Hostel

Students in limbo over HKU hostel in Kennedy Town

12 Sep 2012

University of Hong Kong students forced to stay off campus after excessive formaldehyde levels were found in new Kennedy Town residences say they still don't know whether they can move in tomorrow...

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HKU faces dorm room shortage as hostel delayed

24 Aug 2012

The University of Hong Kong has made an urgent appeal to staff to share their homes with hundreds of non-local students who could be homeless due to a serious delay in completion of the university...

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Giving the young a head start

17 Jul 2012

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying announced a HK$1 billion plan to build 3,000 hostel units where young people could live for a limited period, to address their need for independent housing.

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Teenagers avoid Youth Square

23 Apr 2012

Teenagers have hardly used the new facilities at Youth Square in Chai Wan since it opened in 2009, a government report says.

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Budget hostels will help young workers

16 Nov 2011

Young people setting out on their working lives will be helped to live away from home by a hostel scheme proposed in the policy address, home affairs officials said yesterday.

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letters

1 Nov 2011

Hostels could help working youths

I agree with the proposal that providing hostels for single working youths can boost the motivation of people who live in relatively remote areas...

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

Updated 5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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We must brush up our tourism act

Backpackers, budget travellers - call them what you will - can be found in every part of the world. Hong Kong, being a major gateway to China and Asia, would presumably be getting its fairer-than-...

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Youth hostel scheme for historic housing block hit by new doubts

New doubts arose yesterday about the future of the oldest public housing block in Hong Kong after a group interested in turning it into a youth hostel demurred over its outdated floor plan and...

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film focus

Remember the days when a trilogy was a rare occurrence and only Police Academy and slasher movies dared to stride on past that magic number? Nowadays it seems everyone is doing it.

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Long wait for mentally disabled

Severely mentally challenged people have to wait 10 years for institutional care, a parents' concern group has found.

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Still at your service after all these years

Wan Tak-chung joined YMCA International House as a bellboy when he was 18. The year was 1973. The 17-storey guesthouse in Waterloo Road had opened eight years earlier.

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Cash crunch sees 'The Y' move upmarket

YMCA to relaunch two hostels as international hotels to maintain funding for social programmes

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