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Just Saying Yonden Lhatoo

Google image search makes Trump the world’s top idiot, but is it fair?

15 Dec 2018 - 10:38pm 43

Remember A Day Luisa Tam

Vienna Boys Choir gets Christmas off: headlines from 40 years ago

13 Dec 2018 - 9:51pm 2

Blowing Water Luisa Tam

US Farm Bill should give the impetus for global dog meat ban

10 Dec 2018 - 8:07pm 21

The Naked Truth Luisa Tam

Everlasting true love really does exist, and here’s how to find it

9 Dec 2018 - 5:00pm 7

More on Poverty

Opinion

Minimum wage rise highlights inequality

16 Dec, 11:16pm

Southeast Asia

Never coming home: the Indonesian girls lost to trafficking

14 Dec, 7:54am 1

Letters

Primary schooling in Hong Kong, or a poverty trap?

12 Dec, 11:02am 1

Insight & Opinion

New thinking needed to level playing field for those living in poverty

9 Dec, 11:13pm 4

Society

Pay a ‘living wage’ of HK$54.70, Hong Kong employers urged

9 Dec, 10:59pm 25

More on Education

Family & Relationships

The essential building blocks for an angst-free childhood

16 Dec, 10:02pm 1

Opinion

Parenting 101: how to stop your child being a bully at school

16 Dec, 5:02pm 3

Education

Tuen Mun school taking a radical new approach to education

16 Dec, 9:02am 5

Opinion

Teen experiences the good of social media

16 Dec, 1:44pm

Letters

Why so many Hongkongers are giving babies a miss

15 Dec, 10:11pm 1

Health & Environment

Lack of government contracts leaves children without hearing aids

14 Dec, 11:11pm 1

Education

Arthur Li to lead HKU governing council for another three years

14 Dec, 11:07pm 4

More on Old Hong Kong

Short Reads

‘We strongly oppose’: Catholic response to Hong Kong’s first IVF baby

14 Dec, 7:48am

Opinion

Why Hong Kong’s wealthy need a reality check

14 Dec, 9:14am 17

Books

Ding ding! 100-plus historic images of Hong Kong trams in book

10 Dec, 8:03pm

Opinion

Why amateur historians should leave wartime relics alone

7 Dec, 7:53am

Short Reads

How George H.W. Bush honoured governor Sir Edward Youde

7 Dec, 7:17am

Opinion

Pandas, ‘indecent’ stamps and a stray torpedo: past headlines

6 Dec, 10:43pm

Philip Zhai and Florence Hui were married for 17 years. Photo: Winson Wong

Hundreds pay last respects at service for former official Florence Hui

Family, friends, acquaintances and government officials past and present attend service for former home affairs undersecretary at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

16 Dec 2018 - 10:16pm 1 More on Obituaries

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Visitors take in the sights of Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Finance chief vows to help tourism sector amid trade frictions

16 Dec 2018 - 10:39pm 3

Media mogul Arianna Huffington. Photo: Felix Wong

‘Work smart, not hard’, media mogul Arianna Huffington tells city

16 Dec 2018 - 10:39pm 11

The funds raised came from donations and entrance fees for all runners. Photo: Edmond So

‘Santa Hash’ event raises money for Hong Kong’s needy

16 Dec 2018 - 10:17am 1

Hong Kong is proving a hit with Muslim travellers. Photo: HHWT

How Hong Kong, Japan and Korea won over Muslim travellers

16 Dec 2018 - 10:10am 4

Time to bring in mandatory accreditation scheme for Hong Kong’s care homes, says senior government official

Mandatory accreditation for care homes mooted by top official

15 Dec 2018 - 10:46pm 4

Money falls from the sky at Fuk Wa Street, Sham Shui Po on Saturday afternoon. Photo: Facebook

Hail of banknotes sends crowd into a frenzy in Hong Kong neighbourhood

16 Dec 2018 - 1:26pm 34

Rose Winebrenner credits a move to Lamma Island with rejuvenating her career. Photo: Edmond So

How Hong Kong’s most laid-back island sparked an artistic rebirth

15 Dec 2018 - 2:57pm 3

Pupils from Lui Cheung Kwong Lutheran College in Tuen Mun have created a card game named Hong Kong Strategy. Photo: Handout

Something from nothing: pupils highlight social plight with innovative gifts

15 Dec 2018 - 11:23am

How a pet dog inspired a course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong: author Chan Ka-ming is out to educate on animal welfare

How a pet dog inspired a lecturer’s Chinese University course

15 Dec 2018 - 2:22pm 1

Lee Chun-ming now has regular pay, more tolerable working hours and regular breaks, though other issues grate. Photo: Roy Issa

Why work could be killing Hong Kong bus drivers – and their passengers

15 Dec 2018 - 1:38pm 23

A debate has begun as to whether it is time to change the way care homes in Hong Kong are licensed. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Has time come to change way care homes for elderly are run?

