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This post also available in:| Ελληνικά | · Χονγκ Κονγκ: Το πορτοφόλι της γιαγιάς |
| বাংলা | · হংকংঃ গ্রান্ডমা'স ওয়ালেট |
| русский | · Гонконг: "Бабушкин кошелек" |
| Español | · Hong Kong: Los gastos de la abuela |
| Aymara | · Hong Kong: Awichan taqikunatak qullqi munatapa |
| Français | · Hong Kong : Le portefeuille de ma grand-mère |
Screen capture from Grandma's Wallet.
In Hong Kong, many old people are living in poverty despite the fact that the society is very prosperous as a whole. The video taken by Wu Hoi Ching shows how her grandma manages her living by squeezing her daily expenses.
China Digital Times highlighted some discussion on gender gap in China. Even though the overall percentage of working women is not very low, as a result of urbanization, employment rate for working-age women in urban areas fell to a new low of 60.8 percent in 2010, down from 77.4 percent 20 years earlier.
David Bandurski from China Media Project explained the idea of “online social management”, a set of tactics to increase the capacity for channeling online public opinion, put forward by Fu Siming, a professor at the Central Party School.
Rudi Putra initiated an online petition asking the Indonesian government to block the expansion of mining and palm oil activities in Aceh and to protect the country's remaining rainforest. More than one million people around the world have already signed the petition:
I live and work in the last place on Earth where endangered orangutans, rhinos, elephants, and tigers still roam together — but it'll be bulldozed to bits unless our President hears our call and steps in to save this unique habitat.
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