Periscope

Today's young people have grown up in a digital age and are just as likely to read online articles as books. They're often accused of not reading enough or at all. Is this accusation fair? Varsity explores and conducts a reading habits survey of our own.

Varsity surveyed more than 260 secondary school and university students to find out about their reading habits. Read the full results here.

Hong Kong has one of the better public health systems in the world but the system is groaning under the challenge of an aging...

Overworked and underpaid - that's how many nurses in Hong Kong's public hospitals feel and they are leaving the public sector and even the profession in high numbers. So far, Hospital Authority efforts to stem the exodus don't seem to be working. Varsity looks at the underlying reasons behind Hong Kong's nursing shortage.

Plans to allow overseas-qualified doctors to work in Hong Kong's public hospitals under a limited registration system have come under fire from local doctors' groups who say the scheme could affect the quality of medical care provided. The critics are unhappy doctors under the scheme will be exempted from taking a licensing exam.

Many of the patients who use public healthcare services are elderly. To try to relieve the pressure on the public system the government recently extended the elderly healthcare voucher scheme and doubled the amount offered. But as Varsity discovers, many elderly people still find the vouchers inadequate and hard to use.

Under the Hong Kong government's policy of  trilingualism and biliteracy, Cantonese, English and Putonghua are meant to be of equal importance. But in reality,...

Hong Kongers take inspiration from pro-Cantonese movement in Guangdong and stand up to defend their mother tongue from encroachment from Putonghua.

Meet the local Cantonese-speaking parents who will only speak to their children. They say they want their kids to have a head-start. But experts tell Varsity kids have more to gain from a multilingual environment.

As more and more schools teach Chinese in Putonghua, teachers, parents and students tell Varsity whether they think it's a better way to learn.