More long-term commitment needed to ensure underprivileged children are lifted out of poverty cycle The “Strive and Rise Programme” designed to help lift struggling Hong Kong secondary school ...

Within weeks of taking office last July, the new UK Labour government launched a new cross-government child poverty unit – to ...

A Hong Kong group has given a score of 26 out of 100 ... much progress on its policies addressing social challenges such as poverty, the wealth gap, medical care and welfare,” said Lau Yui ...

A social worker and teacher imprisoned for his activism, he later wrote about the toll of incarceration and worked to help ...

China and Sri Lanka agreed on more investment and economic cooperation on Wednesday as China's President Xi Jinping met ...

The global application for the Hong Kong Laureate Forum 2025 (the Forum) now opens and will close on 31 March 2025. We invite ...

If John Lee had hoped to rally people to rise to the challenge of 2025 in his New Year's address, he should have learned from ...

Housing is famously cramped in the Asian financial hub of Hong Kong, thanks to sky-high property prices, but a single toilet ...

A respected, scholarly publication has claimed that a third of the Bermuda population lives in poverty on an island that is a ...

The Korean War is often referred to as ‘the forgotten war’. Seventy-five years on, the memory of it remains vivid for those, ...

a woman in a quintessential Hong Kong barbershop with a mountain of metal rollers in her hair, and the aforementioned men in ...

Chen Jian is Director of the Center on Global History, Economy, and Culture at New York University–Shanghai and East China ...