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Most teenagers enjoy playing video games but too much of it is bad for them.
The annual December celestial event features particularly slow-moving shootings stars. Here's where to go to see it, and how best to capture it.
We asked our readers: If you could give your parents any gift, what would it be? Here are our favourite answers.
The team from Hong Kong Chinese Women’s Club College won silver at the World GreenMech Contest.
Emotions are a tricky thing; they can be confusing, conflicting, and sometimes overwhelming. This week’s poem, describes the internal struggle many of us have felt at some point in our lives.
The three restaurant chains provide seven to 14 pieces of plastic per takeaway meal, adding up to about 100 million disposable items a year.
One of Marvel’s most beloved superhero is back without the Avengers, in his own unique animation with a captivating storyline.
The welder become an accidental viral video star with his meat cleaver mobile phone case.
HK youth rock band Popcorn Virus on how music gives them direction in life, and spreading positivity
From the classroom to the stage, the bandmates tell us how they survived graduating from high school, and facing the realities of growing up.
University offers platform to speak about topics that students are passionate about and gives them the freedom to act.
The protests were sparked by a “green” tax aimed at tackling climate change – but it unfairly targeted the poor.
On 1 February 1960, 17-year-old Franklin McCain and three black friends went to the whites-only counter at Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina and took a seat.
One 16-year-old West Island School student doesn’t simply love music – he practically lives and breathes it.
We met the editors behind Victoria Shanghai Academy’s student newspaper and spoke to them about how it’s run.
Tickets for the Hong Kong leg of the pop prince's seven-city Asia tour in May go on sale on December 21.
We're still slogging our way across the Gulf of Alaska, alone except for the occasional whale and the constant company of seabirds. One of the most common birds looks like...
A small crew of sailors will navigate a boat through the Canadian Arctic, where icebergs and polar bears still rule the land. I am the...
The Silent Sound is on her way to the Canadian Arctic. We left Canada on June 6 and are sailing north. Our friends and family were there to see us off, and although it was...
Four people have left their jobs, homes, family and friends to spend four months on a small boat in cold, wet weather.
If someone tells you they are going sailing, you usually imagine them jumping off the bow for a swim and enjoying the sun. Aboard the Silent Sound on our way to the Arctic, we're thinking about ice.
A small crew of sailors will navigate a boat through the Canadian Arctic, where icebergs and polar bears still rule the land. I am the captain of the Silent Sound, and I will be telling you...
Off the port bow! That's something we've been shouting out nearly every day lately. As Silent Sound has pointed her bow west and begun crossing the Gulf of Alaska, we've seen several whales...
Dreams
Voices: Nick Walton and Rachel Crowther
Dreams
All of us dream. Some of us remember our dreams quite clearly while others never remember them. Listen to these six people talking about the dreams they have had recently and then answer the...
ZOE: Hello, I’m Young Post reporter Zoe Mak and this is Listening Plus. Today’we’ll be talking with Timothy Chui who is reporting on South China Morning Post National News Desk Editor Ting Shi’s wrap...
Author Mark Twain once said: 'I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.'
In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler said: 'The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.'
Confucius said: Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. This also applies to school life, which can be a bit like climbing The Dragon's Back - it has its ups and downs.
To be an effective independent learner, you need to be good at communicating what you know. Developing your presentation skills is very important, not just for exams but also for...
To be an effective independent learner, you need to introduce yourself to the 1.5kg mass of jelly in your head known as the brain. The brain is your thinking centre. To succeed in school and in life..
Hong Kong Airlines Embrace the World Student Sponsorship Programme 2016/17 is taking nine local secondary school students on a trip of a lifetime, and Young Post is tagging along for the ride.
Think about the person you were 10 years ago, and you’ll realise that the person you’ll be 10 years from now will be completely different.
Make sure you're fully prepared for any eventuality by downloading these apps before you leave Hong Kong's and its excellent internet coverage.
Here is the plain truth: being able to do everything thanks to good time management is a lie. A sham. A scam.
Most films adapted from video games miss the mark. Maybe it's the nature of video games or maybe video games are cursed...
The NBA is back with a bang after a drama-filled opening night.
Koalas and kangaroos! Oh my! Hong Kong Airlines Embrace the World Student Sponsorship Programme 2016/17 is taking nine local secondary school students on a trip of a lifetime, and Young Post is...
The ultimate Brain Game winner will have the chance to encounter animals with their best friend at Ocean Park, a prize worth HK$3,236.
I hate cats. There, I said it. Now, while we wait for the internet to descend on me like Sauron’s army, I shall explain why.
Three physically demanding activities made for a fun but exhausting day on the Hong Kong Airlines Embrace the World Student Sponsorship Programme 2016/17.
Having lived in Claremont, Calif. for three months now, I find it easy to be “stuck” in our comfortable “Claremont bubble”, whose tranquil cafés, bakeries, and froyo shops have become lovely weekend...
"Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away..." Oh, Frank Sinatra, I knew you'd pop into my head at least once on this trip.
It's pretty predictable after the tragedy in Las Vegas that some people are wondering why this shooter is not being called a 'terrorist'
If you want a cream that will work with your skin even when it's at its most angry-looking or parched, then you might want to consider giving the Intensive Moisturising Cream a go.
One 16-year-old West Island School student doesn’t simply love music – he practically lives and breathes it.
The annual December celestial event features particularly slow-moving shootings stars. Here's where to go to see it, and how best to capture it.
Most teenagers enjoy playing video games but too much of it is bad for them.
