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Start Over Descriptor "POOR people" Topic economic history Publication Year Range Last 50 years Region hong kong (china)
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1. Hard rain.

Subjects
*PUBLIC housing, *SARS disease, *SOCIOECONOMICS, *POOR people, *ECONOMICS, *POLITICAL participation, *ECONOMIC history
Abstract

The article reports that disgruntled people in Hong Kong have taken to throwing trash out their windows to relieve their emotions. A number of people have been taken to emergency rooms with scissors lodged in their skulls. Everything from cigarette butts to matresses have been seen flying from the windows of housing estates. The windows themselves are also falling, as the post-SARS economic recovery has failed to improve the lot of the poor.

Published
2006

2. Hong Kong's underclass struggles to be heard.

Author

Tefft, Sheila

Subjects
*POOR people, *ECONOMIC history
Abstract

Features Hong Kong's underclass and the efforts of the social worker Ho Hei-wah, who is championing the cause of immigrants, elderly and the poor. Unbearable economic disparities in Hong Kong exposing the chinks in private enterprises; Declining wages, unemployment and the increasing rich-poor divide. INSET: Supermarkets catch on in Southern China..

Published
1995

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