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52% of Hong Kong’s underprivileged children spend over 2 hours a day on devices

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · East Asia

More than half of Hong Kong’s underprivileged children spend more than two hours a day on electronic devices, many of them turning to screens as cheap entertainment despite problems with their eyesight, attention, sleep and addiction, a survey by a community group has found. The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO), which released the findings on Sunday, urged authorities to keep students on campus for longer, introduce full-day kindergartens and subsidise more extracurricular activities...

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