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Hong Kong’s leader has called on young people not to waste “potential and opportunities” by “deliberately” depressing their income below the limit allowed to apply for public housing. Speaking to reporters ahead of his weekly Executive Council meeting on Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee said he had heard of some people ensuring that their earnings remained below the monthly income limit in an effort to be allocated a government-subsidised unit. According to the Housing Authority, the income limit for single applicants is HK$12,940 per month, or HK$19,730 for a two-person family. The average w...
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A transitional housing scheme has received 9,600 applications since applications opened last month, more than double the number of flats available, Hong Kong’s housing minister has said. Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho said on Sunday that applications for Light Public Housing (LPH) submitted by Monday would be prioritised. Those who were not allocated a flat in the first round will have priority when the next batch becomes available. The LPH scheme was introduced by Chief Executive John Lee in his maiden Policy Address as a means to reduce the waiting time for government-subsidised public hous...
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Hong Kong’s swimming governing body has announced it would allow a nine-year-old swimmer to join the 2024 swimming championships, after his denial sparked criticism about competition qualification rules. The development came a week after Alex Fong, a former national swimmer and actor, called the Hong Kong China Swimming Association “indifferent” towards young, promising swimmers. He said in a Facebook post that a young swimmer from his swimming club RippleFly Swim was previously barred from participating in the 2024 championships, even though he had met the qualifying time for championships, T...
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One of the strange things about the much-cited rule of law in Hong Kong is the way it swiftly dissipates as you move north from the Lion Rock Tunnel. The New Territories is famous for its exceptions. The Small House Policy – under which male villagers can build a house, supposedly for their own use – is a racket. It has been a notorious racket for 50 years and has the additional drawback of being grossly discriminatory against women. It continues. The construction of illegal additions to small houses is another flourishing area. Occasionally, terrible threats are issued but somehow nothing com...
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By Ayesha Sitara Indonesia’s Torajan hill tribe is known for its animistic funeral rites, that involve caring for the dead at home – sometimes for years after they dieduntil a buffalo has been sacrificed. Click here for Part 1. 💡Note: This gallery contains graphic images of human remains and animal slaughter. Torajans practice a class based society and so funerals of the richer noblemen are more extravagant to mark their status. Their graves are decorated with statues in their image, knows as tau taus, and the most elite noblemen who have sacrificed more than 23 buffalos have monoliths erected...
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By Ayesha Sitara The Torajans are a hill tribe in Indonesia that continues to believe in animistic funeral rites and keeping the dead “alive” at home until rituals are complete. 💡Note: This gallery contains graphic images of human remains and animal slaughter. While most people across the world bury or burn the dead soon after death, the Torajans keep their dead in a coffin at home until a buffalo is sacrificed. Hence families spend their entire lives saving up to buy a buffalo that can cost millions of rupiah. This can sometimes take years, and during that time the dead are cared for like a s...
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Pattie, a 55-year-old cleaner in the New Territories, works outside for eight hours a day come rain or shine, or – as is increasingly the case in Hong Kong’s summer months – unbearable heat. “I have to drink seven bottles of drinks a day, including water, homemade herbal tea, energy drinks, and more,” Pattie, who asked to use a pseudonym because of privacy concerns, told HKFP in Cantonese. “Sometimes, when it’s too hot, even the taste of water makes me feel nauseous,” Pattie said. Last year, she experienced heatstroke for the first time, feeling dizzy, and experiencing blurred vision and a pai...
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Lawmakers have called on the Hong Kong government to offer more permits for online ride-hailing services like Uber, citing a need to ensure competition in the industry. Lawmakers on the legislature’s transport panel met on Friday to discuss the issue after the Transport and Logistics Bureau on Monday presented a document to the legislature outlining the government’s plans to regulate ride-hailing services in the city. While Hong Kong law requires vehicles offering ride-hailing services to have a hire car permit, services such as Uber have continued to operate in the city. See also: Hong Kong m...
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Hong Kong had “no plans” to require social workers to swear allegiance to the government, the city’s labour and welfare minister has said after members of the industry’s licensing body took an oath under a new law. Hong Kong had an “imminent” need to set up a mechanism to handle the registration of social workers convicted of national security offences and other serious crimes, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun said in an interview with Ming Pao published on Friday. The official’s remarks came two weeks after the city’s opposition-free legislature passed a bill that gave government ap...
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Hong Kong’s new law that mandates certain professionals to report suspected cases of child abuse was too lenient but it prompted “real debate” in the city’s opposition-free legislature, a lawmaker has said. Michael Tien on Friday said the previous day’s debate in the legislature over the Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Bill was the first time lawmakers had engaged in “heated argument” since an electoral overhaul in 2021 ensured only “patriots” could join the city’s Legislative Council (LegCo). “It was the first real debate after the establishment of [the rule ensuring] patriots govern Hong ...
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