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Working elderly in Hong Kong


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Interview with Dr. Chui
Dr Chui, Ernest Wing Tak Associate Professor, Honorary Research Fellow Department of Social Work and Social Administration The University...


Life in the Street Market 陳玉昆:菜市場裡的一輩子
Chan Yuk Kwan has to walk slowly and carefully through the narrow space of his vegetable stall It is 7:30 pm. Chan Yuk Kwan mops up a...


Sharing is helping: "Free Lunch Man" Chan Cheuk-ming
Ming Gor's second restaurant "Pei Ho Counterparts" 63-year-old Chan Cheuk-ming, better known as “Brother Ming” or “Ming Gor”, is the...


What financial support can the elderly get from Hong Kong Government?
「基層長者生活貧窮問題,並非抽象的概念……一日這個問題得不到答案,香港不能說是關心市民福祉的社會。」 -- 周永新 香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系榮休教授 "The issue of poverty amongst the elderly is not abstract…...


Dialogue with "Brother Tung" 東哥小課堂
Mr. Ng Wai Tung is a social worker with the Society for Community Organisation (SoCO), a non-governmental, non-profit volunteer-based...


“Home is the first and final destination for a human being.” 林偉球:有個像樣的家才算過日子吧!
Lam Waikau walking through the corridor in the public housing Fu Wen House August 15, 2006. Lam Wai-kau, 67, never forgets the day when...
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