Unschooling is a style of relaxed, child-directed home schooling in which children are allowed to choose how, when, why and what they learn, depending on what interests them. It is an unconventional learning method, but it is becoming more and more popular around the world.

What do a visually impaired person trying to get around the busy streets of Hong Kong and a city person hiking in the countryside have in common? For a start, they could both easily get lost. So, what if you add in a concerned parent who wants to keep track of their beloved child? The answer is, they could all benefit from GPS technology.

Hundreds of thousands of robotic creatures, of different shapes and sizes, are found in every aspect of our lives. They are working in our factories, cleaning our homes, and even helping in our hospitals. People all over the world are welcoming these machines into their lives.

The Grand Canyon is one of the world’s most amazing sights. Millions of tourists visit each year to hike, raft on the Colorado River or just take in the spectacular scenery. The Grand Canyon Skywalk, a horseshoe-shaped walkway that extends out over the canyon’s rim, is the area’s newest tourist attraction.

By the end of 2006, there were about sixty million blogs worldwide. Yet, despite the fact that Hong Kong is one of the most wired places in the world, very few of these blogs were created in Hong Kong. Why has Hong Kong, with over five million Internet users, been so slow to catch on to blogging?

Have you ever been touched by images of poverty and war and wanted to do something to stop them? If so, you should consider joining Food Not Bombs. This volunteer movement is dedicated to ending hunger, war and poverty through direct action, not just empty protests. It is one of the fastest growing humanitarian movements in the world.

When I moved to Japan to work as an English teacher, I never dreamed that I would end up performing wedding ceremonies for nearly 100 happy Japanese couples. Now, I'm not what you would call a model wedding celebrant — I'm not a priest (I'm not even a Christian), I don't have a genuine wedding license, and I have never been properly trained ...

After more than 75 years, the time has come to say good-bye to our solar system's smallest and most distant planet. Last summer, members of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ruled that as Pluto didn't meet their latest definition, it should no longer be considered a planet ...

The number of Mainland high school graduates seeking post-secondary education in Hong Kong is continuing to rise. This year in June, the University of Hong Kong scheduled interviews with more than 3,000 students from the Mainland ...

Warner Bros, one of the largest film production companies in the United States, has decided to drop its DVD prices in China in an attempt to stem the tide of piracy in the country. It is offering some of its films for less than HK$20 in major Chinese cities, and although this figure is still twice as high as the average price of pirated DVDs, Warner Bros believes that people will be willing to pay a little more for the real thing. If they turn out to be right, the price reduction could represent a major victory in the war against piracy.