Nap

6 Jun 2011

In a city that never sleeps, Hongkongers have to nap where and while they may. Don't miss tomorrow's Health Post for a special report on sleep deprivation, our most popular self-inflicted torture...

11:45AM

Should students be allowed a nap after lunch?

20 Oct 2010

Elaine Yu Yee-nee, 15, Creative Secondary School

We're not kindergarten students; we don't need to take a nap after lunch. We just need to get adequate sleep at night. Sleeping...

6:18PM

letters

17 Mar 2010

Knowledge is only part of the answer

9:39PM

Little DJs spin one more way past bedtime

29 Jul 2008

One wonders if any laws regarding child labour or letting minors into a licensed establishment were broken on Saturday night, when young DJs Sara and Ryusei Kishimoto did their thing on the...

5:10PM

Dead tired

8 Apr 2006

New York is described as 'the city that never sleeps', but now that isn't just a cute phrase. City residents are, by all accounts, getting up earlier and getting less sleep.

1:57PM

Do not disturb

31 Mar 2006

Try as I might, guilt always envelops me when I awake in the office after a nap. Slumped in my chair before my computer, chin on my chest, at first I wonder where I am.

12:54PM

Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

4:13PM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Should employees be allowed to take a nap at work?

Pulcheria Chung, 18 St Mary's Canossian College

1:06AM

Sleep pods take power naps to a new dimension

In work-conscious Hong Kong, it's the ultimate no-no that's on a par with back-stabbing your colleagues and worse than cheating on your taxes.

I am talking about power-napping - 20...

7:19AM

Dreamy days

It is pretty common in Japan's big cities to see people taking lunchtime naps. Businesspeople snooze on park benches while others grab 40 winks on the subway, and some nod off at their desks...

6:59AM

Like peace in a pod? Here's how

Slave-driving bosses of Hong Kong beware: la siesta has arrived.

The workaholic city will begin to play catch-up with the rest of the world in 'power napping' when a property...

12:33PM

A bunch of softies

The murder rate may be a fraction of what it was, gentrification may have set in across neighbourhoods that were once best avoided, and September 11 may have shown that New York's inhabitants do...

10:09AM

Beginners guide to artful dodging and wily wasting

Chief executives do it, middle managers do it, even government secretaries do it.

Wasting time at work is an art form.

The secret is to steadily chip away at the hours of...

12:11PM