Chloe Lai

Finding the right road for success

29 Nov 2011

Non-academic Hong Kong teenagers are spoilt for choice when it comes to advice about what to do when they leave school.

2:02AM

'The world is prettier when everything is blurred'

27 Oct 2011

Chiu Wai-chi walks slowly, her dim eyesight making it difficult to find her way.

Before leaving home, she must make sure she has dozens of pills and the syringes and...

11:06PM

Putting unwanted skills to good use

17 Oct 2011

The world has opened up for Tam Fung-chin, 47, since she went to work a year ago at a shop run by the Hong Kong Women Workers' Association.

10:21PM

Mainland immigrant found friends, grace and assurance at food bank

23 Sep 2011

For mainland immigrant Yang Li, the weekly visit to the food bank run by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals turned out to be much more than a way to feed her impoverished family. It ended her...

8:15PM

Rail link activists to run in elections

22 Sep 2011

Young activists who cut their political teeth in protests against the high-speed rail link will now test the ballot.

8:10PM

Charity gives the elderly lunch and chance to chat

18 Sep 2011

It is still half an hour away, but a dozen elderly people are already in their seats and happily chattering away while they wait for their free lunch. Staff at the Shek Kip Mei canteen hand out...

7:47PM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

Bid to end Repulse Bay face-off

The Civic Party has suggested that a trust fund should be established to help resolve a long-standing deadlock between the Emperor Group and the Lands Department over a land premium due on the...

6:16PM

Displaced villagers can't afford to build anew

Rising construction costs mean a group of families evicted from their village in the New Territories to make way for Hong Kong's high-speed rail link with the mainland cannot afford to build homes...

5:22PM

Government accused of jumping gun on site sale

Green activists and a conservation group accused the government of treating the Town Planning Board as a rubber stamp and said it had started making preparation to sell the west wing of the...

3:04PM

Walkers in final bid to block handrails

Central and Western district councillors will decide tomorrow whether to press ahead with plans for handrails on a popular Hong Kong Island trail despite a petition signed by nearly 550 walkers....

1:41PM

I won't be deterred, vows green crusader

The man in the eye of the storm over the delay to the massive Pearl River Delta bridge project remains unrepentant, unfazed at being singled out as an opponent of development and integration...

10:34AM

West wing sale 'repeats 1881 Heritage mistake'

The government's planned sale of the west wing of its headquarters in Central is about to repeat the same mistake it made with the former marine police headquarters redevelopment in Tsim Sha Tsui...

9:08AM