England has a reputation around the world for awarding generous payouts to the financially weaker party in a divorce. A prenuptial agreement (or “prenup”) is not legally binding in England, and judges have extremely wide discretion when deciding how assets should be divided upon divorce. Although increasingly rare, English courts can grant a type of […]
Hong Kong’s Education Bureau has caused a furore last month by claiming on their website that Cantonese is just a “Chinese dialect” and “not an official language” of Hong Kong. According to them: Although the Basic Law stipulates that Chinese and English are the two official languages in Hong Kong, nearly 97 per cent of the local […]
The Economist blogged on a same topic that I have explored in an earlier blogpost here. That showed data from the OECD that in a vast majority of its member countries, people are working fewer hours than they did in 1990. While people do generally work less hours in these OECD countries, the reduction in hours […]
The New York Times today has an interesting article on how to measure poverty. To oversimplifying things, there are probably three ways to measure poverty. The first one, as Hong Kong is now trying to do, is to set a “poverty line”: people whose income falls below this level would be considered “poor”. The second […]