Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) is the main airport in Hong Kong; it is an important regional trans-shipment centre‚ passenger hub and gateway between the Mainland China and the rest of Asia. And HKIA is the primary hub for several domestic airlines‚ such as Cathay Pacific Airways‚ Dragonair‚ Hong Kong Express Airways‚ etc. Review the history‚ HKIA has won seven Skytrax World Airport Awards for customer satisfaction in just ten years (Skytrax‚ 2010)‚ the second busiest airport in the world
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Causes of Poverty in Hong Kong The Hong Kong Government is planning to set an official poverty line in the year 2013. The threshold is expected to be set at half of the median household income. Despite Hong Kong being a socially and economically developed city‚ hidden within the crowd of seven million citizens though are people living lives of poverty. This poverty indictor might just pin-point the social groups in society that is in need of help. However‚ disregarding the poverty line‚ certain
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No city in the world is as ironic and contradictory as Hong Kong. This city has not only the 6th highest per capita GDP‚ but also the highest Gini coefficient in the world (World Bank‚ 2011). Fortunately‚ the Hong Kong government isn’t turning a blind eye towards this dilemma but are instead actively looking for a trade-off between economic performance and social welfare. One notable example is the re-establishment of the Commission on Poverty‚ it is hoped that a clearly-defined poverty line will
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teachers‚ and friends. It was like my life was already figured out for me‚ as if I didn’t have a say. The message was loud and clear. They all expected me to fail‚ to settle for a minimum wage paying job‚ to settle for just a high school diploma. For a while I went around believing that all I could do was the minimum required. But then I realized that I was capable of doing so much more. As time went on I realized that I did not have to live up to other’s low expectations and I started making a
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The ‘Hong Kong Kids’ Phenomenon In recent years it is common to see Hong Kong children accompanied by their domestic helpers everywhere. Some of them just shout at their helpers asking for help in tying their shoelaces and some just open their mouths to wait for spoonfuls of food like little birds in a nest. They have reached the age with the abilities to take care of themselves but they do not do so. As this problem becomes increasingly general‚ it is important to explore its different causes so
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Is it hard to live in Hong Kong? A psychologist said that stress is a joint result of weak knowledge base plus and in sufficient support. In a highly competitive society like Hong Kong‚ everyone must work very hard for keeping a foothold. Moreover‚ Hong Kong’s Gini Coefficient has consistently at the world’s top rank‚ which implies the city’s income gap have a great disparity‚ despite a high living standard. That is how the stress comes up and let us take a close look at the issues. First of
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Minimum wage has helped shape our economy and nation as it is today. In the United States‚ we have two different types of minimum wage‚ federal and state. But what is minimum wage? “Minimum wage is the lowest hourly rate at which most employers may legally pay their workers” (“Federal Minimum Wage”). The federal minimum wage is the government’s minimum wage‚ but each state also has their own minimum wage. “The first federal minimum wage was legislated to boost wages to ease the hardship of workers
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realize that it’s just the minimum pay. This is just one of many working class citizen’s stories right now living in the United States‚ with job cuts people citizens are willing to take whatever jobs are available‚ to sustain a suitable life style for them. Today I am going to talk to your briefly about the history of minimum wage‚ why it should be increased‚ how it can help the economy ‚ the benefits of increasing minimum wage‚ what states have recently increased minimum wage‚ how the government is
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What are the overall effects of a binding minimum wage in a competitive labour market? What might soften your interpretation? Introduction Minimum wage is a price floor which is applied to the labour market which makes it illegal to trade at a price lower that the specified level which the rate is set at. It is applied in the United Kingdom and most countries of the world. Information In January 2010‚ 20 of the European Union’s 27 Member States (Belgium‚ Bulgaria‚ the Czech Republic
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would be wages in the workforce. Minimum wage was first introduced as a part of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 1938‚ starting at 25¢ an hour. In today’s society‚ 25¢ would equate to $4. Since the first establishment by Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ the minimum wage has been raised 22 times. Wages have been rising at a constant rate since it was first established in the U.S. In addition to the federal minimum wage‚ there are
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