Essays on Hong Kong

The city of Toronto feels immensely crowded all of the time. With traffic, construction, and 2. 8 million people crammed into a 630km2 space, it’s impossible not to feel like a sardine packed in a tin can. Even with all this said, it could be...

The Hong Kong electronic environment culture affects the values for the public. First, Hong Kong is a modern society and media saturated environment. The media plays a significant part in the construction of appropriate or inappropriate gender roles and that can be found at everywhere....

Hong Kong has a significantly high amount of municipal waste. By now, the solid waste is handled by dumping to the landfill solely and it is revealed that currently Hong Kong people do not pertain a strong sense of waste recycling. Much recyclable trash, namely...

I would like to discuss my opinion about an article “Economic History of Hong Kong” released by EH. net, mainly focusing on the importance of development during post-colonial period. According to the article, the economic history divides into 4 parts: pre-colonial period (1842-1949), post-colonial period...

Work chances should be guaranteed for university graduates. However, in Hong Kong, students’ job opportunities cannot be guaranteed even though they are highly educated due to the academic inflation problem, which has recently given rise to “anger generation”, producing negative economical and phycological impacts to...

It’s undeniable that Hong Kong is a densely populated international city with strictly limited land space, makes the shortage of the affordable housing always a serious problem. However, we have realized this problem for nearly 20 years, but the issue of housing shortage is still...

Some college gerontology professors say there are about 70,000 to 80,000 ‘hidden ‘ elderly who are frail, living alone and not using social services in Hong Kong. ‘Elderly invisible’ refers to the elderly who are isolated from society and do not know how to seek...

Municipal solid waste includes all the waste from domestic buildings, non-domestic building or public facilities. However, it excludes construction and chemical wastes. Household waste is the highest of the three types of discarded waste. Hong Kong people indeed need to reduce waste at the source...

Green Building is an interdisciplinary theme in which the concept of a green building contains elements, components and procedures that fall apart from several subtopics that form the concept of a green building. In general, green buildings are considered as environmental factors because green building...

In this essay, I have chosen the Lai Chi Wo to further illustrate on the issue of tension between local residents and tourism development. Lai Chi Wo is a 400 years old traditional walled village in new territories. It is praised for being one of...