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Blowing Water Luisa Tam

Be loud, proud of Cantonese – don’t play second fiddle to Mandarin

15 Oct 2018 - 9:45pm 51

Just Saying Yonden Lhatoo

Nice job banning e-cigarettes, now for a total ban on all tobacco

13 Oct 2018 - 10:43pm 30

Remember A Day Luisa Tam

A Filipino actress’ virginity and Britain’s flea epidemic: past headlines

11 Oct 2018 - 10:32pm

Blowing Water Luisa Tam

Stop lagging behind, Hong Kong, it’s high time to extend maternity leave

8 Oct 2018 - 10:45pm 10

More on Poverty

Society

Drop in ratings for Lam’s policy address over ‘lack of poverty alleviation’

12 Oct, 8:46pm 26

Letters

Government policy failures gave Hong Kong its huge wealth gap

9 Oct, 7:01pm 2

Southeast Asia

Singapore, India are Asian nations most guilty of driving wealth gap

9 Oct, 9:10pm 11

Society

Why Hong Kong’s social workers are overworked and mentally spent

7 Oct, 10:46pm 1

Society

Photographer expands project to chronicle vanishing Chinese villages

7 Oct, 10:26pm 4

More on Education

Innovation

MIT invests US$1 billion in new AI-focused college

16 Oct, 3:55pm 1

China Economy

Middle class spend less as they scrimp and save for children’s education

16 Oct, 6:51am 26

United States & Canada

The ‘Asian-American penalty’: Harvard racism trial begins

16 Oct, 5:46am 2

Opinion

Be loud, proud of Cantonese – don’t play second fiddle to Mandarin

15 Oct, 9:45pm 51

United States & Canada

‘Does Harvard get to discriminate against our kids?’

15 Oct, 12:34pm 3

United States & Canada

Why is this man fighting for the rights of Asian-Americans?

15 Oct, 9:43pm 5

Society

American parents see Chinese nannies as key to children’s multilingual future

14 Oct, 10:57pm 152

More on Old Hong Kong

News & Trends

A hotel with a casino and 8 other Chung Yeung Festival offerings

16 Oct, 4:37pm

Fashion

How Bruce Lee made Lee Kung Man’s undershirt a sartorial star

13 Oct, 5:59pm 2

Opinion

How Regina Ip got her ‘Broom Head’ nickname

12 Oct, 3:01pm

Opinion

A Filipino actress’ virginity and Britain’s flea epidemic: past headlines

11 Oct, 10:32pm

Business

The Excelsior was much more than just a hotel, its admirers recall

9 Oct, 4:58pm

Business

Hong Kong’s iconic Excelsior hotel to shut in March 2019

11 Oct, 10:27am 22

Aspiring homeowners submit their application on the last day of applications for the Hong Kong Housing Society scheme in Lok Fu. Photo: Dickson Lee

Affordable housing sale draws record number of applicants

Subsidised housing sale a big draw for aspiring homeowners as 258,000 applicants try their luck in lottery for affordable flats.

16 Oct 2018 - 10:42pm 1 More on Hong Kong housing

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A banner saying “Cantonese won't die” at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay. Photo: Sam Tsang

Be loud, proud of Cantonese – don’t play second fiddle to Mandarin

15 Oct 2018 - 9:45pm 51

The government is urged to take the lead in hiring more people with disabilities and come up with policies, such as tax incentives, to encourage the business sector to do likewise.

‘Visually impaired better educated, but no progress in job prospects’

14 Oct 2018 - 9:48pm 1

Joseph Chow Ming-kuen with wife Selina in Wan Chai in 1999. Photo: Oliver Tsang

Top Hong Kong engineer Joseph Chow Ming-Kuen dies at 77

14 Oct 2018 - 8:03pm 1

Riders competing in the Hong Kong Cyclothon on Salisbury Road in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

Record 5,400 bike riders hit streets for annual Hong Kong Cyclothon

14 Oct 2018 - 11:28pm

Tour of local schools featuring those who see illegal poaching and its effects up close in Africa could help reduce demand endangering the species

Empathy and ivory: Hong Kong charity teaches youth to halt trade

13 Oct 2018 - 4:02pm

Electronic cigarettes being showcased at VapeFair, an annual industry event, in Kuala Lumpur in December 2015. The Hong Kong government has proposed a ban on e-cigarettes and similar products. Photo: AFP

Nice job banning e-cigarettes, now for a total ban on all tobacco

13 Oct 2018 - 10:43pm 30

Filipino domestic workers sit on a street on a Sunday in Hong Kong. Photo: Dickson Lee

