Hong Kong – Loneliness can be deadly for senior citizens. Sylvia Tai, Rebecca Valli and Monami Yui report on peer support programmes in Hong Kong that make a difference.

Beijing — Situated in an inconspicuous alleyway, the traditional Chinese courtyard house passes for any ordinary residential dwelling in the Chinese capital. Behind its red wooden door, however, lies the headquarters of Wokai (“I Start” in Chinese), a non-profit micro-finance service, registered...

Hong Kong  – Freddy Law Wai-hung is a man with a mission. He wants to inject a degree of creativity and curiosity about the world into Hong Kong’s academically straight-jacketed education system. “I had worked in India and Europe, and after I came back, I realized that Hong Kong students lack...

HONG KONG – The Fair Trade movement may be small in Hong Kong but it is beginning to take off, said Anne McCaig, a leading activist in the movement to help small farmers in the third world. McCaig (pictured right) is CEO of Cafédirect, a company co-founded by the British charity, Oxfam, and other...

Beijing – Clare Pearson is no ordinary lawyer. Half an hour before a scheduled meeting at a downtown café last Thursday, she was already sitting comfortably in a corner table, typing furiously on a compact laptop. With her brows locked in a concentrated frown, fingers skipping across the tiny...