Duplicitous liaisons: husbands of Hong Kong women work - and play - in China
Article Abstract:
The boom in prostitution and concubinage across the Chinese border from Hong Kong hints at the severity and range of problems China must face after reunification in 1997. Already thousands or tens of thousands of the 100,000 Hong Kong men operating factories or offices in the Pearl River delta keep mistresses or concubines, some in the so-called Concubine Village of Huang Bei Ling. Hong Kong wives are reluctant to press for divorce for both cultural and financial reasons, but the practice hurts women and children.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Hong Kong's greying pains
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Hong Kong is right to explore new and more effective ways to provide for its aging population with some sort of social security system. However, the Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong (BPF) has a better proposal than the one called the Old-Age Pension Scheme. The BPF Alternative would offer greater benefits to the elderly with low monthly disposable income, but would scale back benefits for those with higher incomes. It relies on means-testing and ties increases to the median wage, not inflation.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Identity crisis
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There has been a very unenthusiastic response so far to efforts to promote awareness of Chinese culture and history in Hong Kong. The vast majority of Hong Kong citizens have very little interest in developing a love of China, being much more concerned with day-to-day issues, especially business and finance. The fact that Hong Kong was until recently always a British colony has meant that there has never been a strong sense of nationalism there.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1998
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