by admin | May 15, 2025
China’s economic rise this century has coincided with its people venturing out to spend their money or find new economic opportunities, often to positive effect but sometimes with less favourable outcomes. Take, for instance, Manila. Chinese-owned casino firms...
by admin | May 18, 2023
“An informal discussion between colleagues about the benefits of having a collaborator close by led to agreement that face-to-face interactions – no time-difference, no Zoom meetings – seemed to spur more in-depth exchange,” said Dr Frank van der Wouden, Assistant...
by | Nov 5, 2019
When Dr Michael Manio of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Unit arrived in Hong Kong from the Philippines in 2010 to pursue PhD studies here, he was surprised to stumble across large crowds of Filipinas gathering in public places. “I thought...
by | Nov 5, 2019
Several million Filipinas work as overseas domestic workers and are an important source of remittances for their families back home. They also contribute to the economy in places like Hong Kong by facilitating dual-career households. But in the process, the migrant...
by | Nov 5, 2019
Migrant workers have long had a poor image in China. When they started to flood into cities in the 1980s and 1990s to fill factory jobs, they were regarded by both urban residents and official state media as uncivil, disorderly and crime-prone and they were denied...
