart
Chan Chui-Bing Chan Lai-Ching
Cheung Tak-Yam Ringworm Head
Leung Shun-Tung Fung Yee-On 
Wong Hak 
Fung Ming
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