More than 90 per cent of student suicides in Hong Kong over the past five years involved youngsters aged 12 and above, according to education authorities, with many cases resulting from negative interpersonal relationships, learning issues and poor mental health. The Education Bureau said on Wednesday that 131 suicides among primary and secondary students were…
A man in eastern China has been detained for brutally abusing and killing a cat in public. The actions of the man, surnamed Cai, near a park in a residential community in Quzhou, Zhejiang province on March 1, was filmed in a video that has gone viral on mainland social media. The clip’s contents have…
More than 200 works by Chinese-French master Zao Wou-Ki, one of the greatest abstract artists of the mid- to late-20th century, will be shown at Hong Kong’s M+ museum later this year. The venue on Thursday said it was planning Asia’s first major retrospective of Zao’s graphic works with an exhibition tentatively titled “Zao Wou-Ki:…
Sarah Tong, co-founder and CEO, Big Bang Academy: For transforming STEM education and inspiring young girls and women to lead in science “Because of what I do, I am in two of the fields where women are still under-represented: in STEM and in entrepreneurship. Globally, women make up over half of all students who have…
A Chinese professor has sparked a public backlash after he asked a visiting Kazakh diplomat how to make Chinese women “have children obediently, early and in large numbers” at a think tank event. Wang Xianju, a professor at Renmin University and a former counsellor at the Chinese embassy in Belarus, was speaking to Erlan Qarin,…
China needs a crisis intervention system to identify high-risk individuals to help prevent the kinds of “lone wolf” attacks that have left more than 40 people dead this month, according to two legal experts. “We need to put more effort into mental health crisis intervention and conflict resolution, and urgently establish a systematic prevention mechanism,”…
A Hong Kong court has stepped up security checks after a man tried to attack a magistrate who convicted him over an indecent assault case years earlier, with staff searching visitors’ belongings and prohibiting sharp tools. A screening station was set up at the entrance of each floor outside the courtrooms of Kowloon City Court…
Hong Kong’s police chief has again defended an officer’s decision to shoot an armed, mentally ill man who later died, saying officers need to follow guidelines regardless of the condition of those involved. Commissioner of Police Raymond Siu Chak-yee was responding on Monday to complaints by the man’s widow that the actions of officers against…