Grounded, exact, scene-first.
Sham Shui Po, born 1979. Print-worker father, wet-market noodle-stall mother. Two older sisters, both nurses. Band-three secondary school. No university. Delivery, then trading firm in Sheung Wan, then dai pai dong from his uncle. Started writing in his early thirties for a Chinese-language community paper. Met Walter at a panel in 2017 on a smoke balcony. Wang Report 2024. Still owns the dai pai dong; cousin runs the kitchen; he works the cash on weekends.
The Buildings Department's mandatory inspection scheme for illegal flat conversions has certified four units. The register lists 110,000. The scheme requires owners of flagged subdivided flats to appoint licensed contractors, submit inspection reports, and receive either a clearance or a remediation order. Two years of…
The HK$42,100 annual tuition for a UGC-funded degree has not moved in ten years. The jobs have. Vacancy data published this week by the city's three largest job platforms showed graduate-facing openings down 60 percent year-on-year across finance, technology, and professional services; what remains clusters in governme…
HK$11 billion sits in the government's revised surplus, and the twenty-kilogram bag of Thai fragrant rice at Pei Ho Street Market still lists at HK$219, up HK$14 from the same week last year, a gap the woman running the stall absorbs because her Yuen Long contract supplier raised the minimum order in February and BOCHK…
The Labour Department's removal of advance-warning requirements for workplace inspections lands hardest on Kowloon's small renovation contractors, where a single stop-work order on a one-unit job can erase a month's margin. RTHK's concurrent reporting on major reno sites operating without current safety certificates co…