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Hong Kong’s growing wealth inequality: will it be an M- or olive-shaped society?

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An ageing society and a widening income gap threaten Hong Kong’s social fabric. In the last of a five-part series on the city’s five-year plan, we look at what can be done to address these key issues. Read part one here, part two here, part three here and part four here. At 71, Man Chi-ying is the sole carer for her husband, Fung Yu-hoi, a Parkinson’s disease patient. Fung, who is also 71, has stiff limbs and, on some days, needs his wife’s help getting dressed. She has to hold his hand to keep...

First report: ‘Living in two worlds at once’: work in Hong Kong, live and play in Greater Bay Area — scmp.com, 1d