A growing number of girls are muscling out the boys in Hong Kong's teenage street gang culture, according to a charity that has been helping troubled youngsters for over two decades.
- Thu
- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 12:12pm
A local charitable foundation has its eyes fixed on a vast social project on the mainland - training enough social workers to deal with the effects of massive urbanisation and other trends.
Drug trafficking, teenage pregnancy, suicide, bullying - the list of the city's youth problems is endless, and schools and parents must join hands to tackle them. Social workers are the bridge...
Social workers trying to connect with troubled young people are turning to the internet. Where once an outreach worker could stroll onto a soccer pitch and make contacts, these days they are...
Richfield Realty withdrew a plan to hire a social worker last night after a group of social workers campaigned against the move over the past week.
A controversial property developer has advertised for a social worker to counsel residents forced to make way for redevelopment projects - provoking a backlash by hundreds of social workers.
...It is nearly 6am and Toe Chan Chun-to has just grabbed a bite to eat. He is on his way home after spending the whole night wandering the streets.
The death of a 72-year-old man at his home in a remote Sheung Shui village during Thursday's downpours has highlighted concern over government cuts in resources for community services aimed...
Requirements
The main duty of a social worker is to help people who are in crisis. They have to be optimistic and understanding, and persuade clients that things can change for the...
The Democratic Party has apologised for a controversy surrounding legislator Wong Sing-chi, who stood for election describing himself as a social worker when he had not renewed his registration...
Tragedies arising from domestic violence never fail to shock. The deaths of a divorced mother and her two teenage children in Tsz Wan Shan provide a particularly sad example.
Young people could be having a tough time finding work after the financial tsunami that has devastated the world's stock markets and caused many bankruptcies.
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