AP – Joe Wong sweats through his days as a cleaner in a Hong Kong housing complex, labouring in narrow, stuffy corridors that this summer and last were the worst he’s known. He finds what relief he can in a resting area where a fan offers a breeze and a refrigerator holds the cool water […]
Hong Kong is to pay new parents more than $2,500 for having a baby in a bid to boost its flagging birth rate, but many residents in the notoriously expensive city say that’s not enough – that in one of the world’s most expensive property markets it’ll barely cover a month’s rent.
Hong Kong is to pay new parents more than $2,500 for having a baby in a bid to boost its flagging birth rate, but many residents in the notoriously expensive city say that’s not enough – that in one of the world’s most expensive property markets it’ll barely cover a month’s rent.