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An aerial view of the Hung Shui Kiu and Ha Tsuen new development area in the Northern Metropolis on September 14. Part of the land in Hung Shui Kiu will be developed into a university town. Photo: Karma Lo
Northern Metropolis

Letters | Northern Metropolis can offer a clean slate for educational innovation

Readers discuss the planned education hub near the city’s northern border, and smart traffic management systems.

Brics

Letters | What Brics wants: a non-Western, not an anti-Western, world

Northern Metropolis

Letters | How Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis should be judged

Hong Kong children

Letters | Hong Kong must put child safety on the development agenda

Readers discuss the danger of child sexual exploitation shifting online, and the Hong Kong dollar peg.

The landscape of child sexual exploitation is rapidly shifting online. Photo: DPA
The landscape of child sexual exploitation is rapidly shifting online. Photo: DPA
Education in Hong Kong

Letters | Hong Kong’s universities must avoid ‘easy entry, guaranteed pass’ model

Readers discuss the need to ensure academic rigour in tertiary education, and university orientation camps.

Hong Kong housing

Letters | Ensuring building safety in Hong Kong an uphill struggle

Readers discuss efforts to reduce shoddy work in building renovation, signs on expressways, and classic Hong Kong comedy films.

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Social media

Letters | Let’s protect Hong Kong’s children from social media ourselves

Readers discuss how the city should shield children from social media’s harmful effects, and the public healthcare system.

Students use their smartphones while queuing outside a restaurant in Tseung Kwan O on October 16,2025. Photo: Elson Li
Students use their smartphones while queuing outside a restaurant in Tseung Kwan O on October 16,2025. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong economy

Letters | Hong Kong has changed. So should its marketing message

Readers discuss the city’s evolving appeal, unleashed dogs in public places, and former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa.

Suicides in Hong Kong

Letters | Suicide prevention in Hong Kong: let’s normalise reaching out for help

Readers discuss how the community can work together to prevent suicides, sentencing in cases of sex crimes, and responsible pet ownership.

Belt and Road Initiative

Letters | Belt and Road Initiative is more than a trade and investment platform

Readers discuss how far the belt and road framework has come, the use of AI in official translations, and the start of the school year.

A Chinese communication engineer guides a Kenyan staff member on backup power replacement for the communication system at Mtito Andei station on the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya on July 23. The railway is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiaitve. Photo: Xinhua
Education in Hong Kong

Letters | Why Hong Kong’s medical schools should phase in their Cantonese requirement

Readers discuss language prerequisites at the city’s medical schools, and the promise of AI.

A pharmacist introduces services provided at an HKUMed Community Pharmacy in December 2024. The University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine has revised its language requirements for admission. Photo: Nora Tam
A pharmacist introduces services provided at an HKUMed Community Pharmacy in December 2024. The University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine has revised its language requirements for admission. Photo: Nora Tam
Hong Kong culture

Letters | Are we preserving the Hong Kong tourists come here for?

Readers discuss the new tourism campaign, and construction schedules in an era of climate change.

Crime in Hong Kong

Letters | Bid-rigging isn’t new. Hong Kong must revisit old complaints

Readers discuss reforms to the system around building renovation projects, and a lesson from Zhu Rongji’s life.

Malaysia

Letters | Could Indonesia be sued for the haze in Malaysia? Yes and no

Readers discuss a recourse for victims of transboundary air pollution, tourist spending, tourism videos past and present, and Hongkong Post’s options.

The Kuala Lumpur skyline is shrouded in haze, as seen from Ampang, Malaysia, on August 26. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong society

Letters | Queen Mary Hospital lift defects raise larger questions for Hong Kong

Readers discuss oversight of critical public infrastructure, a better development model for the Northern Metropolis, and a project in Hung Shui Kiu.

Lift repairs are carried out in Clinical Block 1 of Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam on August 15. Photo: Karma Lo
Lift repairs are carried out in Clinical Block 1 of Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam on August 15. Photo: Karma Lo
2026 China-Nepal flash floods

Letters | China-Nepal floods: engineering fixes are only a band-aid

Readers discuss the best long-term defence against Himalayan disasters, the Iran war, and the Ukraine war.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Letters | Hong Kong’s cleaner transport push must not neglect tyre pollution

Readers discuss the need to monitor tyre pollution in the city, a Chinese film about the Iraq war, and the US midterms.

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Education

Letters | Today’s humanists don’t deserve the likes of a Fields Medal

Readers discuss recognition for humanities scholars, and the challenges of ethnic minority children in Chinese language acquisition.

A librarian in the northern town of Saint-Omer, near Calais, carefully shows an example of a valuable Shakespeare “First Folio”, a collection of some of his plays, dating from 1623. Photo: AFP
A librarian in the northern town of Saint-Omer, near Calais, carefully shows an example of a valuable Shakespeare “First Folio”, a collection of some of his plays, dating from 1623. Photo: AFP
Bangkok

Letters | A greener Bangkok must also be fairer

Readers discuss the revitalisation of Bangkok, and the legacy of ‘designated schools’ in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong society

Letters | Focusing on ‘bad’ dogs will not do Hong Kong any good

Readers discuss the state of Hong Kong’s animal laws, and whether a ‘no-kill’ mandate for animals is the most humane approach.

Hong Kong national security law

Letters | Don’t take peaceful days in Hong Kong as a given

Readers discuss the security of the city, a China-Nepal early-warning mechanism, and AI boot camps.

People pass by wanted warrants for overseas activists at Shenzhen Bay border crossing on June 17. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Letters | Fix Hong Kong’s healthcare silos with link workers

Readers discuss bridging medical and social welfare, why Hong Kong must change, and an epic road trip.

Sham Shui Po District Health Centre in 2022. Photo: Jelly Tse
Sham Shui Po District Health Centre in 2022. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong workers/labour rights

Letters | Hong Kong should study the mainland gig worker insurance model

Readers discuss labour protection for delivery riders, and a new era for India-Bangladesh relations.

Hong Kong courts

Letters | Why Hong Kong needs special courts for drug offenders

Readers discuss Hong Kong’s approach to drug-related cases vis-a-vis New York’s, and dog owners’ duty to the community.

Science

Letters | Why do the humanities not have awards like the Fields Medal or Nobel Prize?

Readers discuss the lack of recognition for outstanding scholarship in the humanities, the lure of toys to children, and elderly mental health.

Fields Medalists Deng Yu (first left) and Wang Hong (first right), both Chinese mathematicians, John Pardon (second left), an American mathematician, and Jacob Tsimerman, a Canadian mathematician, pose for a photograph at the opening ceremony of the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, US, on July 23. Photo: Xinhua
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