Paul Yip
Campus catering project shows how to bring the best out of everyone by embracing diversity
Our students’ learning experience has been significantly enhanced due to the excellent environment in the new Centennial Campus. The services (including catering and recreation) available to students and staff have improved substantially. There is a greater choice of food, including produce provided by social enterprises.
Paul Yip & Jacky Wong
The government’s summit next month on alleviating poverty is an important opportunity to take stock and identify ways to work for the betterment of the community. We need to have an accurate understanding of the situation in formulating focused measures to alleviate poverty.
A person is defined as poor if his/her household income is below the poverty line, which is set at half the median household income in Hong Kong. It is a relative measure rather than an absolute one; there is always going to be a certain proportion of the population below that level. Hence the rate itself may not be able to accurately describe the change in the poverty situation in Hong Kong.
盧恩媛 | 葉兆輝
剛於8月發表的最新研究顯示，香港遊客的增長率由2010年的22%持續下跌至2014年的12%；過夜旅客人數比去年下跌2%；2015年首兩季酒店入住率和零售業總收入，更分別下調8.7%和1.6%。
面對遊客量明顯下滑，特區政府極為緊張，還多次表示憂慮。不過，與其無止境渴求大量旅客，政府更應放遠目光，藉此機會把香港的旅遊業模式轉化為可持續發展的新模式，有量度地滿足經濟之餘，也不會破壞市民的生活。
Paul Yip & Sha Feng
Paul Yip and Sha Feng say scrapping this low-cost and convenient mode of transport would hit some Hong Kong people hard, and planners should care about more than just congestion
The proposal to remove tram services between Central and Admiralty to ease congestion has aroused much discussion in the community. It is in fact much more than just a transport issue. A study of transport and social exclusion in the UK in 2003, for example, showed that transport is intrinsically linked to many social policy issues, such as unemployment, public health, the environment, education and urban development.
葉兆輝 | 曾至本
著名醫學雜誌《刺血針》（The Lancet）最近刊登了一篇關於婦女與健康關係的詳盡研究。作者分析了來自32 個國家、佔世界人口的52％的資料，強調女性同時作為消費者和供應者對醫療保健行業的貢獻，計算出女性其對全球衛生保健的財政貢獻約為3 萬億美元，其中近一半是無償（unpaid）的和未被確認的（unrecognized）。
Paul Yip & Stephen Tsang
One of the most exhaustive studies on the relationship between women and health was published in The Lancet recently. Analysing data from 32 countries, accounting for 52 per cent of the world’s population, it also highlights women’s contribution to the health care industry as both consumers and providers. It calculated their financial contribution to global health care to be around US$3 trillion, of which nearly half is unpaid and unrecognised.
郭瑛琦 | 陳之翰 | 葉兆輝
近年來，為緩解貧窮問題，不少社會服務機構在社區中提供食物援助服務以減少低收入家庭的食物開支，從而減輕其生活重擔。這些機構開展了多種類型的食物援助計劃，包括集體購買、平價市場、食物派發、熱食服務等。服務目標主要是低收入家庭，例如清貧長者、在職貧窮家庭、面對衝突的家庭（例如失業或有病人的家庭）及不能就業或不符合申領福利資格的新移民家庭、長期病患者及露宿者等等。香港社會服務聯會於2013年進行了食物援助服務概况調查，了解食物援助服務的現况並提出了相關的建議。然而關於服務的空間位置的設定是否能有效地滿足貧窮人口的需求目前尚未有詳細的探索。為了優化資源的配置，將資源做最有效的分配與利用，從空間角度對食物援助服務的分佈進行分析是十分必要的。
