https://www.scmp.com/rss/142049/feed Isabella Ng is assistant professor and associate head of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. She is also the author of the newly published book Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese rule: Gender Politics, Reunification and Globalisation in Post-colonial Hong Kong. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The brutal assault in and around Yuen Long station on the West Rail Line by a mob of men, most of them from walled villages and some with triad backgrounds, has exposed more than a schism between the anti-extradition black shirts and pro-police white shirts. More importantly, the attack on Sunday night shows a deep, long-standing division in Hong Kong between urbanites and villagers – especially the older indigenous people – in terms of their sense of belonging and ownership of place, and of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3020016/yuen-long-violence-exposes-turf-mentality-hong-kongs-walled?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3020016/yuen-long-violence-exposes-turf-mentality-hong-kongs-walled?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:00:06 +0000 Single fathers are a marginalised breed, but their numbers are growing across the world. In the United States the 2000 census found 2.2 million single-father families, a ratio of one in 45 of all households and a rise of 62 per cent the previous 10 years. Hong Kong has seen a three-fold jump in the divorce rate in the past decade; last year saw 13,048 cases, with fathers being granted custody of their children in 30 per cent of divorces. And one in every five single-parent Hong Kong households... https://www.scmp.com/article/354221/going-it-alone?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/354221/going-it-alone?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Aug 2001 16:00:00 +0000