{KXLG – Watertown, SD} Community Transit of Watertown/Sisseton announced the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation will receive $690,327 in funding to expand its transit operations, including the addition of vehicles for new routes and weekend hours to ensure continued transit services for tribal members in northeastern South Dakota. This expansion project will help…
Donations to a local food pantry will be boosted by philanthropists. According to a news release from the Cooperstown Food Pantry, the number of people seeking help from the pantry has increased. “There’s increased need for the Food Pantry as people face high prices for housing, food and childcare, and with the coming winter heating…
A retail giant in China is stirring up discussions on social media with controversial new rules that require employees to reject bride prices, forgo extravagant weddings, and avoid depending on their parents for purchasing houses or cars. On November 20, Yu Donglai, founder and chairman of Pang Dong Lai, a retail chain based in central…
{KXLG – Watertown, SD} The Boys & Girls Club of Watertown has announced in a notice sent to parents changes to its membership fee structure for 2025, effective from the next enrollment period. The increase would be the first increase in eight years for the club. According to the notice, the fee increase is necessitated…
Despite their products being known nationwide and associated with the day-to-day lives of people in China, few are aware of the rags-to-riches stories of the business people behind them. Their journeys exemplify how vision and determination can turn into success and symbolise entrepreneurial resilience in China. The Post highlights four inspiring Chinese tycoons who have…
In part one of a two-part series, the Post takes a look at some of the descriptions and phrases which have arisen in modern-day China. These highlight the dramatic changes that mainland society has undergone in recent times and reflect the very real struggles that people face as they strive for a better life, often…
One of life’s safer bets, as Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu delivers his third policy address next Wednesday, is that optimism will be the patriotic order of the day. In July, when he kicked off more than 40 consultation sessions in preparation for his address, Lee promised to “stand atop and look afar,…
In 2015, the United Nations announced 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) as part of a comprehensive agenda to tackle global issues such as poverty, hunger and climate change. It was a move by an organisation made up of an international coalition of governments, but it nonetheless triggered a nascent awareness in a precocious five-year-old Hong…
Poverty has spread across Hong Kong and is no longer only concentrated in some older districts, a population health expert has warned, urging the authorities to reintroduce the official poverty line and mobilise the public to help tackle the problem together. But welfare chief Chris Sun Yuk-han has made it clear the government will stick…
In Zhongwei, a city in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region, fighting poverty seems to be a never-ending battle. While the country as a whole has made tremendous gains in living standards, in July, the city’s Shapotou district announced that 28 more individuals had been added to a poverty relapse watch list. The officials who…