HK$1,200 compulsory fee could cost us our jobs, Filipino workers say

14 Oct 2018 - 8:31am 25

Hongkongers burn incense and paper offerings for deceased loved ones during Chung Yeung Festival at Diamond Hill Cemetery. Photo: Bruce Yan

Hill fires and a mythical swordsman: Chung Yeung Festival

13 Oct 2018 - 12:00pm 1

Maria Kiang shows off some Chinese art pieces. Photo: David Wong

Song dynasty fidget spinners – an art dealer’s history lesson

13 Oct 2018 - 11:01am 2

Gian, a pigeon rescuer who also runs a Facebook page that promotes well-being for the birds. Photo: Dickson Lee

The Hong Kong sisters who nurse sick pigeons back to health

13 Oct 2018 - 10:04am 4

The public-private partnerships could allow developers to build on their large tracts of New Territories farmland. Photo: Roy Issa

Four Hong Kong housing advisers have links with private developers

13 Oct 2018 - 8:52am 56

Baseball player Kenneth Chiu says many of his teammates work full-time to support their sporting careers. Photo: Jonathan Wong

How Hong Kong is failing its homegrown athletes

13 Oct 2018 - 8:00am 10

Chief Executive Carrie Lam saw a 22.2 per cent drop in ratings for her latest policy address. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Drop in ratings for Lam’s policy address over ‘lack of poverty alleviation’

12 Oct 2018 - 8:46pm 26

“In terms of racial discrimination, there has not been much progress”: Phyllis Cheung. Photo: Nora Tam

Next leader of Hong Kong’s equalities watchdog ‘needs to assert independence’

12 Oct 2018 - 7:25pm 3

City leader had to act now to increase housing supply, development secretary Michael Wong says

HK$500 billion artificial islands plan ‘not ignoring land task force’

12 Oct 2018 - 11:14pm 102

Angel Garden at the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Chai Wan, a first-of-its-kind site in Hong Kong where fetuses under the 24-week mark can be buried. Photo: Edmond So

‘Respect and closure’: groups hail new policy on miscarried fetuses

12 Oct 2018 - 10:03am 1

Asian Migrants Coordinating Body welcomes inclusion of subject in chief executive’s policy address, and urges immediate action on wages and living conditions

End ‘institutional slavery’ in Hong Kong, activist urges leader

12 Oct 2018 - 12:12pm 41

The man was rushed to Tin Shui Wai Hospital. Photo: Felix Wong

Plumber dies after accident involving temporary lift on building site

12 Oct 2018 - 3:18am

The 1,700-hectare reclamation project is dubbed the ‘Lantau Tomorrow Vision’. Photo: Dickson Lee

Lantau reclamation plan another white elephant, concern groups warn

12 Oct 2018 - 1:19pm 57

Chief Executive Carrie Lam proposed extending maternity leave to 14 weeks in her second policy address on Wednesday. Photo: Handout

Public bodies consider extending maternity leave early

12 Oct 2018 - 12:28am 3

Funeral mass was held at St Ignatius Chapel at Wah Yan College, Kowloon, where the Irish Jesuit had taught from 1967

More than 1,000 friends and pupils bid final farewell to Father Naylor

11 Oct 2018 - 10:16pm

A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history

A Filipino actress’ virginity and Britain’s flea epidemic: past headlines

11 Oct 2018 - 10:32pm

Guidelines on promoting racial equality will be improved for all government bureaus and departments. Photo: Edward Wong

Measures to help ethnic minorities seen as ‘potential game-changers’

11 Oct 2018 - 12:36am 1

City leader says she is not afraid to tackle issues left unresolved by predecessors as she offers solutions in her policy blueprint

‘Any problem can be solved,’ says Lam, unveiling ambitious plans

11 Oct 2018 - 3:16pm 16

The D2 Place, one of two shopping centres built by Lawsgroup, in Lai Chi Kok, which were revitalised under the previous scheme. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Scheme aims to turn unused industrial buildings into social housing

10 Oct 2018 - 11:49pm 2

Residential properties in Tai Koo. Photo: Winson Wong

Hong Kong leader sets out public-private sector ‘land sharing’ scheme

10 Oct 2018 - 11:49pm

Measures to support breastfeeding were also announced in the policy address. Photo: Sam Tsang

Maternity leave in Hong Kong to increase to 14 weeks

10 Oct 2018 - 11:39pm

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announces her policy address at the Legco Chamber in Tamar. Photo: Felix Wong

Five key takeaways from Carrie Lam’s policy address

10 Oct 2018 - 4:45pm 27