Systemic Indifference
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View ArticleLoughinisland pub massacre: Full 2016 Police Ombudsman report into 1994...
The Police Ombudsman has found that collusion was a "significant feature" of the 1994 Loughinisland murders. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 18 June 1994, six people were brutally murdered and five people were...
View Article16 Mar 2016 Preliminary Results (Cape plc)
(Source: Cape plc) 16 March 2016 Cape plc ('Cape' or the 'Group') Preliminary results for the twelve months to 31 December 2015 Cape plc, the international provider of critical support services to the...
View ArticleThe most unmissable culture of 2016
Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticleIncome inequality and the obesity epidemic in Hong Kong
For most of human history, being plump was a sign of affluence and nobility. Modern capitalism and mass-market consumerism have reversed that. Today, being trim and fit is the real sign of affluence....
View ArticleHong Kong Exchanges and Clearing monitoring sell-off but vows no intervention
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing chairman Chow Chung-kwong said on Wednesday the local bourse is closely monitoring the volatile market but has no intention to intervene at this time. “The Hong Kong...
View ArticleOnly Hong Kong's employed young people can afford idealism
Here's the first paragraph in a Post story about young people and the job market: "They are lambasted for being lazy, dismissed as uninterested and compare unfavourably to eager workers from across the...
View ArticleChinese University of Hong Kong steps up efforts to help students following...
The Chinese University is to step up its counselling service under emergency measures worked out after the institution lost another of its students to suicide over the weekend. A psychiatrist will be...
View ArticleWhy we need more liberal studies in Hong Kong schools, not less
The recent Occupy movement has led some to accuse liberal studies as the culprit that instigated the student movement and say it should therefore be scrapped, drastically reformed or made an optional...
View ArticleHong Kong should invest in its future by fully subsidising kindergartens
Everyone knows Hong Kong society is ageing rapidly. Our previous and current chief executives have been acting like cheerleaders for young couples to give birth to more children. So expanding free...
View ArticleHong Kong home prices may peak in 2016 amid rate rises
If history is any guide to the Hong Kong housing market cycle, home prices will peak next year, halting when the US starts raising interest rates. "Hong Kong property prices are approaching the peak of...
View ArticleAmid heightened social tensions, Hong Kong investors should brace for a...
After the violence in Mong Kok, murmurs of an unstable social environment left investors ambivalent about the city’s future. Social unrest typically dampens investor sentiment, and it is no different...
View ArticleParents should be in front line in caring for Hong Kong children with...
A Hong Kong psychologist has urged parents to show greater care for their children as a survey found that more than 60 per cent of respondents agreed family support was more effective than government...
View ArticleLocalism is becoming a force to be reckoned with in Hong Kong politics
The outcome of the Legislative Council by-election on Sunday may not have come as a surprise at first glance. Barrister Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu successfully defeated Democratic Alliance for Betterment and...
View ArticleHong Kong should make full use of all available phone numbers before spending...
The use of mobile phones has become such an integral part of our daily lives that it would seem impossible to do without them nowadays. But the world, arguably, got by just as well before mobile phones...
View ArticleHong Kong suicide centre advocates taking to social media to reach out to...
Last week, about 800 suicide prevention experts from around the world gathered in Montreal for the 28th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, sponsored by the World...
View ArticleWorld suicide prevention day: put resources into engaging with vulnerable youth
World Suicide Prevention Day today is a reminder that over 800,000 people take their own lives every year, more than deaths arising from war and murder. The most we can hope for is that the rate per...
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