Hong Kong’s budget must help those who need it most

Maybe it’s because we are riding on the euphoria of good fortune and luck that is associated with the celebration of the Lunar New Year that there hasn’t been much of the noise that we usually hear ahead of the annual budget speech. Typically, the weeks leading up to the speech are filled with groups petitioning and suggesting how the government should be spending its money. Could it be because the start of the Lenten season is coinciding with that of Ramadan? Are we tempered to be less selfish...