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Elderly Abuse Government-Issued Health Care Vouchers Debate over man-made fur Customers find it hard Flying winemaker lands in Fake fur may cause pollution and to change payment habits Hong Kong other problems P12 Can Alipay be a mainstream Making Hong Kong wine with payment method? P14 foreign grapes P18 THE YOUNG REP RTER magazineApril 2015 Elderly abuse government-issued health care vouchers In This Issue 14 Alipay needs more to 23 Mermaid advocates marine 4 One Moment enter Hong Kong market protection Rugby Sevens is in town! Can Alipay be a mainstream An activist dresses as a payment method mermaid to promote ocean NEWS NEWS conservation FRONT Meditation fights insomnia 16 Have yourself a merry 24 little kitchen Study finds that meditation 6 Buse of elderly medical improves sleep quality welfare Rental kitchens heating up Elderly exchange extra around town health care vouchers for supplements 26 Confession of a vilain hitter 18 Hong Kong’s first urban summoned by God FEATURE winery slowly to invade The everlasting tradition market Making Hong Kong wine with foreign grapes 10 Can mainlanders run 28 Surroundings change, student bodies in Hong people stay Kong Debate over the political PHOTO NEWS stance of mainlanders in student unions 30 Game of Sevens, fun for all 12 Fake fur may not be fake after all To replace real fur with faux-fur brings other environmental problems 20 Deaf films translate deaf culture to the hearing Disability cannot stop the hearing-impaired from enjoying cinema Previous issue explores how Hong Kong’s aviation industry stays unaffacted despite the inceasing number of flight accidents. THE YOUNG REP RTER Letter from the Editor magazine n the April issue we run an An environmentalist says that faux Editor Section Editors investigative feature on the fur may reduce animal cruelty, Crystal Tse Cora Chan misuse of medical vouchers but not pollution. Customers may Catherine Chen I Deputy Editors Natasha Fernandes provided by the government for the be buying cheap animal fur while Thomas Chan elderly. Six years into its launch, thinking that they are doing no Anne Lau Jane Cheung Joanne Lee we take our readers to look at the harm to the environment. There Harry Ng Airis Lin loopholes of this policy of good are more problems when it come Viola Zhou Iverson Ng intention. to disposal of these products. Jennie Tang Copy Editors Hilary Wu As we reach to our pockets, we Last but not least, we bring you Mari Chow Joey Hung Reporters may no longer find a wallet. Digital to the scene of the 40th Hong Nathanial Suen Choco Chan money and smartphones are Kong Rugby Sevens to make Jonathan Chan becoming a trend of payment as sure you do not miss out on a Social Media and Web Michelle Chan e-wallets like Alipay emerge. The colourful weekend of sports and Editors Herbert Cheung hassle of counting and carrying entertainment. Yanis Chan Jackson Ho Shan Shan Kao heavy coins may soon come to an Kary Hsu Christy Leung Arisa Lai end. The new editorial team is starting Fred Lai off with our first issue and we Art Directors Rainie Lam We are possibly looking a bit too always welcome any feedback Amie Cheng Ann Li far for a good bottle of wine. Hong letters or emails as well as you Jo Lee Hilda Lo Kong is joining the club of wine opinion on issues of your concern. Kyle Sun Lindsy Long production. We visit a local winery Letters and messages will be Sharon Shi Public Relation and Janet Sun that produce made-in-Hong Kong published in May issue. Distribution Officer Anna Tang wine with imported grapes. Tina Cheung Candice Tang Kumiko Lau Sharon Tang Crystal Tse Joanna Wong Editor Advisers Natalie Wong Robin Ewing Phoebe Wong CK Lau Julieana Wu Catherine Xu Design Adviser Charlotte Yang Wade Chan Ceci Au Yeung Jamie Kan, student of Hong Kong Baptist University Publisher Printer Alice Lee Department of Journalism Obituary School of Communication Hong Kong Baptist University April started with heavy hearts on the campus of Hong Kong Baptist The Young Reporter Volume 47 No. 7 University for the loss of Ms Jamie Kan, a talented writer, a fellow 2015 passionate publisher and a schoolmate, in a tragic car accident that happened near campus. The team is terribly sorry for Ms Kan’s fam- ily and wishes them peace in this difficult time. EMAIL [email protected] WEBSITE tyr.hk One Moment he Hong Kong Rugby Sevens attracts 120,000 sport fanatics Tgathering at the Hong Kong Stadium from March 27-29. This year is the 40th Anniversary of the tournament, the flamboyant and coordinated costumes, beers and cheeers at the south stand form a stirring backdrop for the pitch where 15 countries competing furiously for shield, bowl, plate and cup. By Christy Leung 6 •FEATURE FEATURE • 7 Elderly abuse health care vouchers Without effective monitoring, elderly possessing extra health care vouchers can easily exchange them for superfluous products. 