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When asking what a student would like to do in the future or what he or she would like to choose as a major in the college, over 80% of the students will say that they are not sure. In fact, all curriculums in Hong Kong do not provide any career guidance components to help students neither in identifying their strengths nor confirming their talents.

Investigation into a foster home run by the Society for the Protection of Children has revealed a horrific situation of systemic abuse of its very young residents who were forced to be separated from their parents due to various reasons. Preliminary findings announced by an independent review...

The canadian job market situation saw another promising month in December as employment increased, according to the latest Statistics Canada labor force survey. The report showed Canada added 55,000 jobs during the month, while unemployment fell from 6 percent to 5.9. While employment has recovered...

In 2021, the year Canada broke records for its highest number of immigrants, Ontario snagged the lion's share of new permanent residents but it's pushing ahead for even more this year, particularly through its entrepreneurial stream. Ontario welcomed 154,005 new permanent residents in the first 10...

Car thieves are usually ranked among the lower echelons of criminals, dwelling in a relatively unambitious and uncomplicated act of criminal defiance. However, car thieves in York, Ontario, would disagree. York regional police have recorded at least five incidents in recent weeks in which car...

Ivy Ong-Wood Lunar new year visiting may not be encouraged because of the pandemic but that's no reason not to get your home primed for the immediate family to usher in the Year of the Tiger. Eco-chic furnishing store Tree has put together a bunch of new and signature items to give your home some...

the australian government's Centre for Population has released a new annual statement on people patterns, and a major pointer is that Melbourne will remain the fastest-growing state capital city in the country at least for the next few years. And it is also on track to overtake Sydney to become the...

Staff reporter Homes waiting for presale consents reached a 19-year high of 17,570 at the end of December, with Kai Tak taking up more than a third as developers were driven on by the well-performing market to speed up approval applications. The Lands Department was dealing with applications for...

Chris Stein Blocks from the White House, an unassuming edifice in downtown Washington that once held offices used by the US Department of Justice, is to be converted into homes for hundreds of people. The transformation of the vacant office space is among a surge of "adaptive reuse" projects that...

Jane Cheung China is full of opportunities and Hong Kong will take a bigger role in the country's unprecedented future by utilizing its talents, central government liaison office director Luo Huining said in his Lunar New Year greetings to the SAR. In his online speech yesterday, Luo expressed his...

Michael Shum Two executives of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children, which is at the center of an abuse scandal, resigned yesterday. That came after 20 employees at the society's Mong Kok facility, the Children's Residential Home, were arrested for allegedly abusing at least 35...

Hong Kong's zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19 could keep it cut off from most of the world until 2024 and fuel a large-scale exodus of international workers and executives, according to a draft report by the European Chamber of Commerce in the city. The most likely scenario for Hong Kong's exit...

Leone Xue A lack of diversity of microorganisms in one's guts is associated with "long Covid," which causes fatigue, poor memory, and hair loss months after an infection, Chinese University researchers have found. Long Covid refers to how patients suffer from at least one persistent symptom for...

Wallis Wang People won't be able to prevent their elderly relatives from getting jabbed under a proposal being considered to increase the Covid-19 vaccination rates among seniors. This came after elderly home operators met Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen on Tuesday to find ways...

Wallis Wang and Jane Cheung More residents living in a Delta-hit residential building in Wong Tai Sin were ordered to evacuate to Penny's Bay quarantine center yesterday following the detection of two more infections. This comes as Omicron-hit Kwai Chung Estate saw 58 new cases, taking the estate's...

Wallis Wang Former lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting has been sentenced to four months in jail after he named a police commander who was under investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in connection with the infamous mob attack in Yuen Long MTR station on July 21, 2019. Eastern court...

Staff reporter Hongkongers will be able to use the Faster Payment System to top up their e-yuan wallets when shopping in mainland China, while mainlanders can trade Hong Kong stocks with yuan under the Stock Connect in the future, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui...

