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1. News - China

   Young boys found dead in Guizhou shack

   Posted Feb 19th 2013, 02:35pm by Amy Li

   ... News China Guizhou Child Welfare Social Issues Amy Li Five young boys in China’s southwestern Guizhou province died of suffocation on Monday in a deserted shack, the Xinhua state news agency reported on Tuesday. The boys, aged four to six, died after apparently trying to burn some wet straw, although further details about their deaths are not yet available. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1153868/young-boys-found-dead-guizhou-shack
2. Comment - Letters

   Letters Question, September 20, 2012

   Posted Sep 20th 2012, 12:00am by LETTERS

   ... Comment Letters Social Issues No change. Do you agree with the government that the time is not right to raise the present retirement age of 60 for civil servants, given that young staff fear their path to promotion would ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/article/1040928/letters-question-september-20-2012
3. News - China - SOCIETY

   Migrant workers feel like outsiders in mainland cities, says survey

   Posted Mar 03rd 2013, 12:00am by ZHUANG PINGHUI

   ... and education, how close they were to home and how often they could see their children. Most said they felt that their social standing was very low and they were less happy than those who thought more ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1170903/migrant-workers-feel-outsiders-mainland-cities-says-survey
4. At Last

   Posted May 22nd 2011, 12:00am

   ... Social Issues Social Issues James Kidd At Last by Edward St Aubyn Picador (e-book) At Last is the fifth and final part of Edward St Aubyn's truly wonderful series of novels featuring Patrick Melrose. Starting ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/968456/last
5. Caribou Island

   Posted Apr 17th 2011, 12:00am

   ... Social Issues Social Issues Tessa Chan Caribou Island by David Vann Penguin HK$117 A 13-year-old boy is asked by his depressed, desperate father to spend a year homesteading with him in a remote cabin in Alaska. Soon ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/965317/caribou-island
6. Briefs

   Posted Apr 01st 2012, 12:00am

   ... Social Issues Disaster Social Issues Fire on cruise ship with HK holidaymakers put out Two Hong Kong holidaymakers are unharmed after a fire broke out on their cruise ship in waters near the Philippines. The fire aboard ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/997120/briefs
7. News - China - SOCIETY

   China's university graduates stumped over jobs, life and politics

   Posted Dec 24th 2012, 04:30pm by Ernest Kao

   ... News China Comment Blogs Employment Social Issues Undergraduate Education Ernest Kao Employment prospects are looking increasingly grim amongst many “post-80s and 90s” university graduates and students across the country according to a recent report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The CASS  Blue Book of China’s Society revealed that only 76 per cent of 2012 graduates had been ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1112167/chinas-university-graduates-stumped-over-jobs-life-and-politics
8. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   China's urbanisation challenge

   Posted Sep 20th 2012, 12:00am by Hu Shuli

   ... and the inequitable access to social services between town and village This year marks a watershed in Chinese urbanisation: for the first time in China's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/article/1040824/chinas-urbanisation-challenge
9. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   Falling crime rate a Hong Kong success to celebrate

   Posted Feb 22nd 2013, 12:00am by Bernard Chan

   ... communities in developed Asia, like Japan, Korea and Singapore, also have markedly lower crime rates than most Western societies. One theory I have heard is that social pressure plays a role. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1155551/falling-crime-rate-hong-kong-success-celebrate
10. Lifestyle - Health - HEALTH BITES

    Health Bites

    Posted Oct 23rd 2012, 12:00am by JEANETTE WANG

    ... Lifestyle Health Health Nutrition Social Issues Jeanette Wang jeanette.wang@scmp.com Funk and disorderly Children ...

    http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health/article/1067197/health-bites

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