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It is “extremely regretful” that Hong Kong has not seen any labour rights marches since 2019, the chairperson of one of the last remaining opposition parties has said as the city marked its fifth Labour Day without protests. Chan Po-ying, leader of the League of Social Democrats (LSD), told HKFP on Thursday that the government tended to side with employers on labour issues and was slow to respond to workers’ demands. She added that the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU), a pro-establishment group and the city’s largest union, was not doing enough on behalf of the city’s low-wage earner...
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The Hong Kong government has announced it will cut funding for major NGOs starting from 2025 amid two straight years of budget deficits over HK$100 billion. Labour and welfare chief Chris Sun told reporters on Thursday the cutback would affect 59 large NGOs which currently received more than HK$50 million per year each, local media reported. Funding for each affected group will be reduced by two per cent for the fiscal year 2025-26 and further decreased by three per cent for 2026-27. Another 118 mid-sized and small NGOs will not be affected. “We’ve considered it thoroughly. While our financial...
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Hong Kong’s year-end population has grown by 0.4 per cent to 7.5 million, according to provisional government figures for 2023, despite a continuing decline in the number of young people in the city. The Census and Statistics Department released its latest population figures on Tuesday, which provisionally showed that Hong Kong’s population had risen to 7,503,100 by the end of 2023, from 7,472,600 at the end of the previous year. A department spokesperson attributed the population increase to “a net inflow of 51,700 Hong Kong residents,” led by 40,800 One-way Permit holders, referring to a doc...
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The Hong Kong government will release a new framework to define poverty after failing to release the number of poor households in the city for two consecutive years. Chris Sun, the labour and social welfare chief, said on Commercial Radio on Sunday that authorities were working on a new index to measure poverty, which would focus on three groups – the elderly, single-parent families and people living in subdivided flats. Attention will be paid to their employment status, income, rent and living environment. Sun said authorities would roll out policies to relieve poverty according to the new in...
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