Hong 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 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...
View ArticleMore young Hongkongers commit suicide over unaffordable housing and lack of...
More Hongkongers aged 15 to 24 killed themselves last year, with suicide prevention workers pointing to the exorbitant cost of housing, the lack of social mobility and a negative perception of young...
View ArticleIn suicide and self-harm prevention, we can do better
EDITORIAL We are spending more on suicide prevention than ever before yet suicide rates are their highest in more than a decade. Why? We mourn each and every life lost in this devastating way, but the...
View ArticleTeen suicide: What parents need to know
Adolescent suicide is devastating for family, friends and their communities. The loss of a child or sibling leaves an abyss, typically accompanied by feelings of grief, helplessness, anger and...
View ArticleHong Kong parents must talk to pressured children, not blame the system always
In recent years, the rate of student suicide has increased rapidly in Hong Kong. Between 2013 and 2016, as many as 71 students took their own lives, a tragic loss that shows that society should pay...
View ArticleOne in three young adults dissatisfied with Hong Kong society: survey
Almost one in three Hong Kong young adults are dissatisfied with society, three times higher than the rate of personal dissatisfaction, according to a survey. Some 30 per cent were dissatisfied about...
View ArticleHong Kong’s map of death – where the suicides happen
It is a map of misery and death – a grimly fascinating overview of Hong Kong that offers a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood breakdown of thousands of lives lost to suicide. Bright red patches mark the...
View ArticleTeam of psychologists to help depressed Hong Kong pupils after four suicides...
Schools will receive better student-counselling support from a team of psychologists provided by the government after four pupils committed suicide in five days. This is one of the measures the...
View ArticleHong Kong's food safety is paramount
Hong Kong is well known for its food quality and variety. Safety, however, remains an issue. From time to time, the city is hit by food scares; the latest being the Taiwan 'gutter oil' scandal last...
View ArticleEight who inspire: people who make Hong Kong proud honoured in third Spirit...
Eight ordinary people who lead extraordinary lives have been named winners in this year's Spirit of Hong Kong Awards, an event organised by the South China Morning Post to recognise the city's unsung...
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