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Cheaper travel will help ease the burden of Hong Kong’s working elderly and encourage them to take more active roles in society, experts say

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Every morning, Cheung, 62, takes the MTR from Kowloon to Causeway Bay for work, and the cross-harbour ride costs her more than HK$10 (US$1.3).She earns HK$50 an hour handing out fliers of restaurants among people on the streets. Cheung, who wanted to be identified only by her surname, works for several hours a day to get her “hard-earned money”.But work has become harder to come by, as the city’s recession has forced many eateries out of business and surviving ones to cut budgets, she says.For…

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