Young Post’s Best of the Month awards for June: from hot topics to silly excuses
- Students wrote about serious issues – gendered hate speech and waste policies – as well as mundane moments that made us smile
Congratulations to our winners this month! Photo: ShutterstockIn June, we received numerous well-researched submissions from you, our readers. The topics you wrote about included the prevalence of gendered hate speech on social media, the suspension of Hong Kong’s waste-charging scheme, and the issue of forced marriage among the city’s ethnic minority groups.
Our Best of the Month awards will take a break over the summer, and when the school year begins in September, we’ll be switching to a quarterly format.
But we’re still running our letters page and Face Off debates during the summer break, so keep sending us your writing! We look forward to publishing more of your opinions.
Here are some of our favourite entries from last month.
Best Letter
Victoria Kong Hau-yan from Hong Kong International School impressed us with her letter about the rise in misogynistic content on social media. She discussed how gendered hate speech online has perpetuated sexual harassment, and Victoria urged social media platforms to implement stricter guidelines to protect women.
Hayden Ng from Pui Kiu College wrote a letter about the fallout of the suspended waste-charging scheme, calling for the Hong Kong government to learn from the experience and devise plans to to avoid such missteps in the future.
Honourable mention: Shloka Vishweshwar from Hong Kong International School wrote a compelling letter highlighting a Pakistani woman’s legal fight for her rights against forced marriage in Hong Kong.
Best Face Off
Heer Donda from King George V is awarded best debater for June thanks to her strong argument opposing Hong Kong’s decision to suspend the waste-charging scheme.
Best Insight
Matthew Chen from Independent School Foundation won this month’s best insight after a well-researched and eloquently written response to The Lens, where he discussed the implications of xenotransplantation.
Most Creative
Caitlin Lee Yan-tung from Holy Angels Canossian School shared a hilarious account of when her classmate arrived late for badminton with the excuse that her grandmother had passed away. But at the end of class, her grandmother came to pick her up.
Most Engaged School
This month, students from Shun Tak Fraternal Association Leung Kau Kui College submitted multiple letters to our Your Voice page, sharing their views on topics such as climate change and other pressing issues.
Winners will receive a certificate and a special YP notebook to encourage them in their writing journeys. We will contact the students about their prizes.