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Hong Kong: Poverty rate slightly increases Hong Kong recorded a poor population of more than 1.4 million people and a poverty rate of 21.4% according to the pre-intervention poverty figures in 2019. The Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report 2019 released by the Government today showed that recurrent cash measures lifted 392,900 people out of poverty and reduced the poverty rate by 5.6 percentage points last year. After the Government's recurrent cash intervention, the poverty rate recorded a slight increase in 2019 of 0.9 percentage point to 15.8%. The Government said the Hong Kong economy, hit ...

Risks until finally by the grace of god they reach a safe harbor. >> reporter: for refugees tired of waiting for help from the outside world, the hope of salvation, however dangerous it seems, is worth the risk. nima cnn, tripoli. the united nations says nearly three quarters of a million people have left libya to get away from the fighting and it has described the humanitarian crisis there as crave. the u.n.'s high commissioner for refugees joins us live from paris. thank you very much for being with us. as we saw there in that piece and the report, they're saying that international communi...