Yeung Wai-yip has a degree in finance but chose to become an apprentice bar-bender. Photo: Edward Wong
Yeung Wai-yip has a degree in finance but chose to become an apprentice bar-bender. Photo: Edward Wong
Gary Tang Leung-shun
Gary Tang Leung-shun
Youth unemployment is a problem not just in Hong Kong, where the chief executive recently addressed poverty, but in the Philippines (right), US and (top) Spain. Photos: K. Y. Cheng, EPA, AFP, Reuters
Youth unemployment is a problem not just in Hong Kong, where the chief executive recently addressed poverty, but in the Philippines (right), US and (top) Spain. Photos: K. Y. Cheng, EPA, AFP, Reuters
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The hard labour of beating youth unemployment

Hong Kong must equip its young people to take advantage of growing labour shortages in industries from construction to IT, experts argue

Ernest Kao
Ernest Kao

Updated: 3:08am, 19 Oct, 2013

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Yeung Wai-yip has a degree in finance but chose to become an apprentice bar-bender. Photo: Edward Wong
Yeung Wai-yip has a degree in finance but chose to become an apprentice bar-bender. Photo: Edward Wong
Gary Tang Leung-shun
Gary Tang Leung-shun
Youth unemployment is a problem not just in Hong Kong, where the chief executive recently addressed poverty, but in the Philippines (right), US and (top) Spain. Photos: K. Y. Cheng, EPA, AFP, Reuters
Youth unemployment is a problem not just in Hong Kong, where the chief executive recently addressed poverty, but in the Philippines (right), US and (top) Spain. Photos: K. Y. Cheng, EPA, AFP, Reuters
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