A Chinese saying advises "to keep a man, look after his stomach" - and that's what a couple found out during the Covid pandemic. The wife, Eunice, who works from home, says she has more time to cook dinner immediately after work - and the husband, Sam, is delighted to find dinner ready when he comes...

With the number of lawmakers this year growing from 70 to 90, it will be a challenge for the public as well as the legislators themselves to recognize all the faces. Keen eyes have spotted that placards carrying lawmakers' Chinese names were put in front of them when panels held their first meeting...

Beatles fans won't be able to touch them, but they can soon get virtual hands on memorabilia from John Lennon's son Julian in the form of non-fungible tokens. Certified digital artworks going under the hammer in California next month include the NFT version of the handwritten notes for Hey Jude,...

LeBron James scored a team-high 33 points and Anthony Davis returned to spark the offense as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the short-handed Brooklyn Nets 106-96 in New York. James shot 14-of-21 from the floor and finished with seven rebounds and six assists to lead the Lakers, who have lost five of...

The fanfare ahead of next week's opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics is building in China but President Xi Jinping appeared to play down focus on the medals table. "I don't care how many gold medals Chinese athletes win this time, I care more about the motivation and vitality it will...

Russian second seed Daniil Medvedev staged a stirring comeback from two sets down to beat 21-year-old Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and claw his way into the last four at the Australian Open. The reigning US Open champion looked headed for the exit as ninth seed Auger-Aliassime held match point in...

Watford appointed former England boss Roy Hodgson as their third manager of the season following the dismissal of Claudio Ranieri. Hodgson arrived at Vicarage Road just 24 hours after Ranieri was sacked on Monday following Watford's slump into the Premier League relegation zone last weekend. Hodgson...

Manchester United striker Anthony Martial has completed a six-month loan move to Sevilla as the France international looks to revive his career in La Liga. Martial will join Sevilla's title charge in Spain, with the club in second place and trailing Real Madrid by four points. The 26-year-old told...

Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame as tarnished greats Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens missed their final chance to enter the sport's pantheon. Ortiz, 46, was the lone player elected into the Hall following a vote by members of the Baseball Writers'...

Saudi Arabia and Thailand will resume diplomatic ties after more than three decades of frozen relations linked to the theft of jewels. Thai-born janitor Kriangkrai Techamong stole gems worth US$20 million (HK$155.6 million) in 1989 from the home of a Saudi prince, triggering a spate of murders in...

The US Coast Guard has launched a search for 39 people reported missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in a "suspected human smuggling venture." The Coast Guard in Miami said Tuesday it received a report "from a good Samaritan" who rescued a man "clinging to a capsized vessel...

A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed yesterday in the World Wildlife Fund's update on the greater Mekong region, which includes Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. The monkey is called the Popa langur for it lives on the sides of the extinct...

Robert Tomlinson picks rhubarb stalks by candlelight, carrying on a century-old family tradition that survives today despite the challenges posed to his business by Brexit and climate change. For four generations, Tomlinson's family have cultivated "forced rhubarb" in the winter months at their farm...

From its last known slave ship to heavy police militarization in the Civil Rights era, the United States' deeply troubled history with racism is highlighted by several Sundance festival films this week. Descendant and Riotsville, USA are among multiple documentaries and dramas on racial justice at...

PLK Tang Yuk Tien College principal Cheung Ka-pong told me his former student Ian Chiu Yi-nap is not as busy now, so it would be a good time to call him to talk about campus life and study insights. Chiu was a top scorer in last year's Diploma of Secondary Education exam, getting eight 5** - in...

Michael Shum Astigmatism in students has increased 50 percent during the pandemic as pupils spend an extra 30 to 60 minutes on electronic devices due to the suspension of in-person classes, researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University found. Researchers tested 112 students aged between...

