Labour Shortage in the Aviation Industry

9:00am - 9:45am: Brendan Sobie, Independent Aviation Analyst

9:00am - 9:30am: Czerny Achim, Associate Professor at the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

9:15am ...

On Friday’s Backchat we’re talking about major ferry fare increases being considered by the government.

Three operators have applied for fare increases of between 22 and 100 percent — with the steepest hikes proposed for some routes connecting Hong Kon...

On Thursday’s backchat we’re looking at the evolution of the book industry

First, e-books and online retailers hit traditional brick-and-mortar retailers… driving out big players such as Page One and Dymocks from Hong Kong years ago.

But now, are e...

On Wednesday’s Backchat, we’re looking at the delayed start of the flu season in Hong Kong – and how it affects the city.

 

Health authorities say we’ve just entered the flu season, months later than usual as everyone had been masked up until the mand...

On Tuesday’s Backchat, we're looking into Hong Kong’s shortage of Elderly services workers. 

Hong Kong lost more than 94,000 workers in 2022 – the biggest drop in labour force since records began almost four decades ago. 

According to Census and St...

On Thursday's Backchat, we're looking at foster care in Hong Kong 

The government says it plans to offer more support for families who foster children, and encourage more people to become foster parents, as part of its response to a child abuse scan...

Good morning and welcome to Backchat.

In the first part of today’s programme, we’ll be hearing more about the “HKU President’s Forum - Science and Society” that took place on Monday at the University of Hong Kong. Globally renowned thought leaders wer...

9:00-9:45: Hong Kong Science Festival

9:00 - 9:15: Samuel Chiu, Curator at the Science Promotion Unit of the Hong Kong Science Museum

9:15 - 9:45: Emil Chan, The Chairman of the Association of Cloud and Mobile Computing Professionals and Adjunct Profe...

9:00am-10:00am: Labour shortages in HK

9:00am-10:00am: BH - Terence Mang, President of Hong Kong Institute of Construction

Managers

9:00am-10:00am: Phone - Roy Ying, Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management's advocacy and policy research comm...

9:00am-9:45am: The role of artificial intelligence in education

9:00am-9:45am: Phone - Ryan Whalen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The

University of Hong Kong 

9:00am-9:45am: Phone - Eric Friginal, Professor and Head, Department of English and

C...