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Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 after 156 years of British colonial rule. Here are some major transformations the financial hub has witnessed during the past 25 years.
Since 2013, Hong Kong has used the poverty line - set at 50 per cent of median household income - to assess the poverty situation, with a detailed report released every year.
Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying on Wednesday pledged to spend about HK$3 billlion ($387 million) a year to help tackle poverty in a policy speech dominated by bread-and-butter issues that some saw as ...
Most of the deaths in Hong Kong are in patients who are over 80, and unvaccinated. Until Omicron appeared, the country had been relatively virus-free.
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In September 2013, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region established Hong Kong’s first official poverty line. The new ...
This paper analyzes the data from the Population Census of 2011 to identify the characteristics of poor ethnic minority groups in Hong Kong and the factors that are associated with child poverty among ...