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Latest news, features and analysis on Hong Kong youth, with a focus on education, young people’s sense of identity and role in anti-government protests.
New recruits also learn how to listen and make a life-or-death difference as Hong Kong faces its own challenges in uncertain times.
The well-being of our next generation hangs in the balance unless more resources are devoted to schools.
Comprehensive measures are needed to help Hong Kong’s young cope with the challenges life brings and to reverse the tragic increase in the suicide rate.
Financial Secretary Paul Chan urges institutions such as West Kowloon Cultural District Authority to look into different options to make ends meet.
Readers discuss how young people are vulnerable to exploitation in the workplace, and the need for companies to assess the outcomes of their social programmes at different stages.
More than 80 per cent of parents said they had posted about their children, but 43.4 per cent of youngsters said it embarrassed them and 28 per cent ‘hated’ it.
Young people, students in particular, are finding it hard to cope with Hong Kong’s new social landscape, making it even more important that mental health support is enhanced.
Police issue warning after wrapping up two-week operation that led to 107 arrests, with youngest suspect being 14 years old.
Rosaryhill Secondary School pupils to move en masse to Yu Chun Keung Memorial College No. 2 next September after parents back proposal.
Readers discuss the benefits of relocating the struggling theme park in Hong Kong, addressing the underlying causes of student stress, guarded optimism over the Cop28 agreement, and taking chronic fatigue syndrome seriously.
Hong Kong pupils have dropped out of the top 10 to 11th place for mother tongue literacy in the Programme for International Student Assessment.
Readers discuss a truer measure of affordability amid the latest price correction, Hong Kong children’s lack of exercise, and the death of Henry Kissinger.
Readers discuss the dangers of ignoring safety requirements for children in cars, the narrow focus of Hong Kong education, a new grant in support of mental health, and more resources for STEM teaching.
Readers discuss the divisive rhetoric used to counter arguments for marriage equality, the unspoken reason for West Kowloon Cultural District’s fiscal deficit and a missed opportunity to support student health.
Readers discuss the multiple challenges facing Britain’s governing party, paying attention to teachers’ mental health, and the introduction of police patrols on Hong Kong buses.
Ding Xuexiang says more ‘concrete work’ will be done to help young people in areas such as study, employment, starting up businesses and buying property.
Ex-Netherlands footballer Ruud Gullit and former All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick play in Laureus Charity Golf Invitational at Clearwater Bay Golf and Country Club, where donations and auctions raise HK$1.2 million for groups in city.
More than 2,000 Hongkongers who emigrated under British National (Overseas) visa programme surveyed on work, finances, emotional well-being.
Readers discuss the need for comprehensive background checks on those who work with children, a plan to roll out e-payment for all Hong Kong taxis, and a necessary condition for attracting foreign talent.
Readers discuss what beverage companies can do to reduce plastic pollution, the enduring charms of Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific, and going beyond deterrence to tackle youth drug abuse.
Teachers are swamped with work and do not have enough time to counsel pupils struggling with mental health problems, lawmaker Lillian Kwok warns.
Readers discuss the call for targeted and culturally sensitive public programmes, timely attention on the problem of “psychiatrisation”, the lucky audience at Yo-Yo Ma’s concert, and ways to speed up the construction of MTR platform screen doors.
Readers discuss the importance of delving into the social, political and environmental causes of students’ mental health challenges, how to make foreign students feel welcomed, a possible factor in falling Chinese standards, and the plight of North Koreans living in China.
Readers discuss the approach schools should take on religious education, and the district council elections.