The night of October 1 last year taught Hebe Cheng Yuen-ki the true meaning of the biblical verse that says it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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2 Oct 2013
Ferries serving most routes studied in a Post survey are complying with the law by providing enough life jackets for adults and children.
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1 Oct 2013
The tragedy off Lamma Island a year ago today put the spotlight on a host of safety problems, poor practices at the Marine Department and an industry that failed to comply with the law.
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30 Sep 2013
It started with a referral from a friend. For Connie Choi Shuk-mei, it ended in claims of fraud, a police investigation and the founding of Hong Kong's first anti-insurance-product activist group...
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29 Sep 2013
More than a century after the concept was first developed, Hong Kong finally has a poverty line. The city's first official poverty threshold was formalised yesterday, set at half of the median...
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28 Sep 2013
An increase in minimum hourly pay has done little to improve the plight of many, the focus of a two-part series tied to today's poverty summit.
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The opening up of a debate about housing development in country parks is being watched with interest by the city's developers, not least because it increases the chances they will be able to dust...
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These are boom times in the Golden Triangle, long notorious as Southeast Asia's drug production capital. For the farmers in the remote hills around the town of Muang Long in northwestern Laos that...
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Using more electric vehicles, preserving country parks and improving waste management were among ways to ease Hong Kong's pollution problems put forward at a seminar yesterday.
7:17AM
Wealthy Chinese are hiring American women to serve as surrogates for their children, creating a small but growing business in US$120,000 “designer” American babies for China’s elite.
4:18AM
The Jinan Intermediate People's Court accepted just two of the points former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai made in his defence as it jailed him for life. The court, in a transcript released on...
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China is facing a water crisis. Freshwater resources per head amount to about 2,200 cubic metres, less than a third of the global average. The government has warned that it will have exploited all...
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