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news Hong Kong NGO trains young people to help ethnic minority groups navigate health care maze Rachel Yeo rachel.yeo@scmp.com © SCMP Trainees under NGO Health in Action Dhuaa Khan, 17, (left) and Wendy Dichoso Zhuang, 21. Photo: Xiaomei Chen The Covid-19 pandemic helped Dhuaa Khan, 17, understand the problems Hong Kong's ethnic minority communities face when they seek medical help. The Pakistani teenager acted as the interpreter when she accompanied her elderly aunt to be vaccinated, as everything was explained in English. Her aunt appeared confused and anxious whenever me...

A Hongkonger May 10, 2021 09:30 “Hong Kong is a city rife with inequalities. Rampant resource inegalitarianism, abhorrently exborbitant housing prices, and – above all – an administration and ruling class that is deeply out of touch with the ordinary people.” We don’t need this op-ed to affirm such nuggets of wisdom – all we need is to turn towards the administration, and its heavy-handed rhetorical emphasis on combating inequality over the recent weeks. Yet talk is always easier than action – by miles. I don’t doubt that some in the administration possess the conviction a...

Covid-19 vaccine: Hong Kong officials say three more people got wrong jab after going to different vaccination centre than one they booked Civil Service Bureau apologises after error involving 47-year-old woman and two family members who visited the wrong site and got the BioNTech shot instead of Sinovac Vaccine recipients describe mixed experiences at the sites they visited, noting that while all identified the jabs on offer, things could be clearer

February 01, 2021 A handout photo. TWGHs Leo Tung-hai Lee Primary School in Tin Shui Wai. South China Morning Post A teacher at a Hong Kong primary school was driven to suicide by the actions of the principal who pressured her to resign, a coroner has said. Lam Lai-tong fell to her death from a building at TWGHs Leo Tung-Hai Lee Primary School in Tin Shui Wai in 2019, after repeated run-ins with then headmistress Law Yuen-yee. Coroner Monica Chow said the tragedy could have been prevented, and pointed to a failure in the complaint mechanism with the school’s sponsoring body, Tung Wah Group ...