Virginia Maher

Virginia Maher 1945-2007

10 Apr 2007

Every Tuesday for the past three years, Virginia Maher compiled the Slice of Life column in this space, recounting stories published in the South China Morning Post in years gone by.

Slice of life

12 Dec 2006

From the pages of the South China Morning Post this week in 1941

In spite of seven air raid alarms, the second day of the war with Japan found the locals so calm that a warning had to...

Slice of life

6 Sep 2005

Excerpts from the South China Morning Post this week in 1972

In a daring pre-dawn raid on the Olympic Games village in Munich, a five-man Arab squad shot dead two Israeli athletes,...

THE CENTENARIANS

31 Oct 2003

Wong Kam-mui, 100, was born in Hong Kong the year the South China Morning Post made its debut. She complains about having to leave her home in Stanley, where she lived until five years ago. 'I've...

Chan Yuen

30 Jun 2003

I was born in Hong Kong, the third of five children. My father owned a barber shop in Yau Ma Tei, but he died when I was seven and my mother lost the shop, because no one wanted to work for a...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Hunt for parents goes on

A CARE and protection hearing has been fixed for Friday for a baby girl found abandoned on a staircase in Wan Chai.

The baby, who was estimated to be about two days old when found on...

Police warn women against self-defence

FRIGHTENED Tuen Mun women are being warned in a series of seminars organised by the police against using self-defence tactics which might provoke potential attackers into violence.

Handicapped get welcome role at show

THE Society of Homes for the Handicapped has been working overtime to stage an educational exhibition today at City One Plaza in Sha Tin, after the furore generated by an attempt to ban them from...

Welfare boss turns to families on suicides

FAMILY welfare services are to move centre stage as the new director of Social Welfare, Mr Ian Strachan, turns his attention to preventing suicides by school children.

Pixton plea for final Operation Santa push

LISTENERS to Ralph Pixton's Open Line show on RTHK Radio 3 this morning will be asked to give a final push to the Operation Santa Claus 1992 charity drive.

The total yesterday stood...