Child Care

Dishing up generous servings for the needy

6 May 2013

At a time when many restaurants are trying to cut costs to cope with soaring rents and higher wages, one cha chaan teng in Sham Shui Po is doing exactly the opposite - providing meals for the...

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Contemporary baby furniture that doesn't compromise style for comfort

20 Feb 2013

Four men with offended design sensibilities established bloom, a brand of baby furniture of European design and precision engineering. They tapped a trend: its start-up in Hong Kong in 2006 led to...

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Foster breastfeeding while promoting formula advertising code

12 Feb 2013

New consumer protection rules for marketing and advertising tend to run the gauntlet of free-market principles. In the latest example major manufacturers of baby milk formula have cited economic...

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Delays in adoption cause permanent damage to children

6 Feb 2013

I refer to the report regarding the experiences of children adopted overseas ("HK orphans 'subjected to racism in Britain'", February 4).

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Stay-at-home mums are not 'freeloaders'

6 Feb 2013

Two years ago, I was doing research for my TEDxWomen talk and I asked a 17-year-old student whether he thought his future wife would work. Having been raised by a strong, successful single mother...

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Children lacking a voice in Hong Kong

29 Jan 2013

A policy address that wins applause is one with a vision, that attempts to balance the interests of different groups.

This year's policy address lacks vision and a holistic approach. It is...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

China's orphan saviour devastated by deadly fire (video)

Poor stallholder Yuan Lihai launched a personal war against China's lack of child care, but she may now face criminal charges of negligence over the deaths of seven children in her unlicensed...

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Too many women are still dying in childbirth

After a harrowing 36 hours delivering her daughter, Michelle Thompson faced yet another complication. Her cervix tightened so much that she suffered a retained placenta.

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How my child was found wanting

"I want it!" My 2½-year-old son wailed again and again. He had worked himself up into a tantrum, and was unable to stop.

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Birth order in family dynamics

Therese Tee is your archetypal first born - self-assured, driven, organised. When her parents divorced seven years ago, for instance, she worked carefully to ensure their paths did not cross at...

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UN wants a children's commission in Hong Kong

Stories of malnourished children in Hong Kong range from the sad to the tragic.

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Someone to watch over me

The day Wing's mother started work as a part-time waitress was his first experience of being left home alone. It was winter last year; he was eight years old, and his brother, Han, was just three...

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