8 •FEATURE t the end of the year, 75-year-old Mr Wong was supervision. Such voucher abuse is especially Awondering how to spend the $2,000 health-care common in Chinese medicine clinics. vouchers he had. Instead of medicine, he decided to get soup ingredients and health supplements. Launched in 2009, the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme aims to supplement public health care Entitled to free medical treatment, the retired civil services by providing financial incentive for elderly to servant’s health vouchers are redundant, but he still choose private services. People aged 70 or above are receives them every year under the Health Care eligible for the benefit. In 2014, the annual voucher Voucher Scheme. amount was increased from $1,000 to $2,000. Vouchers are issued through the eHealth System. “I once spent over a thousand dollars’ worth of my vouchers on some supplements,” said Mr Wong, who According to the scheme’s official website, health declined to give his full name. care vouchers cannot be used to buy medication, spectacles, dried seafood or medical equipment. Although health care voucher recipients are But people who try can often succeed in obtaining a forbidden to purchase food products and health prescription for those banned items. supplements with their extra vouchers, many elderly have managed to do so in the absence of government Mr Wong chose to ask his Chinese medicine doctor FEATURE• 9 “No one from the government ever checks,” Dr Wong, a Chinese medicine practitioner who helped elderly exchange health care voucher for dried ingredients said. for a prescription for health supplements. He then Dr Wong said he knows what he does is wrong, but paid for the ingredients with the vouchers in his it is hard to reject the requests coming from regular eHealth account. patients. He has no fear of being punished. Dr Wong, a Chinese medicine practitioner who “No one from the government ever checks,” Dr Wong does not want to be identified, said he had helped said. the elderly exchange health care vouchers for dried ingredients, often at the end of each year. However, according to the Health Care Voucher Scheme’s interim report in 2011, the Department “They don’t want their subsidies wasted,” said Dr of Health has put forward a mechanism to ensure Wong, whose clinic is one of the health care service proper use of scheme funding. The mechanism providers enrolled in the voucher scheme. includes routine checking, monitoring and investigation of aberrant patterns of transactions as Dr Wong said most were retired civil servants like Mr well as investigation of complaints. Wong, who didn’t need to pay for their regular health care services. Others had saved vouchers because Secretary for Food and Health Dr Ko Wing-man they rarely had the chance to use them. said in June last year that if the supervision of the voucher scheme was too loose, the government Under the scheme, elderly cannot accumulate would consider using administrative methods to vouchers exceeding $4,000. Meanwhile, vouchers contain abuse. cannot be redeemed for cash or transferred to another person. Dr Chan Hon-yee, Director of the Department of Health, said in a Legco hearing last December that Miss Ip Oi-in, executive officer of the Health Care government officials used to notify the doctors before Voucher Unit at the Department of Health, said checking the status of their clinics, but surprise if someone used a vouchers to purchase banned inspections might be conducted in the future. products, both the user and the service provider would have violated the terms of scheme. She said the health care provider would not be reimbursed for the relevant claims, and serious violations might lead to termination of agreement. By Jonathan Chan The elderly person could be asked to pay back the Edited by Viola Zhou cost in cash. 10 • NEWS POLITICS Can mainlanders run student bodies in Hong Kong? Communist background obstacle for mainland students to join student union cabinets ome mainland students in Hong Kong cabinet chose to maintain neutrality on Swant to join student organisations politically sensitive topics. to have their voices heard. But local classmates are worried they will create But Mr Chen said staying neutral a more powerful pro-Beijing, pro- could be problematic. He said although communist force on campus. candidates should have the right not to proclaim their political stances during The involvement of mainland students an election, they take the risk of losing could affect the image of student student votes in doing so. organisations because people link them with communism, said Mr Chan Sze-ho, “It is not suitable to remain neutral president of the Student Union at Hong on certain political matters,” Mr Chan Kong Baptist University.
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