Pupils as young as 7 hooked on online games as expert warns of alarming trend

Hong Kong school pupils as young as seven are being referred for addiction counselling for online gaming, with requests for help involving increasingly younger children, a digital habits workshop has heard. Crystal Leung Chui-yee, officer-in-charge of the Sunshine Lutheran Centre, a counselling and treatment centre for problem gamblers, revealed the alarming frontline trend at a workshop organised by Young Post and the South China Morning Post’s student business, SCMP Learn, attended by about 70...