Sophie Hui Lawmakers yesterday slammed the government as "inhumane" for separating children from their foster families when the foster parents wish to adopt them. In the Legislative Council meeting yesterday, New People's Party lawmaker Eunice Yung Hoi-yan asked Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law...

Staff reporter Public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong was called on by a lawmaker to clarify whether it banned its disc jockeys from playing the songs of 10 artists. A Facebook page reported on Tuesday that DJs at RTHK were told that they cannot play any songs from a list of 10 singers,...

Sophie Hui and Reuters The Official Secrets Ordinance will be amended to better tackle espionage in Hong Kong, Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said yesterday. He told lawmakers that certain countries have been attempting to endanger national security or "foment a color revolution" in...

Staff reporter and AFP Trans people in Hong Kong will not be allowed to have their gender officially recognized on their identity documents unless they undergo sex reassignment surgery, a court ruled yesterday. Residents are currently assigned as male or female on their ID cards - and what is on...

Leone Xue A plunge in the number of students has made it "unavoidable to adjust" the overall number of primary and secondary classes, Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung said yesterday. Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers lawmaker Tang Fei said cross-boundary students have not been...

Staff reporter and Bloomberg Local banks' overall earnings plunged by 18.6 percent in 2021 although net interest margins have likely bottomed out, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said yesterday. Net interest margin - a measure of profitability for financials - dropped below 1 percent last year,...

Staff reporter The Estate Agents Authority said the number of complaint cases regarding non-compliant advertisements it received last year increased 53 percent on 2020 to 121. They accounted for more than a third of the total 331 complaints. Most of the ad cases were about online material being...

Staff reporter Macau's gaming regulator yesterday said that the number of junkets or gaming promoters nearly halved over the past 12 months and Suncity (1383) is no longer on the list. The total number of licensed casino operators sank to a record low, to 46 this year from 85 in January 2021, the...

Staff reporter The Gain Miles MPF Composite Index dropped 1 percent in January, with each Mandatory Provident Scheme member on average suffering a loss of HK$2,601, according to the wealth consultancy. Gain Miles said the upcoming interest rate hikes and the shrinking balance sheet of the US Federal...

Staff reporter Chinese electric car maker Nio is looking at shifting its planned secondary listing from Hong Kong to Singapore as early as this year. But it will not drop the Hong Kong listing plan completely and will engage with the local regulators in a bid to solve the problems, an IFR report...

Staff reporter Vinda International (3331) saw its net profit in 2021 fall 12.6 percent to HK$1.64 billion. The tissue paper maker declared a final dividend of HK$0.40, up from HK$0.37 year on year. Total revenue increased by 13.1 percent to HK$18.68 billion, of which 83 percent was generated from...

Staff reporter China Resources Land (1109) has signed a 23 billion yuan (HK$28.33 billion) financing agreement with China Merchant Bank (3968) for further acquisitions as cash-strapped peers rush to offload their assets. Under the agreement, the state-owned developer will receive a financing...

Staff reporter The overall Standard Chartered Hong Kong SME Leading Business Index dipped slightly by 0.1 points to 48.1 in the first quarter from a quarter ago, showing local small and medium enterprises were sitting on the fence over the business environment even before the fifth wave of...

Bloomberg and staff reporter A rapid withdrawal of stimulus by some countries could hurt China's exports, Li Xingqian, a commerce ministry official told a news conference yesterday, as he warned of "unprecedented" difficulties ahead this year. The outlook for international trade this year is dented...

Victor Zhong Hysan Development (0014) has secured a green loan worth HK$12.95 billion, the largest ever of its kind, via a joint venture from banks to fund its mega project on Caroline Hill in Causeway Bay. A HK$7.91 billion term loan will refinance up to 40 percent of the land premium paid for the...

Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Monday that its research team has built a new artificial intelligence supercomputer that it thinks will be the fastest in the world when completed in mid-2022. Meta said in a blog post that its new AI Research SuperCluster or RSC would help the company build...