14 Dec 2018 - 2:59pm 2

‘All I want for Christmas is to spend it with my family’: schoolgirl’s heartfelt plea to Operation Santa Claus volunteers

Schoolgirl’s plea: all I want for Christmas is to spend it with my family

15 Dec 2018 - 11:08am

RFID technology could be next chapter in Hong Kong’s public libraries and help promote citywide reading culture, says LCSD

Is RFID technology the next chapter in Hong Kong public libraries?

14 Dec 2018 - 11:13am

Plastic accounted for 21 per cent of municipal solid waste heading to landfills. Photo: Shutterstock

Cafe de Coral, Fairwood, Maxim’s named and shamed for plastic use

14 Dec 2018 - 3:01pm 25

A report from the city’s ombudsman has criticised the Social Welfare Department. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

Watchdog criticises welfare department for failing city’s elderly

13 Dec 2018 - 11:11pm

An archaic labour law meant the Vienna Boys Choir could not perform over Christmas in 1978. Photo: SCMP Archive

Vienna Boys Choir gets Christmas off: headlines from 40 years ago

13 Dec 2018 - 9:51pm 2

An auction number paddle being held during the RTHK Money Talk Business Breakfast & Charity Auction at Grappa's Cellar in Central on Tuesday. Photo: Roy Issa

Goodies and vintages up for grabs during charity auction

13 Dec 2018 - 10:00am

Why Story of Yanxi Palace is a bigger deal for Hongkongers than US-China trade war, Typhoon Mangkhut and the World Cup

Intrigues of Story of Yanxi Palace bigger deal than trade war

12 Dec 2018 - 6:58pm

Mr Hui, 66, with the new banknotes at HSBC’s Mong Kok branch. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

New HK$1,000 banknote released, but where are the crowds?

12 Dec 2018 - 9:34pm 5

The three youngsters had Christmas fun at home. Photo: Edmond So

Christmas fun for Hong Kong family, thanks to Maxim’s charity drive

12 Dec 2018 - 6:05pm 1

Property owners face having rebates slashed if Hong Kong government goes ahead with new proposal that could save HK$3 billion

Proposal urges government to slash rebates for property owners

12 Dec 2018 - 12:11am 6

Father Alfred Deignan, former Hong Kong Jesuit head and ex-principal of elite Wah Yan schools, dies at age 91

Father Alfred Deignan, educator and former Jesuit head, dies aged 91

11 Dec 2018 - 8:28pm 3

Spirit of Christmas behind hotel’s gingerbread workshop for 30 Hong Kong children

Christmas spirit fires hotel’s tasty holiday gift to Kwun Tong children

11 Dec 2018 - 10:03am 1

Critics have long complained about a severe shortage of childcare places in Hong Kong. Photo: Edmond So

Welfare chief slammed over lack of timetable on childcare places

10 Dec 2018 - 9:02pm 1

An Akita dog in a kennel at a breeding centre in Takasaki, Gunma prefecture in Japan. Photo: AFP

US Farm Bill should give the impetus for global dog meat ban

10 Dec 2018 - 8:07pm 21

Victoria Harbour in the early 1870s. Photo: Hong Kong Museum of History

How a fire in 1851 triggered Hong Kong’s first reclamation project

10 Dec 2018 - 11:08am 1

Carsten Stoehr and Liza Green from Credit Suisse join Project Space’s Christmas party at the charity’s Quarry Bay office, with children from families supported by Project Space. Photo: Felix Wong

Project Space helping needy families through Operation Santa Claus

10 Dec 2018 - 10:00am

The University of Hong Kong. Photo: Shutterstock

HKU reveals provost won two extensions amid retirement contract controversy

10 Dec 2018 - 8:02am 6