NEWS FROM ASIA
SENsational consultancy features in Ariana
21 April 2020
SENsational features on pages 44 to 50 in the Ariana Magazine.
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How can Hong Kong help the intellectually disabled find work?
09 December 2018
Hong Kong should commission a consultancy to explore and compile a list of professions available for the intellectually disabled to help tackle the low employment rate among the group, experts have said. Only 8 per cent of 276 school leavers from special needs institutions in the 2014-15 academic year who had a mild intellectual disability went on to find work, according to official figures. In the United States the employment rate for intellectually disabled people aged between 21 and 64 was 34 per cent in a 2013 study
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Wages and job prospects of Hong Kong’s visually impaired not rising proportionately with education levels, study finds
14 October 2018
The research by Chinese University and the Hong Kong Blind Union, a first in the city on employment prospects of this segment in society, centred on visually impaired respondents who were 18 and above between March and April.A total of 136 questionnaires with valid responses were received, of which 70 per cent said the respondent attained tertiary education, with 45 per cent having a bachelor’s degree or above.The survey found only 43 per cent of respondents were employed full time, with 18 per cent unemployed – a figure 6.4 times the overall unemployment rate in the city.
In terms of salary, the monthly median for those polled was HK$11,000, compared with the city’s mark of HK$16,800 (US$2,100).
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We can’t walk but we can sing’: how three Chinese sisters with brittle bone disease created a living for themselves
01 October 2018
Over the past five months, Peng Yan, 31, Peng Jiangqiu, 28, and Peng Jiangdan, 25 – who have brittle bone disease – spend up to six hours a day on Kuaishou.com telling stories and singing songs for their 260,000 followers, the Chongqing Evening News reported on Saturday. The women, from Yunyang county in Chongqing, said that before they discovered live-streaming they spent most of their days lying in bed or watching television.In each case, the disease is so severe that they were never able to go to school. But they did manage to learn to read from the captions on television programmes, the report said.The women are cared for and carried around by their 57-year-old father, Peng Boxiang, a former construction worker who was forced to retire 16 years ago after having an accident on site
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Job training centre for disabled teenagers could have a reprieve as Hong Kong government reveals new plan
The Hong Kong government took a U-turn regarding its controversial plan to shut down a job training centre for disabled teens, saying there is a possibility its operator can continue to provide services at a new site under an enhanced mode.The surprise announcement came after weeks of fervent protests from students, parents, and alumni at the decision to close the facility. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor revealed in her October policy address that the government would redevelop the 118,000 sq ft site in Kwun Tong, which currently houses the Shine Skills Centre, operated by the Vocational Training Council (VTC)...