Quotes of The Week
It was in line with the public interest to accept the offer.
Former housing director Leung Chin-man, admitting he helped gain approval in 2003 for the sale of the Hunghom Peninsula housing estate at almost HK$300 million below the Executive Council's bottom-line price of HK$1.15 billion, in Legco hearings into his being hired by one of the buyer-developers after his retirement from government
One book I read recently was Wu Xiaobo's The Great Failure.
Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, in an interview to promote the annual book fair, about a book that describes the failure of many large mainland enterprises
They are dirty and definitely [in] bad taste. They arouse unhealthy sexual imagination.
Obscene Articles Tribunal adjudicator Mervyn Cheung Man-ping, saying the racy photographs in young models' albums being sold at the book fair are not appropriate for young children
Controversial incidents such as the Tiananmen Square massacre are not mentioned. And there are three important aspects of political life not covered: the mainland's relationship with Taiwan, and demands for autonomy in Tibet and Xinjiang .
Chau Lai-ming, panel head at CCC Rotary Secondary School in Wong Tai Sin, criticising the modern China section in new liberal studies textbooks as unbalanced in their treatment of the central government
