https://www.scmp.com/rss/323073/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ms Ng was considered lucky in the factory where she worked in Sichuan. The quality assurance manager – a suave man from Hong Kong – fell for her and moved Ng to the city. It was a dream come true, until he became addicted to gambling and cocaine. He was losing HK$200,000 a month and his psychosis was getting out of control. He began hitting Ng, then she began to think about killing him. One day, losing his grip on reality, he took a knife to their three-year-old son’s neck. In Hong Kong’s North... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/families/article/2008923/battling-ghosts-and-gaps-provision-social-work-hong-kongs-north?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/families/article/2008923/battling-ghosts-and-gaps-provision-social-work-hong-kongs-north?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Aug 2016 21:30:15 +0000 When Filipina Navarro Luigi Recasa was sentenced to prison for a drug conviction two years ago, at just 20 years old, she couldn’t have been ready to go to a male prison ward. She couldn’t have expected that she would be escorted by male correctional officers to the male toilets – although she still has her penis, she’s been living as a female since she was 12 years old, and has fully formed breasts. They also cut off her supply of hormones that she’d been taking for eight years. Prison in Hong... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1994926/transgender-prisoners-hong-kong-suffer-sexual-assault-denial-hormones?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1994926/transgender-prisoners-hong-kong-suffer-sexual-assault-denial-hormones?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Jul 2016 04:30:15 +0000