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One can imagine how anxious and worried this mother is when she thinks of the prospect of both husband and wife passing away earlier than their son and leaving their son all alone.

Their family members will often feel distressed or helpless as they do not know how to take care of the elderly after their discharge and hence find themselves under immense pressure.

On another front, at present, the victims of Lehman Brothers-related ELNs and PPNs still cannot see what lies ahead, so they are feeling all at sea and are gradually losing their patience.

I believe they will certainly be very perplexed.

Under such perplexed and hopeless circumstances, he chose to commit suicide by taking poisons.

Everyone knows that the Kwun Tong Public Cargo Working Area will soon be closed down and many waste paper recyclers will be deprived of a place for operation.

But recently, they have received an ultimatum from the Lands Department, saying that this type of shops operating on the upper floors of a building are not covered by the original industrial use in the land lease and are therefore breaching the law, and that they must obtain the waiver for changing the use of land and building before the end of April, or else they would have to terminate their operation.

Victims of domestic violence, including the battered spouses and the children, are in a most vulnerable and helpless situation.

[...] [...] and making them feel aggrieved, then [...] [...]

Workers no longer have a career ladder, and middle-aged workers do not know which way to go.

President, whenever I see how helpless young people are, how they are worried about not being able to buy any properties amid spiralling prices, how they fear that they may be cheated and thus forced to pay for the mortgage of a flat they regret having bought for the rest of their life, and how desperate they are, I will be very sad and angry.

I believe public transport users are in general grassroots and some of them are disturbed unemployed people in an abyss of sufferings.

[...] [...] lose their bearings or even their existing [...]

There is a case of a carer who, while taking care of her daughter with mental disorder, had to face the problems mentioned, and given the lack of government support, felt helpless and developed an uncertain state of mind, eventually also suffering from mental disorder.

[...] [...] they may feel they have nowhere to turn to for assistance when encountering financial and housing problems after discharge from prison?

As a result, we, especially the younger generation, lack spiritual support, can hardly withstand pressure, and easily become lost when we suffer setbacks.

As the choices of home loans available in those days were rather limited, the Government therefore introduced different forms of home ownership assistance in response to public demand.

We worry that we will have the same fate as people in Taiwan and Japan, where it might take three generations to pay off a house loan.

The Budget for the coming financial year is now a fait accompli, and so the helpless unemployed workers can only rely on themselves for their own wellbeing, hoping that before they sell up their belongings the economy of Hong Kong will really revive in the second half of the year as the Financial Secretary predicts.

I hope that was only an exceptional case and that most of our civil servants working in the Labour Department would not treat these helpless women in that manner.

[...] [...] not be at a loss even if they [...]

Whenever their young children fall sick, they are certainly very worried and anxious.

Another problem is that medical social workers do not have a set of consistent criteria in vetting applications for the charitable funds.

The legislature will not hold any discussion on the incident, nor will it put the incident in the limelight, as in the meeting today, as though Mr Abraham SHEK were put on a public trial.

The white represents the nightless summer nights when the time seems to stop.

Under the impact of economic transformation and the decline of the manufacturing industry, the middle-age workers are not only deprived of the "prosperous fruits" of their hard work, but they are also worried all the time about losing their jobs, about the poor prospect of changing jobs and even more about their retirement life.

[...] [...] financial tsunami through the upper economic infrastructure, as if actions are taken only to rescue [...] [...]

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