Teenagers

For the young, mobile phones are not all they're cracked up to be

20 May 2013

Brittany Lofton spots them all the time: teens and university students clutching their beat-up cellphones, with screens so cracked that spider-web-like patterns creep across the glass.

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Boys are facing double the risk of depression, Hong Kong study shows

5 May 2013

Associate professor Sylvia Kwok Lai Yuk-ching, of City University, said: "Chinese families have higher expectations of boys than girls. That's why boys may experience more stress from their...

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Letters to the Editor, April 14, 2013

14 Apr 2013

Storm forecasting requires a fully multi-disciplinary approach including a good understanding of earth sciences, since we are dealing with interactions between components of the earth's systems....

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Self-harming teenagers

27 Jan 2013

Approximately 15 to 20 per cent of adolescents in the US and UK have tried cutting themselves.

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More teenage girls joining street gangs

30 Dec 2012

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.

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Many teenagers unaware a passionate kiss may be indecent assault

7 Nov 2012

Teenagers - and their teachers - are largely unaware that deep kissing is a crime before age 16, research has revealed.

Exposing a hole in adolescents' knowledge, a church study found...

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Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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South Korea tries to curb the sexual exploitation of underage K-pop stars

South Korea authorities want to curb over-sexualised performances by teenage stars of the country's thriving K-pop scene.

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Internet videos will come back to haunt youth of today

Move over, Jay-Z. There's a new rap star in the house. His name is Lucas Scibetta. He's 17 years old, goes to the Hong Kong International School and raps about … well, weed.

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Fellow pupils of Shek O drowning victims to get grief counselling

A school attended by two teenage boys who drowned at Shek O while celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival was in "crisis mode" yesterday dealing with pupils' grief after the second boy's body was...

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CRIME

Police foil teenagers’ bid to escape custody

Police foiled an attempt by three youths to help a teenage girl escape from police custody in Tuen Mun on Friday, officers said.

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Charity calls for action after survey shows rise in teenage depression

A social service organisation has called on the government to put more resources into tackling teenagers' mental health problems after a survey showed a "worrying" number of youngsters suffer from...

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The Teenagers

Reality Check

(XL Recordings)

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